Atlanta Georgian. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1912-1939, 1913-11-04
All Around
The Town
Little Facts and Fancies About
Well-known AtIantans.

Ed McCandless, just back from a
prolonged stay at Carlsbad, is mighty
glad to get home.
Atlanta" said Mr.. McCandless,
looks good to Atlantans every day
in the year, of course, even if they
never get out of town. But if you
want Atlanta to look genuinely and
generously good to you, go away for
few months. and then have look
in on it. That plaza just outside the
Terminal Station, or that old KIM
ball House just outside the Union
Station-they certainly are friendly
and appealing things to cast your
peppers on!
Carlsbad is all right in its way
and it did me much good. physically,
to stay there few months, | know
but 1t isn't Atlanta any more than
anywhere else other than Atlanta is
Atlanta. It's good to be home!"
There is a negro out at the stock
yards" said Albert Trueheart, "who
has had most remarkable career. He
has broken almost every bone in his
SCoSs anu 4it is little the worse LOT
wear. He has, from time to time, sue
ceeded in breaking his collarbone, his
big toe, his forearm, two of his ribs,
his ankle, his wrist and his skull. The
only thing he hasn't broken yet is his
neck. / am watching him closely,
for sooner or later feel sure he will
break his neck. | think it will be
most interesting and exciting to see
man break his neck, and there isn't
anything left for this ambitious bone
breaker to break!"
1t is a well-known fact in Atlanta
that Charlie" Northen could be an
Alderman from his ward any time he
would take the job, and without oppo-
sition, if only he would agree to &C
cept the place. He is, however, Clerk
of the State Senate, and as such is
prohibited by law from holding an
other official position. The clerkship
of the Senate, besides paying fairly
well, is most pleasant job-and no.
body ever thinks of running against
stump" Northen for the place-and
what would be the use, anyway! Still,
most folks in Atlanta would grab off
an AldermaniC plum in jiffy, if it
might be had for the mere grabbing.
Friends of D. B. Gilbert, a we'll
known insurance man, who lives at
the Aragon Hotel, had him running
around in little circles last Saturday
night. Gilbert is the man who fur
nished the tip that caught the three
pickpockets who tried to operate at
the opening of the Winecoff. and his
friends heard Of it. Saturday they
began throwing out hints about there
being $500 reward offered for the ar
rest of one of the men, and later in
the evening one of his friends hurried
up to Gilbert and told him he had
just learned that policemen were
looking for him to give him the re-
ward Gilbert hustled around and
spent" the money half dozen times
before he realized that he was being
"kidded."
1t was with the fond hope that he
would be free from moonshiners for
at least a week that Hooper Alexan-
der, the new Federal District Attor-
ney, went to Athens last Sunday to
take care of the courts business
there. He has tried hardly anything
but moonshiners since he succeeded
Colonel Tate, and he was getting tired
of it. No one has tried to guess his
feelings when, only few hours be-
fore he left for Athens he found that
there are 175 moonshine cases on
the docket there this week