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10 Tl I !•: ATT. \ Yl A < ■ fcUKtilA N AMi,\hU\ I II l KS5DA Y, \ I'K11. N. UU3. GLOBETROTTER, LEFT MILLIONS. C APTAIN ALFRED BROWN, who is sought here, to be told he is heir to millions in England. Builders of Atlanta English Army Officer, Reported Heir to Fortune, Thought To Be in Atlanta Now. The Atlanta police to-day joined In a world-wide search for Alfred James Edward Brown, lately a captain in the British royal navy, who, while walk ing around the world to earn a wager of a few thousands, has, according to a rather dubious looking letter received to-day, inherited $25,000 in cash and estates In England valued at several millions of dollars. Brown was In Atlanta a few weeks ago, and Chief Beavers, In a letter re ceived from Samuel Irwin, of Bris tol, England, this morning, is asked to make every effort to find him. Mr, Irwin writes that Brown's mother, Mrs. Trevillyien Brown, died in Eng land three months ago and left her eon 5,000 pounds sterling and the es- SPECIAL PULLMAN SLEEPING CAR ATLANTA TO MACON CENTRAL OF GEORGIA RAILWAY APRIL 21-22 23 24 25 26. To accommodate those who may attend the grand opera in Atlanta and wish to return to Macon after the performance, the Central of Georgia Railway will operate a Pullman sleeping car from Atlan ta to Macon on train No. 8, April 21 to 26, inclusive. Train No. 8, scheduled to leave Atlanta at 11:45 p. m., will, on the above dates, leave Atlanta Terminal Station 12:01 a. m. This car will be open for occupancy at 10 p. m. Berths In this car may be reserved in advance at Central of Georgia of fices in Macon or Atlanta. W. 11. FOGG, D. P. A. tates of Squire Montiugel Trevill yien, valued at millions. The land is located in Belmont. Bristol and Gloucester, England. Canadian Attorneys Search, The law firm of Wilson & McCon nell, of Toronto, Canada, is also In terested in the search for Brown, and have notified Chief Beavers that they have $8,000 with which to pay the ex- I>enses of the quest and send Brown bark to England to take ci» irge of his property. Brown left Nome, Alaska, several months ago, having made a wager with friends that he could walk around the world in a certain length of time. The wager was for $3,989. He has been trailed all over England, Scotland and Ireland and European countries, and across the Atlantic to America. The trail lead to Atlanta, where it was lost. Probably in Atlanta Now. It is thought he Is still in this city. He was here several weeks ago, and at that time said he expected to re main here some time, recuperating from a broken arm he suffered when he fell off a bridge while crossing In diana. The Georgian printed several sto ries about Brown and his travels at the time. He is described as being 55 years old, military bearing,, wearing a khaki suit and an army hat, 5 feet 7 1-2 inches tall, blue eyes, Roman nose, light mustache and a brown complexion. Nearly everybody in Atlanta reads The Sunday American. YOUR ad vertisement in the next issue will sell goods. Try it! Tariff is Not Troubling Big Business Half So Much As Cash Shortage, BY BOERSIANER. To sav finance needs money sounds like saying that man requires air Yet then; are times when man must have more air to be healthy. Finance, national and international, could make most excellent use of much more cash at present. Europe has enough, but It Is panickly se questered and therefore not availa ble. A permanent truce in the Bal kans would release huge hoardings. The situation abroad is amenable to immediate relief. In this country the supply is con stitutionally scant. One may apply the simile of the small blanket serv ing to cover several persons who are eagerly tugging at the wholly inade quate shelter. The business Is here—good crops, good earnings, good everything—but the medium of exchange is insuffi cient and must be so recurrently un til Congress shall do for financier* what it hopes to do for the average layman in adopting a new tariff. Three Roads Borrowing. The inadequacy of the money sup ply was thrown into bold relief last week when three railways entered the market for funds. The Pennsyl vania boldly—or was it adventurous ly? -offered $45,000,000 of stock at par upon which it promises to pay 6 per cent, dividends. The St. Paul offers a bond, bearing 4 1-2 per cent., under par. New York Central paid 6 1-4 per cent, for a $10,000,000 ac commodation in London. Jn normal times this total demand ed of the money market hardly would be discussed. Currently it is regard ed as a “drain." It served to flinch the stock market, where the accu sation was general that “hanking in terests” had supported the list for the single purpose of facilitating St. Paul’s and Pennsylvania’s financing. If the country had a civilized cur rency system such a “bear point" would ridicule the accusers. The taut money position occupied the financial districts more than the tariff bill. The publication of the pro posted customs duties was received with indifference. The reason may be psychological. The street always has an eye for the thing next its nose if there is something closer in proximity to its proboscis. Imme diate results—or effects—are wanted. Shows Prosperity Increasing. Consequently the limited railway financing was exploited adversely. Logically considered, the professional selling of stocks on the basis of rail way monetary requirement is not quite within the limits of sanity. When prosperous railroads apply for more capital to carry on their busi ness it means, obviously, their pros perity I? increasing. As a measure for the reformation House wreckers have begun tearing down residences at 229 and 233 Peachtree, formerly occupied by Dr. W. 8. Elkin and the late Governor Rufqp B. Bulloch, respectively. A 12 or 15-story office building Is ex pected to be erected on the site by Mrs. J. B. Whitehead and E. W. Al- frlend, who control the property. This building will be a pioneer in the section among office structures. Plans are not definite. Mrs. White- head is abroad, and Mr. Alfriend has thought of several other projects. The Elkin and Bulloch properties afe on the east side <4 the street be tween Cain and Harris streets, and ;ire two-story brick affairs. Governor Bulloch lived at No. 233 *until about 1900. The place then started chang ing hands in the realty market, and a good-sized fortune has been made out of it. A J. & H. K. West sold it to Captain James W. English for $11,000, and Captain Plnglish sold to Captain Joseph F. Burke for $16,000. Captain Burke made a profit of about $12,000, and Mrs. Whitehead paid the last owner approximately $75,000. The Bulloch and Elkin homes were the < ene for many years of brilliant so cial gatherings, and their destruction means the passing of two other land marks of early Atlanta. The lots ag gregate something more than 100 feet frontage, and are of good depth. Closer to the center of town, the old residence at the northeast corner of Poplar and North Forsyth Streets has finally been razed, and a sign hung out which reads, “Brick and lumber for sale. Also bath tub." To Build Near Postoffice. J. B. Thompson, owner of lots north of the postoffice, which front 21 feet on Poplar Street and 40 on Fairlie and connect in the rear, has begun excavating for business houses. He will dig down 11 feet for a basement, but beyond this his plans are vague. When You Want The Doctor You Want Him Quick The quickest way of all is to call him over the Atlanta TV ephone. An accurate, rapid- fire service in your home for 8 1-3 cents a clay. Protection in case of illness, robbery or fire. Convenience in shopping. Call our contract department to-day. ATLANTA TELEPHONE AND TELEGRAPH CO. DECATUR The Business Center ol DeKalb County DECATUR IS THE COI XTY SEAT of DeKalb County the counties of Georgia In taxable values. which ranks SIXTH among DECATUR 1* connected with every part of DeKalb Coulity by of highways that are being constantly improved. y splendid .system yf' dustriei ,y fOF hUndred * °. f t,,hcrH who wUh 10 «WW "i any of these important in- Within a radius of v mite and a half from the courthouse of DFP VTi'H .?.'Xi,vs. tho, ' sani> . vr S72LS golu, 1,T «i ESSE™ »™w com* if »e h.d mor, ,.r mU i In Z hS“m, "'bo.KtS DECATUR NEEDS RIGHT NOW MORE MERCANTILE X8TABII s H \ fEvts take .are of the increasing trade of this section. m»ia»M1!HMENT8 to DECATi H NEEDS several large hotels and many apartment houses. DEt ATI It NEEDS an lee plant and another laundry DECATUR NEEDS a cot I on buying establishment. DECATUR NEEDS spell opportunity for YOU and YOt and YOU. Decatur Board of Trade Bell phone Decatur 148 DECATUR, GA of the currency may not be submit ted until the tariff bill is well under way, economists may watch the course of the latter with undivided interest. Perhaps its best recom mendation is that It satisfies neither the free trader nor the protectionist. The time is past for economists to consider radicalism the be-all and end-ail of an economic proposition. This is a period of temperate think ing, of modifications, of mutual con cessions. If there is any nation adapted for free trade it is England. There the steps toward a purely manufacturing community were irrevocably taken and the question would seem to have been what are the best means of re maining with safety and prosperity in the far-developed stage? Looking at the geographical situa tion of England, counting her popu lation, seeing her small agricultural resources and her vast manufactur ing equipment, ii would appear that there a policy of free trade alone is tenable. Reaction in Great Britain. Yet a reaction has been on against free trade for several years, a reac tion supported by pretty effective arguments. These arguments all turn to the sensible expediency of reciprocity arrangements. It is now found that absolute free trade will not do even for “free trade Britain." Hence the reciprocity provision in what may be called the Underwood bill is a comfort to all except the extremists in international trade science. There are a sufficient num ber of highly taxed schedules in the Underwood proposition to give Wil son scope for treaties with desirable trading countries. The expense of living undoubtedly will be reduced by some of the free and low entry clauses. Whether^ thsvcost will be reduced to general expectations is doubtful for it may be restated profitably that living costs have risen not only in the Americas and Europe but in the finer parts of Asia and Africa. Man new' wants much here below and he wants that much longer than in former ages. (Civilization implies complexity. The luxuries of the fath er become the necessaries of the son. A longer purse is required to lead the simple life of this year than the luxurious life of yesterday. Tariff Not a Wonder Worker. There is no wonder w’orking magic about the tariff. It is purely a proba tive force: necessarily experimental individually; a tiling of experience Each nation must decide for itself what it wants. Some principles universal application it has; hut in its practual workings a thousand anc! one differentiated things come into play. Were the world altruistic, the prob lem would be easy of solution. Fair trade, or exchange, would rule. An apartment house with a store on the ground floor has been suggested for the property that faces on Poplar Street, opposite the north entrance to the post office. A 30x40-foot space has been cleared on the Hugh Richardson property at the southwest corner of Luckie and North Forsyth Streets, to provide for a temporary improvement which is in tended to make the parcel income- bearing. Although a big department store has been suggested f<*r th ner, nothing definite has been done. Steel Work Postponed. Steel work was to have started a week ago on the Healey Building, but a delay in getting tw’o heavy derricks from Pennsylvania has made it im possible to begin. The steel is here and wlli probably go up in about a week. Work is being rushed in the meantime to mak * the ground level. Banquet To Be Well Attended. Return postal cards received by Executive Secretary Joseph D. Greene, of the Atlanta Real Estate Board, in dicate that there will be a large at tendance at the board’s monthly dinner at the Cafe Durand to-morrow night. The speaker of the evening w ill be A. P. Coles, vice president of the Cen tral Bank and Trust Corporation, and the host will be H. W. Dews, sales manager of the Willingham Real Es tate Agency. Water for Piedmont Road. The Piedmont Water Company, an organization of property owner.-* who live along or in the vicinity of Pied mont Road, w'ill apply soon for a charter so that the company may work for an eight-inch water main from Ansley Park northward on Pied mont Road to connect with the main at Peachtree Road. This improve ment, it is pointed out, will do a groat deal to boost property values in ihe section mentioned. Another advan tage will be to increase the water pressure at the point of joining with the Peachtree main. LIFERS FREEDOM CHURLS HANDS Building Continues Good. Contractors continue to flock into the office of Building Inspector Ed R. Hays, asking for permits to erect residences and apartment houses. A permit has been sought to build a two-story brick veneer apartment nt 168 Angier Avenue, to cost $12,000. L. W. Hudson, Jr., and J. S. McCau ley are the owners. J. L. Wright will build a two-story frame dwelling at 154 Peeples Street, and J. H. Pritchett will build a two-story frame at 373 Greenwood Avenue. An official of Marist College. Peach tree and Ivy Streets, has taken up with the building inspector some plans for> u three-story addition to trie school buildings, to cost approximate ly $20,000. Dormitories, library and recreation rooms are called for in tnt plans. The Red Men’s Wigwam Associa tion has applied for a permit to make a three-story concrete addition, cost ing $32,708. to their quarters at S6 Central Avenue. Details of the plan have been announced. The front will be replaced later. Peachtree Lots at Auction. On Saturday at 3 o’clock John H. James will offer for sale at auction 30 lots at the Seaboard Railroad and Peachtree Road, on terms of $25 cash and $10 a month, at 6 per cent. J. W. Ferguson & Son will be the auc tioneers. Lagomarsino Lot on Sale. A valuable parcel of land adjoining the Governor’s mansion at the south west corner of Peachtree and Cain Streets, will be offered at auction be fore the Court House door the first Tuesday in May. This is in the es tate of the late Mrs. Mary Lagomar sino, and will be sold for the first time since Mrs. Lagomarsino bought it July 12, 1882, from Sarah E. Phelps. The lot is on the northeast side of Carnegie Way, at the corner of an alley, runs easterly 162 feet to the mansion property, then w esterly along the mansion line 215 feet to Carnegie Way, then southeasterly along Car negie Way 80 feet to the beginning point. The terms of the sale will be cash. Chess Lagomarsino is the ad ministrator. He recently sold off an adjoining parcel. Good Price for Lease. The Thompson Restaurant Com pany, of Chicago, will pay $9,000 a year, or $750 a month, it was learned to-day, for the Marcus store at 57-59 Peachtree Street* on the east side of the street, 50 feet south of Auburn Avenue. This rental price shows a great increase over the prevailing fig ure. The Marcus Clothing Company has been paying $375 a month, or $4,500 a *year. The new' concern will take possession shortly. Prison Board’s Requests Fail to Show Nature of Crimes, Says Governor. Governor Brown refused to con cur to-day in recommendations made by the Stae Prison Commission in be half of two life-termers sentenced for murder. In the case of James Conger, re ceived in prison from Colquitt Coun ty in 189V, the Governor said the rec ord consisted of little besides re quests and petitions showing the rec ord of the man while in prison. “There should be shown something of the nature of the crime committed. I can not approve on the showing made," was the notation on the petition. Another disappointment was given the scores of persons from Washing ton County who have been pleading for the last ten years for clemency for Willis Clayton. Governor Brown declined to grant the parole recom mended by the commission. Mem bers of the jury which convicted Clayton of murder in 1893. the pre siding judge and many others have joined in the plea for clemency, but it was the attitude of the Governor that practically nothing had been said of the nature of the murder or the cir cumstances under w’hich it was com mitted. Shine Hayden, convicted in Jeffer son City Court of carrying concealed weapons and discharging a pistol on Sunday and being drunk on the high way, was granted his freedom after having served about one-third of the sentence against him. Rabun Ayers, sentenced from Hab ersham County to eight months for gurglarv and four for drunkenness, was ordered released on the expira tion of the eight months’ sentence. Charles V. Gonzales, sentenced to ten years from the Fulton County Su perior Court, was given a parole on the representation that the offense which technically was a burglary, in reality was barely more than a mis demeanor. Doss Knicks, a Murray County youth, was granted a parole after having served a few months of his two years’ sentence. The $150 which he was accused of stealing was re funded. Charles G. Smith, sentenced from Taylor County, found his plea of ill ness ineffectual in obtaining clem ency. Property in Postoffice Section and Eight West End Blocks Are Sold. The local real estate market awoke with a start to-day following dull business due to had weather, with a swap of semi-central property in the postofflee section and eight blocks In West End, involving nearly quarter of a million dollars. H. J. Brure, a loan agent in the Empire Building, sold for the Union Savings Bank. .1 T. Holleman. presi dent. to the Walton Realty Company. 3!) acres in West End, bounded by llolderness Street on the east. Capers Street on the south, Muse Street on the west and Greenwich Street on the north, for $110,000, and to the Union Savings Bank for the Walton Realty Company nine lots on Nassau, Wal ton, Bartow and Spring Streets for $100,000, the Walton Realty Company paying the difference in cash. The Walton Realty Company will subdivide its new holdings in West End and the Union Savings Bank will probably erect a substantial im provement on part of its semi-central property, although plans for the building are not definite. Luclle Avenue bisects the West End acreage and Atwood and Hopkins Streets are also included in it. Bat tle Hill is to the north, Oakland City to the south. West End to the east, and West End Park to the west. The Westvlew car line passes through. All of the tract is in the city limits, and it has a considerable amount of pav ing, die walks, sewers, water and lights, but no houses. The Southern Mortgage Company, controlled by the same people as the Union Savings Bank, owns the point of Walton, Spring and Nassau Streets, and five of the nine lots ac quired by the latter concern are west of the point and adjoining it, with frontage of 40 feet on Walton and 67 feet on Nassau. The other lots are one which fronts 30 feet on the west side of Spring Street, just north of Nassau; one fronting 45 feet on the northeast side of Nassau, near the northeast corner of Bartow, and two at the southeast comer of Nassau and Bartow, fronting an aggregate of 50 feet on Nassau Street. Quarry Owner Loses Fight on Power Co.' Injunction to Prevent Stringing Wiree Over Granite Fields Denied by Supreme Court. C. H. Buechler, owner of a graniis quarry In Fulton County, lost a suit for injunction against the Georgia Railway and Power Company, brougtg In Fulton County Superior Court and appealed by Buechler to the Supreme Court, which to-day affirmed the low. er tribunal. Bcuchler asked that the corporation be restrained from stretching Its wire, over his quarry, declaring he feared blasting would break the heavily charged wires and permit them to fail to the ground, where they would be a source of danger to his workmen. The injunction was denied by the Fulton County Court . The Supreme Court, in affirming the decision, said an injunction to prevent a corpora tion from condemning a mill or fac tory in actual operation can not be extended to cover the property from which the raw material ip obtained. Every Woman 4» interested and should know about the wonderful lMARVEL Whirling Spray 1 ^ a new Vaginal Syringa. Best—most convenient. It cleanses Instantly. Ask your druggist for it If he cannot simply i MARVEL, accept no othei^R but send stamp for illustrated book—sealed. It gives full particu lars and directions Invaluable to ladle MARVEL CO.. 44 East 234 Rinat. Mew lark* Whiskey sod Dn»« Hsou t Home or et Sanitarium. Book oo eubleci . A-W. DR B. M. WOOLLEY, 34-N. View I Sanitarium. Atlant*. Geordt. KODAKS;";;- First Class Finishing and En larging. A complete stock films, platen, papers, chemicals, etc. Special Mail Order Department for out-of-town customers. Send for Catalogue and Price List. A. K. HAWKES CO. Kodak Dtptrtmeil 14 Whitehall St. ATLANTA. GA. OBITUARY NOTICES. Mrs. Mary J. Wilkins, aged 77, widow of William W. Wilkins, died this morning at Grady Hospital. Mrs. Wilkins had for the past five years been an inmate of the Home for Old Women. She was a member of the West End Baptist Church. Fu neral services will be held in Pat terson’s chapel. Dr. Purser officiat ing. at 4 p. m. Thursday. Interment will be in Fayette County to-mor row. Miller Scroggins, warden of a convict camp at Austell, died to-day from a bullet wound received yesterday afternoon when he accidentally dropped his gun to the pavement. The bullet entered the abdomen. He is survived by three sons, all of Austell. They are E. V., J. A. and J. W. Scroggins. E. B. Sutton, aged 50. died at a local sanitarium this morning at 11:30 o’clock after a short illness. He lived formerly in Tignall, Ga., but had recently moved to Atlanta and was living at 419 Washington Street. He is survived by four sons and five daughters. He also leaves a sister, Mrs. Summan Ware, of Tignall, Ga.. and a brother, James Sutton, of Metersville, Ga. NEWS JOTTINGS ABOUT TOWN UNION FIRE INSURANCE HEAD IS A BANKRUPT Voluntary petition in bankruptcy was filed to-day by T. E. McAfee, president qf the Union Fire Insurance Company, with offices in the Fourth National Bank building. McAfee list ed his liabilities at $8,062.05, with as sets of $1,300. The principal creditor is W. N. Smith, vice president of the company. ( A Pioneer Bank E stablished in 1865, the Atlan ta NATIONAL BANK is the oldest national bank in the Cotton States, and one of the strongest and most influential hanking institutions in the entire South. This bank has been constantly growing in strength and efficiency, as well as in years. Its long and successful experience in all branches of commercial banking— especially in the selection of safe invest ments for its funds — insures depositors every safeguard and the best of banking service. YOUR account is respectfully solicited. Atlanta National Bank Assets $10,000,000.00 Frank T. Reynolds, manager of the Empire Hotel, former manager of the Hotel Cumberland, has accepted the position of publicity manager for the new Hotel Ansley. He will enter upon his new duties at once. A runaway horse, belonging to C. E. Thomas, of 40 South Pryor Street, was killed to-day When it collided with a wagon driven by R. L. Sut- tles, a negro. Suttles and a small white boy were knocked from the wagon, but escaped injury. Rubin Mongeman, aged 20, ah ac tor from Baltimore, is in the Tower to-day in default of $5,000 bonds ac cused of being a professional pick pocket. He was bound over when three witnesses identified him as hav- j ing robbed them. I The annual meeting of the Atlanta Woman’s Missionary Association will be held at the Central Congregational Church, corner of Ellis Street and Carnegie Way. Friday at 3:30 p. m There will be an address by Mr. Mem- minger on "Christian Social Service a solo by Mre. D. W. Yarbrough, re ports of the Travelers’ Aid work dur ing the year and of the Martha Home and officers for the year will be elected. CARTERSVILLE MAN ARRESTED CHATTANOOGA, TENN.. April 17. I Wanted on a charge at Cartersville, Ga., Henry Parker, a railroad engi neer, was arrested here this afternoon while preparing to board a train for the West. The local officers acted under instructions from Sheriff C. N. Smith, of Bartow County. Farmer Commits Suicide. GREENVILLE- G. A. Williams, a farmer, 28 years old. of Harris Coun ty. committed suicide late yesterday afternoon by shooting himself through the heart. Despondency is said to have caused the act. “Law Brothers for Quality' SPRING OXFORDS Have you seen the new low heel and sole English Tan Oxford at $4.00—it’s the lat est. We’re ‘‘on the job” with a complete line of the “right kind” of Spring and Summer Oxfords for men—all leathers— SPUING O UR n e w Colonials. Oxfords and Pumps are the finest creations ever conceived for Women’s Feet! The art of Shoe designing and skill has reached its culmination in these attractive Low Cut Shoes. All Styles at $3.50 to $6 Select Your New Shirts for Summer —to-morrow is a good time— fine things from the world’s best makers; soft-fold as well as reg ulation cuff's, $1.50 to $2.50. Silk Shirts $2 to $5. 10 WHITEHALL ST. 'Men's Furnishings--Tailor ing--Hats--Shoes. Oxfords in Button or in Tie Models. Leathers of Cun Metal Calf, Patent Calf, Tan Russia or of Black or Tan Suede, Velvet, White Nubuck, etc. High toes or receding toes, with low walking heels. $4, $5, $6 to $7. Colonials and Pumps in Dull or Bright leathers, in Tans, Suedes and Satins. Many beautiful models. $3, $4, $5 to $6. Too many choice styles to attempt anything but a brief description. May we show you? J. P. ALLEN & CO. The Home of Better Shoes NIGHT SERVICE VIA DIRECT LINE No Detour CH&D THROUGH SERVICE DAILY Lv. CINCINNATI 8:10 A.M 9:45 P.M. Ar. DAYTON 9:45 A.M JJ:25 P.M. Ar. TOLEDO 2:00 P.M 4:45 A.M. Ar. DETROIT 3:47 P.M 6:45 A.M. Lv. CINCINNATI 9:00 A.M. Ar. INDIANAPOLIS Ji:25 P.M. Ar. CHICAGO I via Monon Route! .... 5:40 P.M. Through Sleepers—Parlor Cars—Dining Cars—Coaches F. J. PARMALEE, T. P. A.. 213 PETERS BLDG., ATLANTA