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— THE ATLANTA GEORGIAN. SATURDAY. DECEMBER 15,. 1906. ATLANTA CAN AFFORD TO GIVE CITY SCHOOLS APPROPRIATION ASKED y Council Cannot Re fuse to Pay $130,- 000. FINANCES SHOW GOOD CONDITION SCHOOL CHILDREN GUESTS OF GEORGIAN IN ITS MODERN PLA N T Two New Buildings Are Im perative—More Are Badly Needed. . Atlanta's schools will nsk the city fathers for $RI0,000 with which to erect three school build- inprs. Two new schools are needed to relieve the congestion which now prevails ill every school in the city. A new building is needed to replace the Marietta street school, which is too close to the railroad tracks and in a location otherwise misuited to the educa tion of children. The Georgian, in a recent scries of articles, has called the atten tion of the public to the conditions prevailing in Atlanta's schools, the crowded rooms, the badly lighted, insanitary basements used as a makeshift. The public has been shown something of interest. Few of the fathers and mothers of At lanta’s thousands of school chiH dren knew how bad these condil tions are. They may have heard complaints about the particular school in which they were inter ested. Their own children may have complained about the dis comfort of crowded schoolrooms, but not until The Georgian took up the fight for more adequate school facilities did the patrons of the schools know how general was the congestion; how badly needed the improvements suggest ed. . Spirit of The Georgian. : into articles in The Georgian! have, been- published in no spirit of "muck-raking,” no idea of roasting the city government for its failure to provide more liberal ly for the public schools, but in n friendly effort to awaken all con cerned to a realizing sense of the conditions and in a spirit of sug gestion for the future. Atlanta has done the best it could—or thought it could—in the past, The council has tried to deal liberally with the school system. But Atlanta has grown—is growing. The city is growing faster than hns been realized, and one of the best proofs of this is the steadily and rapidly increas- ing number of pupils in the public schools. Not only is this shown in the primary grndes, where tiny toddlers whom the stork brought to the city begin their “a-b abs" and their “twice one is two.” It is shown in the pupils of higher grades, brought by their pnrents from country and village to swell the city’s population Hud the city’s school. But it is high time for improvement. The city of Atlanta is prosperous. The ad ministration which goes out next month will leave the city in a splendid financial condition. The council can grant the request of thb board of eduoation without n fear of over liberality. Good Financial Condition. For instance: The city has just redeemed the Piedmont Park bonds, $60,000 worth of securities upon which it was pnying interest at the rate of *3,000 a year. Th.-se bonds need not have been called in until June, 1011, five years ahead. To redeem them was a good stroke of business—but it in dicates that the city of Atlana is not hard pushed for money. i, M»7. , - th *..* c - l . > ? <>U - * r * not » ikln * tnT •usuries- Marble fountain* and rose wood dealcs are not on their appropria tion Hat. All they oak la more room— room to teach the children, room to let * lrl * ttn « hoys alt at com- tortM, deaka, In well ll(hted, well vea- Did you ever see a modern newspaper plant when you were a boy—or a girl, as the case may bel Of course you couldn't have seen a plant like those of today— but it is probable that you never once stepped behind the front of fice of even the little sheet of your youth. Perhaps you wonder sometimes how it is all done—how edition af ter editiou of a modern daily comes from the "news source” to the street, giving the public the latest news—the assassination of a European monarch or the election of n constable; a marriage in New York’s Four Hundred, or a dog fight dmyn the street. Perhaps yon wonder how a photograph taken at 10 o’clock is transferred to the white page of the first edi tion at noon—perhaps-you would like to see it ail done. The school children of Atlanta ure to see all of this and more. They are to learn how a great daily is made, how the type is turned out by fast moving ma chines which are almost human in their working, how the pages are made up and locked, how stereo types are made, how plates are east and set on the waiting presses, how with the turning of an electric switch the presses be gin to turn and the white paper flying swiftly over the rolls comes out printed and folded—faster than one could count. QiMttt of Tht Georgian. For the children of the city echoole are to be the guentn of The Georgian In Its plant, the moat modem newspaper plant in Atlanta. They are to watch every operation from the time the “copy" leaves the hands of the reporter Just off the afreet, through the lino types, on the forma, under the ateam table, through the stereotype plant, on the preaa, Into the handa of the Impa tient newaboy outnlde. Several days flgo Mr. F, L Seely publisher of The Georgian, extended to the board of education an Invitation to send the pupils In the public schools to visit the plant. On Thursday, the next meeting of the hoard, the invitation was accepted, and the pupils of the seventh and eighth grades of the gram mar schools and all the pupils of the two high achools will be brought by tholr teachers to see the plant. It wax behoved that the children In the lowvr grades are too young fully to appre ciate n visit to the plant or to under stand the machinery of the various do- part menu. Friday it Children's Day, Friday was selected as the best day for the visits of the children, and the busy hour before press time was con* sldered the best hour, for then the visi tors may see not only the workings of the composing room, but follow the pages to the press and watch the actual printing of The Georgian. A head of one of the many depart ments will net as guide to the visiting children and explain to them the va rious operations necessary to publish a modern paper. The children will be taken Into the composing room, the busiest hive of Industry' In the cJty, where they may watch at close range the manifold details of the work. They will see the stereotype™ in their under, ground chamber, casting metal plates from pasteboard molds. They will see the paper on the pfess, see the press start and watch the first of the new edition come flying from the folder to be sent up the endless chain to the mailing rooms. Every detail will he explained by an expert. Something hew In education. Isn't it? But It !h the kind of education to which great Instructors are turning nowadays —practical Illustration. A visitor can learn more In an hour by seeing a thin?; done than In n month from a text-book. There Is nothing which Is closer to the man and woman In every-day life than the dally newspaper—and to one who understands how it Is made the news paper will take on a new* Interest, a new value. Newspaper in Sehoola. Some schools have adopted another new* w’rlnkle In education. This Is the reading of a dally paper during a cer tain hour. Instead of a text-book. It has been found that It puts the pupil ! n touch with the world of today, gives In struction not found elsew’here; that It Imparts a world of general Information which no text-hook can supply. It would not be safe to Introduce every dally paper Into the school room, without carefully expurgAtlng it. Some dallies contain articles hardly rahuJat ed for the pure mind. If the Atlanta schools were to ademt this system—and it is not Improbable, for Atlanta educators are quick to grasp Ideas that are good, as well as new—It Is easy to predict which dally paper would be selected for the dally rending. The Georgian is always clean, free from objectionable matter In news columns and advertising—flt for th school room or the home. The Georgian extends a welcome »o the school children and hopes that every pupil In every school will pay a visit to the plant on the day appolnfbd by the tenchers. They will find some thing interesting, something worth re memberlng. There Is a charm .1 watching people do things; there Is *in attraction about all skillful work—and the visitors, old or young, will And ex pert workmanship at Its best In Tbo Georgian. And the Invitation, though extended specifically to the children of the schools, Is not limited to them. Tho Georgian will he glad to welcome the general public in Its plant, glnd to ex plain all the workings of the depart ments. There Is no forbidding Hlgn “Keep Out" on any door In The Geor gian office. It Is your paper and you are welcome everywhere. POLICE MUST PROTECT SOLDIERS, OR SOLDIERS WILL NOT AID POLICE Wilts BEFORE Occupation Tax De clared Unconstitu tional. In affirming Judge Pendldton. of Ful ton superior court. In granting an In junction against Comptroller General Wright to prevent him from collecting from the Southern Bell Telephone and Telegraph Company certain taxes, the occupation tax of Georgia Is declared unconstitutional. Moreover, the stale loses directly 130,000 and Incidentally a sum that would probably have amounted to 3100,000. This la the act of 190J re- qulrlng as an occupation tax such a per centum on cross receipts as would, when added to the ad valorem taxes, equal 3 1-2 per cent upon the gross receipts. A test was made by the comptroller Burton Smith Talks Straight Before Board. CLASH AT THEATER CAUSES TROUBLE ‘Policemen Who Stopped Mi litia Are Exonerated By Board. “If the police commission fails to protect stste militiamen while they are doing duty, I think tho police need ex pect no help from them during tlm.s of an smsrgsnoy. And the police, I am satisfied, would certainly be ‘goners' in a serious outbreak without tho aid of the soldiers, uniats tho force should be quadrupled. I hardly think you oon obtain sufficient appropriation to do this.” CAPTAIN BURTON SMITH, Adjutant Fifth Georgia. The Investigation on Friday night by the police commission Into the recent clash between state militiamen and police at the Bijou theater was given a decidedly sensational tinge In an argu ment by Captain Burton Smith, adju tant of the Fifth reglmnat, Infantry, in THE MARCH OF PROGRESS BELL- MORSE-GHARTIER THE WORLD’S GREATEST IE-SAVERS FOES MAY USE CRISIS TO PROVOKE CIVIL WAR Continued from Pege One, of regretful obedience to the papal command—or rather to the dictation of the impulsive Del Val—will bo treated with especial consideration by the gov- eminent In the event of a resort t> force. Cardinal Blchnid, however, is not of this number. Whut Is likely Is that after a period of agitation the lay Catholics will take the matter Into their own hand, ami make the formal declarations of the Intention to hold nubile worship under the law of 1331. The impal pro hibition does not extend to the laity. CARDINAL RICHARD I88UE3 OPINION ON P0PE.’8 ORDER. Paris. Dec. 15.—Among the many points In dispute, about which there have been statements and denials, re statements nnd re-denltls, la the quet- lion of whether the pope authorise. mn , rt j,j n the tolsraraf erercVsTnf ... Ilglon or to replace In any point the derinratlons made by members of th? laity for services In churches, The attitude of Cardlnnl Richard, nrchtbishop of Paris, has been repre sented ns favoring and ns equally strongly condemning such declaration. The Temps gives the text of un opinion which shows that Cardinal Richard allows sucl, declarations, although It may be pointed out that the pope may upaet the cardlnal'a decision as ho up set that of Cardinal Lecot at tho last moment. It Not a Disobedience. The opinion says: "Are declarations made by third par ties a disobedience to the pope? No, provided they are made with with the honest, upright intention of avoiding troubles which might result from the present unnrchlal state, and that no claim be made In any way whatever to ► (Hated rooms. L°ok at the figures. See how the schools have grown—the attendance, mind you—not tho equipment. That has not kept pace. In 1902 the average attendance of the erty schoots wasll ift. ut3 It was }*'*.*i. >W It had grown to 12,165. In 1305 It had ranched 13,591. In 1903 *5?, attendance Is 14,331. In 1937 It will nave grown, at the same ratio, to more than 1M00 pupils in attendance at the achoola each day. Now, Atlanta has Just twenty-three school building* for white children, with six for negroes. In every school the congestion has reached a condition which must be remedied, and remedied soon. Before the beginning of the next 2?i. on - .if buildings are not erect ed. It win be far worse. by educational experts the largest num ber that can be handled to advantage. In Atlanta It has been necessary to Increase this maximum to sixty In many Instances. Forty-one grades In the twenty-three while schools have the proper number of pupils. Seventy- ftvr grades have between forty and nfty pupils. Ninety-two grades have between Itfty and sixty children, hud dled together In small rooma, or over flowing Into basements never Intended for accommodating human beings. That Is one of the worst features of the situation. It has been necessary to renovate rooms partly beneath the ground, convert them into makeshift school rooms, and teach many classes In plaeea unlit for such a purpose. Th* tight Is had. the ventilation Is worse, the dampness calculated to cause dis ease. The Georgian has published pho. tographs showing a few of these base ment rooms. Ths board of education needs more buildings for the accommodation of the growing schools. It will ask the coun cil for a modeet sum, 3130,000, with which to erect three schools. Even this will give but two additional build ings, for the third must take the place t>f the present Marietta Street school, which Is In a bad location. This Is a matter which concerns every head of a family in Atlanta. There Is not a father In the city who will not stand behind the board of education in Its request for the appro priation. There can be tittle doubt that the city council will accede to the hlerarchlal authority of the church. 1 In the present case there hss ap peared no nteuns of obtaining the good result which Is desired. This means, therefore, has been employed as the sole possible expedient. It hnB been' employed by two citizen* because every cltlien esn Interest himself on behalf of public order and these two being laymen are speclflcally unaffected by the rapal prohibition, which hus an ecclesiastical prohibition. VATICAN PREPARES PROTEST AGAINST DESPOILING ARCHIVES Rome, Italy. Dec. 15.—The general Impression In Vatican circles Is that the French government Is losing ground and gradually realizing the Impossibll- •ty of carrying out the measures threatened against the clergy. Meanwhile the Vatican, unperturbed, attends to the compilation of a note of pretest against the violation of the nunciature's archives, which will be delivered to the ambassadors here end sent to the npoutollc delegates abroad. To Aid French Clergy. The Vatican Intends to extend every help to the French clergy and students expelled from seminaries. They will continue their studies In the colleges here at the pope's expense and financial help will be extender! to needy perish priests tn France. The attitude of American Catholics, general In seeking to collect from the. defense of the conduct of the soldiers, “*“"**“ “■*“ ■*’“ *“■ Who had been sent to the theater to arrest a member of their company. Captain Bmlth declared that the sol diers had been treated In an entirely Improper manner by the police In the theater, and asserted that If the police commission did not administer a re buke and sec that the state militiamen were protected while doing their duty the police need expect no more aid from them In times of an emergency, such as the recent race riot. Polioemen Aro Upheld. Following this declaration, the com mission exonerated two police officers, against whom charges had been pre ferred by the militiamen, thus deciding against (he soldiers. Whether there will be any further developments Is a matter of conjec ture. The tone of the hearing Friday night Indicated considerable feeling. During the course of his remarks Captain Bmlth said: "These two soldiers had gone to the theater under orders from their captain to arrest a member of tho company who was under charges and had been falling to report for drill, and there Is no evidence that they created any dis order. The two policemen In the then- tec interfered with them nnd, tho sol diers say. treated them discourteously. Bouthcrn Bell this difference for the years 1903 and 1904. The telephone company sought an injunction on the ground that the tax wag not uniform, ns required under the constitution. When heard before Judge Pendleton he sustained the Injunction. Now the supreme court affirms him. If the state had won Its case the tax for 1905 nnd 1906, amounting to about 330,000, would have been collectible. In addition every telephone, telegraph and express company would have been liable under the act. The head note In th opinion, in which all the Justices concur, with the exception of Judge Beck, dlsqunllflcd, sot forth the mat ter clearly: Not Uniform, Is Invalid. “A provision in a lax act that per sons engaged In a given business. If the revenues derived from their ad va- Inretn tax, together with all taxes on franchises of such person, does not amount to 2 1-2 per cent of the gross receipts of such person from such busi ness, should pay, as an occupation tax, such a per centum upon Its gross re ceipts ns will, when added to the at) valorem taxes, state and county, In cluding all taxes on franchises, equal to 2 1-2 per centum upon the gross re ceipts, Is lacking In uniformity and In valid. Chartler Shorthand, taught at Bag well Business College, 198 Peachtree street, Is as wonderful discovery In the Held of rapid writing as wireless teleg raphy Is In the world of electricity. What Bell, the Inventor of the tele phone. or Morse, the Inventor of teleg raphy, has dons Chartler has done— they have saved' time and "time is money.” AN AGE OF PR0GRE88. The "old line" shorthand systems will die hard, but Chartier’s has de creed that they must go. This Is dis tinctly an age of progress, discovery and Improvement. The slow, uncertain. Complicated, hard-to-Iearn way of do ing anything must as surely give way to the swift, sure, easy-to-lcarn way as the old stage coach gave way to the modern passenger train. It Is the cli max of folly to cling to the old Just because It "answered the purpose." 8WEEPING 8UCCES8 IN ATLANTA. The remarkable and almost Incredi ble results which have been and are still being accomplished by Bagwell Business College have overwhelmingly convinced even Its competitors of the superlative merits of Chartler short hand. Those who have been loudest In their denunciations dare not enter a contest on any terms which will dem onstrate to the public the relative merits of Chartler and Graham short hand. OUTSTRIP OLD SCHOOL. Bagwell Business College hns pre pared and placed In positions a greater number of competent stenographers since June 1 than the "Big School" on ths viaduct, which claims to be the largest In the South (?) Many pupils of the Chartler system have accepted positions from Bagwell Business Col lege after five to eight woek’o study. The .college will furnish a list of such pupils to any one who may be Inter ested. 10 RULES AND THE ALPHABET. chartler shorthand consists simply of the alphabet and 10 simple rules That's all! No contractions! No omis sion of vowels or consonants! No Ion- and short vowel distinctions! No dots and dashes! No thousands of word signs! None of the things that liars heretofore made the study of short hand almost a hopeless task In nlno cases out of ten! THE PROOF OFFERED. Chartler Shorthand Is simpler, swift er, clearer, sounder and far away bet tor than any other Bystem the world has ever known. Bagwell Business College guarantees this and is ready to prove It. The College offers a free scholarship to any on? making the In vestigation If It cannot produce four- weeks pupils who can write on the blackboard a«y ordinary business letter at tho rate of fifty words per minute and read It back without an error v free scholarship will also be given If it can be shown that any school teaching any old system of shorthand will make the same offer. INVESTIGATE. It will cost nothing to Investigate If you can learn chartler shorthand In half the time nnd nt half the expense required to master any other system and at the game time make a bettor stenographer, it Is certainly worthy of consideration. You incur no risk If'Vnu study Chartier shorthand at Bagwell s Business College. GOODYEAR-MAR8HALL BOOK KEEPING. Thejatest, the most Interesting and the most practical system of bookkeep ing on the market. 1 DORMITORIES Furnish pleasant nnd wholesome on. vlronment and reduce the cost of board catalog,’ ° ne ' ha,f ' Wr,te or “II for BAGWELL’S BU8INESS COLLEGE 198 Psaehtrss St, Atlanta. ’ "If a statute Is In part valid nnd In t pointed remarks of Captain part Invalid, and the objectionable Por-I _'.h created quite a commotion In the lion Is so connected with the general I Y 0 ,?”?. a I'“ **? c tacea of the scheme of the statute thnt It cannot • : L' '„lighted with an expression be stricken out and effect given to the! or lm erest. 1 Charges Preferred. The charges were preferred against Policemen B. M. Brodle nnd R. J. Wil liams, the soldiers having taken the numbers of the officers. A mistake was made In one of the numbers, however, and the complainants said Williams was not present. They Idcntltleil offi cer Englett as the policeman who was with Brodle. The soldiers testified that the policemen Interfered with them and Jeered them, referring to them as "tin soldiers" ond characterizing their com- mnndlng officer. Captain W. B. Dish- man, aa a "fool." The officers denied the charges, as serting they merely objected to the sol- dlers going Into the crowded theater with their guns, fearing excitement might result. They said that when the soldtera left their arms outside they were permitted to go Into the theaters and search for their man. stntute legislative intent, the whole must full." Inasmuch as the supreme court practically declares the whole act un constitutional, It- will be necessary for the next legislature to puss a new act, removing the difficult!) 1 * pointed out. In Its opinion the court snys: •it may be said thnt that part of the act providing that tho nd valorem shnll ho deducted from the gross receipts tax. In determining the nmount of oc cupation tax. should be eliminated from the tu-t If this renders the act Invalid for the want of uniformity." BAIL IS SECURED BY MRS, BIRDSONG Qradii Ara ..j — •••■ '***••'to* me amiuue o; American C atholic*. Forty Pupils to a grade U coniidered SSTUSSj^ ** ^‘S^KST KfMH'litl to The Gtwulnn. HnztehurM, Mias.. Dec. 15.—Judge Miller yesterday denied n new trial to Mrn. Angle Blrdftnng and passed a sen- tence of five years In the penitentiary for the killing of Dr. Butler. Notice was given of an appeal to the supreme court. Counsel for Mrs. Birdsong made ap plication for bail, which was granted In the sum of $10,000. Major Fox, fnther of Mrs. Birdsong; A. Q. May, of Jackson, and other friends of the worn- i signed the bond. The defendant was taken to court lying upon a cot. Moaning with pain nnd fever, and nt times nearly delir ious, she listened for an hour and quarter to her counsel's arguments for new trial. She was allowed to hear the sentence without standing., striking feature of this scene was the fact that the leading argument for Mrs. Birdsong was made by a lawyer, himself so III that he reclined in an In- aUd’s chair while addressing the court. Mrs. Btrdson shot nnd killed Dr. Thomas Butler, at Montlcello, Miss., November 25. 1905, and several days ago **ns convicted of manslaughter. Since that time she has been seriously III. Because of her young child and her Illness. Mrs. Birdsong was never sent to Jail. TO CURE A COLD IN ONE DAY Take LAXATIVE BROMO quinine Tableta. Drugglsta refund money If It falls to cure. E. W, GROVE'S signs- lure on each box. lie. ' To Oriva Out Malaria And Build Up tha Syetem Take the Old Standard GROVE'S TASTELESS CHILL TONIC. You know what you are taking. The formula la plainly printed on every bot tle, showing It la elmply quinine and Iron In a tasteless form. The Quinine drives out the malaria and the Iron bullda up the aystem. Sold by all dealers for 27 years. Price 50 cento. THE EXPERIENCE OF OTHERS. Prof. J. o. Bagwell. AtM^Oo. 0 ^ N ' OVember ‘ Dear Sir—After It three-months' course In your Book keeping Department I have accepted a position at IflO 00 per month with the Muhina* Grocery Co this eltv which you secured for me. As far as 1 can tell, my work is giving entire satisfaction. " >r,t Very sincerely, EUGENE O. MOJ5LEY. To the Public: *>°ug!«avi..e. Ga.. Nov. 8, 1906. After having studied Graham Shorthand foe months, I took a position nn,i held It for oite year I soon found that I was unable t„i !n dfcfnif.,?—Iiat 1 enough to hold a first-rlass p,Llt"on sSTS2ri5H? d J y take UP the Chartler. Afte r „nc month I w.'is’shlo^L better work with the ChartVr sysTouu lan r h„d Li- done with the Graham. I a m r very glad that I nfidl the change. Yours truly. " 1 d ® BERTHA C. VERDERY, ... . „ _ .... Auburn, Ga., Oct. 16, 1906. Professor J. O. Bagwell. Atlanta, Ga. Dear Sir—I believe that yon have the best school In Georgia, and will always recommend It every chance t get.'Chartler Shorthand Is all and more than you claim for It. After I had been in school hardly three months, 1 accepted a position at |t»0 per month. Sincerely yours, _____ J. S. RAINEY. Prof. J. O. Bagwell, Atlanta, Ga. WrightsvIHi, G& - Dear Sir—This Is to certify that I was In your school for only two months and eight days, and during that time I was prepared to accept and to hold a position as bookkeeper and stenographer with a largo hardware store in my town. * u ua Very truly your*, Q. C. COX. Prof. J. O. Bagwell, Atlanta, Gn. -UP' [77i.. R ™ with the results 1 have ' “ *** '*’“**' **“ “ three month* in your ~ n at prenent cashier ha* been only one obtained after upending about college ntudying bookkeeping. „ of the Bank of Stark, Fla., a n d It month since 1 left your scho 0 |. Very cordially yours, IS KILLED WHILE PLAYING II CAVE pope, who remarked that "the voice of the moat distant Catholics reached me first." Heart of America Consalte. Commenting upon the message sent by Archbishop Farley, of New York, he said: "It Is the heart of America that con soles us. The largest center of 'athollclsm Is In the United States." In a statement Issued from the Vati can it Is declared: "The holy see Is not opposed to the making of plans under the law, but takes exception to the whole spirit of ‘ of Pub- News hns been received In Atlanta of the tragic death Friday afternoon at Montgomery, of Charles Ball Strat- _ ford, the only child of Mrs. Philippa n Ball Stratford and of the late Mr Edwin Stratford, of that city, and grandson of tha late Colonel Charles p. Ball, who had many friends In Atlanta and Who previous to his death, two years ago. was one of the prominent railroad managers of the South. Young Stratford was 13 years of age a moat promising and lovabls boy. and of unusually bright Intellect. His death was caused by a fall of dirt in a cave, built by himself and several of his playmates. In the grounds of his grandmother, Mra. Charles p Ball, at -Montgomery. Major and Mrs. George C. Ball left Saturday afternoon for Montgomery to attend the funeral services of their young nephew. Judge Newman th Rome. Judge William T. Newman wae In Rome Saturday for the purpose of hold ing -fourt In that circuit. No motion was heard Saturday in the Federal court In Atlanta because of the absence of the judge. A)1 motions and demur rers were poetnned on? w??ir C. D.' STRIPLING. Tlfton, Ga., Oct. 25, 1906. Professor J, O. Bagwell, Atlanta, Ga. Dear Sir—1 studied the Pitman system about three months, but my progress was so slow and discourag ing I was Induced to enter your college to tnke un the Chartler system. The work was delightful from the first day I begun, and after only five weeks' study I am able to take about 100 words per minute and transcribe my notes without difficulty. Very respectfully, (MISS) ESTELE McMILLIAN. Atlanta, Ga„ Oct. 26. 1906. To Whom It .May Concern: I am satisfied that Chanter's Is the easiest and the best shorthand system In existence. After only nine weeks' study I was able t Q accept and hold a heavy position with the Southern Express Company Very respectfully, _ (MISS) ELLA BROWN. .... , _ Allanto, Ga., Oct. 26. 1908. To Whom It May Concern: . Alter six weeks' study of chartler Shorthand I can easily lake dictation at the Cate of one hundred words per minute. I have studied other syste m „. but find that the Char tler system as taught at Bagwell's Business College Is by far superior to them all. Very respectfully, (Miss) Maude wkstbrooke. f? „ Atlanta, Ga., Oct. 25. 1906. To Whom It May Concern: - t.^«o^V. 0 „T.X^e w d ,l t h 0 % ttUrsScSJ: pl < iclty,* t rapld"ty 11 a:d , k l g , |blllG^* ht ' , ” J. F. WESTBROOK. Professor J. O. Bagwell, A«l^“ n ',t Ga ' ° Ct ' 26 ' 19M ' Dear Professor—Just s?ve n weeks from the dev t »n. lf r Recnrd r W?!» e rn’nl*r?°"a,m^ “ I ),,fil,lon with the Cred- It Kecorn, 14*& hmplr* bUitvllntT anti I pinprlpnpA difficulty In getting out the l lake pleasure In reconimendl n /charter Shorthsnd sort Bagwell's Business College * ha ler 8horthand and Very respectfully yoqrs, (MISSi ’EDITH LITTLE. Fourteenth Judicial District Court n Markvllie. La.. October 18. 1906. Mr. J. O. Bagwell, ^tlan’a, Ga.: * Dear Sir—I have been using Chartler Shorthand for c ' JU , rt work almost n year, and find that It meets .requirement I have taken testimony side by ' d f " th er systems, and In each Instance met with less difficulty in reading my notes. It Is easy to learn, easy to write and eaay tA read. Very truly yours, M, A. ST. ROMA IN. - ,, _ Atlanta, Ga. November 10, 1906. To n horn It May Concern; * ta ‘e that 1 attended Bagwell's J*5* ands eh°c,| of Shorthand fifty-seven ^ I was able (o take dlc- I"! 1 "" 'he ordinary transaction of business, and have been doing so ever since leaving the school In Septem- ” r - JOSEPH H. DONNELL. .... ,, Atlanta, Ga..Oct; 25. 1906. To \\hom It May C oncern: Six «??ilt <, nn'i ah0m ® h,,r!,m nd tn another school about and g*ve It up to atudy f'hnrtler. I consid er Chartler so far auperior that there to jio comparison. Very trulv.