The Birmingham age-herald., 1911-01-16
ATLANTA CITIZENS FIGHT FOR OWL CARS Matter Has Been Taken to the
 Railroad Commission ALUMNI CLUBS FORMED Graduates of Georgia Tech Are Striving to Keep Up College Spirit-Grove
 of Pecan Trees Is Set Out
 at College Campus
ALUMNI CLUBS FORMED

I
 lanta's all-nighters, both occasional and
 regular, are tired of being compelled
 either to pay exorbitant cab fare or foot
 it home after midnight, so they are going
 before the railroad commission on Feb
 ruary and try to persuade that body
 that the proper thing to do is to order the Georgia Railway and Electric com l pany to run car on each of it's main lines from the center of the city at least | til the regular morning schedules are re- stunned. | Strangely enough the all-nighters did not | themselves carry their complaint directly to the railroad commission; they agita- | lated it in the newspapers, which the members of the commission read and reached the conclusion that, Here's something doing; let's look into this"
 Accordingly an order was issued direct ing the street railway company to show | cause before 1t on February ? why it should not be required to maintain It's | service all night-that is sufficient service after midnight to meet the re- | quirements.
 | Collaterally, other improvements in the companys service are being demanded | in order to relieve the congestion on cer- tain lines during rush hours. | But it was the night owls desire for a chance to get home in the we sma' hours | that brought the fhole matter to a head, and now the various improvement clubs of which there is one located in each ward for the purpose of looking after the interests of that particular sec | ton, are going over the street car situ- | ation in their respective bailiwicks with view to telling the commission just what they want
 One ward that has 10-minute cars at the dinner hour wants them run every five minutes at that time. and so it goes. It will be a crowded courtroom when the commission undertakes to find out what all the Atlanta people want in the way of street car service.
 Tech Alumni Form Clubs "ExTech" clubs are to be organized shortly in Savannah. Macon, Augusta and other cities of the state. if plans now In contemplation can be carried out. Some of the Georgia cities can furnish quite respectable membership for Tech Alumni clubs, judging blythe numbers they have furnished to the institution. So much are the officers of the institu- ton interested in this movement that 1t Is stated President K. G. Matheson will take personal charge of it when the time | is ripe, visiting the various points and assisting in the organization of alumni clubs.
 | It has been suggested that these or ganization be formed in advance of the state tour of the Tech Glee club, but the question is whether 1t can be undertaken at so early a date.
 | Outside of Atlanta 1t is probable Sa- vannah could furnish about the largest membership of an 'ex-Tech" club of any city in the state There are now B Sa- vannah boys in the institution, and the number sent by Savannah increases every year.
 The organization of such clubs is prac- tjcally out of the question while an in- stitution is young, but Tech has gotten along far enough in years now to under
 
 large number of graduates, many of whom are living and prospering In their own communities.
 Grove of Pecan Trees A grove of 25 budded pecan trees has just been set out by the students on the campus of the Tech. The trees are tho gift of the Bacon Pecan company of De- Witt, Ga-, and the boys were delighted to add them to the trees on the campus, which are somewhat scarce The trees are expected to bear In four or i've years. l The students are devoting more atten- 1 ton than ever to beautifying the campus. To Inspect Militia | First Lieut.. William H. Clendennin of the Seventeenth infantry, U. S. A., will | inspect the Georgia troops this year on
 behalf of the war department It was | first thought the inspection would be
 made for the war department, the same as last year by Maj Frederick L. l Palmer, U. s. A., retired. now acting in- spector general of Georgia troops. But Adjt. Gen. A. J. Scott thought there | should be some outside views on the situ-
 ation. and accordingly asked the war de- partment to assign special officer for | the purpose.
 When the department first agreed to
 do this 1t decided to make its inspection
 on different dates from those appointed
 by the state for the inspections by Major
 Palmer. Seeing that this would create
 considerable confusion and involve no small trouble in preparing for the two l fr rspections, General Scott induced the war
 department to recede from this position | and order It's inspections on the same
 dates as those fixed by the state inspec-
 tions.
 Accordingly Major Palmer and Lieuten- ant Clendennin will travel together and | make their inspections simultaneously,
 beginning with Company M of the Fifth
 infantry in Atlanta on January 1s | Automobile RegistratiOn
 When the state automobile registration flaw superseded the auto registration laws in the various cities, and a charge of g was made by the state where most of the
 cities had charged only $1 many automo- Tile owners thought the state was double
 taxing them, as 1t were. Not a few of them are still under that impression, believing that they must take out new licenses for 1909 and pay another
 g registration fee.
 l Acting upon this theory many automc- tiIists have waited until 1911. as they did not want to have to pay g for the last two or three monthe of 1910. and then pay s2 more. as soon as the new year be- gins.
 It will be new. therefore, to a great lrany Georgia auto owners that they only
 have to register and pay g one time for each car they own.
 For instance, if a man buys car today, registers 1t and otherwise complies with the law. he may run 1t under the same re egistration and the same g fee from now lintil the end of time, provided 1t will