Atlanta Georgian. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1912-1939, 1913-11-06
All Around
The Town
Little Facts and Fancies About
WeII-KnoWn AtIantans.

80 many people mispronounce the
name of the senior Senator from Wis
consin," said William Schley Howard
to-day, "and there really is no diff
ficulty whatever about it. 1t is pro-
nounced the easiest way imaginable
simply La FoI-et' The accent is
on the Fol-
80 many people undertake to give
1t q French twist and pronounce 1t
La Fol-ay' while others insist upon
La Toilette, with the accent on the
cite
Both Of these pronUnciat tons are
out Of the ordinary and much harder
to get away with than just plain La
Fol-et!'
Really. La Foi-et is all there is
to i'll"
''Why pigskin?" anxiously and in
hurt tone of voice inquired Johnnie
Reese, discussing the football season.
There isn't and never was a foot
ball made of pigskin - | have the
word of the best informed footballist
in the world as to that. Footballs
are made of a sow's skin or calf
skin-that IS, the part of them that
isn't made of rubber-and yet every
where that football is talked Of, one
hears of the 'pigskin' this, that, and
the other! How did ii start? There
is no sense In it. Who first called
a football a 'pigskin?'"
Johnnie seemed TO be awfully upset
about 1t, and all that, but there was
nobody in the crowd who could an
swer his query or relieve his robust
Indignation, nevertheless.
Charles y. Thompson, an important
member of Ringing Brothers Circus
staff, spent several hours with his
old friend Walter Taylor, Atlanta's
City Clerk, Wednesday on his way
from New York to Florida. COsmopO
lite that he is, Mir. Thompson imme-
diately began to talk of how Atlanta
compared with the other leading
cities of the country, as soon as he
had given Mr. Taylor the glad hand"
and been duly presented to a group
in the clerks Office in the City Hall.
You know he began, the system
they have of passing people down to
the tracks at the Terminal Station
is worse than the way we boys used
to beat our way into the main tent
when the annual circus came to town, |
The fast Southern New York New |
orleans limited was late to-day, and |
| suppose there were $50 persons |
lined up at the gate to pass through. |
The gatekeeper was sitting to one |
side on a soap-bOX and the men in |
the line had turned up their suit |
cases and were resting on them. The |
women just had to stand up. The |
train rushed in for its brief pause |
here, and then there was a rush for
that gate like the last free lunch in |
the world was being seTVed!'
Mr.. Thompson did not mention the |
difficulty of getting a pass down on |
the tracks to meet a friend or to put |
a woman on the train, but some of |
the other members of the party did, |
and with rather bitter emphasis.
Well" remarked Walter Taylor |
there is one man in Atlanta who !
gets in everywhere that human beings !
are supposed to go and that he wants |
to. He is DR.. w. J. Carnes and he |
has system all his own. He gets |
there, too, as his presence at base |
ball games, theaters, the Frank and |
other famous trials Will prove. II
don't know just how he does 1t, but |
DR.. Carnes says he eases in
Dave Yarbrough. plumbing con-
tractor, and sometime city farmer |
las idiSeu d sweet pOt'lo MHiCH 10
shaped exactly like a sink trap Mr.. |
Yarbrough said if it were only metal
he would use it in his plumbing work
Though he has accomplished many
unusual feats in his city farm on
Piedmont avenue, Mr.. Yarbrough OBJ
jects to any further publicity. He
said the recent publication of a pic
ture of the large pumpkins in his
corn patch forced him to give away
all of his pumpkins. His friends all
came around and admired them so
he just had TO give each one Of them
a S4mple from the ma tCh