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COUNT THE DOTS. 2 THE DAILY ESTABLISHED ATHENS, GA., 1IIURSDAV MORNING, AUGUST 14, 1902. $5.00 A YEAR. UNION DEPOT CAN BE BUILT. The Railroad Men Are Now Taking an Interest in It and Suggest a Plan by Whicih the Depot Can Be Secured. Railroad Hen Greatly in Favor of New Scheme. How It Can Be Secured. THE SUMMER SCHOOL WILL BE MADE A PERMANENT INSTITUTION HERE. The Atheus Union depot quest-ni si not attracting a< much attention ah that of onr sisti-r city of Atlanta, but the problem in Athens is much easier to be holv d than there. Enough gas of a certain quality han been expended in Athens to build a magnificent depot, hut it lias up to this time gone through wrong pipes. Hcally no d> finite action has ever been taken by the citizens of Athens towards securing the depot, aud consequently, nothing has ever come of the move ment. Voluntarily, the railroad men have begun to take an interest in the depot, and an energetic and iutlaential railway man who is anxious to have the new de pot go up, suggests the following plan . Let either the city council, or a mass mooting of citizens get together aud ap point a committee to hnild the new de pot. Lot that committee get together, ask for sites, select one, have the plan for depot adequate to the needs of the city drawn, get all the options necessary and submit the result of their work to the heads of the difif-rent railways com ing into the city. 4-'he railroads will then get together tjnd carry out the work begun by the citizens of Athens, and the depot will then be bnilt at once. Ifhe gentleman who suhi))itted the proposition to a representative of The Banner says that he has had much ex. perience in the building of onion depots and thxt this is the only way which succeeds. The railways never take the initial steps in such matters for it means pnd expenditure ot m v uey for tpom, but puce that movement has began, and they see that the people mean business, they second any movement of inch na- h Strife.*' ~ Lot the people of Athens for once make a business proposition to the rail ways, and The banner is confident that the depot will be built at once. The people in this city know the need of snch a building ; enongh has been written in Athens papers to bnild sev eral magnificent structures, but never yet has the proposition been treated in a business like way. Low ia the Line to tak. up the matter while Athens is beginning a big build ing boom, and let evaiybody pull for it. ANOTHER MERCHANT WISHES TO COME, NO TRACE OF MR. ASA BOOTH. Friends Here Uneasy as to His Whereabouts. Mr, Asa Boolh, an old citizen of Ath ens, has mysteriously disappeared aud no trace can lie fonudof his wherabouts. He has been in the habit of wander ing about through the couutry near the oity. but would alway-B come back his friends in a few dars. llut this time he has beep away over two months and his friends ore afraid that some harm has come to him The last time he was seen, he was walking in the di rection of Atlanta, aud thinking that he had drifted into the Soldiers Home there, a search was made, bnt there was no record of him even coming thero He has a son in Hinton. West Vir ginia. and he, also, has heard nothing of him in quite awhile. Mr Booth hgs been in very bad health, mentally and physically, for the past few years. Several times he has brought suit against the Clarke County Rnildi-,g and Loan Association, and each nine the case was decided against him He has brooded over his supposed losses and oiher matters until his health became badly broken and it may be that some serious harm has uow porno to. hiu;. GRAND RECENT TO VISIT HERE. Royal Arcanum to Have An Entertainment Next Tuesday. The phenomenal record of the Sum mer School of methods, now in session at the State Normal Sohool mazes a per manent summer school for Athens very probable and almost a certainty. The history of the present summer school is interesting. A few months ago it was announced tliat a summer school of methods would be held at the State Normal Sohool daring the month of August. Soon after ;his announce ment was made inquiries began to pour into the oilice of President Branson from hundreds of Georgia teachers in all sections of the state. Not a dollar had been spent in advertising the sum mer sohool, and np to this time there had been nothing done toward arraug ing for the session. The vast corres pondence was evidence that a large number of teachers who did not go to Knoxville or elsewhere wanted to come to Athens to the summer school. lu ad dition to this many who were going to these summer schools cutslde of the state wauted to come to Athens. Mr Branson fonnd it necessary to have a circular printed to Bend tc those teachers wanting information, as the correspon dence was too large to take op by indi vidual letter. Two thousand copies of a circular were printed ai d sent ont to persons writing for information. Among other things this circular con tained the following paragraph: "Owing to the nnex[«ctedly large number of regular Btndents applying for admission, and our limited dormitory space, only seventy-fire teachers want ing the summer school oourses, and nothing more, can be accommodated in the dormitory. These will be registered in the order of their application. For the Bame reason the session of the Sum mer School has been reduced to two weeks.” Despite this announcement, or warn ing, as it might be termed, more than two hundred Georgia teachers have gathered here and are now in session at the Sum mer School of methods. The membors of the faculty of the Normal School are giving their vacation time to this canse, free of charge. The members of the student body are enjoy ing a course of instruction that is as line as given at any summer school in the South this year, aud at- a modest cost. There are many teacners here who attended the Snmmer School Knoxville, and who say that in many respeots the Ath ens school is superior, and eBpeoially is this true as to the practioe school feature, which has practically been a failure ai the other schools, aud which is one of the most interesting features of the Atheus school. The success of the present suinmci school practically insures a permanent summer school for Atheus. As set out iu an editoral in this issue of The Banner, it will require |3,000 to put the summer school, as a permanent feature, on a solid footing, and the people of Athens should raise this amount without the slightest trouhle. And they will do this. It will mean the presence of one thouH and G orgia teachers for Athens for u period of fonr weeks next SDmnier. NEW CITY HALL TO COST $50,000. Ths Council Committee Will Recommend a Building of This Kind to a Special fleeting of the City Council on Saturday—Bond Election will Probably be Called for September 25th. ATHENS BOY IN THE 27TH. Mr. J. C. Williams Was in the Regiment Attacked. The press dispatches from Manila yes terday tell of the attack by savage M(iro» npon tbe 117th U. S. Infantry near Manilla in which two soldiera were kilhd and many wounded. Mr J. G. Williams, of this city, is a mi uiber of Ot mpany D. of that regi ment. He is the son of Mr. and Mrs. W. D Wil iams, of this city, aud is well known here. No report has been re ceived from him as to whether ho was injured in the fight or not. THE POPULISM STATE HOUSE TICKET. BIG FOUNDRIES CONSOLIDATE; NEW PLANT LARGEST IN CEORCIA The largest business deal made in Thorite for the new plant has not boon The Oconee Council of the Hoyal Ar cannm are preparing to give an elabo rate private entertainment, next Tues day evening. August Hi. The occasion is the visit of Grand lie- gent, F. H. Safiord, of Swainsboro, who comes to visit Oconee Council, and make an address to the members of the Oonncil that evening. After the exercises to which all mem hereof the Loyal Arcanum are especial ly invited, refreshments will be served aud a social evening enjoyed. Athens this yoar was consummated yes terday morning when Mr. Thos. Bailey, representing the Bailey Foundry and Machine Works and Mr. John R. White, representing the Athens Foundry and Machine Works agreed t-o consolidate* the two plants and merge them into the largest machine works in the stato of Georgia. The money Involved in the deal was over $100,000 which represents now two of the best equipped foundries iu the state. Preliminary arrangements fop tho deal have been in progress for some tipie and the trade was di ned yesterday morning. The two plants will be merged to gether at one place and many new im provements added. The new company will be a stock corporation with tbfi owners of the two separate plants as the stockholders of the new concern. Every Day New Citizens are Coming to Athens. Hardly a day passes but that letters (yro received in Athens from merchants gnd residents in other towns who de sire to locate iu Athens. yesterday, Mr. John T. Anderson re ceived an urgent letter from Mr. L - T. Welborn, of Boswell, JUa., asking hliu to procure a store room for him at once. Tho letter statey that Mr. Welborn had made up Iub mind to move to Athens at once aud wanted to settle here before the fall trade opened. The real estate men cannot furnish gnough store loom? and residences to meet the demands cf the people who want to move to Athens aud they say that now is the time to erect many in new buildings Never before was Athens on snch a substantial boom aud everything should be done to encourage now comers to Athens. determined yet, hut will probably be cither at the Bailey Foundry or the At&ens Foundry Mr. Thomas Bailey, the ve««an foun dryjMBptAAggjWt' of ykHPBHMHVHfc sird ability warrant its st.caaat. Mr Bailey has been engaged in the foundry business m Athens for just forty-five consecutive years and his success has been wonderful. No map iu Georgia is more thoroughly familiar with the ma- pique and iron trado than he, and he is possessed of many tine business quali fications. In speaking of the new plant, Mr. Bailey told a Banner representative yes terday that it would be the largest aud finest foundry in Georgia. Both plants are at ppeaeut stocked with tine ma chinny and whou merged together, will make a plant large enough to meet every demand. The remnant of the Populist party in Georgia met at the State capitol iu At lanta on Tuesday and named a ticket for state house officers to oppose the regnlar ticket of the Democratic patty The meeting named Judge J. K Hines, of Atlanta, for Govenor, but he declined the nominal ion and a committee of three Populists has been appointed to saddle the nomination on somebody. Of the 40,876 voices claimed by the Tho prospects for a new city hall for Athens, at a cost of $60,000 are very bright. The committee appointed by the oity council some weeks ago to look Into the advisability of erecting a new building for this purpose will make a report to a special meeting of council, Saturday. It is understood that the committee will recommend the erection of a new city hall at a cost of not more than $50,000 aud that a resolution will be adopted calling for an election for the voters to pass on the question of the issuance of bonds of the Oity of Athens to this amonut It is also understood that the bonds will be four per cent., thirty year bonds of tbe denomination of $100 each. The issuance of the bonds for the new city hall will depend on the approval ot two thirds of the last city election, and it is quite probable that the bonds will be authorized without the slighest diffi culty. With the issuance of bonds to the rmouut of $60,000 for the new city hall a margin of about $80,000 will re main to be issued if an emergenoy should arise, and as about $10,000 in bonds are retired annually, this margin is being constantly incieased. In the event the conncil approves the report to bo made by the city hall oom- mittee Saturday and ihe eleotion car ries the bonds, it is probable that an expert architect will be employed to as sist the oity engineer in drawing plans for the new bnilding, which will be made one of the most beautltnl in this section of the oonntry. The people of Athens are heartily in MEETINGS OF THE DRUGGISTS. Northeast Georgia Asso ciation To Meet Today in Montlcello. MILLEDGE AVENUE IS NOW CLOSED FROM PRINCE TO THE BOULEVARD. A meeting of the Northeast Georgia Ui-tail Druggists Association will be held in Monticello today to transact im portant business of the newly organized association Mr. H. B. l'almer, of this oity is pres ident and Dr. H C. Orr, treasurer. These gentlemen will attend the meet ing today leaving here on the Central train this afternoon. IN HONOR OF HON. J.M. TERRELL. Big Barbecue to be Given by Hon. Hamilton Mc Whorter. DEATH OF MRS. COOPER, Aged Lady Passes Away in Lawrencevilie Tues day Night. nor. Judge Hines, bowevr insisted that ho would not accept the nomina tion. and it was on this acoount that the special committee was named. This committee consists of W. W Wilson, Blon Williams and J. E. Bodenhamer They will probably select a name in place of Judge Hines within afow days. The remainder of the nominated tick et is aa follows ; Secretary of state, B. F. Lee, Upson oounty. State treasurer, J. H. Taylor, Troup county. Comptroller general, W. W. Wilson, Gwinnett ooonty. Attorney general, P. H. Leary, Bw- row county. Commissioner of Agriculture, W. L Peek, Rockdale county School commissioner, S. II. Zellner, Forsyth oounty. Milledge Avenue, one of the most prominent residenoe streets iu Athens, has been dosed from Prince Avenue to the Boulevard. On this particular por tion of the street, instead of an open highway, as formerly, there is now a sign forbidding trespass. The sign has been pnt np by Mrs. F. T. Crane, who owos the property, and the city council will have to take some t.ction on the matter before pedestrians and vehicles oan use this portion of the street again. As is generally known, this portion of the street, which is the propeity of Mrs Crane, has been offered to the oity at $800. At a recent meeting of the city council, the committee that had been appointed by Mayor Rhodes to investi gate the matter of buying the property, whereupon Mrs Crane notified the oity that her proposition would be with drawn, and then the closing of tho street following. It is understood that the oity holds that the street has been opened sufli ciently long for it to become a public highway, or thoroughfare, aud that Mrs. Crane cannot, legally, close tbe street Mrs. Crane holds, on the other bund, so it is said, that tho city has not worked the street as r.quired by law aud that the law will not require that the street remain open, under the circum stinoes The outcome of the contro versy will be watched with considerable interest by many people iu the city, lu I the meautime, however, the street will remain closed, us Mrs. Grane has di- ARBITRATORS MEET IN ATLANTA TODAY, erection ot sue uunamg. The members ot the committee de clined to disoass the report to be made, when seen by a representative of The Banner, although it is understood that the report of $50,000 is intended to in clude all furnishings for the building and put it in shape for occupancy by the city officials without the expenditure of another dollar. A large majority of the people of Athens will agree that the in vestment will not be too large, when it is taken into consideration that the building will be for future, as well as the present generation. It is wise to build well and substantially at this time. The committee has no donbt obtained the senso of the people of the city in the matter, aud their notion will be ap proved by all. MH, SPENCER MAKES A VIGOROUS DENIAL, asked for father time was glinted, I repted. Hon. Hamilton McWhorter, who with his family ia spending the snmmer at Watson Springs near Maxeya, Ga., will have as his gnest this week, Hon. Joseph M. Terrell, the next governor of Georgia and on Saturday the 16th. he will oompfiment him with an old fash toned Georgia barbecue. Invitations to the coe have been re ceived in this city and many Athenians will attend. Mrs. Willis Cooper, of Lawrencevilie, the mother ot Meesrs. J. O. and Walter Oooper, of this city, passed away at her home in the former little city late Tues day night. Her death was nnexpeoted and oame as a severe shock to her many friends. She was a devoted ohristian mother and leaves a large family and scores of friends to monrn her death. The funeral and interment occurred In Lawrencevilie yesterday afternoon. ,^The delusive dots. Mexican Paper Mills "May Combine. M.-xlio City. Aug. 13.—It is in- nmred that the paper mills of this country will form a trust before the end of tin- current year. Some mills arc doing a good business and the con sumption is increasing. The tariff affords the mills a heavy protection. One paper-making company, El Prog ross Industrial, pays 12 per cent iu terost on its mortgage bonds. Paper Manufacturern’ Meet. New York, Aug. 13.—The wall per manufacturers and dealers ara holding their annual meeting here The special objeet is the concluding of contracts for the eomlng years’ business. The meeting will contin uo for some time, and before its con elusion tho subject of forming a new combination of the trade will be dia cussed. Middle Ridye £oal Miners Stiike. Knoxville, Turn.. Aug. 13.—Sixty- five miners employed in the Middle Ridge coal mines near Coal Creek air on a strike because the company re fused to permit an official to withhold ID tier cent of every union miner's wages to be sent to the anthracite coal strikers in Pennsylvania A few days ago a meeting of the union min- Judge J. J. Strickland left yesterday afternoon for Atlanta, where the board of arbitrators who have und a r consider ation the matter of the tax returns of the Southern railway will meet in the ottioe of the railroed commission today to take final action in the matter. The comptroller general has assessed the road in the state neerly $4,600,000 nnre than it was returned for. Strong argu ments were made on both sides aud there is much interest to know what the arbitrators will do. IHE NEGRO MINSTREL HERE MONDAY NIGHT Says the Southern Rail" way Will Continue. A. G. Allen’s Big Original New Or leans Minstrels are billing tbe city to appear here under canvas next Monday night, at the corner of College avenue and Kiver street. Beyond any donbt this is the largest and mcBt widely known Colored Min- , strel Company extant. The manage- ers in the mine was held, at which it j mell t points with pride to the fact that for more than twenty years is said it was decided, but not unani mously. that the union miners at Mid dle Ridge should give 10 per cent oi their wages to the strikers. The re fusal of the company to pay out wages without an order from every minei it has been acknowledged the lead ing Colored Minstol Company be fore the pnblio. With but one ex cep'ion, it is the only colored minstrel caused the differences and the miners company that has ever visited Cuba; walked out. the only colored minBtrel company that has ever visited the Kepnblio of Old Mexico, having played an extended en gagement of three weeks in the City of Mexico alone. There’s dollars in dots. Dots mean dollars. A denial, plain and absolute, of all knowledge of the reported consolida tion of railroads operatiog in the terri tory of the Southern hae been made by President Samuel Spenoer. The South ern has beeu closed linked with these rumors, anil President Spencer has made the following statement: ‘Tho statement that tho Southern Is to become a constituent property of a gigantic railroad combination in the Sooth is absolutely without foundation. The Sonthern is not interested in any merger or oommunity of interest scheme. The bosines< relations of the Southern road at the present time are closer than they have ever been. All the roads are beginning to understand each other and, as a matter of fact, the traffic affaire of the main systems of the South daring the past three or fonr years have been exoeptionly harmonious. “The Southern railway hopes to con tinue its harmonious relations with all competing oompaniee no matter wheth er they are the Louiaville and Nashville, St. Louis and San Francisco, Illinois Centra', Seaboard Air Line or Atlantic Coast Line la my judgement all tbe rumors concerning an amalgation of the roads of the Sonth are mere gossip. They were probably founded in the Louisville and Nashville, Chicago and Eastern Illinois and ’FrUco deals. The Sonthern is not bnying np any proper ties. Neither is it planning to enter in to any consolidations. As a matter of | fact, the Sonthern has finished Its map.”