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Atlanta Georgian. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1912-1939, 1914-01-23
MAYOR AND FIRE CHIEF.
Editor The Georgian:


Our Fire Chief says the Mayor
accused him of wrongdoing-of
accepting rebates for his personal
profit and to the city's loss; that
the Mayor instigated an investi
cation by Council; that the Cen
eral Council appointed a commit
tee who spent weeks in taking
testimony In the case, under oath,
and who, after thoroughly exam
lining into fine merits of the case,
found him NOT GUILTY; that
the report of that committee was
approved by the General Council,
but vetoed by the Mayor, AND
WAS PASSED OVER THE
MAYORS VETO, and that the
Mayor still pursues and perse-
cutes him because of personal i'll
feeling, and even talks to the men
in the Fire Department about him
in such a way as is injuring the
Chiefs influence with his men.
The Mayor comes back at the
Fire Chief and practically admits
the foregoing as true, but asserts
that the committee appointed by
the General Council was biased
In their investigation and that
the investigation was conceded to
be farce.
Now, submit that this changes
the Mayors case from one against
Atlanta Georgian. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1912-1939, 1914-01-23
Questions Answered

the product OF the plant known
among botanists as Phytelephas
Macrocarpo. II is a native of
South America, found chiefly on
the banks of the Magdalena, Co
lombia. 1t is mostly found in
separate groves, in damp local.
ties, and upon ground that bears
no other form of plant life. The
seeds contain milky juice which.
as 1t ages. hardens until It be-
comes a valuable substitute for
animal ivory.
Atlanta Georgian. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1912-1939, 1914-01-23
THE NEGRO.

Cosmos.--It is impossible to
set any time for the first men
ton of the negro IN history. AS
far back as we can go the negro
is seen as the slave of the Egyp-
tians and other Mediterranean
peoples. Later on he appears in
the same capacity in the history
OF the Romans, but no hard and
fast date can be given as to his
earliest connection with the men
of other races.
Atlanta Georgian. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1912-1939, 1914-01-23
STARS AND STRIPES

A New York Judge says It is
disorderly conduct to ask a Ken
lucky gentleman to drink grape
juice. 1t also is reckless dare
devilism.
Every purchaser of thimbles is
under suspicion of buying stor-
age warehouses for the radium
trust.
Atlantic Coast Line Dissolves
Itself. "-Headline
Trembled for Savannah and
Brunswick until we found the
story was about railroad.
New Jersey man held up for the
twenty-f1fth time. Simpler for
him to have somebody order
Hands down."
Atlanta Georgian. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1912-1939, 1914-01-23

Strange that the makers Of the
tariff do not give 1t credit for
bringing down the temperature
Kaiser is saving wood. "a
bern case shows he's also cutting
ice.
South Africa seems to feel more
comfortable under martial Jaw
anyway.
The naval airships may soon y
necessary in order to enable "
to find our navy.
Trusts are rushing to be az
solved, and grafters are clanlol
ing to confess. Let's see, VIVA
is the date set for the milienHl
UNI?
Atlanta Georgian. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1912-1939, 1914-01-23
A 5uLGARlAN's GRATITUDE,

A 5ULGARlAN'S GRATITUDE.
Editor The Georgian;
Allow me to express the graft
tude of the Bulgarians living here
to The Georgian for its activity in
behalf of the starving in the Bal
kans. All can say is. Thanks
to The Georgian from the bottom
of my heart" for the help to my
fatherland.
A BULGARIAN.
Atlanta Georgian. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1912-1939, 1914-01-23

r I'VE fish travel by automo-
bile in Paris now. They
go to the guillotine, it is
true-the guillotine of the kitch-
en--but they have fast and
ultra modern city life while it
lasts.
Before they reach the capital
they make long Journeys by rail-
way, in special cars. where they
swim in tanks filled with purer
and better aerated water than
they, perhaps, have ever known,
which is kept in circulation for
their special qualification by up
to-date combustion engines.
Every resource of science is
exhausted to make these travel
ing fish as luxuriously comfort
able as so many we'll groomed
passengers in parlor car.
Unaware of It.
Naturally, they are unaware
that all this is done not out of
tender considera ton for them, but
in order that they may arrive in
Paris in prime physical condition
and in the highest piscatorial
spirits, their eyes bright. their
gills pink with health, their fins
and tails quivering with vivacity
for fish that come to the cooks
griddle in such an animated
mood taste much better than 9TH
ers.
And to insure that they SHALL
arrive in that desirable humor
their last ride, as already said,
is taken in an automobile, as lux
uriously furnished, from the
fishes point of view, as was their
special car on the railway.
Leaving these sentimental con-
siderations for those who appre-
ciate them, the mechanical per-
fections of this new system of
fish transportation are worthy Of
attention.
The special car in which the
live fish ride is furnished with
dozen large tanks containing pure
water, and trimmed in such
manner that the Earring caused
Atlanta Georgian. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1912-1939, 1914-01-23
Garrett F. Serviss
Writes on VS.
Autos for Fishes
He Tells How Paris Has q kN
AdoptedMe for Supply
ing Fresh Fish to Those
Who Wish to Eat Them. - -
By GARRETT P. SERVISS

by the motion CT the train does
not produce any overflow. A wire
grating above prevents the more
active fish from leaping out of
the tank.
Motor in Cabin.
At the end of the car lie
cabin containing an explosion
motor of four horsepower, which
drives a centrifugal pump that
keeps the water circulating in the
tanks. The water is drawn from
the bottom of the tanks, forced
upward through tubes, and final
ly discharged from suspended
taps back into the top of the
tanks.
In it's passage through the air
it is supplied with oxygen and
thus kept suitable for the use OF
the fish, who apparently like it as
we'll as il 1t We're bubbling at the
foot of a waterfall. In summer
time ice is supplied to the taps
to keep the water at an agreea-
BILE temperature.
The automobiles employed for
this purpose are furnished with
a tank behind the drivers seat
and small engine to keep the
water in circulation, every pre-
caution being taken to prevent
any injury to the fish in the act
of transference from one recep.
tacle to another.
Placed in Tank.
For simple city delivery it is
unnecessary to keep the water in
circulation, but sometimes an
automobile is employed to con-
vey fish on Journeys of ten or
twelve hours, and then the water
circulating motor is set to work
Before their delivery to custo-
mers the fish are placed in a
huge tank, owned by the society
above mentioned, which is sup
piled with water from special
well, delivered through taps by
means of compressed air, and
kept continually fresh and oxy-
genated by q system of connect
ing pipes.
Atlanta Georgian. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1912-1939, 1914-01-23
Give the Commission All Need
full Power

The creation of Federal Trades Bureau to have
on the operations of all trusts and corporations doing
interstate business urged upon Congress this week by Pres
dent Wilson in a special message,
The plan is not bill TO provide for national
Incorporation and control Of all corporations engaged
among the several States introduced by Mr. Hearst
when member of Congress on March l. 1907
The bill first rejected revolutionary by the Repub
hcan then in power but the principle has been adopted since
by leaders Of first the Republican then the Progressive and
finally of the Democratic parties If SOUND WORK
ABLE AND RADICAL Law SHOULD NOW BE PASSED
PRESIDENT WILSON WOULD BE ENTITLED TO oRIGI-
NAL CREDIT. 1T WOULD HASTEN THE RETURN OF
GOOD TIMES AND THE RESTORATION OF CONFIDENCE
WE ALL so MUCH DESIRE.
But every reference made the proposed bureau the
band of faithful who proclaim the Presidents purpose
Ia hedged about with that the bureau to be
purely advisory that will have powers of regulation
and will not Ak prices is to be moral force only
vesatg body whose findings and recommendations to be
expected to influence the corporation investigated The bu
reau is to have power to enforce its DEGREES.
This trades bureau will either be the notable of
all the forward steps Of government OR 1T WILL BE so
MPoTENT, so FUTILE BODY AS TO JUSTIFY sUsPI-
oIoN THAT IT WAS MERELY INTENDED TO STILL PUB
Lie CLAMOR WITHOUT REALLY CORRECTING THE
EVILS DENOUNCED.
No commission accomplish anything the correc
ton of the abuses of combinations industry unless possesses
power to do these three things:
Ito investigate supervise and regulate
interpretations combinations and particularly prevent
their overoaptalization
ITO investigate the methods and practices of such
poratons and prevent all restraints of trade
$40 PERMIT intelligent and legitimate combination and
cooperation but PREVENT the evils monopoly super
wise and CONTROL all monopoies of public semipubhc
character whenever such monopoes strong nde
pendent of competition.
These will be essential the trades
fective The record Of the Interstate Commission
demonstrates that fact
When that body created intended be almost
wholly advisory BY step after step and against the
opposition of the railroads these powers have
until to-day it not only stops determinations and rebates
fixes rates. guards the safety of passengers prescrbes
employment and exercises supervision the railroads
which the trainers of the original law dreamed
DURING THE TEN YEARS OF DEVELOPMENT AND
STRENGTHENING OF THE LAW THE RAILROADS EN-
JoYED THE PERIOD OF GREATEST PROSPERITY IN ALL
THEIR HISTORY.
To-day the commission is seeking authority to control
issue Of stocks and bonds by railroads The public demands
that this should be granted and undoubtedly will be-
Had been written into the Interstate Commerce law even
ten the scandal of the Chicago Alton the Nor
gan financing of the New Haven would been impossible
Hundreds of millions would have been saved railroad credit
would not have been impaired by ndefensbe high
finance.
Atlanta Georgian. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1912-1939, 1914-01-23
Some Reasons for a Strong Navy
CAS- urged BY the Macy League
@EA power was indispensa-
y BILE to the success of the War

~ EA power was indispensa-
BILE to the success of the War
of the Revolution.
The navy fought and won the
War of 1872.
The navy decided the outcome
Of the Spanish war.
Turkey lost Tripo1i because of
pitiful naval weakness.
England's navy has given
Great Britain uninterrupted peace
on the water for nearly 100 years.
and her shores have not been
successfully invaded for nearly
1000 years.
Germany, with an adequate
army and navy, has been prac-
tically free from war on land or
sea for 40 years.
The navy has $1,000 miles of
sea coast to defend.
Battleships are cheaper than
battles.
The money for American bat
tleships is paid to American
workingmen, American builders
and American craftsmen.
Germany's prosperity and ma
tional efficiency can, to no small
extent, be attributed to the train
ing received by citizens in her
army and navy.
The navy as trade school has
been called Our Great National
University" 1t returns to civil
life annually as many trained, eff
Atlanta Georgian. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1912-1939, 1914-01-23
JosEPHus AND JESUS.

P. H. R.-The passage you ask
after is in Josephus' Antiquities
of the Jews" is, S, 5, and reads
as follows. the undoubtedly spu-
rlous parts being in brackets: AT
this time appeared certain
Jesus, wise man cir, indeed, He
may be called a Man. for He was
a worker of miracles, teacher
OF such men as receive the truth
with joy). and He drew to Him
self many Jews (and many also OF
the Greeks. This was the Christi.
And when at the instigation OF
our chief men PLATE condemned
Him to the cross, those who had
first loved Him did not fall away.
tFor he appeared TO them alive
again on the third day. according
as the holy prophets had declared
this and countless other marvels
OF Him. To this day the sect
Of Christians, called after Him,
still exists"
VEGETABLE IVORY.
W. $. vegetable ivory is
Atlanta Georgian. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1912-1939, 1914-01-23

flcient and patriotic young men
as are graduated from the five
leading universities of the coun-
try.
The annual cost Of the navy is
cheap insurance against war
The weight Of a powerful navy
gives force to diplomacy.
The navy suppressed the Afri-
can slave trade and piracy, and
opened the doors of Japan and
Korea. 1t protects missionaries
and citizens abroad, and has re-
peatedly rendered invaluabs
service in times of instruction
and earthquakes.
Navies are needed to enforce
the decree of a court Of arbitra-
ton.
Disarmament and obligatory
arbitration are incompatible.
A modern navy can not be i'm
provised.
IF we desire to avoid insult
we must be able to repel 1t, SAID
George Washington. III we de-
sire to secure peace, 1t must be
known we are at all times ready
for war"
Power and strength are essen
tial for the noble task Of peace
maker.
Might does not make right, bur
right backed by might IS ire
sistible.
Atlanta Georgian. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1912-1939, 1914-01-23
Letters From the People

the Fire Chief to a case against
the General Council, and that II
is up to Council to stand branded
by the Chief Executive of this
city as being corrupt or of having
passed, by its approval, the find
ing of corrupt committee of its
members, or it forces the Coun-
ell to take such action as will
compel the Mayor to PROVE his
charges or discontinue talking or
doing anything to the injury of
the Fire Department or any
other department of the city gov
eminent which it is his duty I'M
questionably to aid and protect.
After Council took action on
the Fire Chiefs case and acquit-
ted him. Council should protect
him from being further perse-
cuted by the Mayor or Mr.. Any
one Else on those counts.
JOSEPH S. COOK.
sol Empire Life Building.
Atlanta Georgian. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1912-1939, 1914-01-23

go to al
m " gat Sam
ea sh ne Used 20 live on hd prices 70 sta down.! the
esandh
from his pe enc oil ntyof bh d DIM cal H y!E
CT OF Ia raucus nc homea brush EVENING"
Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1914-05-12
KILLED BY AUTO.
MI. T. NJ. Worthen is Run DOwb ny
Machine at Atlanta.

tStlanta, ia, May 12.-Miss f. True
Worthen. q years old, sister of Her
5 here. WorIhcn, general nt&aagor e
the Southern division OF the Western
UniDn Telegraph Company, was rur'
tpwn and fatally injured here yester,
day by an automobile. She '&ied
shortly aftelward.
When informed by physicians thai
she could not live, Miss Worthen e.
pressed q desire to see her mother be-
fore she died and arrangements were
made to have one of the special II
coming here for the meeting of the
Mystic Shrine stop at Charlotte, n
G.. the home Of the girP'sr motlge
Miss Worthen died, however. before
her mother could arrive.
E. l.. Mauk, of Americas, Ga, owner
and driver Of the machine, is under
bort e. pending an investigation of tLa
accident. =
Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1914-05-12
NAY GET VIRGINIA ESTATE
Woman Serving Term III Missouri
-, for Forgery-Claims lnherl-
e. lance.

Winchester, Va, May 12.-flnal
settlement and distribution OF the
large estate of the late George NJ
Nicholas, the Rockingham county
farmer who died from arsenic pols-
oning, according to an official report
bv the State Chemist and the coro-
ner's Jury, is not likely to be made
for some time to come by reason Oh
the fact that Miss Ella McCiendon'
of Missouri, who claims the MAYOR
norton of the property, has just be-
gun a five-year sentence in the pen
itentiary at Fort LeaVo:i"orvn'
Kan, after being convicted IN the
Federal Court at Cape Glrardeau,
Mo-. of forging the name OF a dead
man to a check and endeavoring to
secure the cash on the same through
the mails.
The Missouri case, however, had
nothing to do with the Virginia It'll
cation. The McClendon woman re-
Gently employed counsel in Harri-
sonburg to fight for her in the Mich
olas will matter. The four brothers
of Nicholas were surprised when
the attorney for the State received
4hro,,ob tho mails a document pur-
porting to be the will Of Nicholas
Where it came from has never been
disclosed, but it provides that Miss
McClendon shall have $4,000 II
cash and Nicholas large farm, val,
ned at about $4,000. Although the
brothers of Nicholas declare the
mysterious will to be fraud and :
forgery, it is claimed the hand
writing is very much like that OF ole
George Nicholas.
Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1914-05-12
VS..
Ellsworth w. Downey, Defendant.
IN CHANCEPY.

An affidavit having been duly made.
as required by law, that the defenc-
ant is 4 nonresident of the State of
Virginia. and that he cannot be found
within the Jurisdiction of this state.
and the sergeant having made a re-
turn upon the original process or
summons. That the defend
ant is nonresident of his BALI
wick, and application having been duly
made in open court for an order of
publication against said defendant to
appear and answer bin in chancery
filed by the complainant against jhe
defendant for an absolute divorce on
the grounds of cruelty and wilful 5e-
sertion and abandonment for more
than three years prior to the institu-
ton of this suit, and an order of pub
LEGATION having been duly granted in
open court, it is therefore ordered
that said defendant Go appear here
within fifteen days after due publica-
ton hereof to answer the suit of COM
plainant against the defendant for an
absolute divorce on the grounds of
cruelty and wilful desertion and
abandonment for more than three
Years. prior to the institution of this
suit, and to do what may be necessary
TO protect his interest in this suit.
And it is further orlered that copy
OF this order be published once
week for four successive weeks in the
AleXandria Gazette, a newspaper
punished in Alexandria City, Vir-
Sinia, am that a copy be sent by
registered mail by the clerk to this
court to the last known place of nd
ureSs' residence and abode of defend
W ant; t9-wit. on Washington street,
.Ni'k;es0arre, Pennsylvania, as stated
III the application for this or.er of
puoiicatlon which shall be certified
by the clerk to this court, and that a
copy be posted at the front door Of
the courthouse Of this court on or be-
fore the next rule day Of this court
4 Copy-Teste:
NEWELL S. GREENAWAY. Clark
Robinson Moncure, .. q.
Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1914-05-12

fussing in treating corns. Thousands
who have puttered with old corns for
years, have gotten rid Of them right
off, with a few drops of "GETS-1T,"
applied as quick as you can spell
your name. Corns just love to be
cut, picked, filed, gouged and pulled.
Quit it. You've tried cotton rings
that cause shooting corn pains, greasy
salves that spread over the toe and
make it raw and tape that sticks
to the stockings-now try GETS
IT" 1t has none of tie drawbacks
Of the old style corn cures, ease.
pain and never fails on any corn or
callus.
"GETS-IT" is sold by all druggists,
Csc bottle, or sent direct, by E.
Lawrence & Co., Chicago.
Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1914-05-12
NORFOLK GETS DRY DOCK.
City by Sea Will be Made Peer Of Any
In Country.

Washington, May 12.-The senate
naval affairs committee has agreed to-
the proposition Of Senator Swanson,
made several days ago to appropriate
100000 for the construction of a
mammoth dry dock at Norfolk, ann
placed the item in this years bill, with
100000 to be Immediately available.
The committee also agreed to vote
100000 for the entertainment OF
naval officers at Hampton Roads when
the Panama canal celebration Is held
there next year.
The agreement to appropriate So
100000, for the constructor of a dry
dock at Norfolk is significant and
worthy of more than passing notice.
1t means that/Norfolk is to be made
the peer of any navy yard in the
country, equipped to build the biggest
and mightiest of battleships, and that
hereafter no one yard will have mo-
nopoly on battleship construction. 1t
means further, that Charleston, which
some years ago was fortunte enough,
through the efforts of Senator Till
man, to have a dry dock constructed
there, must look 70 her laureNs to see
that the ships now going there are
not sent to Norfolk when the latter's
dock is built. Tt means also the as
sembling of a large force Of skilled
mechanics and shipbuilders at Norfolk
which may swell her population very
materially.
There are several other important
items in the bill put in at Senator
Swanson's request, but the two al
ready referred to are to be especially
commended.
In addition to this Senator Swanson
secured revocation of an order that
no more steel castings would be maize
lat Norfolk. AS result Of this 100,-
600 tons of pig iron will be shipped
there at once by the navy department.
All of this will make Norfolk one of
the big navy Nsrds of the country.
Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1914-05-12
ilHHaHlBEg
: NEWS OF THE OLD DOMINION
Observation-Disclosures Hill
1. 0. 0. F. MEETS IN LYNCHBURG
John IT. Seaborn Leads Grand En-
campment in Virginia.

Lynchburg, Va, May 12-The grand
encampment of Virginia Odl Fellows,
which met here yesterday elected the
following officers:
Grand Patl-iarch-John Fl. Seaborn
of Roanoke.
Grand High Priest-W. c. Louhoff.
Of Danville.
Grand Senior-War:en, w. T. Hay
nes, of Richmond.
Grand Scribe-E. NJ. Bunch, of
Lynchburg.
Grand Senior War3en-W. r. Hay
Fox Of Roanoke.
Grand Treasurer-George ". Hill
of Norfolk
Representative to the Sovereign
Grand Lodge-E. E. Hinclle, Of Rict
monI and c. W. O'Mcara. of AleI,
andria
The Patriarch Militant conferre:
tonight the degree OF chivalry UPON
the Richmond and Big Stone Gap de!
egations.
More than 500 Old Fellows ant
Rcbekahs are here, and at least 1,2O(
are expected for the opening Of The
Rcbelaa!hs and Grand lodge today.
Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1914-05-12

At a Corporation Court Of the City
Of. Alexandria. continued and held at
the Court House Of said city on Thurs
day. March 10Th, 1914.
Present, Hon. Louis c. Barley,
Judge.
ALEXANDER Jackson, Complainant.
Ollie B. Wright Jackson, Defcr@ant.
An affidavit having been duly made,
as required by law, that the defendant
is a. NONRESIDENT Of the State of
Virginia. and that she cannot be
found within the jurisdiction Of this
State, am the Sergeant having mae
a return upon the original process or
summons issued herein that the de-
PENDANT is a nonresident Of his BALI
wick, an5 application having been
duly made in open court for an order
OF publication against said defendant
10 appear and answer a bill in chan
Gerry filed by the complainant against
the defendant for en- absolute divorce
on the grounds Of desertion ana aban-
donment for more than three years
prior to the institution Of this suit;
and ar order of publication having
cen duly. granted in open court, it Is
Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1914-05-12

therefore ordered that said defendant
do appear here within - days after
due publication hereof to answer the
suit of complainant agains the de-
feriant for an absolute divorce OIL
the grounds Of deScrti0n and abandon
ment for more than three years prior
to the institution CT this suit: and no
what is necessary to protect her IN
tercst in this suit. And it is further
ordered that copy Of this order be
published once week for four sue
cessive weeks In the Alexandria Ga
zette, a newspaper published in Al
jcXandra. City, Virginia; and that :: 4
copy be sent by registered mail by the
clerk 20 this Court, to the last known
place of "a dress, residence and abode
of defendant, ta-wit: l15 18th street.
n; w, Washington, d. c., as stated
in the duplication for this order,,pf
publication which shall be certified by
the clerk to this court, and that: a
copy be posted at the front door of
the court house Of this court on or he
fore the next rule day of this court.
A CopyT-TcSte: ....s.,i Il
NEWELL s. .GREENAWAI,
Robinson MoncVrc, p. q. :;