The Lee County journal. (Leesburg, Ga.) 1904-19??, 1914-04-30
STATE COMMISSION
TO MAKE REPORT
PUBLIC UTILITY CORPORATIONS
PAID s2,77s,4ss TAKES or ALL
KINDS LAST YEAR.
INCREASE OVER LAST YEAR
Sixteen New Corporations Now Re-
porting tQ the Railroad
Commission.
INCREASE OVER LAST YEAF

'0uIH6 very interesting AIacJS.
There was an increase of sixteen
corporations reporting to the commits
sion in 1913 over 1912. For 1912 there
were 213 and for. 1913 229. This in
crease was FIVE in street railroads,
gas, electric light and power compa-
MES and eleven telephone companies.
During 1912 the commission handled
6S3 cases requiring formal hearings
and 61S in 1918, an increase of IS.
Besides the above, the commission dur
ing the past year handled without for
NAL hearings SOME $500 other COM
plants of various kinds.
Data concerning the financial opera
tons of public service corporations
has been printed in a previous arti-
Gle. On whole, the conditions are
satisfactory, and this particularly ap-
Piled to street railroads, gas, electric
light and pow companies and tele-
phone companies
During 1913 the commission ap-
proved $1S,S61,S 62.O7 in stock and
bond issues, as against $90,066,000 in
1872 Included in 1912 was $52,014,-
600 for the Central in its refunding
scheme.
The largest increase in railroad
mileage marked 1913 since 1909. Dur
ing the past year 1926 miles of main
line new track was laid and 1871 miles
Of second track. The Gainesville and
Northwestern led with thirty-fve miles
of new track.
Below is the number Of miles OF
railroad in the state and actual opera
tidn on June 80, 1913.
Single track, main line, $7,295.78;
seiond track, main line, 1904; siding,
pa Esing and yard track, 1,967.43; total
S,d6125.
During 1913 fifty-five new freight
al passenger depots were built in the
sts tie, as compared with thirty-seven
TIL year previous. Many were con-
stl lcted voluntarily by the roads, and
thu commission says important trunk
lin Es have shown highly commend
able spirit of progress and improve
meht in this line.
Politics Takes Back Seat.
Politics that is to say the guber-
Material race and the three-cornered
contest for the United States senate
took back seat at the capitol, while
war talk was practically the sole topic
Of conversation. Everywhere you
went you could hear gossip of the far
off struggle, and in every office one
heard some interesting yarn of a war
like nature.
For example, up in the railroad COM
missions office Judge George Hillyer,
who is veteran of the Civil war,
told some interesting anecdotes of the
first war with Mexico. He was a boy
of eleven years at the time of that
momentous struggle and remembers
the various incidents perfectly. One
of his uncles was in the celebrated
Trainings Rangers, recruited in this
state, and from his lips he heard
many dramatic stories Of all the big
battles.
Capt. Tip Harrison, in Comptroller
General Wright's office, a Confeder-
ate veteran, was another to whom the
war news was of great interest. Right
nigh he'd gladly give up his job and
shoulder rifle if need be in the de-
tense of his country.
But possibly the only man in the
capitol who has seen any fighting in
recent years is Maj. A. H. Ulm, exec
utive secretary to Governor Slaton.
Major Ulm saw duty with the Twen-
ty-seYenth United States volunteers in
the Philippines and he knows what
modern warfare of the kind which viii
be waged in Mexico really is. He does
not expect the war to be as shortlived
as many think it will be.
TO Celebrate Battle of Atlanta.
The proposition to hold a semi-cen-
tennial peace celebration of the battle
Of Atlanta on July % was enthusiast
tieaIly taken UP at a meeting Of the
general committee for the celebration
plans, which was held.
There was practically full atteD-
dance of the committee, which met at
the call of Asa G. Gambler.
AT this meeting a subcommittee was
appointed to arrange all the details Of
the days celebration This commit
tee win meet in few days at the
call Of Chairman Asa G. Gambler, who
is also chairman of this committee.
and go thoroughly into these details.
The committee will arrange the most
magnificent program possible for the
dav and report back to the general
comm ttee.
BODY Of summerlin Brought Home.
Governor slaton received a teIe-
gram rom the relatives of Randolph
Summerlin, the young Georgia hos
who was killed by the Mexicans at
Vera Cruz asking that If possible ne
make some arrangement with the au-
jborities at Washington for the re-
urn of the body to his native state.
Governor Slaton Immediately wired TO
Senator West requesting that he take
the matter up with the war depart
ment and see that the body is sent
to Georgia. SummerIin's home was in
WilIacooehee, Berrien county. He
was one Of the first six to be killed.