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I IK MIST'S SUNDAY AMERICAN, ATLANTA. GA., SUNDAY, NOVEMBER 30, 1913.
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Latest Reports From the World’s ■Great Markets—-Cotton, Grain, Stocks
COLLECTING
TAX FQ
Expense Amounts to $2,100 for $65
in Taxes, Chicago Financier Says,
and Easterners Think the Estimate
Is Well Within the Facts.
NEW YORK, Nov. 29.—Collecting
the income tax at the source is prov
ing expensive to banks and trust
companies.
Attorneys for at least one trust
company will appeal to the Treasury
Department for relief. Failing there
they will take the matter before Con
gress at its next session.
Alvin W. Krech, president of the
Equitable Trust Company, said he be
lieved the statement made by S. W.
Strauss, of Chicago, that it had cost
his bank $2,100 to collect less than $65
in tax was not excessive, and that he
believed the financial institutions of
the country would spend $110,000,000
to collect $1,000,000 for the Govern
ment.
A representative of one of the lar
gest title insurance and trust compa
nies said:
“The Government has no right to
make the banks its collection agen
cies. believe it is unconstitutional
and that the measure will be atacked
on constitutional grounds unless the
banks are relieved.’’
The National City Bank, which han
dles the funds of the H. H.' Rogers
estate, will probably make larger col
lections than any other bank in the
country. A representative of the
bank said:
“It will be impossible to arrive at
any idea of the cost now. There is no
doubt it is going to cost a great deal,
but I think it will not be anything
like $110,000,000 to collect $1,000,000.
We have put on fifteen extra clerks,
and for several days I had five extra
stenographers at work.
“Our greatest trouble has been
caused by the changes in forms. We
received the first form and had sent
that out, when it was superseded by
another. That necessitated recalling
the first and sending out the second.
The second was hardly out when we
received a third replacing it. The
Treasury Department itself seems in
doubt on many points in the law.”
Things Which Show Why
Georgia Farmers Prosper
ATHENS, GA., Nov. 29.—Some of
the interesting information coming
into the State College of Agriculture
from farm demonstration agents as to
what the Georgia farmers are doing
is given herewith:
Polk County has recently received
two carloads of Percheron mares and
is also getting into the colt raising
business.
H. C. Garrett, near Carrollton,
raised 219 bushels of corn on two
acres this year.
A cold storage plant, which is near
ing completion, at Valdosta, has been
constructed especially for the pork
raising industry of the county.
The first known instance of a ship
ment of corn out of Camden County
was that recently made by Davis &
Brandon, of Woodbine, who sold 300
bushels for $1.05 per bushel. Camden
County, of course, has reached a self-
supporting basis when it comes to
corn.
Georgia farmers have been select
ing their seed corn in ‘the field this
year as never before, and experts say
that it will mean, if well done, from
15 to 25 per cent increase in yields
next year.
Pike Corn Does Well.
Tom Childress, in Pike County, has
an interesting experiment in corn. A
variety known as “Silver Mine Seed,”
secured from Iowa, produced the first
year it was planted only 20 bushels to
the acre. The second year it produced
45 bushels to the acre, and this year
109 bushels, showing the significance
of the variety becoming acclimated.
The average cost of producing a
bushel of corn, as shown by carefully
kept accounts of 21 corn club boys of
Appling County, was 37 cents. One
of the canning club girls of Appling
County showed 92 varieties of vege
tables canned.
J. H. Sizemore, Nashville, Ga.,
Route 4. secured 140 bushels of corn
from two acres, at a cost of 20 cents
per bushel. J. L. Ingram, of Sparks.
Ga., got 75 bushels from an acre, at a
cost of 30 cents per bushel.
According to J. H. West, farm dem
onstration agent of Clay County, that
county will not have to buy a pounl
of hay this year. Enough home-
raised to feed all the stock.
One demonstrator near Dublin
raised 2,000 bushels of oats, every
bushel of which was sold for seed
oats at a good price.
Most of the exhibits seen at the
county, State and district fairs this
year have been largely those coming
from the farms of demonstrators and
from boys’ and girls’ clubs.
Grow Winter Cover Crops.
/ Decatur farmers have been going in
for winter cover crops this year more
than ever, sowing crimson clover,
oats, rye and alfalfa.
A trucking organization has been
formed at Dublin with a marketing
bureau. The railroads are offering
to find a market for all the products.
William R. Smith, of. Tift County,
says there wore ten 9tacks of hay in
his county this year where there was
one last year.
Among the farm demonstrators of
Washington County, the best yield of
oats for the year was 91.12 bushels
per acre, the best corn 126 bushel.*
per acre and the best wheat 21 1-2
bushels per acre,
The average profit of the Coweta
County Corn Club boys was $38.50
per acre.
The average yield per acre of corn
for the 45 corn club boys of Gilmer
County this year was 58 bushels, as
against an average of 56 bushels last
year, made by only 16 boys.
Decatur County has been preparing
to meet the boll weevil by raising
hogs, but cholera has been very prev
alent this year, discouraging th°
farmers. Hog cholera preventive se
rum has not been used as freely as
necessary to subdue the disease.
B. & 0. Head Explains
Decreased Dividend
VEW YORK, Nov. 29.—Although gros
rnings of the Baltimore arui Ohio
re the greatest in its history during
3 year ending June 30, only 7 1-5 per
nt was earned on the common stock,
ainst 7% per cent in the previous
elve months.
Jross increased $8,961,808, but oper-
ng expenses expanded $9,070,100, leav-
' net down $108,291.
President Daniel Willard states that
onomies brougt about by the in-
■ase of the average trainload from
[.70 tons in 1909 to 650.81 tons in
[3 are not more dearly reflected, ow-
i to the constant increase in ex
use He says that "compared with
)9 Increased rates of pay anrl changes
working conditions have added a
arge of $4,758,000 a year; the cost of
el ties and otner materials has in
cased- taxes have required an addi
Inal amount of $841,806, and other
meases have been brought about by
uslatlon. Federal and State, and by
e requirements for a higher standard
service in all directions than ever
Another Income Tax
Protest Is Voiced
ST BOUTS, Nov. 20.—The Treasury
regulation requiring bankers and bro
kers to submit to banks or trust com
panies oaving bond coupons the names
of clients, together with declarations as
to income tax exemptions, was protest
or 1 against to-day in a telegram by
local brokers to Washington. The bro
kers demand the right to deal directly
with the District Collector.
Robert McWilliams, acting collector.
r< plied: “Regulations now in force will
n it permit payment of coupon Interest
i i manner suggested. A plan to accom
plish purpose desired is now under con
templation.’’
Sugar Plant to Close;
Tariff Law Is Blamed
JANESVILLE, WIS., Nov. 26 —Orders
.,, v . been received by the management
• „ close down the Dock County Sugar
Vcn-.anVs factory In this city as Mon
' ,be present run of sugar Is through.
The factory employs tv>o hundred men.
Captain James Davidson is tire owner.
It is said the recent Democratic tariff
measure is responsible for the closing.
Type Founders' Co.
Increases Profits
NEW YORK, Nov. 29.—The Amer*
ican Type Founders*’ Company for he
year reports, after preferred divi
dends. net profits equal to 5.27 per
cent on the common stock, compared
with 4.84 per cent profits the previous
year. President Robert W. Nelson
said in his remarks to stockholders:
“Your directors look for a more set
tled condition in general business
with the adjustment and acceptance
of commercial and financial legisla
tion, and the coming year should be
as favorable to American industries
as the past year.”
The balance sheet show’s total as
sets and liabilities of $10,361,222 and
a total surplus of $814,644. notes pay
able. $1,167,925; accounts payable,
$141,975: notes receivable, $542,642.
accounts receivable. $789,384; cash.
$408,289; cash with trustees for bond
purchase, $14,300.
Advocates Clearing
House for Canal Zone
Steel Trust Likely
To Acquire Plant at
LaFollette, Tenn.
Capacity of Present Plant To Be
Doubled If Deal Goes Through,
Is Report.
KNOXVILLE, TENN., Nov. 29.—It
is persistently rumored here that the
United States Steel Corporation w’ill
take over the great coal properties,
iron ore mines, blast furnace and
coke ovens of the LaFollette Coal,
Iron and Railway Company at LaFol
lette, Anderson County. Tenn., a few
m les north of Knoxville.
Colonel H. M. LaFollette, who is at
th-j head of the present company, has
b(v»n in the East the greater part of
the last three months, and it is ex
pected that official announcement of
the new organization will soon be
made. It is expected that if the deal
goes through the United States Steel
Corporation will more than double
the capacity of all the various de
partments and that a large steel mill
will be added. This company now
employs 400 men in its mines alone,
with a large number in other depart
ments, so that the new plans would
mean a large increase in the popula
tion and activity of the industrial
town of LaFollette.
Billion and One-Half
Is Pending in Loans
CHICAGO, Nov. 29.—The inroads
made by war expenses on the liquid cap
ital of Europe are becoming apparent
In the huge total of foreign Govern
ment loans now being arranged or con
templated. r Fhe aggregate pending loans
reach the stupendous sum of $1,450,000,-
000, of which something more, than $600.-
000,000 is being asked to pay the Balkan
war debt and to finance France’s mili
tary expansion.
A like amount, is to go into railroad
construction, largely in Russia and .la
pan. A salient fact is that virtually
none of these loans will be used to re
pay existing obligations, and if the
countries get the money they are mAv
seeking there will be an increase of
more than 3 per cent in the exsting na
tional debts of the world. This in
crease would be nearly twice the aver
age Annual advance In national in
debtedness In the past ten years. The
total of these obligations has risen
from around $35,000,000,000 in 1902 to
approximately $42,000,000,000 at tha
present time.
Pioneer Investors in
Gas Lost Huge Sums
Oldest Public Utility Fought Hard Battle at
First, Now Pays Well.
SPITS Ft TO
FILL SS FIST
By
WASHINGTON, Nov. 29.— The estab
lishment of a great clearing house bank
for the Panama Canal Zone, through
which smaller banks of the Latin-
American republics may transact busi
ness, was advocated to-day by Dr.
Clarence J. Owens, managing director
of the Southern Commercial Congress.
“Much of the banking of Latin
Americans is now transacted through
London agents." said Mr. < >wens. "The
opening of the canal, however, will
focus trade interests upon the canal
zone, making it a singularly strategic
position for a great clearing house.”
Cotton Mill Workers
Demand More Money
FALL RIVER, Nov. 29.—The Textile
Council for some 30,000 cotton mill op
eratives to-day sent a letter to the
Manufacturers' Association demanding a
general wage Increase of’tSVz per cent.
Nearly 100 mills and 75 corporations are
affiliated with the Manufacturers' As
sociation.
Operatives belonging to the I. W. W.
have demanded a 20 per cent increase
Freight Rate Tariff
Books Are Still Free
CHICAGO, Nov. 29.—As a result of
a conference between a committee of
the National Industrial Traffic League
and the Southwestern Tariff Bureau,
the railroads in the Southwestern
group have agreed to recede from the
positioln to make a charge for tariffs
furnished shippers.
This probably will be followed by no
tices from all roade? in every part of
the country that the stand to charge
cash for the distribution of infromatlon
sheets regarding rates will he aban
doned. The railroads a few months ago
announced that in their campaign
for greater economies one of the big
wastes has been in the distribution ol
tariffs. They did not object so much to
legitimate distribution of the books, but
It was charged and still Is charged
that the tariffs, costing in the aggre
gate $1,000,000 to issue, are wasted by
the shippers, that little care is given
them, and that more copies than ac
tually needed are asked for every time
a change is made.
English Economist
Likes Currency Bill
NEW YORK. Nov. 29.—Sir George
Paish, the English economist, yester
day cabled from Washington to his
paper. The London Statist:
“It is believed here that the situa
tion in Mexico will shortly right Itself,
either by the resignation of President
Huerta or by concerted action by the
Mexican people, or by the successes of
the Constitutionalists, and that no ‘ac
tive intervention by the United States
will become necessary.
"The two sections of the Currency
Committee are expected to present sep
arate reports to the Senate on Satur
day, and inasmuch as there are no se
rious differences of principle between
the two reports the currency bill is ex
pected to pass through the Senate with
out much delay."
Morgan Saved the
N.H.R.R, Say Counsel
BOSTON, Nov. 29. -The statement
was made recently by E. D. Robbins,
counsel for the New York. New Haven
and Hartford Railroad, that prompt ac
tion by the late J. P. Morgan In secur
ing from France one of the few loans
made in that country tided the road
over the 1907 panic.
He added that had that loan been de
layed for a week the consequences
would have been disastrous to the cor
poration. Its stockholders and the com
monwealth.
This history cam® out in the hearing
before Judge Sheldon, of the Supreme
Court, on the appeal of former Govern
or Morgan G. Bulkeley from the Pub
lic Service Commission’s decree author
izing the New Haven to issue $67,552,-
000 of convertible bonds.
Lewis Now Predicts
U.S.Parcels Monopoly
WASHINGTON, Nov. 29.—The inroads
of the parcel post into the business of
privately owned express companies was
shown to-day in figures jwepared by Rep
resentative Lewis, of Maryland, co-au
thor of the parcel post law.
Mr. Lewis says that in 1911-1912 the
profits of the live leading express com
panies were $5,771,940. In 1912 1913, the
profits were $3,289,602 and in June, 1913,
the loss was S419.918.
He Intimated that it was only a mat
ter of time when the Government would
have a monopoly of the retail parcels
carrying business.
33,839 Average $91
In N. Y. Postal Banks
NEW YORK, Nov. 29—Postmaster
Morgan made public yesterday that in
the postal savings banks in the New
York postal district, Manhattan and Tee
Bronx, on October 31 last, there were
33.839 depositors, with $3,092,099, an av
erage of $91 per person, on deposit.
The nationalities by which tire postal
savings system is used most in New
York are Americans, Italians.'Russians.
Austrians, English, German, Scotch and
Greeks.
CHICAGO, Nov. 29.—Gas
oldest of public utilities inventions—
older than the steam railway, than
the telegraph and the telephone, than
electric illuminant. Invented in a less
receptive age than its successor
sciences, it had a hard struggle for
general recognition.
Like all useful and enlightening
conceptions, it was opposed on va
rious grounds, mostly termed “dan
gerous." Harebrained religionists de
clared it to be heretical. It conflicted
with the Scripture. The candle was
God’s gift to man. To "scientists”
the idea was likened unto Taputan’s
scheme for making sunshine out of
cucumbers.
Distinguished laymen were caustic
and ironical. Napoleon remarked:
“C’est une grande folie.” Sir Walter
Scott wrote: “There is a madman
proposing to light London with—What
do you think? Why, with smoke!”
Sir Humphry Davy and Sir Joseph
Banks thought it “inconceivably wild.”
The populace were afraid of this
“burning air,” ns it was called; they
could not be convinced that fire or
explosion would not be the inevitable
result of its use.
Two Inventors Rivals
The credit for the discovery lies be
tween an Englishman, William Mur
dock, and a Frenchman, Phillipe Le-
Bon.
Both publicly announced their dis
coveries simultaneously in 1797. Mur
dock. however, was the first to have
the thing tested on a large scale. Aft
er lighting his own house he In
duced Boulton. Watt & Co., manufac
turers, at Soho, near Birmingham,
England, to let him light their plant
which he succeeded in doing without
accident.
“This remarkable illumination.”
wrote a journalist at the time, “was
the first public display of gas light
ing in this country, and produced a
very strange impression upon the in
habitants of the town. The illumi
nation of the Soho works was one
of extraordinary splendor. The whole
front of that extensive range of
buildings was ornamented with a
great variety of devices that admira
bly displayed many of the varied
forms of which gas light was sus
ceptible.”
Firtkt Company Formed.
But if .Murdock was the first to
have a public display, Le Bon antici
pated the Englishman in organizing
a company for the exploitation of the
Invention. He raised $50,000, had gas-
used in the Fauborg St. Germaine
Quarter. Paris, and subsequently got
$1,000,000. a considerable sum for that
period.
If Murdock was himself slow in
finding a wide field for gas, he soon
found a promoter who made up for
lost time Frederick A. Wlnsov, a
man of sanguine temperament and
unbounded imagination. combined
with determination and ingenuity, ad
vocated the distribution of gas from a
central source “for the benefit of all
London.” The London press thought
Winsor’s plan the experience In Paris,
notwithstanding, “wild, absurd and
extravagant in its conception and
fraught with the greatest danger in
its execution.”
“Fire of Wind.
What Winsor proposed was “a fire
of wind.” Whoever has had any
thing to do with the London Council
BOERSIANER.
Is the
these days may appreciate what Win
sor had to meet in the early years of
the last century. Morgan lost his
self-control and Yerket most of his
money in trying for franchises for a
“tube” ten years ago.
However large your purse and pa
tience, both are bound to be exhaust
ed in an encounter with the London
board. Though Winsor had money
and energy in plenty, it was not until
1816 that he succeeded in selling gas
in the English capital with the sanc
tion of London councilors.
Here in this country the industry
dates from 1806. when a David Mel
ville, of Newport, R. I., lighted his
premises by means of coal gas which
he manufactured thereon. This took
place nine years after the experiments
in England.
The apparatus as used by Melville
was necessarily crude, but underwent
improvements from time to time until
in 1813 he secured a patent, and later
used gas for the lighting of a cotton
mill In Watertown, Mass.
Used in Will.
Gas was also used at about this
time in a mill near Providence, R. I.,
and was employed in 1817 as an illum
inant in a lighthouse. The growth of
the industry was at first slow, but
with the advance in the details of the
construction and operation of gas, the
improvement and development of
special tools and appliances and the
increasing knowledge gained by ex
perience of the laws of physics in
volved, there came a much more
rapid growth.
As early as 1816 a company was
chartered in Baltimore. Md., followed
in 1821 by the formation of a company
in Boston. Mass. New York City
adopted gas lighting In 1823, and sev
eral years later companies were
formed in Brooklyn, New York and
Bristol, R. I.
New Orleans adopted gas about
1835, 29 years after Melville intro
duced the new Illuminant in this
country. A proposition to light Phila
delphia with gas was made in 1803
and a similar one was made in 1817,
but both were rejected.
Repeated efforts were made there
after, but it was not until March 21.
1835, that an ordinance was passed
providing for the construction of the
works. The plant was completed Feb
ruary 8, 1836.
Early Inventors Lose.
Like all utility inventions that pre
ceded and succeeded gas. the money
put in the illuminant In the early
stages yielded no profits when, in
deed, it was not lost altogether. It
was not until the sciences of manu
facture and distribution had been per
fected. not until by-products had been
advantageously utilized and the use
of the illuminant extended to cooking,
etc., Jhat the gas business paid well.
To-day in this country there are
12,000 plants with a capital invest
ment of quite $1,000,000,000 which Is
to be compared with 30 plants and
$6,674,000 Invested in 1850. Sixty-
three years ago the value of the prod
uct was $1,921,746. To-day it i« $135,-
000,000.
The steadiness of the net earnings
of the industry in the last decade has
been remarkable. These have never
dropped below’ 8 per cent on the se
curities issued. On the total mort
gage debt of the companies—about
$411.000,000—there is less than 1 per
cent of the interest in default.
Carnegie Note-Giver
In Ante-Trust Days
NEW YORK, Nov. 29.—How the for
mation of the United States Steel Cor
poration affected the industry was dis
cussed by Benjamin F. Miles, president
of the Browning Engineering Company,
of Cleveland, at the Government's suit
for dissolution of the trust.
"I have seen some large hatches ot
nptes offered by the Carnegie company
w’ith the understanding that if they
would be discounted things would be
made easier for some of the Interests
that were allied there." he said.
"Even the notes of the Carnegie com
pany in those days were questioned,
were they not?” he was asked, and an-
"Yes, I have heard them questioned.”
Capitalists Ran to
Build Diesel Engines
AUBURN, Nov. 29 It was announced
here to-day that Frank A. Vanderlip
and other New York capitalists will
begin. In a big Auburn plant, the man
ufacture under th»* sole American rights
of the Diesel engine.
The company starts with $2,500,000
capital. Diesel, the inventor, recently
committed suicide abroad.
$11,000,000 Issue to
Pay Louisiana Debt
BATON ROUGE, LA.. Nov. 29 —The
Louisiana constitutional convention
unanimously adopted an amendment for
the issuance of $11,000,000 short-term
bonds to take up the State’s Indebted
ness due January 1 next. The State
was unable to find a market for the
previous issue of 4 per cent bonds. ,
The short-term bonds will be used
until the Stat^ can find a market for
serial bonds at not more than 5 per
cent to run not longer than 50 years.
National Coal Strike
Possible, Debs Says
DENVER, Nov. 29.—Eugene V. Debs
to-day held several lengthy conferences
with the union leaders of the Colorado
coal strike.
"The present coal strike may spread
and become a national Issue," declared
Debs this evening. "The miners are
prepared to fight, and it may be neces
sary to line up every organization In
thf United States to help win the bat
tle.”
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No Undue Eagerness to Sell Can
Be Discovered by Bears.
Estimates Larger.
MEMPHIS, Nov. 28.—No startling
events or special activity has char
acterized trading in the cotton mar
ket during the week just ended. Con
servative action has been a feature
on both the bull and the bear sides,
w’ith profits to either almost negligi
ble. There has been much attention
given to reports from trade and man
ufacturing centers, and the bears
have been disposed to accept state
ments of pessimistic character. They
also have received encouragement
from the enlarged crop ideas, conse
quent upon the heavy ginning for the
first half of the month, being slow to
accept claims that the figures repre
sented an unusually large proportion
of the total.
The spinning world has adhered to
its attitude of buying supplies ol raw
material in hand-to-mouth fashion,
which has increased the relative
weight of the movement, no matter
how moderate it might become later
on. The supply of hedges has thus
found a restricted demand, for sen
timent among the speculative element
of the trade has leaned to the bear
side. Continuation of the uncertainty
as to the Mexican situation and the
reactionary state of business in many
lines in this country have given stim
ulus to the efforts to depress values.
Not Eager to Sell.
But a significant feature has been
that while prices in the spot d^part-
ment of the market have yielded
somew’hat, they have not gone down
in proportion with contracts, and
there hits been no undue eagerness to
sell. Around the bottom absorption
of contracts developed and it was
credited to trade and spot interests
This lessened confidence in a material
break and discouraged increasing of
the short interest among the profes
sional and outside traders who usually
follow the trend of values rather than
act on the legitimate factors of pros
pective supply and demand.
More crop* estimates came to hand,
being indicative of a growing idea
that the commercial out-turn will be
in the neighborhood of 14.250,000 bales,
Picking About Over.
In this territory the crop is turn
ing out fairly well, though some claim
that yield is disappointing’ Unless
bad weather intervenes soon, fields
will be clean as a rule before the
first of the year, even In the delta
sections. The uplands are nearly
through now.
Movement continues free and un
sold stock is increasing, though there
is no evidence of undue anxiety to
sell at concessions. Demand has been
slack, but having sold so much al
ready and at such good prices, there
Is no difficulty in financing the rest
The rapidity of movement toward
spinners and a feeling among the
holders that there will be a large dif
ference between the yield and the
consumptive requirements encourages
the producer to take his time about
marketing the rest. Statistics con
tinue bullish, and until they prove
otherwise there will be plenty of peo
ple who will doubt claims as to poor
business and enough raw material to
fill requirements.
PUFFING TO
IT
Prolonged Absence of Speculators
From Wall Street Forces De
cision to Retire Jan. 1.
NEW YORK. Nov. 29.-—Because of
the prolonged absence of speculators
and investors from Wall Street many
commission houses and small brokers
and investment banking concerns are
to go out of business at the end of
the year.
Some firms have taken time by
the forelock and quit already. The
New York Stock Exchange firm of
B. L. Smyth & Co., of No. 42 Broad
way, has Just dissolved after being
in business for more than a quarter
of a century.
Unusual interest was shown In this
dissolution, sa the firm years ago Is
reputed to have done an extensive
business for Standard Oil interests;
doing $1 1ft.000 in one day during ths
j Northern Pacific panic. The firm con-
| sisted of Sidney L. Smyth and
Charles O. Hartlch. The partnership
was entered into May, 1895, but the
I house has been in business in one
form or another for more than 50
years, the late B. L. Smyth having
been a member of the New York
Stock Exchange since 1969. Mr.
Smyth will remain his Exchange
membership and make his headquar
ters with C. W. Turner Sr Co.
Cither firms are making prepara
tions to reduce overhead charges by
discharging clerks and cutting down
office space. A number of the wire
houses have given up wires they have
had for years to Chicago, Boston,
Philadelphia and other cities.
An unusually large number of con
solidations is looked for among bro
kers Partnership agreements are al
ready being overhauled.
Changes contemplated will be a
hard blow to clerks and stenogra
phers. Upward of 1,000 clerks, it Is
estimated, have been discharged dur
ing the last six months, and many
more have had wages cut.
ALL THUS
WEEK
whe!
Matinees
Tues, Thurs., Sat.
A Beautiful Play Beautifully Produced
See the World’s Famous Scenes Once More
Introducing an Immense Chorus of Dar kies
Singing the Sweet Songs of Long Ago.
NEXT WEEK. A BUTTERFLY ON THE WHEEL”
Your Dental Work
Sale in Our Hands
No experiments or experimenters here.
Every dentist is skillful and experienced—ne students
or failure*.
AH Work
Guaranteed
Ten Years
Exami
nations
FREE
These Are Our Prices for Best Quality Dental Werk
Gold Crowns, $4
Set ot Teeth, $5 Bridge Work, $4
Atlanta Dental Parlors
DR. C. A. CONSTANTINE. Proprietor
Cor. Peachtree and Decatur Sts. Entrance 19^ Peachtree
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.SOUTHERN EXPRESS COMPANY
DO YOUR CHRISTMAS SHIPPING EARLY
It is the desire and aim of the Southern
Express Company to handle all shipments
entrusted to it with the greatest possible
care, and to make prompt deliveries in good order.
To attain this end the shipper’s co-operation is not
only essential but necessary.
With this co-operation satisfactory service is assured. *
This is true at all times but especially true during the holiday
season when transportation is taxed to its utmost by reason of the
unusual and unnatural demands made upon it.
To meet this abnormal condition the agents and employees are
instructed to take especial pains to assist shippers and facilitate
the Christmas business.
I he greatest trouble in transportation is brought about by congestion. The
greatest congestion comes at Christmas.
THE CAUSE—Every one ships at the same time.
To do your Christmas shipping early, is the only sure relief for this condition.
Ask any agent of the Company for Information and Rates
Southern Express Company