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SAT I Iir»AV, NOVEMBER 1". \W*.
THE ATLANTA GEORGIAN,
MONDAY,
TUESDAY,
WEDNESDAY.
EXTRAORDINARY CUT PRICE CASH FURNITURE SALE
As stated In our last week's ad. we have Inaugurated a special cut-price
cash Furniture sale on Mondays, Tuesdays and Wednesdays of each week.
Last week -was a big success. This next week will be a greater success,
owing to the fact that we have so many more good things to offer. You
will miss a great opportunity if you do not attend these sales. We are going
to make this store a_ bonanza for cash furniture buyers. Why throw away
one-fourth of your money by buying elsewhere? No Inferior goods sold by
us. Every piece carries our guarantee to give satisfaction In every partlcu-
MONDAY—SPECIALS.
How we can offer you such bona fide opportunities is explained, right here,
from a common sense standpoint—a four-store buying combination enables
*35,00 Bed Davenports ... .$23.00* 7.56 Morris chairs $5.60 us to get carload propositions, paying cash gives us every available dis-
i.,7 r ‘ ,1„„. . „ „ „„ .count. Our specialty of buying factories’odds and ends, close cuts and job
T J< 11 ,,,e Leaftiet eonKn'^ Rattan Rockers .....$ 2.60 lots enable us to give you such goods at actual factory prices. Our location
(.open ••••■• $JU,oU, lT„,.tr,„.,l I?,,..« 1 qs In a cheap rent district gives us a running expense of 5 per cent on the vol-
l|> 5.00 Ladies Desk $ 3.40;' xtaruoru (tuga e .0 unle of |, ua | ness we d 0 . some concerns have a running expense of 30 per
* (1.50 Metal Couches $ 5.30 $ .75 Stove Boards $ .50 . cent. See what this alone means to the furniture buyer and to you.
CD MATTHEWS & CO., 21 Cast Alabama Street.
Between Whitehall
and Pryor.
STEAM AND STEEL BATTLE
WITH EARTH AND STONE IN
TURNING HILL INTO PLAIN
West Atlanta Will Be
■
Changed in Appear-
ance.
THE UNSELFISH LIFE
By ELLA WHEELER WILCOX.
NEW RAILROAD WORK
‘ DESTROYING HOMES
.Engineers Undertake Great
Task to Briug Road
Into City.
T
By CHARLIE HARP.
•' A mammoth 60-ton strain shovel
> atlnit Its way Into the Hide of u big
hill at the rule of‘six cubic yards per
upMite: puffing and struggling true
tlon engines with strings of dump
tars, busy laborers and noisy teams,
and everywhere the atmosphere of en
ergy and progress Is the scene present
ed In West Atlanta, where the yards
guid terminals of the Atlanta, Birming
ham and Atlantic are uipler construc
tion.
‘The shovel digs Into the side of the
lull like a mammoth spoon, taking up
iso cubic yards of curtb ut each dig.
’Already ' wh'ehtl 1 'thousand ' yards of
gArtlt have been removed and dumped
jhtn the fill In the hollow between
Rhodes street und North avenue. The
•hovel cuts through rock nnd earth
alike, tlio contractors only being forced
to blast where solid rock Is too thick
,to be handled.
. The engineers have calculated that
fully 6(0,000 cubic yards of earth will
have to be excaruted In building the
Date t'lty Terminals. The Immense ,111
from Rhodes street north to North ave
nue will be 6.000 feet or more In length,
the depth ranging front nothing to 50
feet, the average beingJibout 25 feet.
The tracks will pass either above or
below cross streets and no grade cross
ings will he permitted.
Hemes Are Deserted.
All the houses along both sides of
Mangum and on the east aide of
Haynes streets huve either been vacat
ed or torn down. The right of way
agent has passed along and the scene
between the two streets from Magnolia
To Hunter streets looks as If a cyclone
bad passed that way. Thli Is one of
the oldest sections In Atlanta, and In
habitants who were born nnd reared
In that locality have moved nway to
make room for a new era of progress.
. ’ Tho Improvements being inode In
West Atlanta by tlio Atlanta. Birm
ingham and Atlantic, their yards und
their terminals will represent an out
lay when finished of not less than 11,-
•00,000. The contractors. Lane Broth
ers ft Co., expended not less than 165.-
000 before work of any description wall
commenced.
The freight warehouses and storage
terminals will front on West Hunter
street, boundi-d cast ami west by Man-
gum und llaynes streets. Tlio prop
erty In this section was bought two or
three years ago. but condemnation pro-
coedings have been necessary und the
road 'has not yet hnlshed paying for a
number of the purchases. Injunctions
have been served, but tho big steam
shovel and fraction engines keep on
working as If nothing Itad happened.
Old Church Remains.
It may be n relief to some to know
that |t)e stone church at Mangum und
Hunter, streets -rilie Sixth Baptist
church—will not he molested by the
railroad. This church and the little
congregation of faithful workers have
tiad a hard time. Its cornerstone
laid'in 1666, and It was over eight
years under course of construction. It
Is said that more different Atlanta |teo-
plc have contributed to the erection
of this church limn any other charita
ble movement ever storied since the
city was organised.
The right of wuy of the railroad
passes to the east of tills little churrli
and goes underground to the tracks of
the Southern railway south of the .At
lanta Terminal (Station. The engineers
huve planned to tap the (Southern's
tracks uniter the Peters street viaduct.
The trains of the Atlanta. Birming
ham and Atlantic will be backed Into
tbe Terminal Htatlon.
The work of the Gate City Terminal
Company, a corporation backed by the
STEAM SHOVEL AT WORK.
The monater shovel bitea into tho hill and with every bite takaa away
aix cubic yarda of dirt and atona. which it dumpa into tha cara.
railroad, begins nenr the foot of .Ma
rietta street nhout on a line with tho
Intersection of the Seuboard unit the
Western and Atluntlc tracks. The ynnls
will he between Jefferson and Ashby
streets nnd will be graded to a width of
400 feet with space enough for -7
tracks. The trucks will iotas under
Bellwood menu,', entering the city lim
its nt Travis street west of Walnut,
crossing Hlmpson, West Klllott, Unvfs
and Rock streets, Nowton. Thurmond.
Foundry tint) Rhodes streets, ending ut
West Hunter, between Haynes und
Mnngiim streets.
Great Terminals.
The yards, and freight terminals be
tween these streets will oover an area
of 506 by 'l.loo square ; feet' / When
these terminals Hre completed tho rail
roads will. iMtye possession of every
thing north of West Hunter to Rhodes
end east of Haynes streets. It has
been predicted that. wliat was formerly
known ns "Hobo Hollow" will bo en-
the trestle and the' “filling” proceeds
as fast a i the trips, can he made.
Already a-cut has been made Into
the htlt to feet deep near Rhodes street.
Ralls hnve been laid and the dirt tralna,
are pulled up to where the shovel Is nt
work by traction locomotives. Two of
these powerful locomotives are neces
sary now on m-amnt of the exceeding
ly high grade, but as soon ns rails cun
be laid In another ’direction two dirt
trains of live cars each wilt bo run
und tbe woyk of filling will proceed
fwlcef ns fast ns at present ' .
Monater. Steam Shovel. ' '
The whovel holds two cubic yajpls of
eurth-nnd each dump car held*?three
shovelfuls ,ot 0 ruble yards. Barring
acehlSnts . und . unddr' favorable, condi
tions tile steam Shovel' can handle
j.nOM cubic yards of earth every ten'
hours. The contractors are running
two ten-hour shifts und the work pro
ceeds without Interruption. The nil
I tisrvnAn I id—.s. i.vne.
A week ago atevan ears ran away and crashed through the trestle into
the street, blocking traffic and tearing down telephone wires.
And of one thing be sure;
Jf you do echo from your heart those
words, and If you seek to minister,
lather than to be ministered unto, you
will find a* the years go by, that.many
will seek to minister unto you.
Hands and hearts will offer you the
best they have! And-the thorns will
be taken from the paths you tread, by
Invisible Angers.
Just so sure as you forget 'yourself.
In the effort tp “minister unto" others.
Just so sure as you begin to count
your blessings, and to accept your trou
bles* as a part of your spiritual edu-
Ilgion which teach Christianity to thefcatlah,'Just so sure w-lll greater hap-
“For I cams not to be ministered
unto, but to minister.”
HEBE were tbe words of a great
Teacher, a great Master, who
came to earth nineteen hundred
years ago, and left a truck of splendor
behind Him, a Path of Light, - which
leads out Into Infinity.
The teaching of this Master was
simple, as Love Is simple always. It
has been, called Christianity, und has
grown most complicated dull the
manipulations of translators and the
forms arid ceremonies of churches.
There are great Institutions of Re-
World. and many of the leaders of these
Institutions and mapy of the’followers
of their teachings are most tmmpohs
Individuals.
There are. gome famous clergymen In
plness. and pleasure and success come
to you.
It Is the Law.
-Ret'yourself the task of making over
the land w ho surround themselves with your blessings. As n nun tells her beads,
morning when you auaken.
the Master so great , that all kings !' 0 "' unfortunate you.be-
*e©in like atoms of dust compared • to Ilcve yourself to-be, when you begin
him. did not exalt Himself while on: to take stock of- the benefit* fate has
earth. ^bestowed, you will find a go.ally num-
He was no respecter of persons, and ! her. * . » '
He was sjmple and approachable. He i Each time you name one over, than t
said of tho common people: ••Rehold [ the Great.G|v*r and know that what-
my brethren, behold my mother.” ; soever else you desire is also yours.
tlrely filled In nt no lato date to make
a foundation for a net work of rail
road tracks. When this takes place
property In west Atlanta Is predicted
to take a jump skyward.
Tho construction company 1ms al
ready constructed a temporary trestle
from Rhodes meet north for about
S,000./feet. In some pluces thl* trestle
Is 50 f<<et In height, it Is used to make
a temporary roadway for the little
traction engines nnd dump cars. The
cars loaded with eurth are run out on
near Rhodes street will contain about
500,000 cubic yards of earth.
In most cases where streets ure
crossed overhead stone turtles will be
built of concrete. There will be no
other kind of bridge work. The con
tractors have just finished a building
In which three rock crushers will be
Instalknl nnd the work of mixing con
erwte will be started when the masons
are ready to begin work on the arches.
Two hundred laborers are engaged
on this job. In West Atlanta. About
There Is no verse, ho sentence In
the Bible, save, the simple command.
"Love one another” which Impressies
me more than the words pluced at the
beginning of this article.
It Is perhaps because I opened
them one day. when I was
fatigued and overtaxed with
had per formed for others,
to me these duties luu! not been ap
preciated, ami theVl fbdulged In one
of thoseuolf-pitying mohdx. which most
of us enjoy nt tlmes-rhl'iods whece we
think over all our goinX qualities and
forget all our fauftai whrt*e we ivuguffy
our troubles and inInlfy-A»ur blessings;
where we retail the behoftts we have
bestowed upon the unworthy and take
no heed of tho times pur good utilon*
have been repaid a-hundred fold.
Ho. when l had succeeded In making
hiyseir believe that I was on utterly
misused fsnd unappreciated person, de
serving much better treatment than
Kate had accorded me, 1 opened my Bi
ble to see what word .of sympathy
might be offered mo.
And then I read those words:
"For I came not to be ministered
unto, but to minister.”
And Immediately I perceived what a
petty and ridiculous and wicked per
son I was making myself.
Hurely, when the world’s great Mas
ter (who, having "passed through all
His earthly Incarnations, was now
ready to become ortb wlflf God. as we
all will become In time); effaced him
self by saying, ”1 came not to be min
istered unto, but to minister,” it be
hoove* those who in any way believe
they ure living an unselfish lire to ab
stain from self pity.
Every time we Indulge In the mood
of sorrowing over our hard lot In life
we commit a sin, as well as n folly.
Every time we regard ourselves ns
separate creatures, set apart to be min
istered unto by others, we arc guilty
of colossal egotism, an egotism which
will prove a formidable bl«A*k in our
eveutual progress.
Thousands of women today imagine
themselves good Ghristinn*. while they
ate making fathers, husbsnds, chil
dren and their own lives wretched by
complaining over their lot In life.
They want more leisure, more pleas
ure, more attendants, more attention.
They feel that, unlike the Master, they
came to earth to be ministered unto,
not to minister.
And yet they would be Indignant
were they told they liad no right to
be called Christians.
The men and the women of earth,
who are continually lost In sympathy
for themselves, who are always think
ing of the pleasures and blessings and
benefits denied them, are not Chris
tians. i • ,
If this applies to you, take It lioihe.
If you Cannot echo from your heftrt
the words of the Master, do m*t
yourself a Christian.
It Is stored in God’s great Reservoir
of wealth, waiting your claim,
The Key to the Reservoir Is yours.
Use It.
M^iFIFTY mail clerks
TO BE ADDED FOR
COMING CONFERENCE
WILL BE ATTENDED
BY SEVEN GOVERNORS
Question of Southern
Immigration Will Be
! Discussed.
NASHVILLE MEETING
THE COMING WEEK
Prominent Southern Men
to Meet and Formulate
Plans for Betterment
of Ijabor Condi
tions.
Postal. Tiafiif Shows Enor
mous Increase, in
' " * Volume.
Kl/t>"additional railway jdnli # clerks
Will probably be pur to; work on-mails
under the Judlsdi^tloi)* of the southern
division of the railway, mAh service
about December 1,’Mo take cnre ,6f the
Increasing malls cuused .by ,{he ap
proaching holidays and tourist - travel
to Klorldu.
The Increase In the- service.will be
confined to no particular railroad sys
tem. but to, nil the trunk lines In the
southwest; The volume of mall matter
now being handled by the railway mail
service Is taxing the capacity of the
force now at work nndj frequently the
nmll crews on tbe more .important
routes come Into .Atlanta “stuck” und
arc forced to work up tbe accumulated
matter In the railroad yards after the
cars have been sfdetrucked.
The approach of the holidays always
calls for an increase In the force of
mull clerks% but the Increuso In the
tourist movement to winter resorts In
Florida 1ms caused a noticeable In
crease in the vpluirn* of mail matter
earlier this year than usual. A majori
ty of the additional force will be put on
trains running to Kloridn points. The
Increased force will remain at, work un
til after .January 1.
NEW LORD MAYoTT
IS INAUGURATED.
London, Nov. 10.—The new lord may
or. Sir William Purdie Treloar, was
Inaugurated today with tin? usual cerer
mony. Tho customary banquet was
given last night at Guild Hall, the of
ficial residence of the lord mayor, and
was uttended by the usual crowd of
ministers, ambassadors nnd other nota-
nil i bfe men. •
In the absence of the prime minister.! migrants ulso.
Sir Henry Campbell-Bannerman, tho
Marquis of Rlpon. Ion! privy seal, was
the chief speaker
special to The Georgian.
Nashville, Tenn., Nov. 10.—Prepara
tions are almost complete for the re
ception and entertainment of the many-
prominent visitors who will reach
Nushvllle Monday morning to attend
the Houthem Conference on Immigra
tion and Quarantine. November 12-14
This meeting will be the second an
nual conference of this nature held In
the Houth, the first having met at
Chattanooga last year.
Although it wap well attended and
much Interest was aroused. It Is already
evident from air Indications that the
Nashville meeting will be much larger
and tho Interest In It far more wide
spread.
For a time It was thought advisable
to postpone the conference on account
of the fact that President Roosevelt
could not attend at this time, but, upon
consideration, the dates first announced
were adhered to.
The visitors during the first three
days of next week, will be the guests
of tho local board of. trade und the
members of that organisation have
spared no effort In arranging for their
comfort as well us their pleasure.
Purposes of Conferenct.
The chief purpose for which the con
ference has been culled this year Is to
-discuss means of securing desirable
Immigration for. the South. At tho
Chattanooga meeting last year the
quarantine situation was the principal
topic of discussion, the conference hav
ing been called a short while after the
yellow fever epidemic, and this year
the same subject Is to be up for,con
sideration again. Ways of protecting
the Houth against undesirable Immi
grants um well as securing the better
sort will receive due consideration.
Another matter will be the discus
sion of the general labor supply and
Itpition throughout the South with a
view to securing remedial legislation.
As stated in the call issued by Gov
ernor Cox, the conference will be com
posed of governors, congressmen, sen
ators, commissioners of agriculture and
immigration, state superintendents of
education, with mayors of cities as ex-
ofllcio members. Railways ore also en
titled to representation and their repre
sentatives will be requested to submit
working plans of co-operation between
their systems and the states of the
Houth for securing settlers from the
North and West and for desirable Ini-
Governors will state
fifty are skilled laborers and handle
the steam shovel.and dirt trains. Ful
ly ns many more are trained draughts
men und clerks at work in the offices
In the old Dooly home at Mangum and ......
West Hunter street * and In the cum- j Kryptok invisible blfoculs, made Into
pony's offices in the Empire building, one solid piece, yet giving double vts-
The engineering Is under the dlreGtim Ion. They are ahead of everything In
of R. T. McDonald, engineer of term!- the eye glass line. Made exclusively In
tials. The actual construction Is under J Georgia by John L. Moore & Sons, 42
the direction of Hugh MoKowen. Both | X. Broad street. Prudential building,
are veterans In their respective lines, •••
and thoroughly competent men. j —
The contractors have been engaged
TRACTION ENGINES COUPLED.
The puffing little locomotives haul away the earth and dump it below
tho trestlo to form pormanent roadway.
m this job only six weeks and already
much work has been accomplished.
From now on the engineers believe that
the work will proceed more rapidly
than it 1ms in the past because the
hurdest por.tlon has been completed.
They think that the terminals will be
finished within eighteen months. It
has been stated that the western crew
will have the rails into Birmingham
within fifteen months.
EVERY SUNDAY
Athens. Ga.. and Return.
Only One Dollar for the Hound
tri|». Trains leave the Union Depot
at 7:'JO a. nt. Cheaper to go than it
la to stay at home. Remember Just
It.OO. (SEABOARD.
W. E. CHRISTIAN.
A. G. P. A., Atlanta, Ga.
the advantages rtf their several states
und show why they arc desirable as
hollies for prospective settlers. State
superintendents will be asked to offer
suggestions for improvement along ed
ucational lines and the representatives
of the commercial bodies will bring be
fore thconference such matters as
they may deem of Importance In the
commercial or labor field of the South.
Large Attendance Expected.
Although called by the governor of
Tennessee, the conference will be under
the auspices of the Nashville board of
trade and tho correspondene and work
of preparation has nil been done by of
ficers nnd mends?r» of this body. In-
vitutlons have been sent In accordance
with the call anil an unusually large
number! pf. acceptances has been re-
celved. The .attendance by a conserv
ative estimate will reach 2.50(1 and the
personnel of the conference will be of
the highest. In order t*> facilitate mat-,
ters tho board of trade has seen red ...
up-to-date list of boarding houses ,
will be ahown visitors upS5 raues, ara*
no trouble b anticipated iTpropcr^
th°e U t l h n r r ee a da>* Ue * t " ° £ ‘ he C,ty
Ambaoadora May Attend.
The English Cotton Spinners have.
aaent*of Vh R '^ h ' lrd »- lmm.grat.oa
agent of the bouthem railway. si gn i.
Bed their Intention of. attending i!„
meeting. If possible, and have assured
the board of trade of their heartv m-
terest In the conference and of their
support. The British, Italian and Ger.
man ambassadors have Indicated an in.
terest and will either be present or send
a representative to this city, ah the
railroad. |„ the South have signified
their Intention of having represent,
tlvea from tbelr Industrial deportments
and the majority of governors of
Southern states have written here to
the effect that they will be In Nash
ville on the above dates.
Besides the speakers on the program,
which appears, are Dr. Stephen M.
Newman, of Washington, who will rep.
resent the Liberal Immigration League,
und L. J. Ellta, of New York, who Is
also a member of that body.
E. J. Watson, Immigration commis-
xloner for South Carolina, will ad
dress the conference on condition in
Europe, from which country ho has but •
recently returned, and their bearing on
tho situation hero.
Edelman, who has traveled a great
deal, and is in close touch with the
situation, will speak on the "Desirabili
ty of the. Russian Jew aa an Immi
grant. ' • ( ‘i
Terrell and Smith Invited. '/ :
j Secretary Eugene .bhannoiy of the
Ideal board of trade, sent a letter ye.-
terday to Governor Joseph »f. Terrell
of Georgia, and also to Governor-elect
Hoke Smith, urging their presence hetr
next week, and the Atlanta Chamber
of Commerce Is expected to send rep
resentatives, though the list has not
yet been forwarded to this city. A
communication has been received from
the secretary of that body, however,
stating that Us members are in hearty
sympathy with the movement.
A feature of the meeting will be the
discussion of the proposition of gettlm;
rid of the Idle and worthless negroes In
the South. This subject was proposed
by N. F. Thompson, of Chattanoogn,
who was sent to Washington as a spe-
cihl representative of Xashvllle'a com
mercial body. The Idea as presented by
-Mr. Thompson Is to have the Vagrams
of. both races sent to Panama to work
upon the Isthmian canal.
The second annual convention of the
Tennessee state board of trade will he
held In Nashville In conjunction with
the Southern conference.
Complete Program.
The convention will be called to or
der by Governor Cox and the follow
ing program, with the additions men
tioned, will be carried out;
First Day,
MORNING SESSION. 10 A. M.
Welcome to Delegates—Hon. John L
Cox, governor of Tennessee.
Response on behalf of Delegates—
Hon. Newton C. Blanchard, governor
of Louisiana.
Address, “South Carolina's Efforts for
Immigration"—D. C. Heyward, govern-
or of South Carolina.
Address—Hon. It. L. Taylor, ex-gov- i
ernor of Tennesse.
AFTERNOON SESSION.
Address—Hon. M. V. Richards, land
and Immigration agent Southern rail
way. ,
Second Day,
Address, "Technical Education of tiie
Negro"—Hon. J. K. Vardanian, govern
or of Mississippi.
Address—Hon. R. B. Glenn, govern.if
of North Carolina.
Address—Hon. X. B. Broward, govs
ernor of Florida.
Address—Hon, E. W. Carmack, Ten
nessee United States senator.*
Address—Representatives Of foreign
embassies.
AFTERNOON.
Visit to "Hermitage," home of An
drew Jackson. i
NIGHT SESSION, 8 P. It
Address—Hon. F. M. Simmon-,
United States senator from North Car
olina.
Address—Dr. J. H. Kirkland, chan
cellor of Vanderbilt University.
Immigration—N. F. Thompson.
Address—Dr. D. I,. Wlggens, vice
chancellor University of the South.
8s wanes.
Third Day,
Address—Colonel Robert Gates, im
migration agent Louisville and Nash
ville railroad. .
Address—J. R. McMullen. Trahe
School of Alabama.
Address—Hon. Oscar Underwood, -
Alabama.
Address—Hon. James B. Frazier.
United States senator from Tenne--. "
COME DOWN TODAY!
50 per cent Reductions on our
5c, 10c f 15c and 25c Counters
ALL CHINA, CROCKERY AND GLASSWARE
ARE BEING CLOSED OUT ENTIRELY.
KING HARDWARE COMPANY,
53 PEACHTREE STREET.
