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THE ATLANTA GEORGIAN
s.irruDAr, decemrlb 1, m
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:ITY GAS LIGHT PLANT
WOULD BE ECONOMY
Facts and Figures Go
To Show What It
Would Save.
.REPORT OF EXPERT
BEFORE COMMITTEE
What Other Cities Are Do
ing—What Atlanta
Can Do.
Doubt as to the •practicability and
benefit to the people of a municipally
owned gas plant should be removed
from the minds of the most skeptical
by the facts and figures secured by Al.
derman James L. Key, chairman of the
special committee on municipal owner,
•hip of council, and submitted by him
at the meeting of the committee on Fri
day.
As a rule, figures, especially columns
o^them. are unattractive to most peo
ple. But to those people who take an
ARE YOU A CHEERFUL IDIOT?
DID YOU READ THE BOOKLET
“SOMEBODY” MAILED TO YOU?
‘Somebody” is* Sending Out Anti-Municipal
Ownership Literature To All Signers of
The Georgian’s League List.
Are^you one of those Cheerful Idiots
with whom the press agent of the gas
and electric light monopoly Is In'cor
respondence?
Yes, the monopoly’s press agent is at
work, and, judging from the literature
sent out, ail Atlanta people who are
espousing the cause of municipal own
ership are cheerful idiots.
Now the question Is: If there Is noth
ing in municipal ownership for the
people, why should the monopoly spend
money and take time to knock the
plan?
And It Is an Important question. It
is a verdict, a plea of guilty by the
monopoly that has Its grasping ten
tacles around the throats of Atlanta
interest In the welfare of their city and people,
who are always looking for something Kver since the nnmes of Atlanta peo
th.t will rut a dollar In their pocket. PL < Lil n L^ h * a « l ff'nn.?^5!, P
and into the treasury of their city at
the same time, the figures are Inter
esting.
They show conclusively that munlcl.
ral ownership Is profitable. They
show. too. that when a city owns Its
own gas plant, it can use all the gas
for the stfteets and In public buildings
necessary, give gas to the people at a
rate cheaper than that charged by the
grasping corporations running gas
plants for their own profit and at the
same time put money In the shape of
profits Into the city treasury.
Sort of a good proposition, eh?
But that Is lust what u report made
I to Alderman Key by the Hall-lllges
I Company shows.
What Rsport Shows.
Out of a list of twenty gas plants.
I two were owned and operated by the
I city, and these two made the best
showing of the bunch. One sold gas
to the people at tl a thousand, knocked
I off 25 per cent when paid within a cer
tain time, used over $6,000 worth for
public purposes, and even then made a
profit of over $28,000, which meant a
profit of 15.3 per cent on the invest-,
ment. This same municipally owned
plant produced gas cheaper than nny
privately owned plant, except one. And
this one exception Is only another nr-
gument why the city should own that
Plant. It cost this private monopoly
46 cents • thousand to produce the gas.
and yet It collected $1.20 a thousand
from the people, with a 20 per cent
reduction for prompt payment.
Nice, gouging profit to make at the
expense of the taxpayers, wasn't It?
This second municipally owned plant
sold gas to Its stockholders—the people
of the city—for $1 a thousand, used
over $12,000 worth for public purposes,
made a clear profit of over $74,040 In
cold cash, beside, and earned 12.4 per
cent on the Investment. It cost this
city 65 rents to produce the gas It sold
to Us stockholders.
Now. if you can pay taxes by paying
gas bills. Isn't It better than having
to pay bigger gas bills and taxes, too?
Rather.
With very few exceptions ovsry ouo
of the plants mentioned in the report,
and which were owned by private cor
porations, are down ns paying abnor
mal interest on the Investments, and
the figures In this report made no ac
counting for water which 1s Injected
into the stock of most privately owned
gas plants.
Why Not Atlanta?
Now, If other cities can own their
gas plshts, use nil they want for streets
and public buildings, sell cheap gas and
then , make big money, what's keeping
Atlanta from doing the same thing?
It’s up to you—you who foot ihc
bills. The monopoly In Atlanta that
sells you electric light'and gas Isn’t
running a charitable Institution.
Big money making monopolies are
not going to turn loose a good thing.
They, are not going to quit gouging you
until you make them, and It's up to
you to make a noise—a real loud noise
that will be heard In every nook and
comer of the city hall; one that will
make your servants In council sit up
and take notice.
Alderman Key has other pertinent
points about municipal ownership, lie
has received letters from other cities
ns to whnt It costs to produce gas. Or
course gas cannot be produced for the
same price In different cities, but when
such a multitude of cities Imve found
that they can produce It cheaper than
monopolies and when they sell It for a
trifle above cost anil save millions to
the people. It Is a ten to one shot At
lanta can do the same thing.
Appropriation Voted.
The epeclal municipal ownership
committee has unanimously recom
mended that an appropriation of $500
be made for the purpose of making a
thorough Investigation as to the cost of
producing gns in Atlantu and how
much a municipality owned plant
would cost.
Council may and muy not adopt the
report of the committee and make the
appropriation. It Is lip to the iieople to
get busy and see that cuunrlt does the
right thing. The other side Is busy-
now—mighty busy.
Tbc case of the city of Hamilton,
Ohio. Is an Illustration of how mueli
gas monopolies make out of the people
who gave them their right to do bus
iness.
Tho population of Hamilton Is ab »ut
24.000 and the people were petted
to pay $2 a thousand to tho monopoly.
The people made a noise for lower
rater, but the monopoly officials de
clared they could not sell any cheaper
and make money and they also refused
to sell their plant at a reasonable
figure.
Best ths Monopoly.
The reoutt was that the suffering
people built a plant of their own and
went Into competition with Ite monop.
t>ly. In 1$M the city was selling gas at
80 cents a thousand feet and the mo
nopoly cut the price to about the same
figure and kept la business at the
e.1,1 ■•stml Gislla a ro>illls'flllfl til.'ll!
League were publl*hed in The Gorgian,
these believer* In Ihc municipality—the
people—owning such trifles as gas and
electric light plants, huve been deluged
with antagonistic literature on the sub
ject.
Most of the time of the monopoly'
press agent has been spent In sending
out n pamphlet, alleged to have been
written by John Kendrick Bangs, en
titled “As to Municipal Ownership."
This pamphlet Is declured to be a sup
pressed chapter, of “Coffee and Re
partee," and the Cheerful Idiot, the
municipal ownership enthusiast. Id
made to say considerable on the sub
ject.
Just a Knock.
Of course it is a knock. But If the
monopoly official* nnd the press agent
could read some of the multitude of
letters sent to The Gorgian by Atlanta
people who have received them, they
would be grieved to think the money
had been wasted.
For It does cost money to operate
a cumpalgn of knocking such as is now
being operated. And one ugtrtn, If thdre
Is nothing in municipal ownership for
tho city—for the people—why should
tin people who now control franchises
that rightfully belong to the people
spend money on a knocking campaign?
Listen to this letter and Judge how
well this Cheerful Idiot campaign Is
working:
An Atlanta Postmark.
To The Georgiun:
“1 Inclose herewith a ten-page book
let called ‘As to Munlclpu! ownership.’
This little medium of underhand sdiysr
and ‘education’ reached the this morn
ing through the regular mall, bearing
the Atlanta post mark. I presume It
Ipr.l Ownership League. It is not dlffl
cult to Imagine who had this booklet
sent out. and It is hard to see how the
sender expects 9 to convince me against
municipal ownership through such
cheap methods of argument in which
I am made to appear as an ‘idiot.’ I
would thank you to answer this ten
page Fickly attempt at browbeating In
such detail as you may deem tlttlng
its bushwhacking nature. If the formu-
Intors and sender wish to ‘educate’ me,
let them print what they have to say
In a plain, intelligent manner, sign
their names to It and place same in
my hands like honest men who have
nothing to fear, and their arguments
will receive careful consideration."
The Idiot didn’t make much of on
Impression; that Is, a favorable impres
sion, did ho?
Did you who have received this class
of literature think it was an accident?
Don’t you know that publicity bureaus
moke big money from various kinds of
trusts and monopolies that are waxing
rich beyond the dreams of avarice by
squeezing the people?
No? Well they do. A few years ago,
before the people of this country be
gan to sit up and take notice and
think about these things, these pocket-
squeezing monopolies ignored tho peo
pie.
Hut now they see v.hat’s coming.
They see that their huge profits on in
flated nnd watered stock, profits that
come out of your pockets, art in dan
ger of being diverted where they right
fully belong.
Octopus Is Scarsd.
Hence this campaign of “educa
tion."
Now, on the level, gentle reader. Isn’t
this scheme easy to see through? Isn't
it money In your pocket, money In the
pocket of every Atlanta citizen, rich or
poor, if it’s money out of the pockets of
the monopoly magnates?
And if it Isn't money out of their
pockets whv. then, tills frantic haste to
“educate" Atlanta people by cornering
them to cheerful idiots?
But maybe the monopoly magnates
are right after all. It might bo true
that the people of Atlanta have been
Idiots for many y«?ars by allowing their
valuable franchises to get in. the hands
of scheming and money-making cori>o.
ration gangs. And It might be true
that they have been cheerful about It,
too.
But Isn’t it time to quit being a
Cheerful Idiot and get whatfc coming
to you,
CITY WILL RECEIVE $83,109
FROM PUBLIC CORPORATIONS
He Was Well Known and
Popular in At
lanta.
The body of Edward F. Riddick, who
comnilted suicide in Birmingham FrI
day, will be brought to Atlanta, where
further funeral arrangements will be
made. He went to Birmingham five
months ago for the purpose of opening
a tailoring business under the name of
Riddick ft Cert
He was associated with the tailor
ing establishment of Edward Cerf &
Company, In Whitehall street, for six
or seven years and had close friends
In this city. He was well and popular
ly known among the young men of
Atlanta.
Dispatches from Birmingham say
that nothing further than that he took
his own life by shooting himself was
developed at the coroner’s Inquest. The
theory of financial troubles os being
the cause of his action is not believed
among his acquaintances in Atlanta.
Those who were close to him say that
; was not financially embarrassed.
Mr. and Mrs. * . *. parents of the
young man. are on their way to At
lanta from North Carolina, when? they
have been visiting. They were not
notified of the death of young Riddick
until a dispatch was forwarded to them
by Edward Cerf, the former business
partner of Riddick.
Street Railway Is At
lantis Biggest
Taxpayer.
SOUTHERN RAILWAY
PAYS BIG TAXES
Annual Report Shows Tax
able Value of Railroad
Property.
The city of Atlanta will receive $88,-
109.43 from the public sendee corpo
rations doing business here during 1906.
The taxes for the year have been
made out by the comptroller general
and turned over to the city comptroller
for collection. The report contains the
physical values of these corporations,
the exact value of tho property in the
turned In, the franchise values, the
whole taxable property, which com
bines the two, and the aggregate, which
CORPORATIONS— Physical ‘
Values.
Central of Georgia $ 139.887
Seaboard Air I.fue H**lt Line 17U.636
HealiiNinl Air Line, G.. C. nnd N 18.491
Southern Knllnisd, G. I*. Division 89.721
Southern, C. and B. Division 3VM89
Southern, A. nnd C. Division 67,738
Atlanta and West Point Rett Line 7.412
Atlanta and West Point to West Point.... 59.S80
Atlanta Terminal Company
Charleston nnd West Carolina 100
F/OUlsvl||«* nnd Nashville 29,000
Nnslivllle. Chattanooga and St. Isoul* 1.600
Georgia Kailway and Klectric Company.... 1.450.611
Atlanta Ga* Light Company £25.000
North Georgia Klectric Company 4.ono
Southern Express Company 65.619
Amerlean Telegraph ami Telephone Co.... 4.971
Atlanta-Postal Telegraph ffompany 1.836
Westerir I’nlou Telegraph Company 2.8S0
Southern Bell Tel. nnd Telephone Co 425,865
Atlanta Telephone and Telegraph Company. 156.996
Total! 13.768.424
Franchise Whole
Values. Taxable.
I 31,983 $ 271.820
8.987 179,623
2.865 21,346
13,599 103,.120
61,290 397.479
7,876 75,614
3.975 11,887
26.387 86.267
1,000,000 1,000,000
I!!'.!!!!! "*29.006
1 660
1,196.253 2,646.864
275,000 900,000
272 4.272
143.180 208.799
5.543
2,245.29
! il
1.078.34
1,250.00
362.50
437
1,687
2.275
4.567
510,800
188,010
$2,880,317 $6,648,751
Is the taxes to be paid #n this prop
erty to the city.
The corporation from which the city
gets the greatest amount of taxes is
the Georgia Railway and Electric Com
pany. which pays $33.85.80. The com
pany’s physical values are placed at
$1,450,611: the franchise values are
$1,196,253; the whole taxable being
$2,646,864.
The Southern, of course, pays more
than any other railroad. The Southern
has to pay on three divisions—the
Grand Pacific, the Charleston and
Brunswick and the Atlanta and Char
lotte—$1,291.50 on the first, $4,968.49
on the second and $945.18 on the third.
The Central pays Into the city treasury
for the year $3,397.75.
The Charleston and West Carolina
has a physical value of only $100 and
has no franchise value. This company
pays the city Just $1.25. The Louisville
and Nashville and the Nashville, Chat
tanooga and St. Louis also have no
franchise values.
The only company returned that has
not physical value Is the Atlanta
Terminal Company, whose railroad
stock is not yet here. The franchise
value of the Atlanta Terminal Company
is tho highest of all. being $1,000,000,
The total physical value of all the
public , service corporations is $3,768,-
434. The total frahcDlse value Is $2,880.-
317. The whole taxable is $6,648,751.
Tho aggregate representing the amount
of taxes paid to the city is $83,109.48.
LOVE LAUGHS Al SPEED LA WS, POLICEMEN,
IK ATE PARENTS AND CONVENTIONALITIES
BLOW OF AXE CAME
T
Continued From Page One.
Isn’t it time to Join the Municipal
Ownership League nnd help tfeost the
sent to me, as well as to other* .game? . ,
who have sent In applications to''you Think It over and sign the applica
tor membership In the proposed Munlc- I tlon
SPENCER AT THROTTLE
TOOK ROAD OFFICIALS
A CR OSS DR A WBRIDGE
Special to The Georgian.
Chattanooga, Tcnn., Dec. 1.—Profes
sor Roy Baylor, 6f this city, was a
school mate of the late Samuel Spen
cer, at the University of Virginia. lie
entered the school during the year tint
President Spencer grnduuted from tho
course of civil engineering. He says
that President Spencer was unusually
bright In mathematics.
President Spencer was to have deliv
ered an address before the graduating
class of Baylor’s University School, of
this city, next June. Professor James
B. Baylor, professor In the University
of Virginia nnd a brother of Profes
sor Roy Baylor, was a member of the
graduating class of President Spencer.
The dehth of President Spencer will
imve no effect on the plans of the
Southern railway to erect a half-mil-
lion-dollar passenger station nnd to
complete tho Stevenson extension, in
cluding the tunnel through Lookout
Mountain and other Important work
in this immediate sectlou.
Major W. D. Jenkins, civil engineer
in charge of the plans for the passen
ger station, tells a story of one of the
peculiar characteristics of the dead
president, in which he says that when
the long drawbridge across the Susqu
hunna river on the Baltimore and Ohio
railroad was completed. President
Spencer took hold of the throttle of
the big locomotive which drew* a spe-
bUvl train of official* and guided the
pionster across the bridge with the
courage of a veteran engineer.
JOHNSON MUST HANG;
NEGRO ASSAILANT IS
GIVEN DEATH SENTENCE
Will Johnson, aged about 26 y«
the negro charged wjth criminally
saultlng Mrs. Richard Hembree, near
her home, nt Battle Hill. August 15, was
found guilty by the Jury which tried
him in the criminal branch of the supe
rior court Frlduy uftemoon and was
given the death sentence by Judge
Roun Saturday morning. „
Judge Roan set January 4, 190., be
tween 7 o’clock In the morning and 2
o’clock In the afternoon, ns the day for
the execution of Johnson.
•T am not guilty of the charge, said
Johnson, when asked by Judge Roan If
he wished to say anything, “l am in
nocent ns an angel In heaven."
The verdict in the case was not
reached until 12 o’clock Friday night
and wag not made known until Satur-,
day morning. Johnson, however, had a
uuy iiivihim*. "...v , morning
dream Friday night. In •which he saw htMj ha ,j
»ld stand. Quite a reduction that!
Richmond. Va„ built a plant In 18^2
ind rebuilt It after the war in 1867. In
t$>5 lb* earning* had paid for the
the court sentencing him to be hung.
Attorneys Walter McElreath, M. • .
Tolbert and Alex W. Stevens, who de
fended Johnson at the request of the
court, were highly complimented by
Judge Roan for their efforts to have the
negro’s neck. The attorneys stated
they did not know as yet whether or
not they will appeal the case.
Hears His Doom.
At 9 o'clock Saturday morning John
son was’taken into the criminal court.
The Jury hail been out from about 5
o’clock Friday afternoon until 12
o’clock Friday night. They stated they
had reached a verdict and It waa read,
•’Guilty." At 10 o’clock Judge Roan
ugoln called Johnson Into court to
place sentence upon him. Johnson
stated he was an Innocent man.
was very calm and did not appear at
all shaken by the verdict.
Judge Roan.then sentenced Johnson
to hang on January 4, lt«7.
As Johnsor was being taken from
the jail to the court house Saturday
►ruing be told Bailiff Bryant that he
terrible dream Til day night,
He dreamed the Jury In his case had
brought In it verdict of guilty. John
son said, however, he did not think the
dream would come true, as “dream
books" said that dreams always turn
out opposite from what they are.
Johnson was arrested after investi
gation of some weeks by County Po
licemen Buntyn utul D. H. A. Davis.
Trial is Begun.
The jury was secured shortly after
lock and the witnesses were put
Everyone was excluded
plant and MI expenses. Gaa is sold for
$1 a thousand and It costs the city to
make It 70 cents, which Includes de
preciation and an allowance for taxes.
Thirty cents on the dollar Is a nice
sum for a city to make. That much I under the rule.
Daid In gaa bills means that much f from the court room except the law
less paid In taxe... I y«rs, officers of the court and the news-
• It’s onl> u business proposition after j paper men.
all It’s up to you to soy whether you < Mrs. ffbmbree took the stand for the
shell own the gw and electric light state, Hhe Identified Johnson as her
plants and sell to yourself and make l assailant. Hhe sain on the morning of
— jet a monopoly d*> August 15, between 6 nnd 7 o’clock, sh*
met Johnson in the road between het
came in a weak and plaintive voice
from the prostrate woman.
This was all she said. Her eyes were
dim nnd she did not recognize even
her two children, who stood by her
side weeping hysterically.
"Oh, papa has threatened to do this
thousand times!" cried out one of
the little fellows as some one Inquired
as to the cause. '
Goss to Hospital.
The wounded wife was quickly taken
to the hospital, where the physicians
at once began efforts to save her life.
The body of the de&d husband was re
moved to tho undertaking parlors of
Harry G. Poole & Co., where an in
quest will be held some time Satur
day. «
Tho scene of the tragedy Is n double
house, tho other side being occupied by
the family of I. V. Puckett. Mrs. Puck
ett was at home at tho time of the kill
ing, but knew nothing of it until the
discovery by the little boys.
Hhe stated Saturday morning to a
Georgian reporter that she heard no
commotion of nny kind on the Cooper
side of the house and did not even hear
the report of Cooper s pistol. Hhe said
she knew nothing of the dlffererices be
tween Coo|H»r and bis wife, as she hud
a falling out with them some time ago.
Mrs. Dennard, who was an intimate
friend of the family, says Mrs. Cooper
had told her that Cooper had made
threats to take her life and then kill
himself. Hhe says the little boya had
also told the same thing.
Uncle Took Childrtn.
Shortly after the discovery of the
trugedy, Zekc Pursley. an uncle, took
charge of the two boys nnd carried
them to his home.
In speaking the affair Saturday
morning, Mrs. Dennard said:
“Mrs. Cooper was nt my house yes
terday afternoon and remained here
until 4:30 o’clock. Her husband went
down town during the afternoon and at
4:30 returned. 1 was In my back yard
and he came out In his back yard and
asked me If his wife was at my house.
I told him she was, nnd he sa|d lie
wanted her to come home. Hh<» left
Immediately. Mrs. Cooper and her hus
band had a disagreement in the morn
ing. Mrs. Cooper told me she had re
ceived a messugo that her mother, Mra.
Pursley,'who resides out on the river
car line, was HI and wanted her to come
and see her. Mr. Cooper, she said, ob
jected to her going and advised her to
wait until today. Mrs. Cooper Anally
agreed t«> this.”
Cooper Is said to have been a drink
ing man, but whether he wus Intoxi
cated Friday uftemoon Is not known.
Mrs. Dennard snys she could not tell
whether he was drinking at the time
he asked for Ills wife.
Mrs. Cooper Is 52 years of age and
her husband was but little older. He
had been twice married. He has two
hildren by his first marriage, Mrs.
Pearl Luther, who resides near tho
waterworks, and John Cooper, whoso
home Is In Atlanta.
Cooper is said to have w’orked but
little during the past several months,
stating he was not able to work. His
wife and two boys have been working
and supporting the family.
COUPLE ARRESTED
AT THE STATION
St. Louis, Dec. 1.—Orville K..Sher
man, a grand-nephew of Oenerul Wil
liam T. Sherman, and Miss Esther Ber-
son were arrested when they stepped
from a Burlington train at the union
station. They had eloped to St. Louis
to get married.
Too young to gain their parents' con
sent, they sought to give the old folks
the slip, with the result that the elders
caught on quicker than was expected
and wired to Chief of Police Creecy to
catch the runaways as they came to
town.
Orville Is 17 and his fiancee one year
younger. He lives at Peoria, 111., and
she at Moueon, III.
WEDDED ABOARD
BIG OCEAN LINER
New York, Dec. 1.—Partly because
they wanted to do something out of tho
ordinary and partly because they were
running away from an Irate father, a
couple were married aboard the Cu-
narder Slavonia, when that vessel was
tossing about In the wind storm on the
18th of the month In the Atlantic ocean.
Slgmond Adalbert Engel bach, the
bridegroom, it was said, Is from Cin
cinnati. The bride Is Miss Marla Josefa
Korinann. of Vienna, where her father
is a wealthy wine merchant.
NEWSBOY KEPT GOLDPIECE
UNTIL OWNER TURNED UP
residence and Battle Hill. The negro
passed her on the left side and then
turned and demanded her purse. She
gave it to him. He t«*>k the money
from it and threw it to the ground.
When Mrs. Hembiee tried to get-away
he seized her nnd choked her. Mrs.
Hembree said she told of the assault ns
soon as possible. Dr. Joe Harper testi
fied that when lm examined Mrs. Hem
bree be found that she had been badly
bruised about the neck. With this evi
dence the state rested Its case for the
moment, and the defense Introduced
testimony. N
Negro Testifies.
Johnson took the stand in his own
behalf. He said he had been working
on August 14 and wienched his back
by a fall. He had consequently been
sick at home all day August 15. He
declared his Innocence.
After minor evidence, the argument
of counsel began. Solicitor General Hill
prosecuted, while Attorneys Walter
McElreath, M. C. Tolbert and Alex W.
Stevens, who were appointed by the
court, defended the prisoner. The state’s
case rested on the evidence of Mrs.
Hembree and D»v Harper, and the fact
that Mr. Mosely, 63 Henley street, saw
a negro something like Johnson not far
from Mrs. Hembree’s the day of the
assault. Mosely could not identify
Johnson as the man. The defense was
an alibi for Johnson, they claiming it
Impossible for Johnson to travel from
his home, two miles to where Mrs
Hembree was assaulted, ami do the
deed the time claimed.
There is at least one' honest newsboy
In Atlanta.
And because of finding this honest
lad. H. O. White, of the White Wall-
K per Company, la just $4 richer than
thought he was.
The honest boy Is Oscar Davis, of
32 Houth McDaniel street.
On Monday last Mr. ‘ White pur
chased a copy of The Georgian from
the boy nnd gave him what he thought
were two copper rents. The next da>
he looked for a five-dollar gold piece
he had placed In his pockot the day
before nnd found it missing.
A little thinking convinced him that
he had given It to a newsboy Instead
of a cent. And when he came to this
conclusion he promptly bade farewell
to his gold.
On Friday Mr. White mentioned his
loss while In the Lowry National bank,
and there he learned that a newsboy
did get it and had been trying to find
the owner.
The kid didn’t know who gave It to
him and Mr. White didn’t know the
boy who sold him the paper.
But lie took a chance, anyway, and
braced a newsie on tho same corner
where he hdd purchased The Georgian
when he parted with his gold.
"Didn't I give you u flve-dollar gold
piece on Monday Instead of a cent?” he
asked the kid.
Now, an Atlanta newsboy is wise,
and he Isn’t giving back money to the
WEDDED IN AUTO
CHASED BY COP
Cleveland, Ohio, Dec. 1.—Pursued by
policemen end speeding through Euclid
avenue at the rate of forty mile, an
hour, Mies Irene Dennart and Attorney
Lawrence Damehroder, society people,
were wedded In hla automobile last
night.
The wedding waa the most remarkb-!
ble affair from start to finish, ac
cording to the hlunhtng bride herself.
She admits that she does not know
where she was married, but believes
that It must have been somewhere be
tween East North street and East XOith
street, on Euclid avenue.
The ceremony was performed by Jus
tice of the Peace A. H. Parker. It
consumed perhaps five minutes, but
was spread over a considerable portion
of Cleveland's aristocratic highway.
GIVEN 1 OVATION
BY CONFERENCE
first man who usks for It.
“Whcre'd you buy do paper?” ho
flashed back.
“Right there by that telegraph pole.”
Another minute was spent sizing up
Mr. White, and then—
“I guess you’re the right guy. Here's
your coin. Been trying to find you fer
nearly a week."
But before he walked away to get
rid of the balance of his copies of The
Georgian, he pocketed a dollar which
Mr. White paid him for Friday's sport
ing extra.
"Dat guy ain’t so bad, after all,” re
marked the kid to a pal.
“There’s an honest kid,” thought Mr.
White as he looked for the
•ports.
MANGUM STREET HOUSE
STILL IN THE L1MEL1GH1
Dr. A. C. Ward, pastor of the Temple
Baptist church, replies Haturduy to the
remurks of W. E. Wlmpey, published
in The Georgiun Friday.
Hlnce Mr. Wlt^pey rented the house
on Mangum street to negro tenants the
neighborhood has been In a turmoil.
Policemen have guarded the place at
night, neighbors have talked loudly
over division fences by day. It has been
veritable tempest In a teapot.
Dr. Ward’s reply to Mr. Wlmpey Is
brief nnd he says he hopes it will close
the discussion. It follows:
E. Wlmpey has said some very
ugly things about me In your columns.
It Is unnecessary for me, after these
long years of public sendee In At
lanta, to offer any defense against his
charges. I will not engage In abuse or
mud-slinging, nor will I notice whut be
says other than to say that he did try
to buy my property and the property of
Mrs. Stokes, both of which properties
bound 120 Mahgum. We did not wish
to sell nt his figures. The public can
draw Its own Inference as to why ne
groes we he put next door to us.
"A. C. WARD.”
Citizen Writes Card.
The following reply to W. E. Wlm
pey, written and signed by the citizens
of the Mangum street neighborhood,
lacks the dignity and calm reserve of
Dr. Ward’s communication, but what
it lacks In dignity Is made up In
warmth. Here It Is:
Replying to Mr. Wimpey’i outrageous
statements, made In yesterday’s Geor
gian, we, the undersigned, have the fol
lowing to say:
He misrepresents facts when he says
this is a negro neighborhood. It is not.
nor I* It thickly i»opuiated with col
ored iieople. There Is not a negro fam
ily living on Mangum street for three
blocks south and nearly two blocks
north from nls house. Only two smalt
negro houses are on the lower side of
the alley running to Davis street. All
the others are white people. No negro
ha m ever lived on the block of
Mangum street In which Mr. Wlm
pey put Castile Stephens at 129 Man-
gum street.
He states he cannot get a white
tenant. This Is not true, for he was of
fered $30 per month yesterday by one
of Atlanta’s best citizens. AH his talk
of “burning shame about white minis
ters” etc., u all tut. He Is simply trying
to Incite a race riot and cause trouble
between the races by putting Innocent
negroes where they will not be toler
ated. Rut for Dr. Ward’s determined
stand against lawlessness and violence,
trouble would even yet follow. Dr. Ward,
against the advice of the neighborhood,
stood between the crowd and trouble.
Every policeman on the beat will teslfy
that he did nil In his power to co-op-
erjite with them In keeping the peace.
It Is due to the persistent stand of Dr.
Ward and the prompt action on the
part of Mayor Woodward and Chief
Jennings that no harm was done.
Chengsd His Mind.
Now we are ail anxious to know why
Wlmpey has so completely changed his
mind about this neighborhood. He Is
simply laboring under a false Impres
sion. We object to the statements he
has made nitd declare them to be
without foundation. If Dr. Ward and
the Temple church do not wish to sell
their property to him, we Insist that he
has no right to abuse us and the
neighborhood lit which we live.
Jessie Wiggins. I. M. Jett. Dr. F. J.
Hood. J. D. Meadows, 108 Mangum; J.
V. Johnston, M. F. Game, J. E. H.
Hlrsch, M. J. Kane, Mr. and Mrs. J.
V. Wood, Mr. and Mrs. W. G. Withers,
31 r. and Mrs. E. If. Orr, Mr. and Mrs.
F. A. Hickson, H. A. Miller. Mrs. C. C.
Ilridwell, Mrs. J. A. Brldwell, Mrs. W.
T. George, W. R. Story, W. B. Roper.
Offers to Rsnt.
Dr. Word received Saturday a let
ter from a well known man who of
fered to rent the property at a fair
price and keep It In good condition.
Body Arose and Cheered As
Noted Missionary Eu- ,
tered Building.
Special to ttie Georgian.
VnMusts, Os., Dee. 1.—Bishop W. A*
Cnndler, who has Just returned front the
orient, resebed tho city list night, met
was present st the penlng of tbs South
Georgia conference session this morning.
He wss given nn expression of the appre
ciation In which he Is held by the confer
ence, the members rising to their feet an<l
rinppiiig their hands. Bishop Candler re-
ferred briefly to his travels through China,
Japan and Korea.
Hlle stated that st first sight one would
the Bast.
ifter four months spent
Christian work bring done there. Msny
reports were received by the confer* u**
this morning, Including the report of the
Kpworth League board, and that of the
committee on hooks and periodicals.
Young Prsschsrs Admitted.
The following young presebprs u« re nd-
mlttm) to the full connection wlrb Mi-
conference: II. J. Graves, J. P. Dell. J.
'hntfield, t\ O. Brooks, C, O. Ingram.
O L. Ev
... ___.jony, C. W7j«
ilnu and Theodore Pharr.
The admittance of this class U a .11
tlnct feature of the conference overy yea
Hi»hop Ward’s remarks In Interrogation
of the class were of the most earnest and
eloquent nature.
—I H. Heated, treasurer of the
.hureh extension board, reported
amounts as contributed by th
rlbated by the sev
ti district, $9»): N>
Macoo, $525.50; A
tfi
several dis-
Nortb Ms-
. ... I Americas,
9496; Columbus, $494.59; Tbomssvlllc. $4>6;
W.yenwi. $414.50; McRae, $M7; Dublin J 4;
' The’roStaSoo. Ihl. jr*»r are a Hill, «»•
der last year, though the aseesmeats _ *—
LADIES’ OPERA GLASSES
with beautiful case, combining watch,
pocketbook, pencil and tablet, mirror
and puff box, at John L. Moore ft Son*,
42 North Broad street, Prudential
building.
FUNERAL NOTICE.
WOOIA—The friends of Mr*. Htwaii Jean
nette Wood. Mrs. M. Z. Bums, Mr. snd
Mr*. D. J. Owen and family. Mr. aud
Mrs. J. W. Wood, and Mr. and Mrs. J.
t\ i bll.U are Invited to attiuid the fu-
n.-ml of Mrs. Hqssn Jeannette Wood nt
the residence of her graml-dutighter.
Mrs. J. f. i*blld». *9 n
3 p. 111. Huuilsr,
Brunswick, Us.
r gran
, _ rspt toi
lutertuent will be at
regarding the use of tobacco by the minis*
ters was wanuly debated. As drst pre
sented It required that applicants for ad*
T. I. Neese, Rev.
IW. C. Lovett and Judge fir. It. Adams, the
latter l*elug one ut the strongest sddressea
tnnde. Judge Adams wos opposed to the
and reflect on rnsuy of the best men In I
SAFE IS DYNAMITED!
PDSTOffICE ROBBED
Sl*c!al to The Georgian.
Jack,on. Ml,,.. Deo. 1.—There was
another poatofilce robbery In south
Mls.le.lppl last nlfht. the third this
week, when the poetofllce at Oalm.ni
was robbed. The safe was dynamited
and several hundred dollar. In money
and stamps taken.
Officer, are trylnc to get to the rob
bers, but have not succeeded aa yet.
Bankruptcy Petition.
voluntary petition In bank v
was filed In Clerk Carter's office fl-n-
urday morning by R. M. Orllflth, \V<-.|-
sey, Ga., a mechanic. HI. Ilablllti. ,