Atlanta Georgian. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1912-1939, 1912-11-12
SEARCHING SIDELIGHTS
ON GEORGIA POLITICS
By JAMES B. NEVIN.

General Jubal Early is at the
Kimball.
Ed Cox, a distant relative of the
governor, was pardoned by Govern
or Stephens today"
Under another heading Talk of the
Town" it may be observed that things
then were not so different in Atlanta
in some ways. from what they are IN.
day.
The reader is informed that:
"Atlanta's harvest is mud.
"A mud scow passed up the ca.
nal on Marietta street today, right
in front of the capitol.
The voting today for constable
was very light, few caring to brave
the elements to help another man
into office.
The West End street cars being
submerged ut the Peters street
crossing, Uncle Joremus Harris
now ferries to his home in a fiat
boat, using the telegraph line as
hawser.
The condition of the Alabama
street pavement, though only a few
months old, will soon be as unde-
sirable for roadway as any other
of our miserable streets it being
full of hog wallows the entire
length"
From which few choice selections tbs
gentle reader will conclude, readily
enough, that the streets of the way bach
yonder were some botchwork streets
themselves, here and there!
Among the advertisements anpea p
those of the Deceive Opera house (now
the Bijou) announcing the coming OF
Frank Mayo in "Davy Crockett" Katie
Putnam in Lena, the Madcap," Char
lotte Thompson in Jane Eyre" Baker
and Farrow in Chris and Lena" and
Nine. Christine Nilsson in "one grand
concert" assisted by Miss Hope Glenn.
contralto; M. Theo. Biorksten and Sig.
Giuseppe Del Puente
P. H. Shook was selling furniture in
those days and advertising it heavily;
and LangstOn. Crane & Co. were cotton
factors. James A. Anderson was SELL
ing clothing, but was stingy with news
paper space, only occupying some two
inches to apprise the public of that
fact.
Apparently, the advertising game had
not yet become a big factor in the
commercial life of Atlanta, for the bust
ness ads are few and far between in
The Herald of 1888.
The only houses advertised in this
paper that still are engaged in bust
ness in Atlanta are Phillips & Crew.
piano dealers, and the National Surgical
Institute.
1t Is interesting to note. from a read
ing of the railroad schedules printed.
that one might leave Atlanta at 1
o'clock in 1883 and reach Chattanooga
at that night, if things went as they
were framed up to go.
Two or three of the editorial para
graphs will serve to show the temper
of the times some thirty years ago.
Witness these samples:
General Grant insists upon the
passage of Nicaragua canal
scheme. First time we ever heard
of Grant being interested in wa
ter scheme
While the legislature of Ten
nessee was considering an increase
in the state treasurer's bond he
quietly increased his salary to s4no
600, and skipped to pastures new.
1t makes little difference to the
people of Georgia which faction
| of the Republican party gets recog-
milton in Washington. What we
want is an administration that will
not recognize either of them
The editors of The Atlanta Herald of
the SOS would have felt better OF
course, could they have looked forward
with prophetic eye to today and the
certainty of an administration in
washington guaranteed to turn the
rascals OUT"