The Birmingham age-herald., 1911-09-13
ATLANTA MAY GET B|G ENTERPRISE
Georgia's Third District to Have Lively Stir for Con-
 gressional Honor

Atlanta, September 12.-Cspecial .)-Just why the Atlanta papers have let pass one of the biggest industrial stories of the year, is a mystery unless it has been kept out at the instance of the promoters, l and even then the reason for suppression has not been made apparent The Georgia Railway and Power com apny, a concern that proposes to capl- talize itself at s27,0oO.ooo. is applying to the secretary of state for a charter to build an electric railroad and electric power plants, and the application for charter has been published in advertis- l ing form in the newspapers here. But l 1t has been put in agate type on the market page; so far there has been no news story about 1t. AS long as the ad- vertisement has been published however, 1t is difficult to conceive the reason for keeping it out of the news columns. The company proposes to build an in- terurban electric trolley line from Stone Mountain in DeKalb county, through the towns of Clarkston, Decatur, East Lake, i oakhurst. Kirkwood, Atlanta, East Point, College Park and Hopeville with the priv ilege Of extensions. With the exception of the portion of the proposed line between Decatur and Stone Mountain. it proposes to cover territory which is now covered by the Georgia Railway and Electric com pany The application also asks for au- thority 10 construct and operate electric light and power and heating plants, business which the other company is also engaged in.
 Four of the incorporators, Charles Ma gee, J. M. McWhinney, R. Mathison and George A Kingston, live in Toronto. Can ada, and it is said they are furnishing large proportion of the capital for this development. The Atlanta incorporators are Forrest Adair, J. j. Spalding. Alex c. King and F. Marvin Underwood-all, either lawyers or real estate men, who are acting as agents and attorneys for the Canadian capitalists.
 Whether there is anything in 1t or not, the application for charter looks some what like an attack on the existing com pany engaged in the same line.
 Of the proposed capital $15,000000 is to be in common stock. s2Jooo,ooo in per cent cumulative preferred, and $aJ,o0o coo in i per cent non-cumulative second preferred.
 It looks like Georgia's Third district, in- stead Of the Twelfth, is the new district. The fact is the Third district was the only one left without congressman. Con gressman Dudley NJ. Hughes Of the Third was moved into the Twelfth, each of the other congressman was left in his own district, and it is the Third which must qo O1If after a rpprpSentatiEe
 As a consequence there is to be quite a lively little stir down in the Third. The district Is entitled to congressman just as soon as 1t can elect one, and the plan is to have him nominated in the primary which nominstes governor to succeed Hoke Smith, and to have him elected in the election following in January.
 Charles R. Crisp of Americus, son of the late Charles F. Crisp, who was speak CT of the national House under the sec ond Cleveland administration, was the first to announce his candidacy for the position. He is the present parlamen- tarian of Congress. having succeeded Asher Hinds in that position. It is now pretty we'll understood, too. that Commis- sioner of Agriculture T. G. Hudson will be in the race, having lost his opportun-
 ty to run for governor, through the leg islat1veS investigation of his department which was brought about under the Ault resolution.
 Other candidates are J. R. Mercer of Dawson, a brother of State Game War den Jesse Mercer, and J. T. Hill, a well known lawyer of Cordele.
 It has been reported, too, that J. E. Sheppard of Americus, state senator and a strong Hoke Smith leader. would prob- ably be in the race Nothing definite, however. has yet been heard from MT. Sheppard.