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THE ATLANTA GEORGIAN-
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The Atlanta Georgian.
JOHN TEMPLE GRAVES, Editor.
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OUR PL A TFORM-—The Georgian stands for A tlanta a Owning it? own gas and elec
tric light plants, as it now owns its water works. Other elites do this and get gas as low as 60 cents,
with a profit to the city. This should be done at once. The Georgian believes that if street rail
ways can be operated successfully by European cities, as they are, there is no good reason why they
can not be so operated here. But we do not believe this can be done now, and it may be some years be
fore we are ready for so big an undertaking. Still Atlanta should set its face in that direction NOW
ments Ilea thnt mother love which explains while It glo
rifies It all.
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readers.
Let Us Learn to Banquet Better.
We have not learned as yet to banquet In the South
In the prudent and progressive way.
W# live In the Innd of hospitality, and the spirit
of fellowship and comradeship flows naturally from the
Southern heart and hand. For all that, wo banquet In
Dixie not wisely but too well—and too long.
The great banquet of Thursday night closed about
half-past I o’clock, which was at least two hours
later than It should have closed. Our friends In the
North, who banquet much of toner than we do. and par
ticularly In the larger cities of Boston and Now York,
where there are from ten to fifty banquets every night,
have long since learned the wiser and better way.
In these cities It Is tho custom to begin every ban
quet not later than G:30 In tho evening.
Then after tho first three courses the first spenker
Is Introduced. The waiters enter the hall with the next
course, only after the speaker has taken his sent. A
spenker Is then snndwlchcd between every course, with
the waiters held carefully In the dining room, until ho
concludes. Then at tho end, the Inst two or three speeches
are heard ovei the cofTee and cigars, and Invnrlnbly
every banqueter Is enabled to be at home and In bed
before the clock strikes the hour of midnight.
There la great wisdom In this plan and It should be
adopted everywhere. Business men who are engaged
in banqueting until 2 o'clock In the morning are scarcely
fit for vigorous business or contact with their fellow
men on the succeeding day. It Is a weariness to the
flesh which Is scarcely compensated by the Joy to the
spirit and to tho stomach in the evening before.
There Is no reason In the world why we should not
adopt this system In Georgia. If the men know thnt a
"banquet begins nt 6:30 they will make It a point to be
there, and by following rigidly this custom until tho
pcoplo become accustomed to It, we will establish n sys
tem of soclnl festivity out of which wo may receive
mental and physical enjoyment without physical wear!-'
ness or Injury on the following day.
The Georgian cordially urges Ui«m the next bnnquct-
ers In this city to inaugurate the system of beginning
their festivities nt the hour of 6:30 and arrange to hnve
them close by 11:30 In the evening.
The Woman Who Would.
There Is a woman out in Cleveland who lias not only
discharged all tho manifold duties which could possibly
devolve upon a wife and mother, but she has done so
many things which are supposed to He exclusively In the
sphere of a man that ahe has attracted considerable at
tention.
Before her mnrrlage ahe was on tbo stage, so she
begins tho list of her accomplishments by bclug a fairly
good actress, although she has devoted her attention In
recent years to something very different. She has made
her own clothes, those of the two-year-old baby and of the
two boys who are large enough to go to school. She has
made her own hats. She does beautiful fancy work, such
as Battenberg lace nnd "frillies." She paints on china
and glass.
All of which may be feminine enough, albeit few wo
men would care to undertake so much. But tnat was
only tho beginning with Mrs. Evelyn Johnson.
it certainly Is no part of a woman's work to shavo
her husband and cut his hair, but she was thereby en
abled to save a few dollars of the family funds every
month, so she did not hesitate to do that, too.
And yet even thnt wns but tho beginning.
She dug the cellar, she laid the foundations of the
bouse, she shingled the roof, she painted the house, she
put up the eaves and spouts, she laid the stone walk,
she built the stone steps, sho built the chimneys, she
built a ten-fcot fence, she papered and rellnlshed the In
terior of the rooms, and now she Is preparing to build a
new concrete house, from top to bottom.
When she gets through with that she thinks that In
all probability she will take a little rest, but she Is not
certain.
Sirs. Johnson does not suffer with "nerves.” She Is
as happy as the day Is long. What kind of a man bet
husband Is has not been given out. At any rate her ex
ample has set all the people in the neighborhood to work,
beautifying and Improving the premises, and It Is to be
hoped that If her lord and master was not doing hie part
before, he has at last waked up ami caught the fever ol
Industry along with the rest of the community.
This Is a marvelous record, but It Is not one which
we would advise any woman to Imitate to the full extent.
It Is rather more than any wife and mother should at
tempt, but It at least serves as nn Inspiration to any wo
man who thlnkR her lot in life Is hard.
8he say* that when she getH the new house built,
■he Is going to put the children In some good boarding
■chool and then start out 'To raise our station In life. I
want to leave something good for the children when I
die.”
And therein lies the explanation of It all. That she
will accomplish what she sets out to do Is certain. "She
will leave the children something good when she dies,"
If It la nothing more than the noble example she has set
them.
And behind all her marvelous energy and achieve-
The Gas and Electric Monopolies Are
Contrary to Government.
The private monopoly of public utilities Is distinctly
a violation of the constitution, nnd in opposition to the
whole theory and plan of our government.
If this Is a atrong statement we will proceed to
prove It.
Tho right to tax a free people is confined exclusively
to the government which they have erected for them
selves. The power of taxation Is a government func
tion. It was never Intended to be exercised by any pri
vate Individual, or by any small coterie of private Indi
viduals. It is an Inalienable and Indispensable right of
free men to be taxed only by the government under
which they live.
Now we submit to tho candid intelligence of a free
and thoughtful people that when their public utilities,
providing the commodities and the absolute necessities
of public life, are given Into the hands of one corpora
tion which has no competition. It gives that corporation
In logic and in law as distinct and arbitrary a right
of taxation as the government enjoys.
When John D. Rockefeller with his Standard Oil
monopoly desires to recruit any loss that he may have
sustained In charity or In speculation, he arbitrarily
mid without permission, or without any other reason
than his sovereign will, puts an additional penny or
hai. penny upon tho price of oil and in one sweeping
week replenishes by an hundred fold the pockets and the
coffers thnt he has emptied In an ostentatious charity,
or depleted In an unwise Investment. In other words
he taxes the pcoplo ithout their consent and without
governmental authority or any other authority than his
own sweet will to enrich his own pockets and to In
crease his own revenues.
The tax of I mill Is felt enormously by the people of
n state or a republic. But the tax of 1 cent arbitrarily
levied by the autocratic Rockefeller upon a standard
of necessary products. Is a burden of larger meaning
and an outrage of more glaring illegality.
It !s the same way with our gas nnd electric plants
here. When their dividends do not suit them, when
the yeurly Income of the company Is not as much as they
think It ought to be, this private group of Individuals
who have secured out of the apathy and ignorance of onr
earlier forefathers the superb franchises of the gas and
electric trhsts, simply go to work, and without reference
to the Inws or to the statutes of the state or city, with
out reference to the conditions of tho times or the
financial state of the people, arbitrarily and Insolently
levy a tax of 1c, 2c or 10c a thoueand foot upon the peo
ple, just as It may bo necessary to Justify their financial
ends.
Nothing can be clearer, and no man who runs can
fall to read that the exercise of the monopolist over the
nasentlal services which private Individuals carry with
the power to tax the Individual la absolutely In violation
of the letter and spirit of the constitution. This much
ought to be mulerstood.
Ilut wo assert another fact of equal Import—that
these syndicates who otijoy tho monopoly of public
commodities and necessities not only violate the theory
of our government In taxing the people contrary to the
eonstltutlnn. but they add nn additional strain to our
system of government by taxing these people without
giving them the right to representation. This Is the oth
er principle which runs as clear as a silver bell In the
earlier shibboleths which made this government. "Tax
ation without representation la tyranny.”
So rang the cry of the earlier colonists who flung
tho heroic claims of their rights into tho teeth of the
English government, and which wrested this vast re
public from the monarchy of England. It la the cry that
In all ages has rung ns freedom’s protest against tho
Injustice nnd the wrong of taxing any people who have
no representation in tho laws that govern them.
In the state, and general government each citizen
has an Interest. He Is n partner to the extent of his vote,
and ho is represented by tho full capacity of his ballot
and his Influence In popular elcetions.
Rut In the private monopolies the speechless and
helpless people who are taxed are absolutely voiceless
against the cold. Insolent violation of the constitution
nnd of the government, whjch alone enjoys the power to
tax, and which docs not under Its own laws, dare to tax
those who are not represented In the government.
Apply this reasoning then to our own present condi
tions under the arbitrary power with which these gas
and electric monopolists work In Atlanta and else
where, and without saying boo to a single citizen or a
taxpayer, they can raise their rates, which means to In
crease our taxce, and they do not oven hear with
any degree of common courtesy or patience the protests
of the people who are being taxed, without authority and
without representation, and who have not up to this
time done more than simply offer a polite protest against
the existing conditions.
This is the basis upon which we need and abso
lutely require a municipal ownership league in Atlanta.
We want to take away from private individuals the right
to tax a great free people—the right to tax them at all
without the consent of the government, and above all
things the right to tax them without representation In
the taxing power.
If there ran be found a more unanswerable argument
for municipal ownership, we cannot conceive It in rea
son or In logic under the terms and spirit of uur Amer
ican constitution.
For Information of the Outside World.
The Georgian's attitude of fairness toward all pub
lic questions Is causing its opinions to be sought by
thoughtful people, not only at home, but In the larger
cities.
Late on Sunday afternoon the following telegrams
were received by the editor of The Georgian:
Hon. John Temple Graves. Atlanta Ga.—The
Post Is exceedingly anxious, as Indicated by message
to you today, for a statement from you on the situ
ation. What caused It; what the probable effect will
be, and anything, however vigorous, you may desire
to say on the subject. Can you not accommodate
us? We consider It timely and Important Just now.'
Please answer.
THE WASHINGTON POST.
New York, September 23, 1906.
Hon. John Temple Graves, Atlanta, Ga.
The World would appreciate a telegraphic reply
from you on the duty of the hour In repressing race
riots and what you believe to be the best way to
prevent them. THE NEW YORK WORLD.
Chicago, September 23, 1906.
John Temple Graves, Atlanta, Ga. .
Will you kindly give us the situation In At
lanta tonight In 500 words?
THE CHICAGO EXAMINER.
And to these Inquiries from three of the greatest
newspapers In the country, the editor, under pressure
of time, returned to each of these papers the appended
reply, which, read on Monday by nearly 2,000,000 readers,
serves at least to enable our friends In the East and
the West to realize the provocation under which this
people acted, and to understand our Southern situation
as they evidently have never seemed to understand It.
It la Just as well to give the same answer to the readers
of The Georgian from the editorial page of the paper:
Editor New York World:
The Atlanta race riot is due to the cumulative
provocation of a scries of asaults by negroes upon white
women, which, In number. In atrocity and In unspeaka
ble audacity, are without a parallel In the history of
crime among Southern negroes.
There have been 11 assaults or attempted assaults
within the past seven weeks. Of these fiends only four
have been npprehended nnd seven have escaped scot
free, and are now at large In the community.
Eight of these assaults have been In broad daylight,
and In most Instances In thg open air within a stone's
throw of other residences. One assault was attempted
at 9 o'clock In the evening in the brilliantly lighted
parlors of a city residence. Two have been attempted
almost within twenty feet of the man of the house, the ,
criminals escaping before the man could reach them.
In almost every case the woman victim has been brutally
mutilated and disfigured.
And the entire eleven monstrous efforts, five success
ful and six unsuccessful, have been made right In the
city nnd suburbs of Atlanta, the capital of the New
South, the center of trade, tradition and politics, the
heart of our civilization, with a white population nearly
twice as largo as that of the negro.
It Is utterly Impossible to reach an explanation of
this tidal wave of crime. Whether It be due to the lust
begotten by the sultry and torrid weather, whether It be
due to the remarkable Increase of the cocaine habit
ameng the negroes, whether It has been stirred by the
revolutionary harangues of a local newspaper; whether
It has come from the frequenting of low liquor dives on
Decatur street In which are exposed the pictures of nude
white women, or as Is more likely, from all these causes
combined, It Is certain that Atlanta nor any other South
ern city has over passed through such a horrid carnival
of the unspeakable crlmo as during the closing weekB of
the present summer. -
The city has oeen at high tension for six weeks
past. Public meetings have been addressed by the most
conservative citizens. Our county police system has
been quadrupled. 260 deputy sheriffs hnvo been put on
duty and most of the Decatur street liquor dens have
been closed. A fortnight since I led a movement, to
compel* the negro editors, preachers and teachers under
threat of a practical boycott, to cease spending all their
breath and energies In the denunciation of lynch law and
to preach with all their ransomed powers hell and dam
nation to the rapist. They responded loyally, and for
the first time since we have had a race problem the
white man has had the full and hearty co-operation of
the respectable negroes in the suppression of the
rapist.
And yet, in spite of this extraordinary Improvement
In conditions, the rape of white women has multiplied In
appalling fashion.
It has been a reign of terror for our Georgia women.
There Is not a white woman In the region of Atlanta
who ha* had a tranquil day or night within this period.
The white women have been trembling prisoners In their
homes, and their husbands, sons and brothers have been
held In the necessity of guarding them unceasingly,
There are few men who dare to leave their families
after nightfall—either to attend public meetings, to
pay a coclal call or to worship In the churches of their
choice. The whole section has been In a state of siege
and apprehension which has been growing more and
more Intolerable.
Every thoughtful citizen has realized that Atlanta
has been sleeping upon a volcano for weeks.
Under these conditions Saturday afternoon was
drawlug to a close. There had been an attempt at rape
for each of the three preceding days right in the heart
of the city. The regular afternoon editions of the city
papers came out on time without an addition to the
grewsome record, and people breathed easier.
Half an hour later an afternoon extra appeared an
nouncing that there had been four rapes attempted In
swift succession w Ithln the hour, two of which had been
successful. Another paper Issued an extra, and In one
short hour the populace of Atlanta wbb In a frenzy of
excitement. By seven o'clock the first crude and im
promptu organization was formed. And from seven
o'clock until an hour after midnight Atlanta passed
through the throes of a riot which has had no approx
imation In Southern history.
The lid of the volcano was off at last.
Monstrous things were done In the name of retalia
tion. Old and young negroes, negroes good and bhd,
Innocent and guilty, were cut and slashed and killed. To
every plea for mercy was shouted back the fierce re
sponse, “You had no mercy on our women and we will
have none on you.”
Six negroes were killed and more than thirty In
jured. The press dispatches have told you of It.
To the tranquil readers of The World, looking on at
a great safe distance. It seems an awful outrage against
civilization, and no thoughtful citizen falls to deplore
and condemn It. But if one of you who read had lived
for one week with the dear women of your household
under the shadow and terror of this crime, you would'
have found at leasi an explanation for a lawless revolu
tion which cannot be legally or morally justified.
Do you ask me how this riot can be rebuked and
this mob made Impossible for the future? I will answer
you frankly that it la likely to occur again.
The silliest man In the South Is the time-serving
statesman who declares ‘‘that there Is no race problem,
and the question. If left nlone, will settle Itself.” The
race question Is more Impending and threatening now
than It has been In twenty years. The tension Is sharper,
the antagonism deeper between the races. The hope
of a permanent agreement has slender foundation.
The horror of Saturdny has doubtless left a blot on
our civilization. Every good citizen In Georgia will de
plore and condemn the Indiscriminate slaughter. I fer
vently deplore It. But the outraged people had tiled
every known remedy and failed. And It will undoubtedly
clear the atmosphere and keep the negro In order for five
years to come. They are already assuming a different
tone. There may be sporadic lawlessness, but the back
bone of Insolent aggression Is broken for a time, and
there will be fewer outbreaks, and more of tranquillity
for a long season. The men It will save In the future will
outnumber ten times the men who were killed on Sat
urday.
The present riot Is at an end. The city Is quiet to
night, the streets are cleared, the military on guard, tho
negroes are whipped and humble, and there Is no dan
ger apprehended anywhere. But the trouble may pos
sibly be reopened with another wave of lustful crime
next summer. Whenever there Ih provocation there will
be the mob. The newspapers of the North crucified me
for saying this at the New York chau't aqua In 1903. I
ask you if the statement has not been vindicated by
events.
It Is demonstrated now that lynch law does not
entirely deter the rapist. He Is willing to die*for the
having of his desire. But It is a vent to outraged society
and but for the mob there would bo ten assaults where
there is one.
Wrong? Yes. Worthy of all condemnation? Yes.
But the fact remains It Is here, and here to stay.
We are studying rape now In the South as the scien
tists have studied yellow fever and smallpox. We are
looking for the germ. Maybe we shall find the "Stogo-
myla Fasclata. 1 But until we do tho moat law-abiding
section of the entire Union In everything else, will con
tinue in the old-fashioned way to lift the blood red ban
ner of tho mob to protect the lives and chastity of our
women.
- How can you help us? By giving two paragraphs
to the denunciation of rape where you give one to
lynching.
What Is the ultimate end? Separation of the races—
the only possible logical. Inevitable solution. Those two
opposite antagonistic races can never live together In
the samo government under equal laws—never.
Help us to separate.'
JOHN TEMPLE ORAVES.
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| \fOU WILL Never Move Unless You Take the First
I •* Step. Take It Now—Become a Member of "The
I League.”
MUNICIPAL OWNERSHIP LEAGUE
APPLICATION BLANK.
I hereby make application for membership In the MUNICIPAL OWN
ERSHIP LEAGUE.
I favor the ownership of a gas and electric lighting plant by the city
of Atlanta.
Remarks:
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Address
Occupation
Note.—Cut out and return to THE ATLANTA GEORGIAN.
DELEGATES SELECTED
TO COTTON CONVENTION
Special to The (loorftee.
Annlaton, Ala., Sept. 24,—In accord
ance with the requeet of President Bey.
mour. of the Alabama division of the
Southern Cotton Association, the fol
lowing have been selected as delegates
to the state convention at Montgomery
on Tuesday: Walter L. Jones, An
niston; Marion Whiteside, White
Plains: T. S. Gray,
Johnson, Duke; T.
andrla; D. McEaehern, Peaceburg; L.
F. Greer, Choccolncco; James W
Hughes, Iron City; G. W. Elchelberger,
Oxford; T. D. Bynum, Bynum; Captain
James Crook, Jacksonville; F. M.
Formby, Piedmont
Farmers Organizing.
Hpectal to The ileorfian.
Newberry. S. C, Sept. 24.—Farmers'
unions continue to be formed In New- ' not to” leave porL
berry county, four of them having been
organized by State Organizer Mahaf-
fey during the past week. Great In
terest Is being manifested In these or
ganizations by the farmers.
HIGH FREIGHT RATES
CAUSE PLANT TO MOVE.
Fpeelul to The Georgina.
Chattanooga, Tenn., Sept. 24.—The
DeLoach Milling Company has pur
chased a site of 40 acres at Bridge
port, Ala., where It will erect a plant
to cost nbout 9120,000. which will em
ploy 1,000 men. The company will re
move from Atlanta on account of the
freight rates. It will manufacture nig
Iron. The plant will be In operation
about January 1.
By CHOLLY KNICKERBOCKER.
New York, Sept. 24.—A student of
Darwin’s "Origin of Species,” at eight
years, a regularly matriculated fresh
man.of Tufts College at 11, le the re
markable record of Norbert Weiner, of
Medford, Mass. It tnsy be said that
Maater Norbert was born In Missouri.
Young Weiner's short career has been
a shining example of physical health,
as well as of mental training, and al
though he spends a great deal of time-
reading scientific works, he enjoys hi*i
outdoor exercise as much as any of his
young neighbors with whom he plays.
When the boy was but a yehr and a
half old he had complete control of the
alphabet, being able to recite It In
either direction. At the age of 3 he
could read and write with perfect ease
the ordinary lessonB taught In the first
grammar school grades, and at 8 was
found studying the DarwInlaH theory
and also various books by Huxley, HI-
hot'and Haeckel.
Norbert Weiner was born at Colum
bia, Mo.. November 26, 1894, while his
father was connected with the Missouri
State University. Boon after the boy's
birth the family moved to Cambridge,
Mass., where the father took up hla
work at Harvard.
The boy’s father is Leo Weiner, as
sistant professor of Slavonic languages
nt Harvard, and It was the Intention of
his parents to send the lad to Cam
bridge to school. Last year, however,'
the college authorities refused to admit
him. He Is without doubt the youngest
college student In the land.
A nest of hornets caused the sudden
ending of a football game among the
pupils of the Watseslng public school
at Bloomfield, N. J., and as a result
nearly all the players yesterday were
nursing swollen faces and hands, while
one Is unconscious. Henry Wilber*
'downed" the ball In the center of the
hornets’ nest nnd before he could rise
to escape the stings, the rest of the
players were on top of him. Then the
hornets became busy with the rest of
the players and kept It up until the
teams dashed wildly away
It was learned todaj that Rosemund
B. Downs, the 17-year-old bride of
Nathan A. Downs, 80 years old, has
been granted a divorce by Justice Jay
Cox. The plaintiff claimed she wns un
der legal age when sn» was married to
Downs, who was a widower living at
Rlverhead.
Mrs. Downs testified that she mar
ried the nged man on March 26, 1905,
without the consent of her adopted
father. The latter also testified to the
sntne fact, and further said he had
not since agreed to the mnrrlage.
No defense wns entered by Mr.
Down, although It had previously been
published that the differences of the
couple had been settled by the payment
of $10,000 by Mr. Downs to his wife, It
Is said, by one close to Mr. Downs that
he-gave her nn even $1,000 In settle
ment.
While arrangements are being made
today for the burial of James Amber-
croinble Burden, whose body lies at
his mansion. 908 Fifth avenue, social*
and business friends of the dead mil
lionaire recall the quarrel of 20 years*
standing between him and his surviv
ing brother, I. Townsend Burden, that
wns patched up only three years ago.
The quarrel started over royalties of
$30,000 paid to Jnmes A. Durden on a
machine for making horse-shoes, In
vented by his father, the late Henry
Burden.
Mrs. Benjamin Knower, who has been
greatly missed from the ranks of the
social set all summer, will sail short
ly for home, from Europe. Much of
her time has been spent in Paris, where
her daughter, Miss Margaret Camp
bell Knower, was married last „ week
to Vlcomte Alain dc Huzannet. The
wedding nt the Church of St. Pierre de
Challlot was a brilliant afTalr, and
represented the American ‘colony’s up
per crust of Paris.
GEORGIANS IN GOTHAM.
New York. Sept. 24.—Here are some
of the visitors In New York today;
ATLANTA—J. M. Brown, J. E. Wayt,
F. K. Aram, M. Benjamin, H. C. Black
ley. Miss Dunwoody, R. L. Foreman, O.
P. Hardy, C. H. Johnson, F. T. Max
well, I). B. Osborne, Miss H. Tilllng-
hast.
THIS DATE IN HISTORY.
8EPTEMBER 24.
Inml.
t:iloll crowned king of Scot-
... Kngllsh.
1869—Hindi Friday.
lglt—Disastrous tiro In Snn Francisco.
1876—Hell Gate, llnllett's Point reef. Iilowo
1889—'$izn rook, English itoetess. tiled.
Kinley,
1904—t'ofllsTr
vtrtcd of murder In Drat
Southern railway . near '
FOUND HIS 8KILLET
AFTER FORTY YEARS.
Special to The Georgian.
Chattanooga, Tenn., Sept. 24.—After
having been hurled forty-four years In
the ground on Missionary Ridge, John
G. Lindsey, of the Sixtieth North Caro-
llna Confederate regiment, found the
selfsame skillet which he used to cook
“•*, F™ . while encamped on that his
toric battleground. He came here a
week ago and through curiosity went
I" htf th r skillet,^and
Schooner Stripped ef Sails,
Special to The Georgian.
Brunswick, Oa.. Sept. 24.—The
schooner Francis C. Tunnell. which was
sighted a day or two ago by the steam
ship Freilerlrk, with her sails blown
away, wns loaded at this port with
crossties by Brown & Co. When the
Tunnell was ready to salt the weather
bureau had out warnings to vesseli
nn Southern railway near
Knoxville, Tenn.; seventy killed, la
Injured.
ALBANY, CAIRO & GULF
IT. SEEKS CHARTER
New railroads tn Georgia are almozt
an common aa new. banka. Saturday
Secretary of State Phil Cook received
application for a charter for the Al
bany, Cairo and Gulf Railway Com
pany to run from Albany, Georgia, to
St. Joseph’s Bay, In Florida, on the
Gulf of Mexico, a distance of about 180
miles.
The period of Incorporation le to be
for thirty year* and the capital »tock
la $200,000, half preferred stock and
half common. The road will run
through Dougherty, Baker, Mitchell
and Grady counttee in Georgia, and
Gadeden, Liberty and Calhoun coun-
tie* In Florida.
The principal office will be In CalnH
and the incorporators are W. B. Rod-
denbery, \V. A. Walker, W. 8. Wright,
W. C. Jones, J. P. Malloy. O. T. Davie,
M. L. Lcford. ?. M. Haeaer, J. B.
Wright, Cairo; Samuel W. Smith, L. E.
Welch, Samuel Farkae. Albany; R. 1*
Hall and W. H. Hall, Newton.