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THE ATLANTA GEORGIAN.
SATURDAY. DECEMBER 15, MCA
ATLANTA CAN AFFORD
TO GIVE CITY SCHOOLS
APPROPRIATIONASKEDj
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 Arc
Badly Needed.
i Atlntitn's schools will nsk (lie
city fathers for $130,000 with
which to erect three school build
ing*.
Two new schools arc needed to
relieve the eoiificstion which now
prevails in 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 unsnited to the educa
tion of children.
The Georgian, in a recent series
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 chil
dren knew bow bad these condi
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 tight 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.
Li! The articles in The Georgian
KaVe been published in no spirit
of “muck-raking,” no idea of
roasting the city government for
its failttre to provide more liberal
ly for the public schools, hut in a
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.
lint Atlanta has grown—is
growing. The city is growing
faster than has been realized, and
otto of the best proofs of this is
the steadily and rapidly increas
ing number of pupils in the public
Mhools. Not only is tliis shown
in the primary grades, where tiny
toddlers whom the stork brought
to the city begin their “n-b ahs”
and their “twice one is two.” It
is shown in the pupils of higher
grades, brought by their parents
from country and village to swell
the city’a population and the
city’s school, but it is high time
for improvement. The city of
Atlantn 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
the hoard of education without a
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 paying interest
at the rate of $:1,0<k) a year. Tlh*r
bonds need not have been called
in until Jane, mil, five years
■head. To redeem them was a
good stroke of business—but it in
dicates that the city of Atlana is
not hard pushed for money.
Nos-, the school* ore not n'.’khiK for
luxuries. Marble fountains ami rose-
shod desk* are not on their appropria
tion list. All they ask Is more room-
room to teach the children, room to let
the little girls and boys sit at com.
tort»bte deaks. In well lighted, well ven.
tttAted room*.
Look at the figures. See how the
echool* have grown—the attendance,
mind you—not the equipment. That
has not kept pace.
In 1902 the average attendance of the
elty school* was 11.333. In 1903 It was
12,134. In 1904 It had grown to 13.865.
In 1*05 it had reached 13.691. In 1906
the attendance Is 14.361. In 1907 It
will have grown, at the same ratio, to
more than 15.000 pupils In attendance
at the schools each dsy.
Now. Atlanta has Just twenty-three
school buildings for white children,
with six for negroes. In every school
the congestion ha* reached a condition
which must be remedied, and remedied
soon. Before the beginning of the next
session, if new buildings are not erect
ed. It will be far worse.
„ Grades Are Overcrowded. ...... K .
■forty pupils to a grade la considered new buildings.
Did you ever see a modern
newspaper plant when you were
a boy—or a girl, as the case may
bef
Of course you couldu't have
seen n 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 edition of a modern daily
comes from the “news source” to
the street, giving the public the
latest news—the assassination of a
Kuropean monarch or the election
of n constable: a marriage in Now
York’s Four Hundred, or a dog
fight down the street. Perhaps
you 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
are 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 liumnii in
their working, how the pages are
made up and locked, how stereo
types ore made, how plates are
east and sot on the waiting
presses, how with the turning of
an electric switch the presses be
gin to turn and the white paper
(lying swiftly over the rolls comes
out printed and folded—faster
than one could count.
Quests of The Georgian.
For the children of the city school*
nre to be the Ruests of The Georgian In
Its plant, the most modern newspaper
plant In Atlanta. They are to watch
every operation from the time the
“copy” leaves the hands ( of the reporter
Just off the street* through the llni-
types, on the forms, under the steam
table, through the stereotype plant, on
the press. Into the hands of the Impa
tient newsboy outside.
Several day# ago Mr. F. I* Seely,
publisher of The Georgian, extended to
the board of education an Invitation to
send the pupils In the public schools to
visit the plnnt. on Thursday, the next
meeting of the board, the Invitation
wns nccepted, and the pupils of the
seventh and eighth grades of the gram
mar schools nnd ojl the pupils of the
two high schools will be brought by
tnejr teachers to see the plant. It wa#
behoved that the children In the low-r
grades nre too young fully to appre
ciate a visit to the plant or to under
stand the machinery of the various de
partments.
Friday It Childrtn't Day.
Friday was selected as the best day
for the visits of the children, and the
busy hour before press time was con
sidered 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 act 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 city,
where they mny watch at close range
the manifold details of the work. They
will see the stereotypers In their under
ground chamber, casting metal plates
from pasteboard molds. They will
see the paper on the press, see the prens
start and watch the first of the new
edition come flying from the folder to
he sent up the endless chain to the
mailing rooms. Every detail will bo
explained by an expert.
flotnethlng new in education. Isn’t It?
But It Is the kind of education to which
great Instructors are turning nowadays
—practical Illustration. A visitor can
learn more In an hour by seeing a thing
done than In a month from a text-book.
There is nothing which Is closer to the
inan 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 Schools.
Some schools have adopted another
new wrinkle In education. This Is the
rending of a dally paper during a cer
tain hour. Instead of a text-book. I
has been found that It puts the pupil !r
touch with the world of today, give# in
struction not found elsewhere; that it
Impart# n world of general Information
which no text-book can supply.
It would not be safe to Introduce
every dally paper Into the school room,
without carefully expurgating it. Homo
dallies contain article# hardly calculat
ed fur the pure mind.
If the Atlanta schools were to adopt
this system—and It Is not Improbable,
for Atlanta educators are quick
grasp ideas that are good, as well as
now—it is easy to predict which dally
paper would be selected for the dally
reading. The Georgian Is always clean,
free from objectionable matter in new*
columns and advertising—fit 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 dny appointed
by the teachers. They will find some
thing Interesting, something worth re
msinberlng. There Is a charm h
watching |>eople do things; there Is *in
attraction about all skillful work—and
the visitors, old or young, will find ex
pert workmanship at Its best In The
Georgian.
And the Invitation, though extended
specifically to the children of the
schools, Is not limited to them. Tlio
Georgian will he glad to welcome the
general public In its plant, glad to ex
plain all the workings of the depart
ments. There Is no forbidding sign
“Keep Out” on any door In The Geor
gian office. It Is your paper and you
are welcome everywhere.
FOES MAY USE CRISIS
TO PROVOKE CIVIL WAR
Continusd from Pag* On*.
of regretful obsdlsnc* to th* l>«pnl
command—or rnth»r to th* dictation of
the Impulsive Del Val—will b* treated
with especial consideration by th# gov-
srnntent In the event of a resort l>
force. . . ,
t'ardlnal Richard, however, Is not of
this number. _ , ,
What Is likely I* tliat after a period
of saltation the lay Catholic# will Dike
the matter Into tlielr own hand,
and make the formal declaration* of
the Intention to hold public worship
under the law of 1881. The pnimt pro-
hihltlon doe* not extend to the laity.
declarations made by member# of the
laity for services In churches.
The attitude of t'ardlnal Richard,
archlhlahop of Paris, has been repre
sented as favoring and as equally
strongly condemning such declaration.
The Temps give# the 1*xt of on opinion
which shows that t’ardlnal Richard
allows such declarations, although It
may he pointed out that the pope may
upset the cardinal's decision as hs up
set that of Cardinal Lecot at the last
moment.
Is Not a Disobedience.
TJie 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 anarchist state, and that no
claim be made In any way whatever to
CARDINAL RICHARD I88UES
OPINION ON POPE'S ORDER.
Paris. Dec. 15.—Among the many
points tn dispute, about which there
have been statements and denials, re
statements and re-denlal*. I* the ques- ^
tlpn of whether thV pop* authorizes meddle In the pastoral exervlTe"of
llglon or to replace In any point the
hlerarrhlal authority of the church.”
In the present case there hns ap
peared no means of obtaining the go>1
result which Is desired. This means,
therefore, ha# been employed as the
e<de possible expedient. It has been
employed by two citizens because every
citizen can Interest himself on behalf
of public order and these two being
laymen are specifically unaffected by
the papal prohibition, which hus an
ecclesiastical prohibition.
by educational expert# the largest num
ber that can be handled to advantage.
In Atlanta It has been necessary ts
Increase this maximum to sixty In
many Instances. Forty-one grades In
the twenty-three white schools have
the proper number of pupils. Seventy-
five grades have between forty and
fifty pupils. Ninety-two grades have
between fifty and sixty children, hud
dled together In small r«**m#, 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 places unfit for such a purpose. The
light is bad, 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.
The hoard of education needs more
buildings for the accommodation of the
growing schools. It will ask the coun-
cll for a modest sum, $130,000, with
which to erect three schools. Even
this will give but two additional build
ings. for the third must take the place
of the present Marietta Street school,
which Is In a bad location.
This la 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 hoard of
education In Its request for the appro
priation. There can be little doubt thaj
city council will accede to the
request and grant the $130,000 for tha
POLICE MUST PROTECT
SOLDIERS, OR SOLDIERS
WILL NOT AID POLICE
S
I
Occupation Tax De
clared Unconstitu
tional.
Burton Smith Talks
Straight Before
Board.
CLASH AT THEATER
CAUSES TROUBLE
Policemen Who Stopped Mi
litia Are Exonerated
By Board.
In affirming Judge Pendleton, of Ful
ton superior court, In granting an In*
Junction agulnst Comptroller General
Wright to prevent him from collecting
from the Southern Bell Telephone and
Telegraph Company certain taxes, the
occupation tax of Georgia ls deolnred
unconstitutional.
Moreover, the state loses directly
$30,000 and Incidentally a sum that
would probably have amounted to
$150,000. This Is the act of 1902 re
quiring as an occupation tax such a
l>er centum on gross receipts as would,
when added to the ud valorem taxes,
equal 21-2 per cent upon the gross
receipts.
test was made by the comptroller
general In seeking to collect from the
Southern Bell this difference for the
years 1003 and 1904. The telephone
company sought an Injunction on the
ground that the tax was 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 and 1906, amounting to about
930,000. 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, disqualified, set forth the mat
ter clearly:
Not Uniform, It Invalid.
provision In a tax act that per
sons engaged In a given business, if
the revenues derived from their ad va-
lovcm 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 n per centum upon Its gross re
ceipts us will, when added to the ad
valorem taxes, state and county, In
cluding all taxes on franchises, <«qual
to 2 1-2 per centum upon the gross re
ceipts, Is lacking In uniformity and In-
Va »lf n ■(Aiiitn !■ i n nflrt valid and Ini 1 ne P«iniea remaras oi lupwtin
part Invalid, nnd th* ..l>j*ctlonabl* I"’ 1 '-1 ?rowded r *TOom' 1, and ^hT’faces’Vf" 'll*
Xu,"* of c ;r e . c t l ;, d u,; vl . i s«;"u us? « n
Charge, Preferred.
The charge* were preferred ngalnst
Policemen B. M, Brodle and R. J. Wil
liam*. the anldlera having taken th*
number* of tho officer*. A mistake ivna
made In on* of the numbers, however,
and the complainant* aahl Wflllnm*
was not pre**nt. They Identified Offi.
cer Englett a* the policeman who wa*
with Brodle.
The Kotdler* testified that the
policemen Interfered with them and
jeered them, referring tn them a* “tin
soldier*" and characterising their com
manding officer. Captain W. B. Dlsh-
man. as a "fool."
The officer* denied th# charge*, as
serting they merely objected to the sol
dier* going Into the crowded theater
with their gun*, fearing excitement
might result. They said that when the
soldier* left their arm* outalde they
were permitted to go Into tho theaters
and search for their ninn.
"If th* pelic* eemmlulon fail* to
protact stat* militiaman while they ar*
doing duty, I think th* pelle* need ex-
pact no h*lp from them during tim**
of an omorgoncy. And th* police, I am
satiofiod, would certainly b* 'goner*’ in
a serious outbreak without th* aid of
th* ooldioro, unless th* fore* ehould bo
quadrupled. I hardly think you can
obtain eufficisnt appropriation to do
thi*."
CAPTAIN BURTON SMITH,
Adjutant Fifth Georgia.
The Investigation on Friday night by
the police commloslon into the recent
clash between state militiamen and
police at the Bijou theater waa given a
decidedly sensational tinge In an argu
ment by Captain Burton Rmlth, adju
tant of the Fifth regfmnet, infantry, In
defense of the conduct of the soldier*,
who had been oent to the theater to
arrest a member of their company.
Captain Smith 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'nor administer a re
buke and see 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.
Policemen Ar* Uphold.
Following this declaration, the com
mission exonerated two police officers,
against whom charges had been pre
ferred by the militiamen, thus deciding
against tho soldiers.
Whether there will be any further
developments I* a matter of conjec
ture. The tone of the hearing Friday
night Indicated considerable feeling.
During the course of his remarks
Captain Rmlth said
"The*e two soldier* had gone to the
theater under order* from their captain
to nrre*t a member of the company
who wa* under charge* and had been
falling to report for drill, nnd there 1*
no evidence that they created any dis
order. The two policemen In the then-
ter Interfered with them nnd, the sol
dier* say. treated them discourteously."
The pointed remarks of Captain
THE MARCH OF PROCRESS
BELL- MORSE-CHARTIER
THE WORLD’S GREATEST
TIME-SAVERS
Chartler Shorthand, taught at Bag-
wtll Businsts College, 193 Peachtree
street, is as wonderful discovery In the
Held of rapid wrltlpg 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 done Chartler has done—
they have saved time and "time Is
money."
AN AGE OF PROGRESS.
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-leam way of do
ing anything must as surely give way
to the swift, sure, easy-to-learn way
as the old stage coach gave way to the
modem passenger train. R Is the cli
max of folly to cling tn the old Just
because It "answered the purpose.”
8WEEPING 8UCCESS IN ATLANTA.
still being accomplished by Bagwell
Business College have overwhelmingly
convinced even Its competitors of the
superlative merltH of Chartler short
hand. Those who have been loudest In
their denunciations dare not enter a
contest on any term* which will dem
onstrate to the public the relative
merits of Chartler and Graham short
hand.
OUT8TRIP OLD 8CHOOL.
Bagwell Business Cnllego hns pre
pared and placed In positions a greater
number of competent stenographers
since June 1 than the "Big School” on
the viaduct, which claim* 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 week’s study.
The college will furnloh 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 Bill No contractions! No omis
sion of votvels or consonants! No long
and short vowel distinctions! No dots
and dashes! No thousands of word
signs! None of the things that have
heretofore made the study of shori-
hnnd almost a hopeless task In nine
cases out of ten!
THE PROOF OFFERED.
Chartler Shorthand Is simpler, swift
er, clearer, sounder and far away bet.
ter than any other system the world
has ever known. Bagwell Business
College guarantee* thla and Is readv to
prove It. The College offers a free
scholarship to any one making the in
vestigation If It cannot produce four-
weeks pupils who can write on the
blackboard any ordinary business letter
at tho rate of fifty words per minute
and read it back without an error, a
tree scholarship will also be give*
If It can be shown that any school
teaching any old system of shorthand
will make the *amc offer.
INVESTIGATE.
It will cost nothing to Investigate
If you can learn Chartler shorthand
In half the time and at half the expense
required to master any other system
nnd nt the same time make a better
stenographer, It Is certainly worthv of
consideration. You incur no risk If you
study Chartler shorthand at Bagwell *
Business College.
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BAGWELL'S BU8INES8 COLLEGE,
1D8 Peachtree 8t.,'Atlant*.
lie stricken out nnd effect given to the
legislative Intent, the whole statute
must fall."
Inasmuch ns the supreme court
practically declares the whole act un
constitutional. It will be neccssnry tor
the next legislature to pass a new
act, removing the difficulties pointed
out. In Its opinion the court says:
"It may be said that that part of the
act providing that the ad valorem shall
be deducted from the gross receipts
tax, In determining the amount of oc
cupation tax, should be eliminated from
the act If this renders Ihe act Invalid
for the want of uniformity."
BAIL is SECURED
BY MBS, BIRDSONG
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 realising the Impossibil
ity of carrying out th* measures
threatened against the clergy.
Meanwhile the Vatican, unperturbed,
attend* to the compilation of n note of
protest against the violation of the
nunciature's archives, which will be
delivered to the ambassadors here and
sent to the apostolic delegates abroad.
To Aid French Clergy.
Ths Vatican Intends to extend every
help to the Frenfh clergy and students
expelled from seminaries. They will
continue their studies In the college*
here at the pope's expense and financial
help will be extended to needy iiarlsh
priest* In France.
The attitude of American Catholic*.
«* expressed In the me**arcs of sym
pathy, la highly appreciated by
Special to The (irorglon.
Haxlehurat, Miss., Dec. 15.—Judge
Miller yesterdny denied a new trial to
Mrs. Angle Birdsong and passed a sen
tence of five years In the penltentlary
tor the killing of Dr. Butler. Notice
was given of an appeal to the supreme
curt.
Counsel for Mrs. Birdsong made ap
plication for ball, which wa* granted
In the sum of 410,000. Major Fox,
father or Mrs. Birdsong; A. Q. May, of
Jackson, and other friends of the wom
an signed the bond.
The defendant was taken to court
lying upon a col. Moaning with pain
and fever, and nt times nearly delir
ious, she listened for an hour and a
quarter to her counsel's arguments for
a new trial. She was allowed to hear
the sentence without standing. A
striking feature of this scene was the
fact Him the leading argument for
Mrs. Birdsong was mails by a lawyer,
himself so III that he reclined In an In
valid's rhalr while addressing the court.
Mrs. Ulrdson shot and killed Dr.
Thomas Butler, at Montlcello, Ml*#.,
November 36, 1905. and several day*
ago was convicted of manslaughter.
Since that lime 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
Tablets. Druggists refund money If It
falls to cure. E. W. GROVE'S signa
ture oa each box. 25c.
pope, who remarked that "the voice of
the m->st distant Catholics reached me
first."
Heart of America Consol**.
Commenting upon the message sent
by Archbishop Farley, of New York, he
said:
"It, Is the heart of America thst con
soles us. The largest center of
Catholicism I# In the United States."
In u statement Issued from the Vati
can It Is declared:
To Drive Out Molarlo
And Build Up tho System
Take the Old Standard GROVE'S
TA8TELK8S CHILL TONIC. You
know what you are taking." Th*
formula Is plainly printed on every bot
tle. showing It Is simply Quinine and
Iron In a tasteless form. The Quinine
drives out the malaria and tha Iron
builds up the system. Sold by oil
dealers for 27 years. Price 60 cents.
IS KILLED WHILE
PLAYING IN CM
News haa been received In Atlanta of
the tragic death Friday afternoon at
Montgomery, of Charles Ball Strat
ford. the only child of Mr*. Philippa
Ball Stratford and of the !at* Mr.
Edwin Stratford, of that city, *bd
grandson of the late Colonel Charles P.
Ball, who had many friends In Atlanta
and who previous to his death, two
years ago, wo* one of Jhe prominent
railroad managers of the South.
Young Stratford was 13 years of age.
a most promising and lovable boy, and
of unusually bright intellect.
His death was caused by a fall of
dirt In a rave, built by himself and
several of his playmates. In the grounds
of his grandmother, Mrs. Charles P.
Ball, at Montgomery.
Major and Mr*. George C. Ball left
Saturday afternoon for Montgomery
to attend the funeral services of their
young nephew.
THE EXPERIENCE OF OTHERS.
Prof. J. o. Bagwell, AtlantaToi G “’ N ° V * mb * r »' 1906 '
Dear Sir After a three-months* course In your Book
keeping Department I have accepted a position at $50 00
per month with the Muillnax Grocery Co , this c iv
which you secured for me. As far as I can tell, my work
Is giving entire satisfaction. ’ J orK
Very sincerely. EUGENE G. MOZLEY.
To .he Public: Ga.. Nov. 3. 1906.
After having studied Graham Shorthand for several
months, I took a position aiiq held j t foc . one year. I
soon found that I was unable to take dictation rapidly
enough to hold a flrst-cla»s p„,itlon, so I decided to
take up the Chartler. Afte r one month I wa* able to do
better work with the Chartler system than I had. over
the change. 1 ' 0 ^Youra tr^ *'“ d ,ht “ 1 ™ d «
BERTHA C. VERDERY.
Auburn, Ga., Oct. 16, 1906.
Professor J. O. Bagwell. Atlanta, Oa.
Dear Sir—I believe that you hnvc tha best school In
Georgia, nnd will always recommend It every chance I
? ;et. Chartler Shorthand li all and more than you claim
or It. After I had been In school hardly three months
1 accepted a position nt $60 per moath.
Sincerely yours,
J. S. RAINEY.
„ . . _ _ „ . Wrightavllli, Ga.
Prof. J. O. Bagwell, Atlanta, Ga.
Dear Sir—This Is to certify that I was In your school
for only two months and eight days, and during that
time 1 was piepared to accept and to hold a position
ns bookkeeper and stenographer with n large -hardware
store In my town.
• Very truly yours,
G. C. COX.
Prof. J. O. Bagwell. Atlanta, Qa.
Dear Sir—I urn well pleased with the result* I have
obtained after spending ubo u t threo months In your
college studying bookkeeping. , nni nt pr ^„ nt raMhlG1 .
of the Bank of Stark, Fin., and It ha* been only one
month since 1 left your school. *
Very cordially yours.
C. D. STIUPLINO.
Judge Nowman in Rom*.
Judge William T. Newman was In
Rome Saturday for the purpose of hold-
"Thc holy see Is not oppooed to the | Ing court In that circuit. No motion
"H| - — - the law, but was heard Saturday In the
making of plana under the law. but I was heard Saturday In the Federal
takes exception to the whole spirit of (court In Atlanta because of the absence
the circular Issued by Minister of Pub- of the Judge. All motions and demur-
Ihe lie Worship Brland." , rers were postponed no* wee*
, Tlfton. Oa., Oct. 25, 1906.
Professor J. O. Bagwell. Atlanta, Oa.
Dear Sir—I studied the PI'.man system nbnut three
months, but my progren* was so mIow and discourag
ing I was Induced to enter your college to take up the
Chartler system. The work was delightful from the
first day I began, nnd after only five weeks' study I nm
able to take about 100 words per minute and transcribe
my notes without difficulty.
Very respectfully,
(MISS) KSTELE McMILLIAN.
Atlanta, Ga., Oct. 26, 1906.
To Whom It May Concern: .
I am satisfied that Chartter’s Is the easiest and the
best shorthand system In existence. After only nine
weeks' study 1 was nble to accept and hold a heavy
position with the Southern Express Company.
Very respectfully,
- (MISS) ELLA BROWN.
_ „ „ . Atlanta, Ga., Oet. 26. 1966.
To Whom It Mny Concern:
After six weeks' study of chartler Shorthand I can
easily lake dictation at the Cate of one hundred word*
per minute.
I have studied other-systems. h ut nnd that the Char
tler system as taught at Boswell's Business College is
by far superior to them all.
Very respectfully,
(Miss) Maude westbrooke.
_ _ Atlanta, Ga., Oct. 25, 1906.
To 1\ hom It Mny Concern;
Having had some experience W | th the Pltmanic sys-
tem# or ghorthand, I am prepared to nay that the Char-
tier system Is far superior t„ them al , ln of „ m .
pllclty, rapidity and legibility,
J. F. WESTBROOK.
„ . , 4 ..Atlanta. Ga., Oct. 25, 190«.
Professor J. O. Bagwell, Atl nmn (j a
IV.ar Professor-Just *eve n wceKs from the day I en-
tered your college l accepted a position with ths Cred-
*2! „ Empl ™ building, and I experience no
difficulty In getting out the' correspondence. I always
*B\gw P erMe^T.^ d,n * 8h °« h '" d and
Very respectfully you rs.
(MISS) EDITH LITTLE.
Fourteenth Judicial District Court
.. . Markvllle, La., October 18, 1903.
Mr. J. O. Bagwell, Atlnn'u, Ga.:
Dear Sir—I have been using Chartler Shorthand for
court work for almost a year, ami find that It meets
requirement. I have taken testimony side by
sloe with writers of other systems, and In each Instance
met with less difficulty In reading my notes. It Is easy
to learn, easy to write and easy to read.
Very truly yours,
M. A. ST. ROMAIN.
_ .... ' ,, _ Atlantp. Ox, November 19. 1908.
To \\ hom It May Concern:
It gives me pleasure to stnte that I attended Bagwell's
Business t ollegc and School of Shorthand fifty-seven
days, at the end of which period I was able to take dic
tation In the ordlnury transaction of business, and have
been doing so ever since leaving the school In Septem-
•* r JOSEPH H. DONNELL.
2 ~ i. u .. Atlanta, «a.,Oet. 25, 1006.
O To Whom It May Concern:
2 .ii °f»ham Shorthand In another school about
2 — 00,1 gave It up to Study Chartler. I consld-
2 * r tb « rtl « r f ar superior that therf Is no comparison.
Very truly.