The morning times., 1895-08-03
POINTS ABOUT PILGRIMS.

The committee OF the Atlanta Chamber Of
Commerce on their return from New York
in the interest of the proposed removal OF
the Southern Railroads home office from
Washington To Atlanta, stopped III The city
over night. The party proceeded to the
ShOreAam, partook of sumptuous repast
after their labors, and then took IN the
city. Mayor Porter King, of Atlanta, d
clean-shavcn, well-built gentl eman of
polished manners and good address, is a
member of the committee. Last evening
he confided TO a Times man that his city
would not rest until it had obtained what
it wanted. The committee called on
President Samuel Spencer, of the Southern
road. and although they were treated with
respect aud attention no definite answer
was obtained.
Capt L. =. Howell, of the Atlanta Con-
stitulon, who was one Of The committee,
was left in New York. II. II. CabauneSs,
of the Atlanta Journal, is at the Shoreham.
The others in the party are u y. Nicholson,
banker, L. c. Sanders. or the lnman cot
ton shipping firm; II c. Stoc6deH, insurance
broker; j E Maddox, president of the
Wholesale Merchants Association; X. NJ.
Farrar, Atlanta Merchants Bank; Stewart
WoodSon, president Chamber Of Commerce;
X. j. SpaluiuE, merchant; J. B. Neal, banker.
g E. thinner and II. C Lindsay, )fZanes-
Vile, O., with their families are at the
Ebbitt House.
James ElvCrSOn, the proprietor of the
Philadelphia Inquirer, does not like to
take his own medicine. When i reporter
asked hlm to talk last night at Wizards
lie became very badly frightened and took
refuge in the dining-room whence he could
not be dislodged. He says lie has fear of
being interviewed ana is mortally afraid
OF talking to reporters.
a very disappointing New Mexican is
] d. Riley, now al the National Hotel,
One would take HIM to be directly from the
Hub II Judgment were to be made from his
manner of talking and his general appear
ance.
He says that the silver mines in his
State are not being worked To such an
extent as they We're before the financial
depression. If silver We're put on an
equality with gold, then New Mexico would
come TO the front i'll a day.
Theodore Holt, jr., Joseph Guile k,
George j. McCaffrey and Edward l.. Lewis,
Of New York, all Of them musicians OF
reputation, are at the Ebbitt House.
The cabmen on the Twelfth street stand
are very much exercised over an article, re-
flecting discIedit on their business, which
appeared a few days ago in another paper
They claim that they do not pick up
suckers"
They are engaged in honest business and
among them are men Of principle and honor
Often have the "cabbics," they say. carried
home drunken husbands to their wives and
children, and although tired, hungry and
wet, they refused to take from the poverty
stricken family the money which the wife
offered from her scanty purse.
A gentleman now stopping at the AIling
ton said that the man VINO drove him
the other night refused TO take advantage
of the fact that he was ignorant ofthe rates
The fellow was ragged and showed evi-
dences of not being oyeIfed, yet he returned
paIt of the dollar bill, saying that n. had
only earned fifty cents. This gentleman
has Travelled much and had experiences with
''cabbcs" i'll the large cities of the world
and he has never met such n gentlemanly set
of hackrnan as those who ply their trade in
the streets of the National Capital.
The Twelfth street and the Metropolitan
Club stands are up in arms over the charges
that they bleed" intoxicated passengers
and they propose to get up paper which
theiI patrons will be asked to sign