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THE -ATLANTA GEORGIAN.
FRIDAY, DECEMBER 28. 1900.
THE ATLANTA GEORGIAN
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By THE GEORGIAN COMPANY,
At 25 West Alabama St.. Atlanta, Ga.
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TUB GEORGIAN prints no unrlran
or objectionable advertising. Neither
does It print whisky or any liquor ads.
■mu ciocinc iigui iiiauia. oi ii now
owns its waterworks. Other cities do
this nod get gas as low ns 60 cents,
with a profit to the city. This should
ta done at once. The Georgian be
lieves that If street railways can be
operated successfully by European
cities. as they are, there Is no good
reason why they cannot be so operated
lore. But we do not believe this can
io done now, and It may be aome years
before we are ready for ao big nu un
dertaking. Still Atlanta abould aet Its
faee lu that direction NOW.
A National Child Labor Law.
8enator Beveridge's bill for the abo
lition of child labor In th4 nation is
likely to excite wide-spread Interest
during the remaluder of the short ses
sion of congress.
The bill provides that no railroad
•ngaged In interstate commerce shall
transport from one state to another
the products of any mine or factory
where children Rre employed. The
sae-limlt, 14, Is the standard already
In most of the states of the Vnlon,
some Southern states among them,
and In Europe as well. It is admitted
that if such a bill Is passed by con
gress and declared constitutional. It
will be effective In the prevention of
the evil of child lalior where there Is
the greatest abuse of the system, In
the mills and In the mines.
President Roosevelt has come out
heartily In favor of the bill and It is
receiving strong support from mem
bers of both parties In congress.
And that Illustrious exemplar of
Democracy. William Jennings Bryan,
has declared hltnRelf In favor of the
measure and has added that the Inter
state commerce clause of the constitu
tion, as he has always contended, nf-
fords the same simple remedy
against the oppression of the trusts.
Of course there will be those who
see In this extension of the functions
of the national government, under
this clause, a violation of the doctrine
of slates rights. But so was the
quarantine bill, autl the rate bill, and
so were the pure food and meat In
spection bills, to ail of which the
South and the Democratic party iib.
seated. The trusts have been quick
to sec the same connection between
this and an anti-trust measure, that
Mr. Bryan has pointed out. And It
happens Just now that the strongest
'advocates of states rights, or at least
the most conspicuous, are the eoriHira-
tlon lawyers. But the Democracy has
had enough of lining up with theae
influences. One half-hearted cam
paign for the presidency with that al
liance waa enough for one generation.
And we predict that the uncorrupt
ed Democracy of the South, feeling
the necesalty of uatlonal protection
against the oppressions of trust and
railroad corporations, which are quick
enough to use the Interstate commerce
provision to evade state-laws, will be
found favoring the full extension of
the rights of the federal government
under that provision of the constitu
tion, while the capitalized East, made
rich by the plunder of the South and
Weat, through the debauching of such
a state as New Jersey with Its un
limited charter grants to corporations,
will be found now contending for the
sacred and Inviolable rights of the
states and pointing out the danger to
our liberties In yielding one Inch to
the ilowers of tho national govern
ment.'
One of the gravest questions for the
nation to consider Is the welfare of Its
future citizenship. The system of
child labor la an Injury to the wel
fare of that citizenship of the future.
And when the sacred rights of the
child are considered, as well as the
light of any state to be protected
against an unfair and Inhuman sys
tem of labor, as allowed by another
state, there will be an insistent de
mand for the suppression of the evil
that will make the Issue one of the
Urest ones before the American peo
ple.
And the debates snd discussions of
the subject will doubtless make such
revelations of Intolerable conditions
as the discussion of the meat Inspec-
of 1892 contained an antl-cblld labor
plank. We believe that Is the last
platform on which we have done any
business. It might be well to try that
plank again.
Perhaps one of the far-reaching re
sults of the discussion of this measure
in congress and Its resistance by the
selflsh Interests, will be that In the
tariff revision discussion, which can
not lie much longer postponed, the ex
ploiters of Infant Industry can hardly
ask the American people to protect
their Infant Industries.
In any discussion of the 'rights of
childhood, the child Is at last bound
to win. We bid an Impressive lesson
of the value of publicity In such a
cause In Georgia. The child labor
evil Is not conflned to the South by
any means. It Is national in extent.
The debates In congress will give na
tional publicity to the evils of the
system. And the result Is Inevitable.
There Is no stronger appeal than
that which helpless childhood makes,
and oned this nation has heard the
cry of Its children It will rage like
the lioness robbed of her whelps and
ruth to their rescue and their protec
tion.
RECORD OF WHAT A YEAR HAS WROUGHT
Notable Events During 1906 in the Principal Lines of Interest
POLITICAL.
OUE FAMILY REUNION.
The first family reunion of The "Georgian folks,” celebrated at the
Kimball house on Thursday night. Is worthy of something pore than cas
ual comment.
In the first place, the number of those engaged In the daily making
and handling of this newspaper, was a surprise to each one connected
with the staff, saving only the publisher, and the bookkeeper who dis
burses the weekly payroll.
There were 106 men numbered among the staff and employees of
The Georgian, and to these were added some twenty or twenty-five ladles
of their families.
There were two notable facts of the evening's assembly: The per
sonnel of the men who make up The Georgian day by day was Impres
sive. Not long since an expert InGeorgla Journalism, after a day spent
In this ofllce, declared that The Georgian had not only the finest equip
ment of any Southern newspaper, but that The Georgian had In all Its de
partments the very pick of the men who work with newspapers In the
South. And we are quite sure that anyone who looked out upon that ad
mirable assembly Thursday night must have been Impressed with the cal
iber and character of the young men who belong to our official family.
No finer or a more representative body of young men could be gathered
In Atlanta or In the state. They were young men of character, of Intelli
gence, line In personal appearance, well dressed, with good manners and
with clear heads and self-respecting minds.
Time was when the printer In this Southern country was a dissipated
and unreliable character whose stay In any ofllce was always a limited
one, and whose habits were scarcely calculated to elevate or dignify his
profession. In this day the men who set the type and run the presses
and the machines and direct the details of printing ofllces, are men of as
high and as solid a character as those who occupy the most responsi
ble positions In the great department stores, or In the flelds and factories
of our Industrial life, and The Georgian was proud In looking out upon
Its staff on Thursday evening to realize the high character represented
by Its young men and Its older men. V
Among the 106 employees of The Georgian present, there was not an
Intemperate man or a drunkard In any department.
Another observation which made this happy eveqlng memorable, was
the fact of perfect unity, and good will which prevailed among all the
members of the family gathered around this hospitable board. There
was not an enmity existing between any two men of the 106 present.
There was not a man who had anything less than kindly feelings toward
every other man, and the fellowship and harmony that existed from first
to last, from the publisher and editor and editorial staff down to the de
livery department of the paper, was a happy and wholesome guarantee of
the effective and united co-operation which has made The Georgian so
speedily a success.
Time was. and In Atlanta, too, when many men felt that a rise In
Journalism was to be accomplished only by cutting the throat of the man
immediately In advance, and that promotion was only to be secured by a
preliminary degradation of n co-worker.
That day has gone, or If it exists It certainly has no place In the
office of The Georgian, where the entire staff Is harmonious In each of
Its departments and In nil Its departments with each othor. and where
good wilt and fellowship and fraternity prevails among every individual.
It was this at last which made The Georgian family banquet so hap
py and so enjoyable an affair. As Me. Seely said In his opening speech:
"It was just a getting of the family together and that the family would
be brought together In the same way once a year."
Aud so, without a breath or a ripple to disturb the fellowship, hearti
ness and happiness and joy of the evening, It progressed through its In
formal but charming program from a hospitable and easy beginning to a
hearty and harmonious close.
What was said at the banquet was a discussion of family affairs
and, therefore, does not concorn the public, but It Is no violation of con
fidence to say that the steady growth and wonderful success of this news
paper was the subject of mutual felicitation and Inspired confidence for
the months to come. 1
It was an occasion that made The Georgian family acquainted with
each other, that manifested Its numerical strength and that demonstra
ted the character of Its workers. It Inspired the confidence of each de
partment In every other -nqmiintent. and It re-framed and re-aet for all de
partments those high toeala of character, accuracy, reliability, cleanliness
aud kindliness which have given The Georgian Its currency among the
lieople, and which roust hold us our position to the end.
INDORSING THE GEORGIAN S POSITION.
Box 42a R. F. D. No. 9, Atlanta* Ga.,, Dec. 26, 1906.
Editor Goorgian:
Dear Sir: Your editorial of tho other day in which you show
that the railroad corporations are not entirely to blame for their
present Inability to move freight, etc., was one that will com
mend itself to all fair-minded people.
The people want the truth, all of it, and the paper which pre
sents only one side of a question and that the blackest, very soon
loses the confidence of thoso it is trying to serve and it toon
looked upon as being mere scandal monger.
And it ie this very knowledge that the truth will be spoken,
which gives The Georgian such a great influence amongst its read
ers.
Very often railroads adopt or make rules which are a hard
ship on the people, but they— 1 "the railroads”—do not know of
the extent of the injustice until their attention is called to It. Then
such a paper as The Georgian is of just as much help to the rail
roads as it Is to the people, where they intend to do right.
W. 8. MCINTYRE.
The writer of this comment Is one of the soundest and truest men In
North Georgia. He Is himself a man of the people, and a friend of tho
people. He has shivered more than a single lance against the milled
crest of the corporations, and In another column of this page today we
print from him a clear and impressive comment upon the methods of an
other great corporation.
llut Mr. McIntyre Is a fair, brave, honest citizen, and believes In Jus
tice and consideration.
It Is upon such men as he that The Georgian depends for Indorse
ment of fair, clean policies of justice and fair play. To receive such
approval hi to confirm the conviction of rectitude In our own expressions.
Of course, neither honest men nor honest newspapers can afford to
notice utterances conceived In malignity and expressed In untruth, reck
lessly misstating facts for the purpose of Injuring those whose success
inflames envy.
The appeal of honest publicists Is ever to an honest people. Aijd
the man who discounts either the honesty or intelligence of the people
Is thoughtless or he is deaf and blind.
The people read, and then they sit down and think of what they
read and In the calm reflection of quiet homes, which Is mush better
than some of the more heated opinions of our rushing lives, the people
reach conclusions which are nearly always fair and honest. The people
are no longer the easy prey of demagogues and of tricksters. They don’t
wish to oppress anybody or to hurt anything. They want their rights,
and they will not fail to demand them, but they are not disposed to pull
chestnuts out of the fire either for designing politicians or for starving
and Irresponsible newspapers.
We thank Mr. McIntyre for bis timely and manly comprehension of
The Georgian's motives and its methods.
This paper is always for the people when the people’s interests are
antagonized by the corporations. When the two interests come In con
flict. we always stand for the greatest good for the greatest number. But
we have never falM to give the other side a hearing and to honestly
consider the plea which corporations set up In justification of their de
fects aud In defense of their policies. No other line of conduct would be
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January.
2—JoxiMili Blackburn Is defeated for re*
nomination by the Democratic cancna
for United Htatea aonator from Ken
tucky: Thomas II. Poyuter nominated
in his atend.
6—President Garda declares Ecuador In s
•la to of war.
12— Diplomatic relations between France
nud Venesnela broken.
13— British parliamentary elections begin
ex-l*reniler Balfour loses his seat.
16—International conference on Motwcaii
affairs opens at Algedras, Spain.—
a?? 0 .?.** P® 1 **** the Philippine tariff bill.
L-* Hi llleres elected president of France.
18—First nntionnl convention of any polit
ical party In Husain, that of the Con-
Btitutlounl Democrats, uaaemblea.
26—Capture of Quito by General Alfaro, the
revolutionist, ends the Ecuador revo
lution.
26— House passes the Arizona and New
Mexico statehood bill.—New mutiny
„ breaks out at Vladivostok.
SO—Frederick VIII Is proclaimed king of
Denmark.—Senate panes the consular
reorganization bill.
February.
1—John C. Hut.»* succeeds Adna It. Chaf
fee as JJeutenant general commanding
the army. •
8— House puss<% the Hepburn railroad rate
Idll.
12—H«*iiotp
rate rt
few British parliament opens -with a
»arge Liberal —*—•*-
14—Senate posses „
19—Hungarian iinrllnnieut forcibly dissolved
by the royal commissioner.
21— Senate passes the uineuded Hepburn
pure fowl bill,
22— House passes the Tillman resolution to
Investigate railroads.
March.
1—Dr. Alfonso Morelrn elected president
of Brazil.
6— Russian government promulgates the
law Instituting the diiuui, or iiatlonul
parliament.
7— Bonder ministry defeated In the French
chnmber of deputies, and resigns.— Hlx
passes a resolution to Investi
gate railroads.
18—A'
Islands.
9— Senate passes the statehood bill amend
ed to admit only Oklabomn aud the
Indian Territory aa one state.
10— Harriett begins the fonuatiou of a new
French cabinet.
12—Father Gapou arrested in St. Peters
burg.
18—House passes the senate bill reorganiz
ing the consular service and the amend
ed bill abolishing the army grade of
lieutenant general.
20—Bellamy Storer resigns ns American
nrabaasndor to Austria-Hungary.
24— House substitute for the senate nntl-
hnxlng bill passes the house.—Hnmnr Is
land Pulnjanos, gathered ostensibly to
April.
2— House passes the employers' llab
8—Chicago special election goes In favor
of municipal purchase of street rail
ways, but ngnlnst the municipal opera
tlon of the same.
6—Crisis In the relations between the
Hungarian parliament and crown set
the urwy by General J. Franklin Veil.
May.
2—Resignation of Premier Witte, of Rnt-
sla. accepted; succeeded by Goremykin.
6—Zulus attack a pursuing British column
and lost* sixty, kllleu.
10—First Russian duum assembles.
12—In tbe Tenticsace Democratic prima
ries, Robert I.. Taylor defeats E. W.
Carmack for the senate nomination.
17— General Htoessol, who surrendered Port
Arthur, couvfeted by Russian court mar
tini.
18— Senate passes the railroad rate bill.—
Itnllnn cabinet resigns.
24—Senate passes the free alcohol bill.
15— Korean Insurrection against Japan
breaks out.
26— Russian iJunta rotee lack of confidence
I? Goremykin ministry.
27— Revolutionists Invade Guatemala at four
points.
28— Justice Brown's retirement from the
supreme bench officially announced.—
Ex-Premier Gtoletti accepts the klng'i
commission to form a new Italian cab
1net.—Prince Hobenlohc-SchllUnsfuerat's
Austrian cabinet resigns; Count Condo-
vove summoned to form a new minis-
31—K?ng’ Alfonso of Spain marries Princess
Ena of Rattenberg, who becomes Queen
Victoria; tainb thrown nt the bridal
procession kills and Injures many.
June.
4—Democrats carry Oregon on tbe
ernorablp; Republicans elect other
St*- 1 * Burtou » of re
10— British win n decisive battle against
rebellious Zulus.
11— Colonel Henry A. DuPont elected United
States seuntor from Delaware.
18-Senate agrees to the conference report
on the statehood bills.—House commit-
tbe statehood bJJIs, which go to the
president.
-President signs the statehood bills.
House passes tbe senate resolution re
qulrlng that Panama canal supplies be
bought In the United Sf
•‘President” £akay, ladn
Philippines, surrenders.
19—Meat Inspection bill passed by the
house.
21—King Haakon VII of Norway crowned.
Senate passes tbe Panama lock caual
29— Congress finally passes tbe rate regula
tlon, meut Inspection and pure rood
acts.
30- Congress adjourns.
July.
4—Heir presumptive to the Imperial throne
born to Crown Princess Ceelle of Ger
many.
declares war against Guste-
Admiral Rojestvensky, but convicts
four sultordluate officers engaged In tbe
battle of the Boa of Japan.
11—Salvadorean troops Invade Guatemala,
/ but are defeated In tattle.
13— 1' rench parliament enacta a law restor
ing Alfred Dreyfus to the army; duel
follow* In which Under Secretary' of
State Hnrrnuet Is dangerously wounded
by M. Pugllest-Coutl,
14— Honduras declares w
main.
19— General Stoessel condemned to death
by Russian conrtmnrtlal for surrender
ing Port Arthur.
20— Central American pence treaty algned
on board the United States cruiser Mae
Idebend.
21— Czar dissolves the Russian duuia and
proclaim* martial law In St. Peters-
4»urg city am! province.
22— Stolypln succeeds Goremykin as Rus
sian premier.
23— Russian dtimn. before dissolving, elects
a permanent executive committee.—Pan-
American conference convenes In Itlo
Janeiro, and the Interparliamentary
— jf
Helsingfors, mutinies.
August.
2— Naval mutiny breaks out nt Kronstadt.
Russia.
3— Russian political strike begins.
6—Pulujnne* raid the town of Abuyog,
Leyte Island.
1(M-Shati grants a constitution to Persia.
19— Insurrection breaks out In the Cuban
nrovlnee of plnnr del Illo.
letter to Congresiunn .Tnmes C.
Bryan
September.
4— Vermont Republicans elect Fletcher D.
Proctor governor.
9—Cuban government wins a victory over
„ rebels at Pnlaeloe.
10—Governor Cobb, of Maine, re-elected on
a prohibition platform.
12—New York Independence League noml
nates Henrst for governor.
14—President Roosevelt Informs the Cuban
minister that the civil war must end or
the United States will Intervene; Cuban
__ t, e . pub l!° Pl*<*d ”P°n ft war footing.
26—Vice President Capote and all the Mod
erate Mrty senators and represents
^ tlvea of Cuba resign.
26—New York state Republicans nominate
Hughes for governor; Democrats name
Henrst.
28—President Pslmn resigns nnd the Cu
ban congress falls to nnuie bis sue-
cessor; Culm without n government.
28-PresMenr Roosevelt orders American In
tervention lu Cubs.
30—American marines land In force at Ha
vana; Secretary Taft tnket temporary
charge of the Island government.
Ottobsr.
2—Charles E. Magoon chosen to be pro-
I GOSSIP
fair for a newspaper of the Twentieth Century. As Mr. McIntyre
strongly says, The people wish the truth on both sides so that they can
Judge for themselves, and they take The Georgian because they have
learned to expect In Its columns the truth for both sides.
In the Salutatory which The Georgian made to the world at Its birth
it was distinctly stated that our consistent advocacy of the people should
never lead us to be unfair or unjust to the corporations which it found
necessary to oppose in the popular cause.
When tho editor of this paper was a candidate for the United States
senate, he proclaimed in every speech his firm Intention to be as fair to
the railroads ns he had always been faithful to the people, and In no
phase of recent discussion—even In the heat of the freight rate argu
ment when we were training our heaviest guns on tho discriminations
practiced against the shipper, did we fall to hear and to weigh the defense
of tho other side. A newspaper Is both a judge and an advocate, and to
be judicial it must he fair and openmlnded to the facts.
In the present distressing situation, after battling in the forefront of
those demanding the betterment of railroad transportation, It has been
our pleasure and our privilege to give to the |>eoplo the railroad side
of the question. After having said all we could say to urge the railroads
to Improvement, we have taken pains to ascertain from official sources,
what the railroads were already doing In tho way of remedy, to explain
the difficulties which the railroads were combatting In the effort to rem
edy the situation, and to show where the shippers themselves were
retarding nnd hami>ering the betterment of conditions by their failure
to unload cars consigned to them, and thereby blocking freight yards and
crowding platforms until the railroads had neither cars to send nor space
to unload their freights.
We have shown, as a matter of simple fairness, that the railroads
were multiplying their divisions. Increasing their superintendents, double
tracking their lines in all the most congested sections, buying engines
and cars as fast as shops could furnish them, remodeling their schedules
to conservatism, and holding dally and nightly conferences to consider the
situation and to provide the remedy.
This is what we have done.
We are glad we did It. It has scattered Information among the peo
ple. It has given th? people a fairer view of the situation than they
have had from any other source. It Is well for them to know the facts.
It would have been unfair In us to withhold the facts when we knew
them.
When the time cornea tor us to decide the question as to whether the
railroads have done all they might have done for the people In this emer
gency, and whether they have left undone the things which they should
have done, we shall be in a position to meet that question with an un
biased mind, and to base our advocacy of policy and conduct among the
people, absolutely and unfalteringly upon the straight line of the people’s
interest and the people’s duty.
of « new French cabinet.
23—TIips** cabinet changes announced by
President Roosevelt: George B. Cor-
telyon. secretary of tbe treasury; Vic
tor II. Metcalf, secretary of the
navy; Charles J. Bonaparte, attorney
general: George Von L. Meyer, postuins-
ter general, nud Oscar H. Straus, sec
retary of commerce and In I hir.
3— Liberal government defeated In the
British bouse of lords on nn amendment
to the education bill.
Novsmbsr.
6—In the state eteCtlous, Republicans save
their coutrol of congress by n reduced
majority; they elect heads of tickets
In New York, Pennsylvania. Mnssn-
i-hnsetta, Ohio, Indiana, Illinois, Kan
sas. Nebraska. New Jersey, Wisconsin,
Connecticut, West Virginia, Delaware,
Washington. Wyoming, Utah, Colorado
and California; Democrats curry North
Dakota, Mouth Dakota. Missouri. Rhode
Island, Oklahoma nnd the Houthern
states; Mllver party wins In Nivsda.—
Joint statehood proposition lost. New
Mexico voting for and Arizona against.
*—Mecrctsry of tbe Interior Hitchcock re
signs. being succeeded by James It.
Garfield; Attorney General Moody ap
pointed to the supreme hooch.
►—Prince Albert of Flanders Is officially
declared t uccessor of the kit “
glum as sovereign of Congo
ent* State.
14—President Roosevelt arrives at the Isth
mus of Panama.
19— Office of governor of Panama canal zone
abolished, and Chairman tthonts Is
made the executive head. '
20— American Federation of tabor Indorses
Gompcrt* non-polltlcsl policy.
21— President Roosevelt arrives at Ponce,
Porto Rico.
23—W. J. Ilrynn's resolutions for encourag
ing the merchant marine nnd for better
mail facilities with South America
adopted by the truns-MIssissIppl con
gress.
December.
3— tast session of tho fifty-ninth congress
assembles.
9—Pope commands resistance of tho new
French public worship law.
11— Par**! secretary In Paris arrested and
expelled from France.
12— Senate confirms tho treaty of Algecl-
rns.
13— French law separating church nnd state
goes Into full effect.—German emperor
dissolves tbe relctastng after It had
refuned support for troops In HouthwVst
Africa.
14— In passing the legislative, executive
• and Judicial appropriation bill, tbe
house votes to Increase salaries of vice
president, speaker nnd cabinet mem-
tars, but rejects proposition to ralso
the dismissal of colored
troops.
21-Jnmcs Bryce chosen to succeed
Mortimer Durand as British nmbassador
to Washington.
By CHOLLV KNICKERBOCKER.
Y °J k ,'. °* c - I®*—Notwithstanding
B Jf" amy Storer affair. I fully
believe and am aure the fact Is ecn .
SrSSS of'diplomacy. 6 * 1 * hU ' ba " d ‘ ln
No woman, the London newspapers
aay, has shown auch an even balance
aa Mra. Whitelaw Reid, she U inure
popular than the wife of any ambus-
.aador to the court of St. Jamea
A newspaper, largely recognized a.
the society organ of King Edward
aaya she la particularly gracious to her
own country people, and la sensible
enough to make fewer distinctions
than some other wives have done in
her position. "
Even at Dorchester house, where her
surroundings are almost royal, she Is
able to retain that graciousness of
manner that Is so delightful In Amen-
can women. All the widely different
American aets living in London aunre.
elate this.
Mra. Reid seems to be able to conclll-
ate all classes. She may be the hostess
of the duke one week at West Park a
beautiful country estate, where t'h,
week-ends are passed, and tho follow.
Ing week she will give a charming tea
party to a bevy of American women
who are far below- her In the social
scale, but slnderely appreciative at
such hospitality,
General and Mra. John C. Black are
entertaining a house party of eighteen
in Washington for the wedding of their
daughter. Miss Helene Black, who was
married to Lieutenant .Stephen Abbott
V. 8. A Wednesday afternoon.
Charles P. Proctor, a New York
artist, who has bought the famous
Southwick grove In Middletown, Conn
near the farms of the Vanderbilts, pur-
poses to build a residence there. The
grove contains Ilf acres and has been
the favorite picnic grounds of society
for decades.
The British ambassador and Lady
Durand will leave Washington today
preparatory to sailing tomorrow from
New York for England. The embassv
was abloom with the flowers sent them
by hundreds of friends In social, offi
cial life, who greatly regret their de
parture.
When August Beckard, of Webster
Grove, walked Into the waiting room
of the union station at St. Louis, he
led hie favorite -possum hound, bound
to a chain. While the animal was
sniffing about, a little girl, carrying a
large "Teddy” bear, passed. The dog
pricked up his ears. Then he growled
and backed.
Before Mr. Beckard could under
stand the cause of all this, the dog
lunged at the little girl and her toy.
He pulled his owner along In his fran
tic efforts to reach the bear. The little
girl screamed and waa almost In hys
terics. Beckard held the dog, and she.
with her mother, ran away to another
part of the station.
Where the Georgia Delegation
Live in Washington.
company any right to confiscate my
property In that way? They had not
the excuse that they must get the
freight, for that was paid. Does It not
give the opportunity for graft? Could
there not be collusion between tho ex
press company's employees and the
commission merchant? Why were all
the tags removed from the shipments :o
that no record of sales could be kept?
It could not be possible that all the
tags were torn or rubbed off In transit.
The commission merchant explained
that when perishable freight was re
ceived and not In prime order the bill
of lading waq marked "dump,” and he
was given credit, by the express com
pany. The express company cannot
claim they were turned over to the
commission merchant to protect either
shipper or receiver, for no separate
record Is kept of the sale.
This particular keg of oysters could
not have arrived In Atlanta before
11:40 on Monday morning, yet before
night they were in the hands of the
commission merchant with no means
of Identlflcntlon. They cannot claim
that they would spoil In less than a
day's time, being well Iced and received
during a blizzard.
But you will say the express com
pany Is liable and will pay for the
oysters. Will they? If l-or anyone
else receive a penny for those oysters
In six months' time I will make public
acknowledgment In The Georgian. Two
years ago exactly I received a bucket
of oysters, which showed unmistakable
signs of having been tampered with. I
refused to sign for them until theneent
had examined the bucket. The agent
directed one of the clerks to make the
examination. The clerk admitted the
bucket had been opened, "he thought
by some hungry messenger." He also
measured the contents and found over
half gone. He directed me to enter a
claim, which I did, or rather had the
shippers at the other eml do so. That
*'•« two years ago, and not a penny
8ENATOR3.
Augustus O. Bacon. 1757 Oregon ave-
- nue.
A. S. Clay, the Normandie.
CONGRESSMEN.
W. C. Adamson, the Oxford.
C. L. Bartlett, the Shoreham.
Thomas M. Bell, the Iroquois.
W. G. Brantley, the Chapin.
T. W. Hardwick, the Shoreham.
W. M. Howard, the Bancroft.
Gordon Lee, the Shoreham.
E. B. Lewis, the Metropolitan.
J. W. Overstreet, the Metropolitan.
L. K Livingston, 1916 Blltmore street.
J. M. Griggs, the Metropolitan.
THIS DATE IN HISTORY.
DECEMBER 28.
1832—John C. Calhoun resigned vice-presi
dency of the United State*.
1835—Dade’* massacre by tin* Seminole*.
1851—Perry Belmont, New York financier,
born.
1862—Second attack on Vicksburg.
1889— Charles I proclaimed king of Portugal.
1890— Captain Wallace nnd several soldiers
killed by Sioux Indians (ii South Da
kota.
1S9&— Mrs. Stirling, famous actress (Lady
Gregory), died. Born 1817.
To the Kdltor of The Georgian:
Now, I have a grievance against the
Southern Express Company, and while
It may appear a personal one, still It
affects all shippers or receivers who
may be similarly circumstanced.
As the address below* Indicates, I
live outside the city, and have all ex
press matter simply marked Atlanta,
and. of course, call for the freight. I
have relatives living In Biloxi, Mis*..
ho occasionally send me n bucket of
oysters, never missing a Christmas
time, and this Christmas was no ex-
eptlon. Heretofore I have called nt
the office on Wall street and received
the goods. This Christmas the clerk
at Wall street sent me to the Termi
nal station.
In answer to my Inquiries I was
promptly informed that such a ship
ment—**a bucket of oysters”—had been
received \he day before, but as my
name did not appear In the city direc
tory It had been taken to the F"ulton
market to be sold!
The clerk remembered the package
well; did not even have to refer to his
book.
On my pressing Inquiries as to why
they had been so quickly disposed of.
the only answer I could get was that
they alw ays did-so where there was no
street or number on perishable goods.
Now, those were picked oysters and
I did not care to lose them; so away
to the Fulton market I went. The
man In charge there remembered re
ceiving a bucket of oysters "among
many others," one of w*hlch he was
sure was from Biloxi, owing to the ma
terial of which the bucket was made.
He examined the express Invoices
which came with the buckets, but «ach
was marked no tag. so that no record
could be kept, all trace of any particu
lar shipment was lost after It reached
the Fulton market. Of course the oys
ters were sold, but for how much they
did not know.
Now, Mr. Editor, has the express
has been paid yet. ^
Of course I cannot go to law with
them: I cannot afford It, so that being
poor man I have to pay them freight
for goods they don't carry.
And mine Is not a solitary case, as I
mentioned above, there wus four other
buckets of oysters confiscated that I
saw*, and there Is no telling how much
other perishable stuff given over to the
commission merchant under the plea
that the owner could not be found.
Does It not give that commission mer
chant a great advantage over his com
petitors? That is, If he does not have
to pay too great a rake-off.
Now*. I hope you will publish this,
that many who fell to receive presents
of game, etc., will know the methods
practiced by this corporation, and then
wonder why Bryan should favor gov
ernment ownership of railroads.
Respectfully yours,
B.F.D.No.4. " 8 M'I.VTYRE.
GEORGIANS IN GOTHAM.
New York. Dec. 28.—Here nre some of tli«*
visitors In New York toilny:
ATLANTA-J. W. Holmes, J. I>. H»bK
W. II. I^iwsoii. Jr., It. F. Moore. It. H
Parks, r. a. Swept, H. R. Vnughau.
NEW STEAMBOAT LINE
HAS BEEN INAUGURATED.
gpeelat to The Georgian.
Brunswick, a*., Dec. 28.—The
steamer Attuquln, of the St. Simon*
Trrntft Company, has been leased :o a
steamboat company in Savannah and
wW be put on the run from Savannah
to Rluffton. S. f. The Attaqutn nn*
already gone to Savannah nnd will
start on her n< w run Immediately.
HEROISM OF THE OLD SOLDIER.
In point of diversity of character the
old soldiers In the National Home are
not unlike what they were during the
civil war. Character tends to fixednes*.
Habits nre not easily changed. Among
the members of tho home are msnj
whom any mftn would be glad to know;
and If there are others—as It was In
deed in the civil war, both In the army
and navy—I find It hard to think any
thing unworthy of one who still wear*
the "old blue coat" of the long-ago day*
of tl.e civil war. Time has dealt n<d
altogether kindly with the men In every
respect. Many of them for years had
good homes from which, for one cause
or another, the light has gone oat. in
the hospital one day, I came to the
bedside of a veteran who told me he
was 85 years old.
"Have you a wife?” I Inquired.
He said he had.
"And how old Is she?" # I In^ulreil.
"Eighty-three," was the reply-
"Well," I added. "It Is certainly hi.'
for you to be separated at this time »’»
,,fe *'’
"Yes." he Mid, "but the pen«h*n
money was not enough for us both, an *
so I came here In order that she mum
have It all."—Henry S. Burrage, in rbe
World Today, for January*.
In the Wrong Town.
When ministers exchange they u
ally preach old sermons, but, howeve*-
they generally look over the MSS. care
fully to see If the local points nee
alteration. .
A Somerville preacher many > eu .
ago went to Andovrr to preach «“
neglected this simple precaution. *
his discourse was an allusion to the m-
sane asylum at Somerville, and v
getting for the moment that he
Andover, he said; .
"Sooner than a child of mine eh* •
be subjected to xuch influences. I wo»
be willing-to have him confined In *
der Institution.” „
And the good man pointed -
the Andover theological seminary-
Boston Herald.