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» \ I THE ATLANTA GEORGIAN s.irruDAr, decemrlb 1, m 1 :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. ,