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3 THE ATLANTA HEOKOIAN AND NEWS Geologist Has Just Completed Survey—Declares Vast Latent Wealth Is There. YVarren E. Hall, district engineer of #he United States Geological Survey, returned to Atlanta Friday from the Florida Everglades, where, in com pany with E. T. Perkins, M. O. Leigh ton and Isham Randolph, he made a survey to determine the feasibility of draining the great swamps. Mr. Hall is pleased with the result of the investigation and declares it will be possible to reclaim most of the water-covered area. "There are,” said Mr. Hall, "hun dreds of square miles in the Ever glades where no white man has ever set foot. I predict thaJt just as soon as enough money can be appropriated and judiciously used this now useless territory can be turned into the most fertile farm land. Canal To Be Built. “The first great task to be under taken will be the construction of a canal which will connect Miami and Fort Meyers, thus uniting the east and west coasts of Florida. This canal will be made navigable for the largest ships and will reduce the distance between these two points 165 miles. “Florida some time ago made an appropriation for drainage work. Sev eral million dollars were spent. The work was done without due consid eration. The men engaged Jumped at conclusions, and as a consequence the work done is lost time and money uselessly spent, for the water does not run the right way. “An appropriation of $40,000 has been made recently for investigation alone to determine exactly what can be done. Our report has gone in and $6,000,000 will be appropriated at once. Beauties of OkecHobee. “One place where the drainage work previously done proved a suc cess—Zona, Fla., about eight miles west of Fort Lauderdale—a real es tate company purchased 10,000 acres of land for sj an acre. This com pany is selling this land at $80 an acre. ‘‘The Everglades are about 20 feet above sea level and the water can be made to run easily into the ocean. Our scheme is to perfect a drainage system in the wet season and an ir rigating system n the dry months. The soil is rich and black and the cli mate is ideal. No malaria is found in the center of the Everglades at Lake Okechobee—a beautiful lake about JO miles square—a little inland sea, one might term it. There is not a minute in the day that huge black bass do not jump in the water. There are hundreds of them, and as you travel in a boat a continual splashing is heard. Killed Some Alligators. “There are very few mosquitoes. So far this summer the temperature j in the Everglades has been cool. I think 92 degrees is the warmest day we had. "We traveled many of the rivers. ! and, I tell you, I saw many strange j and weird sights. We traveled in a combination sail and power yacht, in the evening, when the moon shone bright, we sat in our boat and fished. I caught many bass as large I as seven pounds and shot a number | of alligators—one over twelve feet in j length escaped. His jaws were large j enough to take a calf in his mouth. j "I enjoyed the trip every minute and can positively say that golden opportunity and fabulous wealth await investment in the Everglades of Florida." CAMERA M EN SCRAP FOR CHANCE TO J PHOTOGRAPH ATLANTA BEAUTIES She’s a pretty brown-haired blue-eyed, girl who is likely COUNTS MOST E Sidelights on GEORGIA POLITICS Contest Manager Gives Tip to Hustling Boys and Girls. Just Five More Days. v. JAMIS B.NEVTO “Concentrate on the Sunday Ameri can." is the advice the contest man ager gives the hoys and girls who are striving for the Georgian and Ameri can ponies'. "The boys and girls should do this for the simple reason that, for the same amount of money, Sunday sub scriptions count much faster in the vote totals—up to Tuesday night. 'I would suggest that the contest ants talk Sunday prfper to their friends and the other ‘prospects' they approach. If a determined effort suc ceeds in landing such a subscription, then they should try to get a daily subscription added to the Sunday, the Suncay paper appeal seems make no impression, turn to the daily paper. "My advice is disinterested, for we are as glad to get subscriptions to tile Georgian as to the Sunday Ameri can. But just now, a year’s subscrip, tion to the Sunday paper costs but $2, and counts 2.00ft votes for the If you don't want to get your name on record, don't belong to the Georgia Senate. At least, the present Senate is the most thoroughly put-your-name-on- retord Senate Atlanta ever has had In its midst—and that, it will be gener ally agreed. Is going some in tiiat direction! Every time anything comes up in the Senate—except local bills, and nobody knows why the watchdog.- overlook them—somebody calls for the ayes and nays. It only takes one- fifth of the Senate to order the ayes and nays, and there Is a valiant llttl • band always on the Job voting that toll call. The other day. Senator Miller got a little mixed on what was going on. If I and arose to address* the chair. "Mr. President," .said Mr Miller, “we tire taking an aye and nay vote. I believe, on whether we shall take an aye and nay vote on the pending question ?” “Well, no." smiled the Chair, “it isn’t quite come to that yet—but it may, eventually!’ And then the Chair explained to contestant. There's no other way to get 2.000 votes for $2. and. with five working days only remaining in the contest, every vote tells.” The contest manager intended to run the vote standings every day up to the close of the contest, but it was found impossible to keep un with the task, so many are the "Red Letter Ballots" pouring in. The standings, as far as corrected, however, will be published Sunday. Mr. Miller what the aye and nay vote WAS being taken on. Senator Miller sat down, with a queer little smile flickering about the corners of his lips. And the Senate didn’t know, really, whether Mr. Miller was Joshing It when he asked the question of the i ’hair. Upon inqutry. the Senator ver> gravely as**ured several gentlemen that he was very ferious. very men will endeavor to get a bill passed giving Augusta a charter, with a ref erendum to the people. Mr. Plrquet, the third Representa tive from Richmond, is openly op posed to the commission plan. The commission advocates won a recent election in Augusta by a vote of 2,094 to 40, and this is a larger vote than has ever been cast for any mayoralty candidate except one. The opponents of the commission plan contend, however, that the elec tion was not won. because more than one-half of those registered did not vote in favor of it. That principle will not apply to the Augusta case, according to local commission gov ernment enthusiasts, end the fight ;n the House is sure to be warm. Representative Nunnailv, of Floyd, has accumulated another and addi tional title of affection among his leg islative colleagues. Because of his real or imaginary facial resemblance to the German Emperor, he now is known as “Kaiser Bill." Wherever Nunnally goes these days he is greeted either with "Hoch, der Kaiser!” or “Your Imperial Maj esty.” Nunnally really is genuinely popu lar among his associates. He has come to be recognized as a man of much common sense and poise, and his Influence in the House is large accordingly. With the unfavorable recommenda tion In the case of the proposed new county of Norwood, the House Com mittee on Constitutional Amendments has finished the list of proposed new counties. It has recommended few for pas sage, and those few only after the most careful and searching investiga tion and analysis of iheir claims, seri- Those favorably recommended will go 52 Sunday Conoerts Planned by Music Festival Association ! ous. indeed and would not Joke upon i such a weighty matter as c alling the aves and nays on whether there | should be a cal! of the ayes and nays —not in this Senate, anyhow'! Plans for an unbroken series of Sunday afternoon concerts at the Au-‘ ditorium-Armory next year are now being prepared by the Atlanta Mu sic Festival Association. It is the hope of the association to arrange with the Auditorium Committee of the General Coun *il to secure the building for each Sunday during the vear that there may be no break in the series of concerts. A meeting of representatives of the association and of the Council com- } rnitlee was held in Mayor Woodvvar'. 4 c Tice Friday afternoon. V. H. Krieg One of the new county boomers to-' day certainly got the goat of George, the elevator boy at the Kimball, who looks like a slice of midnight. This gentleman was rustic In ap pearance and evidently mindful of the fact that he was walking around among statesmen and things, such as congregate in the Kimball lobby. George had noticed this rural per son standing at the door of the ele vator. and thinking he might wish to go up. he inquired of the stranger If he desired to reach a certain floor. "No.” stid the boomer. "1 am satis fied r : ght here on this floor, but I wouldn’t minding riding in that cage thing. How much do you charge!" _,ord. mister, git in.' said George. days of the year could concerts Sheriff and Force On Annual Outing Sheriff C. W. Mangum and twelve deputies, with their families, are spending the day at Johnson’s Ferry, on Roswell road, at their annual fish fry and barbecue. The pleasure seeking officers left at 11 o'clock in automobiles, and do not expect to re turn until they have eaten all the fish they can and have delivered all their extemporaneous speeches. Besides the Sheriff, those who made the trip were Deputies J. H. Owen, G. H. Broadnax G. L. Poin dexter, W. Lee Haygood, J. T. Gold en, J. M. Suttles. Warren Knight, E. T. Stanley, Drew Liddell, T. A. Burdette, Foster L. Hunter and R. £S. Deavers. DON’T ENDURE SKIN HUMORS -USE RESINOL Don’t stand that itching, burning ikin torment one day longer. Go o the nearest druggist and get a lar of Resinol Ointment and a ■ake of Resinol Soap. Bathe the jatches of eruption with Resinol Soap and hot water, dry, and ap- :,ly a little Resinol Ointment. The orturing itching and burning stop nstantly; you no longer have to iig and scratch; sleep becomes possible, and healing begins. Soon the ugly, tormenting humor dis appears completely and for good. Resinol Soap and Resinol Oint ment are also speedily effective In ■ven the stubbornest cases of pim ples, blackheads, dandruff, sores ind piles. Prescribed by doctors for eighteen years, and sold by ■very ‘druggist in the United States. Trial free; Dept. 12-P, Resinol, Baltimore, JId. Widow of Victim Asserts That the Facts Were Suppressed to Protect the Military, That she was not allowed to tell her story of the shooting before the military court-martial, and that sol diers shot at her brother-in-law after he had called to them not to Are again was the testimony given by Mrs. B. S. Dunbar before the Military Com mittee of the House Friday after noon when the investigation into the Augusta killings of several months ago was taken up. The investigation is being held un der a resolution Introduced by Repre sentative Beck, of Carroll County. The other witnesses were Mrs. Rob ert Christie, widow of one of the men killed; Sheriff John W. Clark, of Richmond County; Palmer Christie and L. M. Dohme, of Augusta. They were represented by Clem E. Dunbar, former member of the House, Mrs. Dunbar charged that one of the officers told her he had become ex cited during the shooting and or dered his men to shoot promiscuous ly, but that Major Claude Smith had refused to allow her to testify to this effect. When she asked Major Levy Contest Editor Deluged With Pic tures—Thought of Big Task Gives Him Nightmare. Recently Governor Slaton refused to be the judge in the selection of 500 portraits of Atlanta youngsters for the Temple of Childhood at the Pan ama-Pacific International Exposition, on the grounds that the Job was too difficult because there were so many good-lookers. The Beauty Contest Editor is keep ing awake these nights, and when he has managed to get a bit of 9loep, he has had nightmares, for fear that the same sort of thing is going to happen to his contest. Honestly, there are just so many beauties being nominated every day that The Georgian photographers are actually scrapping among theinselvi s to decide who shall make the picture The latest one submitted is that of Miss P^linor Macy, only daughter <>f Mrs. Grace Keefer, of 80 East Four teenth street. Miss Macy made her debut recent ly and is regarded as one of Atlanta’s fairest. She lias fair skin and dark blue eyes, with a wealth of rich dark brown hair. That she will get many votes is predicted by her friends. Who's the next one? "Watch Atlanta—she’ll get you yet! 500,000 by 1920!” why she had not beon allowed to tell her story correctly before the court- j T OY*Q A CTT’PP martial, she said he replied that the j JjdllU.U W ild xlgji Cu military must be protected. "For God’s sake, don’t shoot. Don’t you see I am trying to stop my ma chine?” are the words which she as serted Christie told her he said to the soldiers. "He was on his way to To Arbitrate Claims No Eligible List of Assistants to Recently Named Atlanta Inter nal Revenue Collector. An unusual situation will arise upon the transfer of the office of Interna! Revenue Collector, when a special agent arrives in Atlanta August 1. The retiring Collector, Henry S. Jackson, fears hsi successor, A. O. Blalock, of Fayetteville, will be placed in an embarrassing position. "The Collector of Internal Revenue is the only office," said Mr. Jackson, "which really has no fixed term. All other appointive offices in the Gov ernment service are for four years, but the Collector's term is subject to the will of the President alone. "When a Collector of Internal Reve, nue goes out of office, the terms of his deputies expire automatically, for they are appointed by him,” said Mr Jackson. "At present there is no eligible list, and when 1 go our >f office, there will, therefore, be no deputies "If my successor. Mr. Blalock, sees fit, he may appoint my deputies, but after appointing them he can not dis charge them without good cause, for a man is never dismissed from the Government service, after he qualifies by civil service examination, except for some disdemeanor. "No civil service examination for deputies will be held until August 15, and it will he September before the results are known. In the meantime, I am sure the Government will not be content to let the Atlanta office run without deputies. 1 am sorry for Mr. Blalock and hope the matter can In some way be adjusted so his friends will not be disappointed. shaber declared that during the last year the association had paid $4,009 I "hit don’t cost nothin for an organist, but because other C- And the boomer got in and rode tractions were booked Sunday, it had up and down half a dozen times with been able to give only 35 concerts. He George—and even after that there declared that a break in the series | wasn't anything doing in the tip line caused people to lose interest, and J of business. asked the committee for an arrange- ment whereby each of the 52 Sun- j President Randolph Anderson en- be used for (i^ avors hold Senators within the ' rules of courtesy when debate is pro gressing. One of the rules is that no Senator j muK ask a question calculated to im- pugn the motives of a Senator speak - I ing—such as whether he is interest- The Shuptrine drug bill has be*n materially in a pending measure made special order in the House for or whether his family isn't kin to the Tuesday. Indications are it will be beneficiary. A Senator within proper passed. The bill provides for rigid j lim j ts may debate these things, but he may not call upon another Sen- House Seems Sure To Pass Drugs Bill enforcement of the laws against the sale of narcotics. It allows a limited supply of opium and cocaine to be kept in stores. Inspectors are pro vided for. A special tax of $10 on druggists will maintain the system. Representative Shuptrine, who is head of a large drug firm in Savan nah and who has been president of the Georgia Pharmaceutical Associa tion. has worked hard for the passage of the bill. He has the persona] In dorsement of more than half the druggists in Georgia. They Are Eating Off The Mantel in Philly ator to state his connection with any measure. During the progress of the debate on Barrow County Thursday. several questions of this sort were propound ed between Senators, but the Presi dent always headed them off where h* could. Moreover, he forced an equal division of time between advocates and opponents of the bill. Mr. Swift, of Muscogee, has com' to be recognized as a member of standing and influence, notwithstand ing the fact that he is young and this l.«- his first term in the House He is a member of the Ways and PHILADELPHIA. July 'M.-Phlla- Meana ‘« nd a delphla has an epidemic of boils. At prominent and constructive part in one Walnut street sfiop one-third of • the committee’s deliberations so far the girls are away with boils, while particularly in the manner of an in- at another fashionable place one- j heritnace tax and tax equajjzation. Mr. Swift and Mr. Cole, of Bartow, have joined ther two inheritance tax measures, and are working harmoni- before the Legislature—by far the greater number of them next ses sion—with considerable prestige be hind them Some of them, indeed, stand a fair chance to go through. In the meantime, however, the House ommittee is glad its share of the labor is over. QUIT POST Postmaster Says He Was Warmly Received at National Capital. Knows of No Inefficiency, Postmaster Hugh McKee, after a brief sojourn in Washington, New York and other Eastern points, has arrived in Atlanta. He was busily occupied Saturday with an accumula tion of correspondence. In reply to questions bearing on the assertions that his resignation had been de manded, together with those of As sistant Postmaster Cole and Superin tendent of Mails I. C. Hart, he said: “So far I have not been advised, personally or by any written com munication, of a request for my resig nation. I was in Washington Thurs day and Friday of last week and vis ited the department headquarters. *1 made several recommendations for minor improvements in the Atlanta office and was accorded more than ordinary consideration, gaining the assurance that the items I mentioned would be supplied. “I had a long talk with Mr. Roper, First Assistant Postmaster General, and no one could have been more courteous than he. Postmaster Gen eral Burleson I saw only for a few minutes, as he was called to attend a Cabinet meeting. "The first intimation T had that my resignation as Postmaster of Atlanta had been requested by the Postoffice Department at Washington was con tained in a short story in the home edition of The Atlanta Georgian which I purchased on the Southern Railway train Friday afternoon while on my way to Atlanta. "I repeat that if there is any in efficiency in the Atlanta postoffice, of which I am Postmaster. I do not know it. If there is inefficiency I alone am responsible for It, for I am re sponsible for every man employed by the Government in the Atlanta post- office, and I will answer any charges at any time. "I will also say that I am ready to hand in my resignation the minute I am advised the Postoffice Department wants it.” Sloan Funeral To Be Held on Sunday The funeral of Robert M. Sloan, which was to have been held Satur day afternoon, has been postponed until Sunday afternoon at 4 o’clock, j three miles below Columbus, was waiting the arrival of his sister. Mrs. found by the crew of a Government WOMAN’S BODY FOUND. COLUMBUS.—The body of Dollie Clarke, w'ho was drowned in the Chattahoochee River Wednesday half the employees are unable to sit j down. Physicians attribute the outbreak to the recent hosted term. King of Spain Goes To Cowes Regatta Special Cable to The Atlanta Georgian. PARIS. July 26.—KinR Alfonso of Spain, accompanied by the Queen, ar rived here to-day en route to the Cowes regatta. ously anil effectively together to g* a good bill through. The split in the Richmond delega tion in the House is interesting. It comes about over tile question of commission government for Augusta. The local advocates of commission government are pinning their faith to Representatives Samuel L. Olive and Samuel F. Garlington. These gentle- Noda Bryson, of Kennedale, Tex. M Sloan died at his home at Austell, Ga., at 7 o’clock Wednesday night He is survived by one sister, Mrs. Noda Bryson; an uncle, M. C. Mar tin; a niece. Mrs. Henry L. Jackson, and a nephew, B. H. Mitchell. All flowers should be sent care Burkert & Simmons Co. before l o’clock Sunday morning. Interment will be at Rose Hill, with the following as pallbearers; Tom Strickland, J. D. Perkerson. R. M. Clay. H. C. Brown. W. B. Westmoreland, F. A. Daniels and Cieve Davis. OBITUARY. Mrs. R. J. Griffin, sixty-five years old. died at the residence, No. 21 How - ( ard street, Friday, after several I weeks' illness. She is survived by j her husband, two daughters. Mrs. J. G. Respess, of New York, and Mrs. R. J. Williford, of Raleigh. S. \ C.; two sons, R. J. Griffin, of Law'- ; renceville, Ga., and J. M. Griffin, of Washington, and two brothers and j a sister. Funeral announcements j later. The funeral of Mrs. Essie House, who died Thursday at a local hospital will be held from the Western Heights Baptist Church at 3 o’clock Saturday afternoon. Mrs. House was twenty-nine years old. and is survived by her husband. L. C House, and two small children. Funeral services of Helen Maqruder, the one-year-old daughter of Mr. and Mrs. R. E. Magruder, who died Friday morning at the home In i Kirkwood, were conducted from the residence Saturday morning. Inter- I ment at Westview. The funeral of W. J. Poss. who died at the residence, No. 710 East Fair | street, Friday morning, will be held from the home at 10:30 o’clock Sun- j day morning. Interment at Holly- . wood. boat nine miles below the city, hav ing floated down stream six miles. Are You Sick, Diseased, Nervous, Ron Down? Isvt You Blood Poloon, Kidney, Blad der and Urinary Troubiaa? W SO, CONSULT (PRES) Dr. Hughes, Atlanta’* Long Estab lished. Moat Reliable Specialist. I core to atay cured nerve. BLOOD and Skin Dtsoaaoa, STRICTURE, Proatatio Troubiaa. VARICOCELE, HYDROCELE. FOdnay. Blad der and Uri nary Diseaaes. Fflae and all Chronic and Private LHeeaaes of Man and Woman. I give 606. tha eoMsrakod German preparation. for Blood Pofaon, and Qua ran toe results Everything hitoiy confidentlaJ If you cant oad» wHte. Prae Consultation and Advtce to HOURS—9 a. m. to 7 p. 9 to 1. All. Sunday a, DR. J. D. HUGHES Oppo,lt, Third National Bank. IV/, North Broad St., Atlanta. Q«. MACON. July 26.—Practically !• last obstacle in the way of the erec tion of the I’nion Passenger Station at Fifth and Cherry streets was re- yesterday when all but one my home in his automobile to get his j moved . . . .. ,11 . , .. . . the property owners in that viclnit wife. He saw the soldiers, but thought \ Q arbltrate th „ lr claims f.u nothing of it. They tired at him and J damages expected to ai t rue from til he attempted to stop and called to i closing of Cherry street. . . e „» ...r. ti.Av i The Railroad Commission ha- them not to shoot again, but they 1 gtated that ,he damage claims mu? fired another volley and wounded him , be SPt tied before it will authorize tin in one of his lungs, which caused his I building of the depot, death a short while afterward.” When the heal ing is resumed Tues day it probably will continue each afternoon through the week. Practi cally every military officer who was on duty in Augusta, as well as many privates, will be summoned to ap pear before the committee. WRECKS BIG STILL. COLUMBUS.—Deputy U nltr States Marshal W. D. Owens has r, turned from a raid 1n Harris Counts Seven miles west of Hamilton h found a 250-gallon still in full bln but failed to get Ihe operators destroyed five barrels of corn whi a quantity of beer and the still. •S SPECIAL NOTICE I Wilton iellico COAL $4.25 July Delivery Only Place Your Order at Once JELLICO COAL CO. 82 PEACHTREE ST. Ivy 1585 Atlanta 3668 MODERN OPTICIANS Meaning right-up-to-the-minute in every respect. Well arranged ; t* testing rooms fitt<Ml with the latest scientific testing instruments, and •resided over by Opticians of experience and ability. A complete lens- rinding plant, employing only expert workmen; making every style, form r combination of lenses the genuine Kryptoks (invisible bifocals), Toric -uses and smoke or amber tints. Every style of latest mountings and rumps for you to select from. If you would lake the best care of your yes. remember that a perfectly fitted pair of glasses is the l>est eye tnsur- nce. Let u*s make the examination for you to-day. Our prices are very noderate. A. K. HA WKES CO. Opticians 14 Whitehall SEMI-ANNUAL STATEMENT For ihe six months ending June 30, 1913, of the condition of the American Casualty Insurance Co. OF READING, Organized under the laws of the State of Pennsylvania, made to the Gov ernor of the State of Georgia, in pursuance of the laws of said State. Principal office, Colonial Trust Building, Reading, Pa. I. CAPITAL STOCK. Amount paid up in cash $325,000.00 II. ASSETS. Total assets of the company, actual cash market value.. .. .. ..$590,670.63 III. LIABILITIES. Total liabilities $590,670.63 IV. INCOME DURING THE FIRST SIX MONTHS OF THE YEAR 1913. Total income actually received during the first six months in cash $169,591.34 V. EXPENDITURES DURING THE FIRST SIX MONTHS OF THE YEAR 1913. Total expenditures during the first ?ix months of the year In cash $184,734.75 'A copy of the act of incorporation, duly certified, is of file in the office of the Insurance Commissioner. STATE OF PENNSYLVANIA—County of Berks. Personally appeared before the undersigned, E. P Van Reed. who. be ing duly sworn, deposes and says th.vt he is the president of the American Casualty Insurance Company, and that the foregoing statement is corA*fCt and true. E. P. VAN REED. Sworn to and subscribed before me this 22d day of July. 1913. E. B. WELDER. Not a ~y Public. Name of Agent at Atlanta—J. B. MAR0URY. CHOICE OF ROUTES AND GOOD SERVICE