The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1899-03-11
DIXON IRRITATES SOCIETY,".
NEW PREACHER ATTACKS SOME OF
ATLANTIS FOIBLES.

Compared Dancing and Card-PlnY-
ing to Theft. and said lie Would
Not belong to Club for MIL
lion Xear-IIas stirred Up ns
Much Feeling as Did sam Jones.
AtIanta-s Free LibrarS-Ordinance
Against Free shines.
Atlanta. March lO-Rev. A. c. Dixon,
the Brooklyn preacher, who is trying TO
follow in the footsteps of the Rev Tom
Dixon of New York VINO some time ago,
took the front rank among the sensational
pulpit orators of the day, has begun a
crusade in Atlanta against the social
pleasures OF the day.
He is conducting his fight under the aus
piees Of the Bible Conference. which open
ed lis sittings here several days ago.
This morning DR.. Dixon took up the
theater. card parties and round dancing
and in the bnterest language painted them
as vile institutions with which he said
be would not in the slightest b. associat-
ed, for fear Of contamination.
Or. Dixon ridicues the idea of morality
in connection with the sttge or the drama,
bankrupt when they tried to present NOR
al dramas. After a particularly vigorous
denunciation of round dancing and card
playing which he compared with theft,
the Brooklyn divine jumped on the clubs,
saying that he would not belong to one
for million dollars year.
Sam Jones is about the only preacher
NJ
ciety and the ike as the Brooklyn divine
has done without being called down. and
he has succeeded in stirring up so much
feeling by his onslaught that the town is
on the qui vive for the return hot shot
that is sure TO come from society's side as
things progress.
Library Ordinance Signed.
Mayor Woodward has put his official sig
nature TO the ordinance providing for the
acceptance of the offer of Andrew Carne-
gle for the establishment of free public
library and the plans are now complete
The city gives $1,000 a year and the
Young Mems Library donates its present
site and library valued at 100000 This,
with the gift of 100000, will give Atlanta
a handsome and substantial institution of
this kind.
The whole of Mr.. Carnegie's gift will
probably be used in erecting the building
for the new library which viii be on Ma
rietta street a block above the postoffce,
unless a trade of sites should be made and
plans changed
To Abolish Free Shines.
At the next meeting of the City Council,
an ordinance is to be introduced abolish
ing the custom of giving free shoe shines
at the shoe stores.
The dealers have found that this practice
have petitioned for the ordinance in self
protection. As long as one store gives free
shines. the others must do so, hence they
took the cue from the ant-free lunch ordi-
nance which has tickled the saloon men a
good deal, and want the Council TO inter-
vene.
II is a little difficult to see, however.
how the city can prohibit any person from
giving free anything that does not come
under the head of police regulations.
Waterman Cook Killed.
News reached the city to-day of the kill
ing yesterday afternoon of J. b. Cook, a
white Waterman for the Marietta Guano
Company, at Elenwood station, five miles
from the city on the Southern Railway.
Cook was run down by a Southern Rail
way train and ground to atoms beneath
the wheels. He was walking along the
tracks 10 the factory to go on duty. when
struck. The coroner went out to-day and
conducted an Investigation