Atlanta Georgian. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1912-1939, 1912-10-16
NOTED CHEMISTS
HERE TALK ONLY
: Of ROOSEVELT
Shooting AstoundS the Famous
SCientiStS-MarVeI at Prog
resS of South and Atlanta.

A big man with buSny DlaCk WINDOWS
and thick eyeglasses, held up an extra
sust off the press, while round him in
the lobby Of the Piedmont hotel today
score or more men in odd attire jos
tied each other and shouted in cultural
tones. The extra announced the shoot |
ing of Theodore Roosevelt in Milwau- |
kee, and the gesticulating throng were
Germans. shocked beyond measure that
ouch a thing could occur They talked |
OF nothing else for the first half-hour
at breakfast.
Think what that in Germany would |
mean" said one, picking his English
words carefully 1t l can not con-
ceive."
They were visitors, were part of
trainload of 80 tourists who left New
York a month ago and have swung |
clear round the continent from the Pa
cific coast to the gulf and up through |
Birmingham to Atlanta. They are the |
tourist party Of the International Con-
{gress Of Applied Chemistry, which met !
IN New York early in September, |
There were a hundred who began the |
tour, but half Of them haYe dropped
off and returned to their homes, or pur- |
sued special journeys to some field in
which they were especially interested. !
Foremost Chemists Here.
Such food of gutturals and con- !
.eonants was never heard before when
1.-THE visitors found the service bit |
sslow. for they were hungry. The man
egenent OF the Piedmont had not been !
told Of their coming, and II is no easy |
matter to serve so extra breakfasts on
a moments notice. But all were fed at
last and everybody was in much better |
humor after that
The scene in the rotunda was notable |
for clothes and whiskers. There were
tourist outfits ranging from black SOM |
breros to dinky little caps, from big |
plaids and field glasses to frock coats !
and high hats. And the German SEN
fences that began at the dining room |
door. wrapped twice around the lobby |
and emptied the verb on the Sidewalk,
made one fearful of tripping UP and be-
ing choked in a verbal labyrinth.
DR.. S. r. Stollberg, secretary of the
German consulate in Atlanta. was ear
" on the ground to greet his COM
patriots Such taking off OF hats and |
a bowling! The German is not salts |
fed with a handshake. He places his |
hand squarely on top of his alpine lid
raises it at least a foot, puts his heels |
together after the military fashion and |
bends his body from the waist like the |
first motion in the setting up exercises, |
After that he may shake hands but not |
before
South Astounds Them.
Among the group of visitors are the
foremost minds In the whole chemical
world Germany excels in no science |
more than In chemistry and the dele
gates TO the congress are worldfa-
nous authorities on various special !
ties In the South they are particular
Nv interested in vegetable oils and the
principal object OF their visit was to
see the plant of the Southern cotton oil
mills.
- DR. David P. Day, OF Washington, is
An charge of the party He is head Of
the department of petroleum and natu-
raj gas OF the mineral resources divi-
sion OF the geological survey of the
United States government, but he
doesn't put all that on the hotel regis
ter. He Is remembered by Atlantans
as the expert in charge of govern
ment exhibit at the Atlanta exposition
of 1898.
THE visitors are astounded with the
resources OF the South" said DIR, Day.
Al. ssa1 cal f,pi
Chemical manufacture in the world.
They are amazed at the resources left
undeveloped. You have climate, min
erals, everything"
To See Big Plants.
The visitors are guests in Atlanta
of the Georgia section of the Ameri
can Chemical society and the Cham
Der of Commerce. President H. NJ
Dumas and Secretary j. S, Brogdon
met the party at breakfast. and Mr..
Brogdon's college German sounded al
most as fizzy as the real thing and got
over the plate with marked success.
Other members OF the society, some of
them expert chemists from the various
manufactures and laboratories We're
In the reception committee. DR.. S. w.
McCauie, state geologist, helped to
greet the tourists, and his handbook
on the mineral resources of Georgia
was distributed in the same envelope
with the chambers monograph on At
lanta, program booklet and cards to
the various clubs.
Elm trink," explained the giver
That must have meant a drink, for the
visitor bowed and smiled broadly and
Immediately asked where"
. Colonel w. L. Peel acted as chair
man of the entertainment committee,
and with Secretary Walter G. Cooper,
Of the Chamber Of Commerce, helped /
make the tourists feel at home. An