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COMMANDER SHAW.
Our city has had the pleasure of a
visit, this week, from General Albert
D. Shaw, the Commander of the Grand
Army of the Republic. General Shaw
came here on a tour of inspection of
the G. A. R. Posts in the South. He
was accompanied by his son, Dr. H.
L. K. Shaw, who has very recently re
turned to America from a three years
stay in England, in attendance on a
course Os medical lectures and clinics,
in Europe, General Shaw some years
ago spent some time in England, as
United States Consul at Man
chester. On last Monday “General
Shaw and his son” came to Atlanta,
and were met by a committee from the
O.M. Mitchell Post of G. A.R. and were
escorted to the Kimball House. In
the afternoon of Monday a party of
veterans of the Blue and of the Gray
went out to view the ground of the
Peachtree Park, where the battle of
the 20th of July, 1864, was fought.
The party consisted of General Shaw,
Dr. 'Shaw, the visitors, Colonel Alex
Mattison, Past Commander of Georgia
and South Carolina department G. A.
R.; Major W. H. Smyth, postmaster;
Captain C. R. Haskins, adjutant G.
A. R.; Captain C. F. Fairbanks, of
revenue department, Captain R. P.
Beecher of American Marble Company;
Ccptnin A. J. Conimerford, Superin
tendent of National Cemetery at Mari
etta; Col. W. A. Hemphill of Atlanta
Constitution and Business Men’s
League, Gen. A. J. West of the
North Georgia. Brigade of United
Confederate Veterans, Judge W. L.
Calhoun, Past-Commander of Atlanta
Camp U. C. V. and Judge Robert L.
Rodgers, Historian of Atlanta CampU.
C.V., and proprietor and editor of Ths
Georgia Record.
On returning, the party were given
a drive through the Piedmont Exposi
tion Park, with which the Gen
eral and Dr. Shaw were very much
pleased. A reception was given
at the Kimball House parlors on Mon
day evening, at which a great many of
our ladies and gentlemen assembled,
to greet the visitors. Gen. West and
Col. Hemphill made speeches of wel
come. General Shaw made an elo
quent response, expressing patriotic
and fraternal sentiments to our com
rades. Dr. Shaw was called, and
made a happy response, in which he
made some merry reference to the dis
tinction he had attained on this south
ern itinerary, being somewhat similar
to the biblical designation or identifi
cation of Simon Peter and “An
drew, Simon Peter’s brother.”
He, the doctor, was much
pleased with the kindness shown to
General Shaw and to himself, as he
had been introduced at all occasions
as “General Shaw’s son.”
Historian Rodgers presented several
documents of history work to General,
Shaw. At the reception when Mrs.
Rodgers and our baby Ruth were pre
sented for introduction to the General
he very tenderly and kindly greeted
Ruth, and said he would present to
her a sac-simile of a medal that was
given to him some time ago by
the citizens of Utica, N. Y. The
medal was received by Ruth,
and will be appreciatively pre
served, so that possibly many
years hence she may hold it and ex
hibit it as a souvenir of an interesting
occasion, with a distinguished citizen
on a visit to our city. As a matter of
her childhood, and in the interest of
future memory and history, we make
this notice of the incident. We will
save the files of The Georgia Record,
and it may be so, that long after we
u’lall have passed away from scenes of
such pleasures on earth, our dear lit
tle girl, Baby Ruth, will be reading
The Record, and be reminded of the
pleasant incidents of her childhood
life. So we make and preserve facts
of history.
On Tuesday morning General Shaw
and “his son” were accompanied by
Captain C. R. Haskins and Judge
Rodgers in a pleasant drive to Fort
McPherson. The general and the doc
tor and their escorts were most kindly
received by Major Kendrick, com
mandant of the post, and Dr. O. J,
Nave, chaplain of the post. Dr. Shaw
visited the hospital there with Dr.
Nave, while the General discussed af
fairs with Major Kendrick. On being
informed about a poor widow of “a
Georgia volunteer” who died in
Cuba in the Spanish-American war,
General Shaw gave to Major Kendrick
five dollars to be given to the desti
tute widow, and promised that on his
return to Washington he would give
personal attention to her applica
tion for pension, to see if he may have
allowance for her without delay.
They visited the mayor of Atlanta
on return.
General Shaw has made a very pleas
ant impression on our citizens, of his
genial courtesy and kindness.
Dr. Shaw, “the general’s son,” is a
very elegant and polite gentleman,
without any of the common frivolity
of “foreign airs,” but in a very digni
fied and pleasant manner bears him
self in true American demeanor of a
polished gentleman.
The general and the doctor left on
4:15 train for Birmingham, Ala., on
Tuesday afternoon.
We send with them our sincere good
will and best wishes.
PENSIONS.
We return our thanks to Colonel
Alex. Mattison for a copy of his ad
dress to his comrades of the G. A. R.
Department of Georgia and South
Carolina, in their recent convention in
this city. The address is a concise
and business-like statement of the
condition of affairs pertinent to the de
partment. It is a fine document, and
we have filed a copy with our other
records of history.
In his address, Col. Mattison has
some interesting remarks and figures
on the subject of pensions, as follows:
“The pension laws, if right, should
be faithfully and honestly administer
ed without technical delay. If wrong,
they should be repealed.
There were on the pension rolls
June 30th, 1899, 991,519. The G. A.
R. numbers 287,918 members. In
this department, Georgia and South
Carolina, there are 5,301 pensioners,
and 502 members of the G. A. B.
There are not to exceed two-thirds of
the members of the G. A. R. iu this
department who receive pensions.
With thousands of do 1J sirs furnished
the commissioner of pensions and a
corps of agents appointed under Com
missioner Wm. Lochren to ferret out
and punish fraud, it is strange so few
few frauds are found or punished.
Why is it that the G. A. R. must
be charged with protecting fraud?
About thirty private bills have been
introduced in the senate and house of
representatives at this session of con
gress from Georgia; so far as my in
vestigations have gone there is not a
G. A. R. member among the thirty.
One of the great curses of the pen
sion rolls are these special acts grant
ing to officers or their widows large
and excessive pensions. I believe the
pension roll should level all, and that
the enlisted man who shouldered the
musket and stood behind the guns, is
entitled to the name consideration that
is shown the generals. Justice to all
and “favoritism to none.”
The G. A. B. asks that equal and
exact justice be done to the Mexican
war veterans, to those who served in
the Indian and the Spanish-American
wars. We court the fullest investiga
tion to the end that the “pension roll”
shall be a “roll of honor,” and that
equal and exact justice shall be meted
out to all.
What we want and urge is that the
pension laws be administered in the
same spirit, for the same patriotic pur
pose, noble and charitable objects for
which they were enacted.
The world never beheld such a glo
rious spectacle as was shown by the
men of both armies at the close of the
great civil war. Returning to their
homes and the peaceful pursuits of
life, side by side, hand iu hand, build
ing up the waste places made desolate
by the ravages of war—as citizens cov
ering the nation with the garments of
peace, progress and prosperity.
To the old Confederate too much
credit and consideration cannot be
shown. No soldiers in war ever faced
a braver or more determined foe.
While me may differ politically, we
are striving to reach the same goal.
All are Americans for America, and all
wish good government.
Both Confederate and Federal should
always be remembered with consider
ate kindness. Their faults should be
condoned; none should be left to the
cold charity of the world or be per
mitted to fill a pauper grave. No
people iu the history of the past has
ever shown a patriotic parallel to the
American soldiers of 1861 to 1865.
DEHOCRACY BY HACHINERY.
“Machinery is Outlined” was a Con
stitution headline yesterday.
The Atlanta Journal and Atlanta
Constitution are giving their readers
some queer, quaint and curious lec
tures now-a-days on the various phases
of what they denominate and arrogate
as democracy. They have different
theories from divergent views, and
each is ready to swear by its own ideas,
and each is engaged in “cussing” the
other and writing each other out of
their party for not having a correct
view of Simon pure Democracy.
We do wonder what sort of a look
ing man it would make to get up a
"stuffed” figure after a model of these
two papers, and both of them
" dailies. ” The Constitution with
its Bryanism-free-silver, general ex
pansion, Cuban, Porto Rican, Ha
waian-Philippine annexation, and Buf
falo jubilation, and protective tariff
views, and the Journal with its Cleve
land and Carlisle gold standard, free
trade, anti-imperial views, would make
a sight to behold if they could mould
a man in such fashion. The devil
himself would look at it and wonder
what it was. Yet these two papers,
both daily, here in the great city of
Atlanta, are giving readers such stuff,
and pretending to set up rules for
honest and intelligent men as to
what such men shall believe and
what they shall do, in order to be
classed and counted as Democrats.
Such bluffing chicanery is simply
abominable. In such a muddle of the
sinister managers of pretending and
assuming leadership, the intelligent
voter is disposed to act as an indepen
dent factor in politics and will think
for himself and act and vote as he may
decide and choosfe for himself, and let
the machinery Ls such abominable
stuff alone. Hdnest, intelligent men
cannot consistently follow these
tiro papers a.i Democrats. They
are ridiculous] as pretenses of
leadership. Auy sensible man
who desires to tye a good and true
Democrat cannot be good and true by
“trekking” with these two Atlanta
papers, both dailies, The Journal and
The Constitution.
The intelligent voter can only have
the alternative, to “keep iu the mid
dle of the road” or “take to the
woods.”
DRUGS IN CIVIL WAR.
We respectfully tender our sincere
thanks to Dr. Joseph Jacobs, of this
city, for a copy of his pamphlet, giv
ing a very graphic account of “Some of
the Drug Conditions During the War
Betw-een the Slates.” Dr. Jacobs has
performed a great work of historic in
terest and value upon the matter of
medical supplies in the Southern
States during the existence of the
Confederacy. It is a fine presenta
tion of the condition of our people,
and our hospitals, aud our army of
brave soldiers in the field, as to our
resources for our medicines and sur
gery. It is a fine contribution to our
history of that period, of living in and
by our own resources, and it is good
to preserve ai a r icord of melical his
tory of the times of our Civil War.
We have filed a copy for future refer
ence with our records of history.
PRINTERS’ MISTAKES.
In our recent article “Expan
sion” we had in our copy man
uscript the “doctrine of divinity,”
where the intelligent compostor put
it “doctor of divinity.”
In.our issue of last week we wrote
of the reception of the Ladies Auxili
ary of Mitchell Post G. A. R., aud
we said that about 11 o’clock all went
home as happy as a "reunion.” The
smart compositor seems to have taken
an idea that by the mention of the
hour 11, that our happy mood was
from the “spirit" of the occasion, so he
printed that all went home as happy as
a "reumoice." It seems to us that the
“happy spirit” must have been in the
printer. All newspapers must have
to contend with errors of typos some
times. .
THE VETERANS’ LEAGUE
Is progressing finely, and is getting in
good conditiou for campaign work
this year. The veterans propose to
have some "part in the political
discussions and divisions in the ensu
ing elections. Veterans and their sons
will co-operate in voting.
ATLANTA CAMP, U. C. V.
will hold regular meeting on next
Monday night, in the offices of the
comptroller general, in the capital.
WIFE MUST PAT EXPENSES.
Atlanta Jury Decider a Unique Case
Arising; From C. H. J. Taylor*® Death.
It was decided by a jury in the sec
ond diviaion of the Atlants city court
Wednesday afternoon that a wife is re
sponsible for the burial expenses of
her husband.
Julia A. Taylor had been sued by
Carrie E. Young for $130.25, the
amount which Carrie had spent as bu
rial expenses for the late Charles H.
J, Taylor, the well known negro who
died in Atlanta last May. When Tay
lor died it was claimed that at the re
quest of his wife the remains were
taken to Baltimore, her place of resi
dence, for burial. Carrie Young and
Bishop H. M. Turner accompanied the
body to Baltimore, and the expenses
of their trip was included in the bill
which was presented to the wife.
Julia Taylor denied that she was re
sponsible for her husband’s burial ex
penses, claiming that she could not be
made to assume her husband’s debts.
Bishop H. M. Turner, who has re
covered from his recent stroke of pa
ralysis sufficiently to be out again, was
one of the witnesses for the plaintiff.
He told of his making the trip to Bal
timore to see Taylor buried.
"Taylor was a good man,” said the
bishop, “and I knew but one thing
wrong with him. He was a Demo
crat.”
The jury was out but a short time
when a verdict was returned in favor
of the plaintiff.
CIGAR MAKERS STRIKE
Over Two Thousand Employe® of th<
Krebs Bertheim & Schiffer Co. Quit.
About 2,300 cigar makers, of which
number nearly 800 are girls, employed
by the firm of Krebs, Bertheim A
Schiffer at New York are on a strike.
Although the strike was declared to b«
the cause of an alleged shortage of
stock, the strikers have asked for an
increase of wages running from 15 to
20 per cent and that the store go un
der the control of the union.
Crosier to San Diego.
The United States Crusier Philadel
phia has sailed from San Francisco for
San Diego.
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As Administrator, Executor, Guardian, Trustee,
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Or Any jLost Relative Or Missing Heir To Find,
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Any Past Due Mortgages To Be Foreclosed,
Any Soit cf Liens, Judgments, Or Attachments,
Or Any Affidavit Or Depositions To Be Taken,
Or Wish To Obtain Any Charter For Corporation,
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Do Not Wait.—Delays Are Dangerous.
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And Let Me “ Go For ” The Other Fellow.
Cail At Office Ard Confer Personally,
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Enclose Stamp For Reply, And Address
ROBERT L. RODGERS,
Attorney And Counselor At Law,
And Commercial Notary Public,
Office: 721 Austell Building.
Atlanta, Fulton County, Georgia.
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AWi CAMP,
Confederate Veterans.
Only a Few Copies Left.
Every Veteran, and every eon and
daughter of Veterans, ought to have
one copy of this History. In a few
more years you will waut it, and then
can’t get it. Buy it now aud learn of
an organization that is fast passing
away from your view. History of the
Fulton County Aseooiation of Veter
ans, personal and regimental sketches,
minutes of the meetings, etc.
Price is only one dollar.
Robeiit L. Rodgbbs,
Historian of Atlanta Camp,
721 Austell Building,
Atlanta, Georgia.
INITIAL STEPS
TO END WAR
Our Good Offices are Being
Secretly Sought by Kruger.
PROPOSITION A DELICATE ONE
Negotiations are Being Carried On
Through Our Representative
at Pretoria.
A Washington special saye: There
is reason to believe that the United
States government is using its good
offices to restore peace between Great
Britain and the South African Re
publics.
Presidents Kruger and Steyn have
appealed to this government, asking
that it act as intermediary to the end
that peace in South Africa may be se
cured. That appeal was sent to the
president through the American rep
resentative at Pretcria, Adelbert Hay,
and the understanding here is that
Ambassador Choate has already laid
the appeal before the British foreign
office. So far as is known, no reply has
yet reached Washington.
Great Britain’s answer to such sug
gestions on our part will in all likeli
hood be of the same nature as Presi
dent McKinley’s diplomatic reply to
the suggestions of the ambassadors,
headed by Lord Pauncefote, upon the
occasion of that historic visit to the
white house during the progress of the
war with Spain, when the president
reminded the ambassadors that this
country was not forgetting its duty to
humanity. The president’s reply, it
will be recalled, was exceedingly di
plomatic, but it meant that the matter
we then had in hand would be dis
posed of in our own way and without
the assistance or the interference of
anybody else.
Iu all probability such will be the
reply—in effect—of the British for
eign office to this suggestion of the
American ambassador. There w’ill be
nothing offensive in the reply, nor is
there anything offensive in the action
of this government in acting as the
agent through which the request of
the South African government is con
veyed to England. This is not at all
the same thing as the voluntary offer
of mediation coming from this govern
ment. Such an offer would mean in
truding upon a neighbor’s affairs
where we had no business to intrude,,
and would be considered by England
as offensive and unfriendly.
President McKinley has all the time
taken the position that no such step
would be taken—that there would be
no offer of mediation unless the re
quest came from both governments.
This action in carrying the request of
the weaker party to the death struggle
in Africa to the stronger is on an en
tirely different plane, however, and
will give no offense.
It can be stated on authority, in
this connection, that so far as this
government is concerned there will be
no concert of powers in any represen
tations made to Great Britain. If
powers are discussing among
themselves whether they should join
and tell England to quit, they must
count the United States out. This
government will take no part in any
such step any more than it would vol
untarily step in and independently in
form England that she must quit.
A cable dispatch from the Hague
says: It is learned from a reliable
source that President Kruger, through
the consuls at Pretoria, has appealed
for the intervention of the great pow
ers in the Transvaal war and has also
appealed to the governments of Bel
gium, Holland and Switzerland.
IS BUBONIC PLAGUE.
Cane In Chinatown In San Francisco
Show® That Scourge Ila® Reached U®.
A Washington special says: The
marine hospital service dispatches
Monday night confirm the diagnosis
of the recent case in Chinatown in
San Francisco as bubonic plague.
Inoculation iu rats and a monkey
demonstrate that it is a genuine plague
case.
IRON MOLDERS GET ADVANCE.
Wages Will Be liaised Fifteen Per Cent
Oyer the Seale of
As a result of a conference at Atlan
ta, Ga., the representatives of the
Stove Founders’ National Defense As
sociation and delegates from the Iron
Molders’ Union of North America a
general advance in the wage scale of
iron molders of 15 per cent over the
wage scale of 1898 has been decided
upon.
Public Libraries For Manila.
Senators McMillin and Penrose in
troduced bills in the senate Thursday
providing for the opening of libraries
in Manila for the benefit of Americans
there.