The times dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1903-1914, 1910-05-14
CONGRATULATIONS TO ATLANTA

one Of the most progressive and
ianta. Georgia. Why, we do not
know because 1t was the most unlike
" youngster we have ever known.
We have attributed its wonderful de-
velopment to the cohesive power OF
It's citizenship. Starting with abso-
lutely nothing. 1t has grown into it's
present magnificent proportions and
its great prosperity. We do not envy
1t in the slightest and we would not
place the least obstacle in the way of
It's continued progress. We do not
like many of the Atlantese methods
We so distrust it's leading that we
never follow. but the fact cannot be
cffaced that the Capital City of Geor-
gia is now regarded everywhere as
typical of the New South, that is to
say. the Commercial South. We try
to look at men and things In a phllo-
sophical way however, and we have
been pleased. therefore. to receive
from an expatriate virginian, now
temporarily residing in Georgia
town. the following picturesque and
interesting letter:
"To the Editor OF The Times-Dispatch;
My attention has been called to
your splendid editorial about Allan
ta-bank cearings. etc, note in n
Saturdays paper that an Atlanta COM
pany, capitalized at si,0O0.oO0 was
placed in the hands of receivers. and
upon the receivers taking possession.
they found only one cigar as visible
assets. Not long ago, these same hot
air papers ran out of news and some
carpenter suggested that half the
town be paved over, making a plaza,
and number OF prominent charita-
bic millionaires said they'd give s1o,-
600 to see 1t done. On the same day,
in the same papers. were news items
stating that at Grady Hospital (the
city hospitaD patients could not be
attended to- the place was crowded;
corridors all full of cots, sick and
wounded all mixed up for want of
space, and the ambulance refused to
some callers because of no place to
put the poor suffering human beings.
Did any charitable, philosophical
millionaire come forward and say he'd
give to help? Well. you couldn't no.
tice it If they did; heard of no one
even offering s4.os. The citizens Of
Atlanta spent. so tho dope sheets
say. $4,000 10 hear lot of Dagoos
sing In Dutch to them in grand opera
protesting taste and aestheticism.
This great big over-grown country
town is wonder. A monkey and a
grind organ will block the streets
with crowd any time.
You see in the papers how real
estate is booming man buys lot
and over night 1t grows 500 per cent.
in value SO they say; that's what
they print They never publish of the
fellow who bought a lot and got
stung and next morning finds it won't
bring half. For Hrst-class, finn
fam. hot-air. confidence crew. see the
ship Atlanta Pirates sharks, of all
styles--hot blast stoves are not in It.
Dear old Richmond Safe sane and
sure. May you never seek to go the
gaits of Marthasvllle. No million
dollar corporation and one cigar for
assets. Dollar for dollar, value re-
ccived. brick and granite; how I love
you. Richmond. n. Is. S.
atlanta, Ga, May TO-
We can understand very well why
IN. X s." should love Richmond, be-
cause Richmond loves everybody, and
"all the world loves lover 1t may
be that he was "stung" In a real es-
tate deal. or that he had a claim
against the -millon-dollar corpor-
alton which suspended operations
with only leftover cigar--probably
it was made in savannah--as visible
assets. But the letter of our CORE
sDondent is bright and breezy, and Is
as good at least as any of the best
work done in the editorial columns Of
any of our Atlanta contemporaries, or
any of the real literary genius ex-
pended upon the proceedings of tho
police courts Of that town. Just the
same, as II nothing had ever hap
pcned, our congratulations to the only
people that we have ever known who
were able to do the great things the
people Of this Georgia town have
done.
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