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5LF PRICE
GOT PHONE
'Noted Artists Pick ‘Girl of To-day
Chicagoan Wins in Beauty Test
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Chum of West’s Richest Heiress
Miss Elizabeth Goodrich, chosen as the ideal type of American
girlhood in a contest judged by noted artists.
C npanyAsked $104,623,500 for
- Plant—“Proved” Capital
' ■ 11 ay To Be $81,870,295, j
]nt Accepted $51,568,825. j
Public Ownership of 600,000
Telephones Was Preceded by
Parliamentary Appraisal—Tele-
gramsl,000Miles,Cent a Word
Special Cable to The American.
LONDON, Dec. 27. -The United
S it**., if it acts upon the suggestion
Postmaster General Burleson and
over the telephone, and tele-
c im|>ii systems, may take a leaf from
. history of England's experience.
The British Government, which now
an absolute monopoly of every
public means of communication in the
tilled Kingdom, paid less than half
Mf sum demanded by the National
T- ' phone Company when it took over
he i.no,000 telephones of that concern
.»n January 1, 1912.
Tn<‘ National Telephone (Company
$104,622,500 for its plant. Sub-
• M i» ntly it reduced the demand to a
rniind $100,000,000. It “proved” that
ipital expenditures, up to .June,
pill, were $81,ST0,295.
\ parliamentary commission, after
ring covering 71 days, awarded
■ mpany $62,576,320. The Gov-
nt finally paid the concern $51,-
.... which included $1,235,945 ex-
*1 by the telephone company in
. capital during its lifetime,
price at which the company
l out to the Government, was
re, $30,301,470 less than its ex-
ires had been, and $53,054,675
;n its original demand.
Hew Capital Was Divided.
: Hpitali/.ation of the National
hone Company was $53,405,000.
' is divided as follows: $750,000 6
<>nt first preference shares, $750,-
• i) per cent second preference, $6.-
5 per cent third preference.
“'11,125.000 6 per cent preferred stock,
$18.C >.000 6 per cent deferred ordi-
n,tr'\ shares, $7,657,320 1-2 per cent
debentures, and $8,248,580 4 per cent
iebentures.
The average dividend payment
worked out a little under 5 1-4 per
• ent per annum.*
Prior to absorption by the Govern
ment engineering experts took an in
ventory of every article in the pos-
session of the company. This work
required eighteen months. One Turn
in', l experts were emploved. Ham
mond V. Hayes, an American engi
neer, looked after the interests of the
telephone company.
All telegraph and telephone sys
tems in the kingdom are owned and
• perated by the Government. There
• s a uniform charge of 12 cents for a
welve-word telegram to any part of
the British Isles, with a charge of 1
ent for each additional word.
One can send a twelve-word tele
gram from Hands End to John-o*-
i Treats, nearly 1,000 miles, for 12
cents. Postmaster General Samuel
iveenth announced a coming reduc
tion both in the minimum number of
'ords and the cost.
Cheap Public Telephone*.
The rent of telephone instruments
s $25 annually. This does not in
clude any calls, which, in addition,
•mst 2 cents each if in the county of
London, and 4 cents each outside the
ounty of Condon, in Greater London.
A deposit of $7.20 Is required
• gainst such calls. The deposit must
be renewed when exhausted. An ad-
oiiional deposit of $4.80 is necessary
if the subscriber requires the use of
ho long-distance telephones.
REPRESENTI.Y.
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Governor Glynn Names Her as
First Woman on the Panama-
Pacific Commission.
ALBANY, N. Y., Dec. 27.—Governor
Glynn to-day announced the appoint
ment of Mrs. VY. R. Hearst as a mem
ber of the commission to represent
New York State at the Panama-Pa
cific International Exposition to be
held in San Francisco. Mrs. Hearst is
the first woman appointed on that
commission. The appointment was
made under the recent act of the Leg
islature, adding three new members
to the original commissibn which was
created by the Legislature of 1912. It
is understood that the Governor pro
poses to appoint two other distin
guished women to fill the remaining
vacancies.
Mr. Hearst’s Services Cited.
In announcing the appointment of
Mrs. Hearst. Governor Glynn said:
“I have named Mrs. Hearst because
she is a representative New Yorker,
the wife of a distinguished son of Cal
ifornia, who has dope much for the
Panama Canal and was largely in
strumental in securing the exposition
tor San BTfancteco. i consider it a
particularly appropriate appointment,
linking the East with the West, just
as the canal brings the East and the
West closer together.”
The appointment was made Decem
ber 24 and Mrs. Hearst’s commission
sent to ber on Christmas Day. The
Governor, however, delayed making
the 'formal announcement until to
day.
The original act provided for a
commission of fifteen members, five
appointed by the Governor, five from
the Senate by the Lieutenant Govern
or and five from the Assembly by the
Speaker. The law provided that the
“commission shall encourage and pro
mote a full and complete exhibit qf
commercial, educational, industrial,
naval, military, artistic and other in
terests of the State. It shall provide,
furnish and maintain during the ex
position n building or buildings for w
State exhibir and for official head
quarters.”
Other Commission Members.
’Hie members of the old commis
sion are Norman K Mack, of Buffalo,
‘hairman; Arthur A. McLean, ot
Newburgh: Joseph R, Mayer, of New
York; Senators .lames A. Foley, of
New York: Winfield A. Huppach, of
Hudson Falls; James J. Fra w ley, of
New York; Thomas il. Cullen, of
Brooklyn; John F. Murtaugh, of El
mira; Thomas H Bussey, of Perry:
George W. Whitney, of Mcchariics-
ville: former Senator George H. Cobb,
of Watertown: Assemblyman Alfred
E. Smith, of* New York; former As
semblyman Daniel I>. Friable. of Mid-
dlelniTR. John R Yale, of Brewster
and Frank L. Young, of Osalnning.
The commission has offices at No.
140 West Forty-second street New
York City.
HORSE PUT ON PENSION LIST.
.U NCTION CITY KANS.. Dee. 27.—
Mick, the only horse on Uncle Sam’s
pension list, is enjoying his new free
dom In a pasture <>n the military reser
vat ion ai Fort Riley. Kans., after 26
years of continuous service
‘Volunteer Organist’
Photo-Play at Grand
Production Declared by Critics the
Most Thrilling and Sincere
of Its Class.
‘■'rile Volunteer Organist, the m.i
terpiece of photoplays, in eight
parts, written and produced b> Wii
Main B. Gray, will be presented at tin
Grand Opera House for one week
beginning Monday, with matinee aim
night performances daily
“The Volunteer Organise has fu < n
declared by critics to be the most in
tensely thrilling and sincere pla\ At
its important class. The story is
founded on the well-known and pope
lar theme, “The Volunteer Organist,’
the principal stem* of which is an m
gan loft* in the village church, w fmi
one of nature's misfits, unkempt and
ragged, staggers to the organ, which
responds in soulful melody t<» hi
magic touch. This film is more than
8,000 feet in length anti fairly sp.trkk
w ith thrills, humor and gripping in
dents.
Invest Your Xmas
Money in Diamonds
The finest kind of a way to “perpet
uate” that gift of money. And the fact
that we bought heavily before the in
creased Diamond tariff, enabling us to
supply our patrons at former prevailing
prices, makes this'store the logical place
to buy Diamonds.
Eugene V. Haynes Co.
49 Whitehall St.
MASON BROS.
54 W. Mitchell, Near Terminal
Furniture at
Reasonable Prices
Our business for the holidays has been much
better than we had anticipated or even hoped for,
and we are truly thankful to our patrons for their
trade and confidence, and assure all who trade
with us to give them a square deal and to sell them
furniture and household goods at prices that will
enable them to buy.
Tables
If In (-iolden Oak, made to,
stand the tost of time—,
fables that do not eonie ,
apart the first rainy day/;
bolted and braeed to last ,
a lifetime, at
Like Cut |
$1.25
True Type of New Daughterhood of t lie United
States Is Discovered.
CHIU A GO. Dec
“The Girl of
To-day,” as judged for beauty and
distinction by a company of the most J
famous American artists and illus
trators, is Miss Elisabeth Goodrich,
daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Albert \V.
Goodrich, of No. 920 Lincoln Park
way.
The. committee of distinguished
artists who favored the charms of
Miss Goodrich with those of the
daughters of New York and Wash
ington was composed of James Mont
gomery Flagg, Clarence Underwood,
C. Allan Gilbert, Philip Boileau, Pen-
rhyn Stanlaws, W. L. Jacobs and
Hamilton King, who were chosen as
judges of a beauty contest in New
York to ascertain “The Girl of To
day.”
“She is tHe true type." they said;
"the new daughterhood of America-
delicate, yet spirited as a steel
band!"
Miss Goodrich—the "Girl of To
day," is on her way to spend the
hoiiday vacation with her parents, in
company with her schoolmate, Miss
Catherine Barker, the Indiana girl
heiress to the steel fortune of $20,- j
000,000. i
They are chums at Briarcliff, New
York. Miss Barker is only 16 and ex
pects, with Miss Goodrich and Miss
Edith Harrison, daughter of Mayor
and Mrs. Harrison, to enter a finish
ing school in Paris next fall.
Eugenics a Failure, ‘Venus' Plays a Joke;
Declares Professor! School Teacher Sad
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' MILWAUKEE. AVIS., Dec. 27. Pro
fessor John M. Coulter, of Chicago Uni
versity, declared in a lecture here thai
eugenics Is practically a tailure. say
ing: "Voluntary select ion plays a more
important part in the laws of heredity
than anything eugenics has dreamed
of.” He asserted that a consonance of
sympathies takes precedence in impor
tance over other acknowledged abilities
and determining factors.
Speaking of tendencies to insanity, tie
said that where both parents come from
a source of sound menial control, insan
ity never appears in Die children.
$1,000 in Shoe, Hobo
Asks Mayor to Dine
JOLIET, ILL.. Dec. 27. John Kramer,
Mayor of Rockdale, a suburb of Joliet,
is rioted locally for his benevolence. Ib
is a friend of the friendless. A ragged
and half-starved hobo appeared before
him and was sentenced to jad. .Mayor
Kramer asked the prisoner his name.
“John Kramer." was the reply.
The Mayor ordered the man freed,
whereupon the hobo asked him out to
''■Y thought you were broke*and hun
gry.” said Kramer to Kramer.
“No, Indeed,” replied Kramer.
'I’lte hobo then took off his shoes and
extracted $1,000 in bills.
Would Rather Hang
Than Eat More Soup
1'MONTI i\VN. PA.. Deo. 27. Alloy
!,.ll me 1 am !<’ he handed .m .lari'iary
8" saiil John Payne, aged «... convicted
murderer, in jail here, to-day. But I
would ho glad if Buy wou.d a.Dance
I Mo- dale arid hang me aa soon as Hit)
put up the scaffold. I would father
walk up toe steps of that scaffold any
lime than face another howl of soup.
I have had nothing to eat tint soup since
SPOKANE. Dec. 27.—The dream of a
“veritable Venus” of F. M. Ghormley,
the Troy. Oreg.. school-teacher, who
came a-wooing to Spokane by the want
ad route, has become a nightmare.
“Miss Mary Darker.” the “Venus.” is
no more. Hut Mrs. Miller, a hotel guest
who loves a joke, has returned with
her husband to Montana.
Mr. Ghormley's present wife, whom
“Venus" was to supplant, lives in Lew
iston. He has brought an action fori
j divorce.
White Plague Victim
Is Cured by Prayer
j < ’EXTRA LI A, ILL., Dec*. 27.—Mrs.
! Kuna Kent, a victim of tuberculosis,
i whose case was given up as hopeless
by her physician, lias apparently fully
recovered her health and attributes her
(cute entirely to prayer. ||
i
not speak above a whisper when her
physician informed relatives she would
! probably not survive until morning.
The patient overheard the statement,
she called her husband to her bedside
and the two spent the night In prayer.
Indian Is Ordained
As Catholic Priest! I
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SUPERIOR. WIS., Dec. 27.—Philip B.
(Gordon, an Indian, has been ordained
j to the Catholic priesthood by Bishop
Koudelk. He is the second of his race
I io he ordained in the United States.
I Tlie Rev. Albright Xeganquet was or-
I dained several years ago for the diocese
' of < >klahoma.
Gordon’s grandfather was Anton Gor
do?:, one ot the first settlers in this
country. The town of Gordon was
named in his honor He was influen
tial with Chief Hole-in-the Day, and
his counsel prevented an uprising of
the Chippewas in 1862.
ThePiedmont ’sNew Year’s Eve
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Reservation* for Tables for “New Year's Eve" Supper Ought to be Made Now if you
Want tobe at the Piedmont When theOld Year Goes Out and the New Year Comes In
The decorations, die souvenirs, special features of entertainment, sing
ers. etc., the refined atmosphere of the Piedmont, and last, hut not least,
the Piedmont’s renowned cuisine will help to make this night a memnra
ble event.
On previous a/'airs of this kind the management has noticed that pa
per hats, however attractive, disarranged the hair of those who wore them,
and for this year we have obtained three different styles of head dress that
can be worn without inconvenience. They eonsrsl of Greek, Persian arid
old Homan styles.
A regular $2.00 supper will be served from 10 o’clock until 1 a. m.
Tickets, $2.00 each, will secure your reservation, and then will apply
to your restaurant check.
No tables will be reserved unless tickets are bought beforehand.
For reservations, call on: Mr. H. N. Dutton, managed; Mr. R. Frank
Taylor, assistant manager; Mr. Edw. R. J. Fischel, steward.
Safety!
If your car is equipped
with Republic Staggard
Tread Tires, you will not
need chains. You can fee 5
more secure in taking the
>tarp turns and in making;
short stops, saying; nothing
of the extra mileage you
get.
Let us equip your car.
The Republic Rubber Co.
237 Peachtree
avc UMU III'UIIHS ! .
Woman Shot Him and
(Indians Use Thumbs Now He Marries Her
To Sign for License
SPOKAXK. WASH.. l>c. 27. For the
I fli-st limr it' Spokane Couptj s < ivir
I rot-orris prints »err takon in lion
1 of signatures of persons unable to I
W >Tea s Skunientia. ngn-i t.7, a wealthy!
Indian rancher, an.l l.ouisr I-arose. ageri
it asFcri for a marrtaRr license. I lo w
readily acceded to the thumb print sug
gestion of Auditor Butler.
!' Greatest Tunnel Is
Planned in West
CHICAGO, Dec. 27. A near-tragedy
in thf lift* of R Bruce Watson, archi
tect and politician. has turned into a
romance. Mr. Watson has married the
woman who lwo years ago shot him
twice and chased him through the
streets with a revolver.
The preseiit Mrs. Watson formerly
wua .Mrs Gcprge c\ Coney. Coney ob
tained a divorce three years ago. men
tinning Uaison as co-respondent.
Pastor Calls Tango
Devil's Harvest Field
VANCOI VKP. BRITISH COLUMBIA, j
! Dr-i 27 The Canadian Pacific Railway!
Company will build an 8-milc tunnel)
through I he Selkirks at Rogers Pass, j
Work is to begin on Januar> 1 and com
pleted in three and one-half years
The contract, is the largest tunnel job
ever let In America and probably will
cost about $88,000,000.
MARSHALL. MICH.. Per. 27—Resi-
.ii is of Paw Paw have burned lmn
drcdjS "f decks of playing cards and the
public dance ball has been closed. This
is lbe result of revival meetings con
ducted by Rev. Mr. Grimes, pastor of
t!.e Baptist Church of Ceresco. who
i h lied the tango "the devil’s harvest
field.”
The tango, hesitation glide and other
new dances are now tabooed at Paw
Paw. I
Haven’t You Often Noticed
The Popularity of Overland?
You've seen them everywhere—on the
city streets, on the country roads, in quiet
neighborhoods and at fashionable places.
The Overland design has become so fa
miliar that you reoognize it at a glance.
Did You Ever Consider the Reason?
It didn't just happen that all these peo
ple bought Overlands.
They found out for themselves that the
Overland represents the very highest pos
sible automobile value at the very lowest
possible cost.
Why Don’t You Find It Out?
Overland Southern Auto Company
230 Peachtree .. treet. Atlanta, Ga.
- ; c %0g.
We have a large stock to select from and will
save you from $1.00 to $5.00 on each purchase com |
pared to prices charged in the high-rent district.
Dining Room
S, • our Iiin" of PiniiiB Room furniture in Oak.
Mahounny ;m<| Early Fnglisli at prices that will
save you uioiiey.
Go-Carts Cozy Comer
_ _ VHMCICO
pfawwuiwwi MAcn
Like Cut
$7.00
A cozy seat by day and . a de
lightful bed at night. Bed,
Spring, Mattress and cover
$15
com
plete
Chiffforobes
in Golden Oak
or Mahogany
finish, worth'
and sell in the*
high-reirt dis
trict at $32.50.
We have a lim
ited number of
these hand
some articles
that will $< Q.IS
sell for..
Like Cut
Carpets—Rugs—Draperies
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