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MOORE SCORES FREIGHT
RATES; CHARGES FAIL IO
EXPLAIN HIGH FOOD COST
"Atlanta's freight rates are too high
all along the line,” says Harry T.
Moots, head of the Atlanta Freight
Bureau, "an 4 before the Interstate
Commerce Commission now Is a case
In which we hope for a favorable de
cision, wditch will cut practically all
freight rates Into the city.
"The rate on flour from Ohto River
points, for Instance, la 48 cents a bar
rel. With this kind of rate, flour
ought to be cheaper In Chicago than
here.”
Some Facts Not Explained.
Atlanta’s freight rates, however, do
not explain some of the differences in
the price of various commodities
mentioned in the Government statis
tics which tend to prove Atlanta one
of the most expensive cities for the
housekeeper In the United States.
The Atlanta Freight Bureau, for
Instance, quotes the rate on fresh
beef as 63 cents per 100 pounds from
Chicago to Atlanta, This Is a combi
nation of a 17-cent rate to Cincin
nati, the river crossing, and 46 cents
from the Ohio River to Atlanta.
Range In Butter Peculiar.
Yet the Government’s figures show ,
the average price of sirloin is a halt
eent higher in Cincinnati than In At
lanta, and the average price of round i
eteak 1s 26 cents In Cincinnati, against j
20 cents in Atlanta, Atlanta paying, .
be It remembered, something more \
than a half cent a pound freight In
excess of Cincinnati.
More peculiar is the range of price
»n butter. The Government quotes
butter as selling at 42 cents in Cin
cinnati and 40 cents in Atlanta. The
freight rate on butter from Chicago
and the Elgin district to Atlanta Is
$1.33 per hundredweight. To Cincin
nati it Is 34 cents. Atl&nta, then. Is
paying almost a cent more In freight
on every pound of butter, and selling
It 2 cents cheaper than Cincinnati.
Getting Less for Meats.
Atlanta, according to the Govern
ment figures, is selling ham cheaper
than Chicago, whence most of that
meat comes. Yet Atlanta pays a 48-
cent rate on cured meats from Chi
cago. Cincinnati, with a 12-cent rate,
Is supposed to be charging 7 1-2 cents
more per pound.
Examination of the freight rates
actually seems to show that Atlanta
is getting less for its meats than cit
ies with cheaper freights, which only .
Increases the puzzle.
Retailers Deny Their
Profit Margin Is High.
Atlanta can not blame the high cost
of living on the retail merchants, in
the opinion of leading wholesalers.
“Retailers In Atlanta are not charg
ing an excessive margin of profit,’’
says W. A. Albright, vice president of
the Oglesby Grocery Company. "Some
few of them, by the closest possible
management and the most conserva
tive business methods, are making
money. More are not.
"I do not think prices here are ex
cessive, considering what things cost
by the time they arrive in the city.
The cost of doing business, retail, has
Increased possibly 100 per cant in a
quarter century In Atlanta. Rents
are much higher. The public de
mands cleaner, more attractive stores.
Though probably worth It, it costs
money to keep an Immaculate gro
cery. Expensive fixtures mean great
ly Increased Investment.
"Then there is the matter of de
livery. In the old days a negro
trudged along with a basket. I.a ter
he used a bicycle. Then came tha
smart-looking wagon. Now it is the
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tri* happy, pre-natal disposition ha* <
upon the heaith and fortunee of the {
generation to come.
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automobile. They say the auto de
livery' wagon is as cheap as the horse.
I won't argue that, but I do know
that it costs more to keep an auto
than a barefoot darkey boy.
“We job nothing on the Govern
ment’s list with the exception of ham.
I will say that no grocer who slices
ham can sell it ar anything like the
price quoted in that table.”
Packer Disputes U. S.
Meat Price Table.
Here’s the packer’s view of the
Government estimate of the cost of
living in Atlanta:
“I do not believe the cost of meats
is any higher in Atlanta than in any'
other city’ in the United States of the
same size,” says F. O. Miller, manager
of the Atlanta branch of Swift & Co.
“I am free to say, too, that until I
am convinced otherwise, I will cher
ish the suspicion that the Government
figures as quoted in the table of prices
published Wednesday are wrong in
many instances.
"One thing is correct —I believe
Boston does pay more for beef than
any’ other city in the United States.
That Is, the average Bostonian pays
more for his sirloin than the average
i Chicagoan. The answer Is that Bos
ton now uses, and always has used,
. the best grades of beef obtainable.
I Boston uses export beef, the fanciest
, stuff killed. The 'pork and beans’
' metropolis has a reputation among
i packers as being the most ‘choosey’
market for beef in the world.
"How these Government figures
were compiled is a mystery to me.
You won’t catch a man who is an
expert on meats saying that sirloin is
so many cents a pound. He might
say sides from Fort Worth of a cer
tain weight and a certain grade were
worth so much. On the other hand,
beef from Kansas City or from Chi
cago will cost more, and there are
many grades from each center.
"Atlanta’s freight, of course, gov
erns prices here. There may have
been a time when an average rate
was struck in a sort of haphazard
way and all points w’ere charged on
that basis. Nowaday’s we compute
the freight on every piece of beef and
add it to the actual cost of the meat.
So small a difference as 5 cents a
hundred in a freight rate is com
puted.
"You may rest assured, though, that
the difference Is due mostly to the
grade of beef
“(>ne grocer buys a pork loin which
.will cut into small fancy chops. And
he sells to a trade which demands
that the account be carried on the
books for a month, perhaps three
months. Another grocer buys a loin
which cuts into big, heavy chops.
He sells for cash money. His meat
costs him less His expenses are less.
His risk is almost nothing. He can
sell cheaper, of course.
"Then comes the Government inves
tlgator. In the report, all pork chops
look alike. You can’t tell a thing by
such figures.
"I see Boston Is supposed to quote
butter, retail, at 30 cents, and New
York at 31 cents, while Atlanta quotes
4Q cents.
"That can’t be right. We sell a
world of fancy table butter. All but
ter prices are computed on the basts
of the Elgin or New’ York board. The
freight must be added. Butter is sold
on the narrowest of profits. A 10-cent
discrepancy between Atlanta, say, and
New York or Boston is impossible—
always supposing the stuff to be of
the same grade. Perhaps, like beef
and pork chops, all butter looks alike
to the Government investigator.”
Roads Men Discuss
Federal Aid Bill
ST. LOVIS, Sept. 19.—The Ways
and Means Committee of the United
States Good Roads Association meets
here to-day. In addition to plans for
the national convention, which Is to
be held here November 10 to 16, the
committee will discuss Senator J. H.
Bankhead’s bill asking Congress to
appropriate $25,000,000 for the con
struction of good roads.
Senator Bankhead Is president of
the United States Good Roads Asso
ciation.
Mrs. Hawkins Drops
Plea for New Trial
GAINESVILLE. Sept. 19.—Motions
for new trials in the cases of Jarnes
and Bartow Cantrell, found guilty, of
the murder of .Arthur Hawkins last
May, will be heard here September 20
before Judge J. B. Jones. The men
were sentenced to hang September 26.
Mrs. Silvia Hawkins, also found
guilty and sentenced to life imprison
ment, will begin her sentence at
once. The motion for a new trial In
her case has been withdrawn.
U. S. Globe-Trotter
Jailed in England
Special Cable to The Atlanta Georgian.
ROTHERHAM ENGLAND, Sept.
19.—Launcelot Rexical Malpagne, who
describes himself as the son of a
millionaire and an officer in the Unit
ed States Army, arrested here several
days ago for stealing an overcoat in a
hotel, to-day’ was sentenced to three
months.
"Captain” Malpagne. as he calls
himself, says he is well known
around the world, .
FAIR STU DE NTS OF THE SOUTH
INVADE ATLANTA’S GIRL COLLEGES
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Busy Adjusting Courses, Decorating Rooms and
Planning Winter Gayeties.
> Atlanta, famed for the excellence .
of Its girls’ colleges as well as for the
beauty of the young women who at
tend the schools, opened its doors
again this week to the fair students
of the South. While the major share
of the enrollment comes from Atlanta
and the nearby small towns, the
. bright-eyed, attractive maids are
trooping into town bv twos and threes
5 and In small bevies from other parts
r of the State, and, In a number of in
t stances, from far-distant points.
' At some of the schools the students
1 already diligently are tilling the fields
of knowledge as well as planning for
1 the fall’s delightful social activities,
which embrace everything—from a
1 clandestine fudge party in one nf the
1 girl’s rooms to brilliant receptions
and dances.
Others of the colleges are still In
the throes of the term’s beginning
Order is just emerging from the in- •
. evitable first day's chaos of the class
room; the girls are barely settled In
their new quarters and the new en
trants don’t kn%w anybody at all as
> yet. ;
L The year promises to be an excep-
• tionally prosperous one for all of the
I girls’ Institutions. With the reputa
i tion of the Atlanta colleges spreading
s rapidly westward and northward, an
increasingly larger attendance is no
s ticeable from States at a considerable
i distance. Especial pride is taken in
the Quiuixy yX tije instruction and. Uia
” TTTE ATLANTA GEORGIAN AND NEWS.
These young
women, who
are students of
Washington
Seminary, are
fixing up their '
room in real j
college style.
ability of the Instructors in the local
institutions.
In the schools where classes have
already begun the girls are dividing
their time between the classrooms and
their own rooms. In their own quar
ters they are devoting as much time
to the rr decorat ion << the wails and
the rearrangement of their furniture,
pictures, photographs and souvenirs
as they are to the study of the lessons
assigned.
Among the most prominent of the
girls’ schools in or near this city are
the fashionable Washington Seminary
and Cox College, Agnes Scott Col
lege and Miss Hanna's and Miss
Woodberry’s schools.
STATEMENT OF TH E CONDITION OF
Ths Georgia Savings Bank and Trust Company
Located at Atlanta, Ga., at the close of business September 12. 1913:
RESOURCES. LIABILITIES.
Demand loans $ 19.470.00 Capital stock paid ins 200,000 00
Time loans 802,556.42 Surplus fund 100,000.00
Bonds and stocks owned by Undivided profits, less cur-
the bank 141,188*71 rent expanses, interest
Due from banks and bankers and taxes paid 23,148.80
in this State 76.377.35 Unearned Interest 89,979.33
Due Corn banks and bankers , Savings deposits 559J73.73
in other States*- 4.806.04 ; Time certificates 5M.312.65
Currency $9,899.00
Gold 5.230 oo
Silver, nickels, etc. 956.15
Cash items 230.84 16,315.99 |
Total $1,060,714.51 I Total $1,060,714.51
STATE OF GEORGIA—FuIton County
Before me came Joseph E. Boston, secretary and treasurer’ of Georgia
Savings Bank aiui Trust Company, who being duly sworn, says tnat the
above and foregoing statement is a true condition f <f said bank, as shown
by the books oi file in said bank. JOSEPH E BOSTON.
Sworn to and subscribed before me this 19th day of September, 1913.
W A. FOSTER,
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POLICEMANTRIED
FOR STREET FIGHT
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Policeman J. S. Melton and W. P.
1 Merck, a motorman, will be tried be
fore Recorder Broyles Friday after
noon for fighting. The trouble arose
over a $lO debt, which Melton claims
I Merck owes him.
Both men were badly beaten, each
I wielding a billy with terrific force.
; The policeman is said to have drawn
a pistol and declared he would shoot
Merck. The appearance of Policeman
Covington put an end to the fight.
Both men were taken to headquar
ters, where Melton was released on a
copy of charges, while Merck was
held.
The men are neighbors, Melton liv
ing at No. 10 Lucy street, and Merck
at No. 15 Lucy street. Melton claims
he loaned Merck $lO August 1 and
that it hao never been repaid. Merck
insists it was paid August 9.
Thursday morning Melton called at
Merck's home and a few wmrds were
passed. In the afternoon they met at
the corner of Decatur and Jackson
streets and the tight followed.
Melton was on his way to police
headquarters to go on duty and was
i in uniform when the fight took place.
Nobody made an attempt to separate
the combatants.
BIRMINGHAM EXCUB
SION ROUND TRIP $2.50.
Special train leaves Old
Depot September 22. Re
turn on regular trains.
SEABOARD.
CLAIMS HUSBAND
CHOKED HER US
SHE SLEPT
Wife Tells Police She Awoke to
Find His Hands Encircling
Her Throat.
Mrs. A. L. Brewer. No. 39 Tifton
street, told a sensational story In Po
lice Court Friday morning of awaking
In the night by being choked and find
ing her husband’s fingers tightly
closed about her throat.
She declared that as she opened her
eyes and felt the choking sensation
she saw her husband bending over
her, threatening her.
She struggled with him frantical
ly, according to her story, and finally
succeeded in getting away and run
ning to a neighbor’s house, where she
called the police
She said that Brewer many times
had threatened her life. I>uring their
married life of ten years, she de
clared, she had endured much from
her husband, but now was through
with him forever.
Policemen Watson and Anderson
hurried to the house on Mrs. Brewer’s
j call and placed the husband under ar
rest.
He declared In court Friday morn
ing that it all was a plot between his
wife and mother-in-law. He was
fined 115.75.
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6 Sons Pallbearers
At Singer’s Funeral
NEW YORK. Sept. 19. —Six sons of
Charles Patrick O’Neill, former opera
and church singer, were pallbearers
at the funeral of their father here.
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Rich Man Cuts Oft
With $5 Son Who
Once Cursed Him
STARKVILLE. Sept 19.
“I hope you will go to hell when yon
die and I want to be there to heap
coals of fire on your body. It will do
me good to stand by and see the work
well done.”
That language, appearing In th*
will of W, A. James, a wealthy plant
er. and alleged to havq been used by
his son to him, is given in the will cf
the father as his reason for cutting
the son, F. L. James, off with a $5
share in the valuable estate.
The son cursed the father because
he would not go on his bond on a
charge of peonage.
While dying the elder James called
in a notary and had the special clause
Inserted.
22 Levee Board Men
Indicted in Arkansas
MARION, ARK., Sept 19.—0. N.
Killough. one of the w'ealthlest citi
zens of Eastern Arkansas and presi
dent of the St. Francis levee board,
with 22 oth**r members of the board,
was indicted here to-day for malfeas
ance in office.
Eugene Williams, treasurer of th«
board, who was cashier of a bank in
Forrest City, which closed Its doors
recently, also was arrested, charged
with failing to turn over to the levee
board $21,000 of its funds.
The entire board is expected to re
sign at a mass meeting of citizens
scheduled f«»r September 30.
Savannah Market
Hit by Inspector
SAVANNAH, Sept. 19.—That Sa
vannah’s public market Is a menace
to the health community and
that citizens are being robbed daily
by the unfair weights and measures,
was the report of State Pure Food
Inspector P. A. Methvin to the Mayor
this morning.
Methvin and Dr. P. F Bahnsen,
State Veterinarian, inspected the
market yesterday.
HOW AMERICANS
ARE TORTURED
IN MEXICO
Refugees Tell of Outrages of the
Rebel Bands That Raid the
Ranches and Homes.
NEW YORK, Sept. 19.—A dozen
American refugees who arrived to
day from Tampico on the yteamshfo
Santiago told of the dangers they es
caped in Mexico. Mrs. Lillian Gon
zales, a widow and a native of At
lantic City, said she was forced to fleo
for her life from San Luis Potosi.
"Bands of rebels threatened nrr
house,” said Mrs. Gonzales, “and I had
to use firearms several times to pro
tect myself. I do not want to be a
murderess, but I had to fire several
times at bandits who came too near.
The coast towns are quiet, but stories
are coming continually from the in
terior of outrages.committed by the
rebel soldiery.”
Bird Laglelz, a former resident of
New Orleans, who fled from hla plan
tation About 100 miles south of Tam
pico, said:
“Just befox e I left a neighbor told
me that the man who owns the next
I plantation crawled over to his place
! to bring word that bandits had broken
; Into his house the night before, tied
him to a bedpost and maltreated his
wife before his eyes until she died.
After several hours’ effort ha untied
himself and went for aid.”
Wife’s Suicide Laid
To Marital Woes
SPARTANBURG, S. C., Sept. 19.
1 Marital unhappiness led to the suicide
of Mrs. Bertha Wymbs, a married
woman, 26 years old, in this city.
The Coroner’s inquest, held yester
day, developed the fact that Mrs
Wymbs and her husband had frequent
quarrels, due, it was said, to jealousy
on the part of the wife. In a farewell
note she absolved her husband from
all blame for her death.
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