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Atlanta Georgian. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1912-1939, 1912-07-15
TWO SEEK soLIcrToasHlp.

BRUNSWICK, GA July Is. Two
candidates are in the field for solicitor
Of The city court Of Brunswick and It
is possible Governor Brown win make
the appointment during The present
week. The candidates are Ernest Dart.
the present Incumbent, and A. n. Cro-
watt
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Forsyth Soldiers CO.
With Fifth Regiment

FORSYTH GA. July 15-Lieuten-
Iant o. y B. Bloodworth. Jr and ten
enlisted men, of Company NJ, Second
Georgia infantry. OF Forsyth. have been
assigned for duty during the coming
encampment at Admission to Company
&c. of the Fifth regiment Lieutenant
Bloodworth and the detail left this aft
ernoon for Atlanta TO join the Atlanta
companies
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10 Ask eoNus ZOE road

SAVANNAH GA. July l5 A spe
cial committee Of the savannah Cham
Der of Commerce viii recommend ia
city council that Savannah donate
$l5o.oQo to the Brinson railroad for the
purpose of securing q direct route to-
The proposed extension from Waynes-
boIo TO Athens
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bath HOUSE JOHN" LEFT
MILLION BY TWO COUSINS

CHICAGO, July 15.-Alderman John
J. Coughlin, Bath House John is now
a millionaire, having inherited that sum
from two wealthy cousins who were re
Gently killed in an automobile accident
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He's Ruptured!

~ ONT take any chance in get
ting that truss. Come to
80 Jacobs Pharmacy, where We
have experts 10 examine the child and
to give you the best professional ad
vice. On the Second Floor OF our
Main store. quiet and apart from the
general business, we have Private
Fitting Rooms with men and women
attendants and every other conven-
fence for your comfort.
Jacobs Pharmacy has the best
equipped Truss Department in the
Southern States We have the most ex
tensive stock of all standard
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Pomeroy and his staff, and including the
40 men and officers of the Governors
Horse Guard. Atlanta will be represented
by nearly 500 Of the pick of her military
men
The hospital corps Of the Fifth, in
command Of Major j. " Duncan and
the band Of ~ pieces will accompany the
Atlantans
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eoIsoN IN MACON WELu

MACON. GA, July 15.-The timely
discovery that poison had been put in
the well of e D. Flowers of Chappell
street. undoubtedly saved members Of
more than a score Of families who pro-
cure their water from this source
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Yes"
well I took contract to fill that hole
for $4,000. A man named Jones had just
got another contract to cut down the
hill for sl50.OO0. and so i charged him
$1,000 to put his hill in my hole. This
gave me clean 100000 without spending
a cent.
1t is said that another man measured
up a part of the Chagres river as. sec
ton of his excavation contract and got
money for II.
do not know as to the truth of these
stories. I only know that IL IS pretty well
established that the first French company
spent something like S265,o0O.ooo within a
space Of ten years, and that the second
company spent five or ten millions more.
Altogether the French spent within
800, ZOO 600 of what 1t will have cost us
when our canal is completed.
The total amount spent by Uncle Sam
will be under S315, 600 600 and In this is
figured the 10000, 900 paid to the French.
For that We got In round numbers about
S2f 100000 worth of disable excavation.
over 5000 0CA worth of Panama rail-
way stock and S2.o,1.00o worth OF maps.
drawings and records. We got s. 0O0, enl
worth of good buildings. s1.0Oo.o09 worth
of lands. 100000 worth of material and
equipment and other items. making up
in the neighborhood of s43.0O0.00o. 1t was
a square deal, and, all told. was one OF
the best of the many made by our great
Uncle Sam. FRANK G. CARPENTER.
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pMs1oN Nor EARFRo11 BNBoA

torches tied to the rafters and near them
a small haystack OF lamp wicks. Along
the side walls We're bins of nails and
screws and carloads Of tool handles.
There We're hogsheads upon hogsheads of
zinc tacks to put on the galvanized roof
ing, and our expert IN charge at that
time estimated that the value of supplies
in that house was at least a quarter of
a million dollars.
At another place ! was shown piles of
copper plates, each as big as the top of
a library table, and tons of copper bars
for the repair of the machinery. There
We're great bales of brass and steel wire
and tons of zinc and lead.
When we took hold of the work we
found here 100 Storehouses and ware
houses full of supplies, and also forty
one parks which contained machinery too
heavy to house under cover. The con-
tents of the buildings and parks We're SO
great that one of the engineers estimated
that if all the machines and stuff could be
leveled down they would have been
enough to cover to the height of your
waist a 5O0-acre farm. l went through
these parks. They were covered with
structural material. Here steel rails were
laid up like cord wood, and there sheets
Of zinc and plates of iron were piled one
upon another.
At Empire and Colon l saw great ma
chine shops. and at Empire the buildings
covered about fifteen acres. Some Of the
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made according to sample. but the model
sent was of wood, and the bolts and
screws came in that form painted black
Needless to say, they were useless.
All along the line of the canal are
monuments to the fortunes made by
the building contractors. Take the con-
crete work. 1t was paid for by the
cubic yard, and little two and four room
cottages were erected on costly cement
foundations, while warehouses had great
concrete walls under them. The monu-
ments of these buildings, the wood hav-
ing rOtted away. are still to be seen
all along the line of the canal l count
ed 200 cement posts in one place.
Among the other costly concrete con-
struction was that connected with the
stables of the officials. Here at 4Ancon
they made a bathtub of cement for the
horses. 1t was fifteen feet wide.
seventy-five feet long and four feet in
depth and was connected with the
water supply. The French engineers
had their. racing ponies washed off in
stead of curryfng them.
j remember a pigpen that / saw when
I looked at that horse bath. 1t has
disappeared now, but / was told that
it must have cost at least $4,000 to
make. 1t covered about half an acre
and was rooted with galvanized iron.
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bourg Saint Honore if the opportunity
We're offered him.
As with Loubet so with his successor,
Fallieres- man of simple tastes, his
father a modest functionary and his
grardfath Their a blacksmith. he has never
been entirely at ease at the Elysee. And
now. when his term of office is drawing
to close. he plans to return to his former
modest ways of life, absolutely unaffected
and unspoi1ed by his long acquaintance
with show and glitter. With JOY that
is apparent 70 all who know him. the
French president is looking forward to
his retirement TO six-room apartment
in the Boulevard Saint Germain in a
house which he owns, surrounded. not
by army of attendants such as has
been his custom while in office. but con-
tenting himself with two servants.
cook and a housemaid. He will not even
agree TO have valet. disliking the idea
of having man TO wait on him. In
stead of the pretentiouS carriages and
liveried coachmen and footmen that are
indispensable adjuncts of Office, Falleres
talks of the convenience of the subway
and the motor buses that ply close to
his door.
Fallieres is not averse to making
the fact known that the multiple formal
social functions which are the chief
duties that fall to the lot of French
president are becoming almost unbear-
able and il will be relief when he can
drop out of this arduous hoop of pleas
ure that has no cessation and seek quiet
and peace in a simple little fiat away
from the crowd
Americans are the most adaptable
people in the world and can fill
with equanimity any notch that may be
assigned them. event to the highest Of
flee in the land. but Frenchman trans
planted to another social grade frets and
chafes and has but one dream-to return
to the old life and habits.
F,allieres owes his brilliant destiny first
of all to his exceptional abilities as an
orator. His talents and perfectly up
right character gained for him the presd-
dency of the senate. where his wisdom
and impartiality were clearly revealed.
Like his predecessor, Loubet, he stepped
from that position into the presidency
of the French republic. This sort Of pro-
motion from one high position to another
without excitement or hitch is a proof of
the simple stability and easy working of
Fallieres the people find their own DEM
ocrattc aspirations, simple and free from
violent outburst. nothing about him that
suggests the exaggerated chivalry and
aristocracy Of the rulers OF other times
During all his political career the wine
merchant president has been followed
step by step by his faithful wife, who
also comes from middle-class people
Nine. Fallieres has never been reconciled
to the political life. yet she has repressed
all her distaste, has devotedly aided her
husband and has shared his duties when
ever her presence has been required with
a dignity that has brought them many
friends. Nine. Faliieres is by nature Of
a retiring disposition and of modest
tastes, and when her husband forsakes
the presidential chair she will again take
up her bourg eoisie manner of living sur
rounded by only few intimate friends.
Their SOD, Andre. who Is lawyer. sell
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French shops were found in the jungle.
but the brush and trees were cleared
away and the old machinery used. This
was SO at Bias Matachin, where was I'M
earthed a machine shop which had en-
tirely disappeared 1t was found to cover
about a dozen acres, and to contain a
complete equipment of machine tools. 1t
took about three weeks for our gangs of
men to cut down the jungle, and within
week or SO later the old French ma
chinery was making general repairs of
all kinds on the excavatOrs and drills,
and on the rolling stock Of the trains.
Nevertheless. with all their care as
to accounts and the sprinklng of the
machinery with oil. the graft of the
French can be everywhere seen. Every
thing was done by contract. and the
grafters sent their stuff in by the ton.
In many cases the supplies were fur
nished at SO much per piece. the Of
ficials getting a rake-off. In the base
ment of the administration building at
Panama we found two carloads of the
finest drawing paper in sheets, each the
size of a bedspread. There was more
of that paper than could possibly be
used for dozen canals, but our drafts
men consumed what they needed. In
the same warehouse there were six tons
of steel pens. so rusty that they had to
be shoveled out into the ocean. There
were also bolts made of wood and
painted black, to give the impression
that they were iron or steel These were
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TIE ZAI CAR. Is RkfnEpprp I'M TE IRrNEZ on ItE TRE1

tree forty feet tall was growing. Our
. engineers had to cut a channel forty feet
wide into the dredges and then take them
out and repair them. 1t is wonder tina t
they could have been used at all, but [
am told that they have done excellent
:. work
There were four other ladder dredges
nearby which have been put to use. and
on the Pacific side the hull of a ladder
dredge was raised and prepared for work.
The same is true of excayators of one
kind or another and also of locomotives
and cars. III
material has been used, and some of this
machinery. is still working. Many of the
locomotives left were worth $1,000 and
upward apiece, and there were 267 loco
motive cranes, each of which, if we would
have had to buy them, would have cost
$4,000.
Some of the locomotives were right out
in the jungle. ] remember when l was
here in 1905 i scared a flock of bats from
one of them and was attacked by a
swarm of yellow jackets which had made
their nest inside the boiler of another
Great lizards including iguanas, crawled
about here and there under the car
wheels. and We had to walk carefully for
fear of the snakes. That was near Bohio
on ground that is now covered by the
waters of Gatun lake.
And just here that lake which we are
making by the great dam at Gatun will
be more Or less impregnated with iron
from the French material which will rust
away within its bed. A great deal of the
stuff has been left in the jungle, and l
saw, away off in the trees, a twenty
thousand dollar excavator twice as big as
a threshing machine. up the sides of
which the waters of the lake are slowly
crawling.
There are also scores of steel dump
cars which have been overturned along
the line of the old French canal now a
part OF the lake. In one place there is
a tree big around as good-sized hay
cock which has grown over a steel truck
and carried it up with it. The metal
car is imbedded in the trunk of the tree
The old French company had altogeth-
er over 10000 cars and 5000 iron dumping
wagons. When they gave up the lob
they allowed vast amount of this to go
to waste, and when / first came across
the railroad, which was about fourteen
years ago, after the second French COM
pany had taken hold, there were enough
car wheels to equip trunk line of rail-
way scattered along the canal from one
end to the other. There were hundreds of
car beds which had rotted away
crumbled some of the wood into sawdust
in my fingers.
During my stay on the isthmus in 1905
visited the warehouses which had Their
just been turned over tn our engineers
Among them were buildings which COW
cred as much as ten acres. They were
divided into sections and walled with
shelves containing all sorts of material.
In one place l found thousand coal-oil
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ton to the presidency he has not by any
means neglected his property, but natu-
rally he has not been able to give it the
close attention that he would have liked.
Loubet. like Fallieres, is also of the
bourgeoisie class. Frugality. thrift and
economy were early instilled into his mind
by his Woodworking parents, who were
modest merchants selling iron and copper
utensils for the kitchen. Notwithstanding
his steady rise to afiuence and power,
from a deputy of the lower house to
senator, then minister and president of
the senate to the presidency, he never lost
sight of the little economies that are
religiously practiced by the middle classes
oil over France
Deep-rooted as were these principles.
however, Loubet is said to have failed
to save a penny of the princely salary of
$4,000 year, with an additional sum
of S120,0CO for expenses, which he re-
ceived as chief representative of France.
He fel: that this money was. for the
glory of the Office and that splendor and
magnifcence BETTING a great country
should be maintained. So many are the
state banquets and formal functions that
the president is obliged to give to visit
ing royalty and men In public life that
it is said these great sums little more
than defray expenses. President MacMahpn
entertained with such magnificence that
he not only spent the amount given him,
but the larger share of his private for
tune as Well.
Loubets guiding principle is great econ
omy and moderation in all things. He
once explained his ideas on the subject in
the following phrase: Zone must never
let the occasion to economfZe go by even
when performing the greatest act of gen.
crosby or charity, and admire the man
who gives generous gift to needy fam
lily living afar, and who takes it on foot
SO as to economize the expense Of the
journey"
AS president, whenever Loubet could
escape from state functions he lived
in a plain bourgeoisie manner and
his chief annoyance was the police escort
and detective service that watched over
him. Very accessible. charitable indul-
gent, a friend to be counted on. man
of quick action. seeming much younger
than his years, such was Loubet the
president, such is .Loubet the ex-presi-
dent
Since his retirement Loubet has lived,
with his wife and two sons both OF whom
are lawyers, like simple middle-claSs peo-
pie with a comfortable income. Their
apartment, which is very modset one.
is in the Rue Dante, in the Latin Quar-
ter, between the Seine and the Cluny
Museum. He has entered the ranks
again. as they say in France. and lives
absolutely retired from politics. His in
a very indirect way in friendly interviews
with politicians who may turn to him
for advice. The French people do not
consider their presidents or ex-presidents
as statesmen, but as men chosen to rep
resent their country on great occasions
the official hosts Of Franee-to entertain
royal visitors, to show them the beau
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nc HcHcM PTcsIueHt VIII sOOu TetIre a
ties of Paris and set them good exam
pie before the 'capon and extra dry"
Their mission is to be present at great
fnrnan ~ ~ ,haa,e, e. oa s"ia a;h;-
lions and unveil monuments. $50.
The president of the French republic is
not supposed to have political prejudices
or opinions, he must act always in ac-
cordance with the majority in parliament
Hence it is not to be wondered at that
the people show absolutely no interest in
the opinions of an ex-president on the
state affairs of the day. There is not the
slightest difference between Loubet and
any ordinary citizen. When he walks on
the boulevards none turns to look at
him, he arouses no interest when he en-
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tiers street car. However, he tries not
to be altogether useless to the country
and has accepted the honorary presidency
OF some cooperative societies, associa-
tons of students, society of Authorization
and pure food organizations. At the meet
ings of these societies he now and then
makes a speech, without pretension, but
full of good sense and he is always Es-
tened to with Difference. Each year he
presides at the reunion of students as
Soeiations at the Sorbonne.
Last year he visited the ministry at the
head of Partisan alimentary society TO
ask that the county tax be taken Off dry
cheese. Lit was an unusual spectacle to
see the man who had received kings.
granted audiences to ambassadors and
had hobnobbed with all the great men of
the world enter very humbly the Offices
of the ministers to solicit favors for a So
ciety for the public welfare. individuals
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THE. Dock AT CR1sToRAL WMRE
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The bed of the building was of con-
crete, divided into pens, each of which
had its cement trough. and ii was sup
posed to accommodate about 200 hogs.
l hear many stories from the old stag
ers Panama of how money flowed in
the first days of the French canal The
isthmus was flooded with gold, common
engineers took contracts and got rich.
and every one who sold or bought CREASED
his palm. | was told last night of a
worthless beachcomber who had been
discharged by his employer. a New York
contractor, just on the eve of the de-
parture Of the latter for home. A few
months later the New York man returned
and saw his old employee dressed in snow
white. wearing a fifty-dollar panama hat
and having black valet to hold up his
umbrella. The New Yorker said:
why. man. your circumstances seem
to, have changed?" =
They have" was the reply. Il am rich
now and have made q fortune on con-
tracts"
How did you do that?" was the next
question.
1T was easy enough. You remember
that hill with the big hole at one side OF
1t along the line of the canal about eight
miles from Colon"
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dom leaves his fathers side. and llghtens
his labors in EVERYDAY. Father and son.
and often a few friends. leave the ElSsee
together at 10 in the morning for brisk
walk, generally along the Champs Elysee
The president is firmly convinced that to
these walks alone he owes his power to
continue his combining and irksome daily
routine.
Upon his retirement President Fallieres
will spend the winter in Paris and most
of the summer in the south OF France,
giving personal attention to his vine
yards Soon after his election to his pres
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Dc CI nlI0bEe bfrtn and simple tastes,
after seven years or the last word in
romp, glory and ceremony, without fuss
and without effort. stepped from the gor-
scous Elysee Palace to a modest fiat on
the opposite ride of the River Seine. APP
narently without regret. as one whose
Guty had been done and who was glad
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ent Office he was approached by an Amer
lean syndicate. which offered him fabu-
lous sum for his property, with the under
standing that it was to be free to sell the
wine product as from the vineyards of
President Fallieres." The good-natured
president simply laughed at the proposal,
and refused to have anything to do with
it. AS matter of fact, he sells his entire
yield to a nearby merchant with the strict
understanding that no mention be made
of its coming from his estate In this
way II does not unfairly compete with the
crops Of his neighbors. Since his cleva-
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often came TO him for advice, and il was
the result OF one of these visits that
caused NJ. Osiris to bequeath his fortune
Of 10000. 600 francs ($6O0nOOO) to the
Pasteur Institute.
Loubet's habits are as regular as a bus!-
ness mans. He rises at Z o'clock and
after his rolls and coffee he starts for q
long walk, which ends. generally in pay
ing few visits. At IL o'clock one sees
him return to his apartment, where he ia
known to be accessible for an hour to Ali
people who seek him. After a simple
luncheon he again goes out, either with
his son or. with his wife, this time for a
drive in his coupe, which is drawn by one
horse.
Copyright. 1912 By Curtis Brow1l :
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This last sale makes the total weight of
the scrap disposed of between fifty and
sixty million pounds. and the value of
that sold and used in the work has footed
up more than two million dollars. The
sales have all been made by auction, and
at so much per ton. For this last lot the
ton rate was So. and included in the ma
teTial were old locomotives. dredges. ex-
cavators, dump cars, boilers. cranes. steel
rails. copper and brass The canal au-
thorities estimate that at least one mill
lion dollars worth of such scrap has
been used in making machinery for our
work
When we bought the canal of the
French for forty million dollars they
gave US an estimate as to the balance of
the machinery and supplies on hand.
This balance was not paid for but was
thrown in for good measure. / was down
here just after We took possession. and
went with the engineers over the build
mss. machine works and warehouses, and
saw Just what there was. According to
the French books the value of the whole
was twenty-nine million dollars The
above statement accounts for two mil
Hons. but I DOUBT not but that Uncle Sam
mas realized much more than twice
that out of the vast equipment which
was then on hand AS to the
was all down on the French books of
account They We're fine bookkeepers, and
among the volumes OF canal records are
eighteen grea4 leGgers, each as tall as a
table. thick a big family Bible
and as heavy as d ten-year-old boy
am told that some of these ledgers will be
shown at the San Francisco exposition.
have looked carefully over these
BOOKS and find them wonders of account
keeping The writing is like copper-plate
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RANCE is not torn
from end to end by
the q u e S I ! o n :
" hat shall we do
with our eX-presi-
dents % With one
in retirement and
another preparing
to follow. t II e
country is as calm
as a New England
villa ge on a Sun
day morning. Lou