The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1910-05-03
BIG SUMS
FOR EDUCATION
Georgia Institutions Will Reap
Great Benefits
PLANS FOR CITY HALL
once Building for a City HalI-One
Person In Atlanta Saw Comet
.Seventy-Five Years Ago

In progress or has been completed in
raising more than 100000 abandonment
funds for educational enterprises in Geor-
gia-the total, to be accurate, is 50, 900
i This includes the 100000 which the Bap-
list denomination is engaged in raising
for secondary educational schools in
Georgia and other states. The other
projects are confined exclusively to this
state, and are as follows: g.
For Emory college, Oxford, Ca $780,
0O0, nearly all of which has been sub
scribed.
For Agnes Scott college. Decatur, Ca.
$4,000, all OF which has been subscribed
and is now being collected.
For Wesleyan Female college, Macon
Ga, $3.50, 900.
For Bessie Tiff college, $250,0O0.
For the Martha Berry school, near
Rome, 100000
For the college at Demorest, 500, 000
Il which has all been subscribed.
For the Baptist college at LAGRANGE
$4,000.
For the Georgia school of technology
$4,000, for a Y. M. C. A. building, of
which $4,000 is to be given by John D.
Rockefeller corItioned upon the addi-
tional $4,000 being given by friends of the
i school,
In addition to these other smaller funds
are being raised here and there over the
state for various educational purposes
and it is probable the special educational
funds of this sort in process of accumula-
ton will run over S2,OO,O00.
Possibly as much more is being raised
or has just been raised for various church
enterprises, and 1t is said there are other
projects in process Of incubation which
will be announced just as soon as 1t is
thought the field for them is clear
City Hall Plans
Atlanta is going to make another try at
getting the old postoffice building for a
city hall.
Another committee, composed of Mayor
Maddox. President F. J. Paxon of the
chamber of commerce, Judge John s.
Gambler, Alderman w. A. Hancock and
Alderman John w. Grant will leave the
city for Washington tomorrow. $
This committee has an engagement 20
/ appear before the appropriations commit
tee of the House to present Atlantas
claim. They have also an engagement
to call on President Taft at the White
House.
The city has given up trying to get the
building for nothing. The government
realizes 1t is valuable property. and de-
spite the fact that Atlanta gave the
ground when 1t was erected, the claim is
not regarded as suffieient-to secure it for
/ Atlanta as an outright gift
/ Nevertheless the city expects to get
a M a
/ that will be remains to be settled. One
| proposition was that Atlanta should pay
i $40 900, about one-flfth the value of the
| property, and the sum which 1t will re-
quire to complete the new postoffice
i building over and above the appropriation
i already made.
/ Mayor Maddox will give dinner at the
New Willard on Monday night compli
mentary to the members of the Georgia
delegation in Congress.
| The committee is a strong one and 1t
proposes to put in a last and forceful
word in behalf of Atlanta's claim.
Saw HaIley's Comet
| There appears to be a tendency to dig
up all the people over the country who
witnessed the last appearance of Hal
ley,s comet some rs years ago
| There Is one Albanian who remembers 1t
distinctly-Dr. r. ]. Massey, who was
Z years old and was living on his fathers
| plantation in middle Georgia at the time
| of the comets last visit In 1895.
+ DR.. Massey was just old enough to ap-
| preciate in a youthful way the conditions
and events attendant upon the visit of
| the comet at that time Coming almost
concurrently, as it did, with the famous
| falling stars of that year, and at time
when heavenly disturbances and strange
| visitors were much more of mystery
than today, he says it produced pro-
found impression, and added to the weight
of superstitious belief that the end of
the world was near at hand.
| Dr. Massey says these superstftions
were not confined to the negroes. nor
even to the apparently ignorant whites.
He tells a story of one of his fathers
neighbors, property and slave owner, who
became angered with his father because
the latter refused to join him in prepar-
ing ascension robes" to be ready for
the approaching Judgment day.
Negroes on the plantation confessed
| everything even to chicken stealing, and
everywhere they might be seen on their
knees praying for forgiveness.
| 1t will be nearly month before Hal
lley's comet appears in it's full brilliance,
but It is the belief of DR.. Massey that
II will not appear anything like as large
or as long-tailed as 1t did IN 1885.
Meeting Of Bankers
CONGRESSMAN Edward vreeland of New
York. author of the Vreeland banking bill.
| passed at the last session of Congress,
will be among the distinguished visitors
who will attend the annual convention OF
the Georgia State Bankers association.
which will meet in Atlanta on June Z
| and 8.
The association represents about $4,000 ;.
0OS in capital and nearly 100000 900 in de-
posits. The convention will be attended
by some 500 Georgia bankers. and 1t Is
expected there will be something like 100
visiting bankers from neighboring south
ern states
/ More than 80 per cent of the state banks
OF Georgia are members of the associa-
tion. and seldom do these banks which
are members fail to send one or more
delegates. This will be the nineteenth
/ annual convention of the organization,
which has grown stronger with each year
Of It's history.
The programme for the meeting has not
vet been definitely arranged, but 1t Is
now in process OF formation. the hope
being to bring here some Of the most
nrorninent men of the country in financial
matters. Effort was made to secure the
nresence Of Senator Aldrich of Rhode
island. and at one time he promised to
make a. visit here sometime this year
Put the developments have been such
that he has been compelled to decline the
invitation
However, the association has tentative