Atlanta tri-weekly journal. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1920-19??, 1920-08-28


week. Diplomatic representatives of
nearly ali the American republics
attended the ceremonies.
President Wilson has not decided
whether he will live in Washington
after he leaves the White House
next spring. Last week it was re-
ported that he had bought a home
there but it developed later that the
deal had been made by his physician
and that the president was not in
volved.
Six employees Of the United States
Cigars company, a concern that has
ing many il Georgia and the south
eastern states, were made directors
of the firm at recent meeting in
New York. This was a reward for
policy of giving it's work.
ers voice in running the business.
Thirteen hundred dairymen in the
vicinity of Kansas have Joined in a
cooperative association which is
selling 5000 quarts of milk every
day to consumers of the city. The
Of the organization sub
scribed blocks of stock ranging from
500 to $1,000 and bought a big dairy
company for $4,000.
The little town of Paita. Peru, is
to be burned to the ground and
rebuilt to wipe out the horde of
rats there. that are spreading the
of 1000 houses there has been at
least one death from the. scourge.
The survivors are now living in
tents outside the town. The Peru
Wan government will build new
city of rat-proof houses after the
rats have been exterminated.
Germany is recovering some of her
pre-war trade, especially in toys,
with England, much to the concern
of British interests, according to
reports received by the department
of commerce. Owing to the exchange
rate German toys undersell British
and English products and manufac-
turers have asked the British gov
eminent to take steps toward check
ing such imports.
Both freight and passenger reve-
nues Of the railroads increased last
month of 1919.
Figures made public by the inter-
state commerce commission show
freight revenues of $323,611, 189 last
March as against 1884 So7,102 the
same month the year before, and pas
pared with $Ss,22T130 in March,
1919.
Doubledeck auto buses, similar to
those in use on the Fifth avenue line
in New York city, helped save War
saw from the soviet menace. Just
as taxicabs were used at the vital
moments to save Paris in 1914, dur
buses of Warsaw hauled troops to
the front at the hour of this city's
peril. The soldiers they carried
were thrown into the foremost lines,
where the danger was greatest.
Information gathered by the army
shows that more ar
tillery ammunition was expended In
one month of the world war than in
the entire periods of the American
civil war. the Franco-Prussian war
and the RusSo-Japanese war.
In the civil war the expenditure
of artillery ammunition was 100000
rounds, in the Franco-Prussian war
$4,000 rounds. In one month of
the world war 12,710,000 rounds were
fired.
The few fire horses in Manhattan
still in the fire department service
were mustered out with brief formal
tiles last week. Motorized equipment
has won a complete victory, and the
faithful fire horse has gone into his
tory, and with him much of the ro-
John Ken1on, with other department
heads, were on hand to witness the
last eager tug of the horses as the
harness drops upon them, and will
see them led away after the last
trial run to other stables and no fire
duty.
BUENOS AYRES.-Street car con-
ductors in Buenos Ayres are now able
to sit down while not collecting fares.
The "city fathers" passed an ordi-
nance some time ago requiring the
street car companies to install hinged
seats attached to the platform struc-
ture of all cars for the exclusive use
of the conductor.
This equipment has made it's ap-
pearance and the "guardas," as they
are called in Spanish, are enjoying
the novelty of sitting down while
rush-hour passengers on the plat
forms stand up.
Italy is devising means to a1levite
the beet sugar shortage. She has
been urged to put more bees at work
producing honey.
miles of railways. and at regular in
tervals along the lines are little
houses where the railway employees,
track walkers and repair
men live. The manager of the Mt
ttonal Institute for Agrar1an Assist
each receive a hive Of bees. In con-
formity with the suggestion the ex-
pertinent is to be begun at once on
the lines in the province. of Rome,
and If successful it will be extended
to all the railways of Italy.
Drunk and disorderly seagulls the
other day furnished Venice with
brandy wore off. The seagulls ac-
quired their Jag" when Tom Carri-
gan emptied a cask of branded cher
ries on the beach. The gulls took
a fancy to the cherries and in few
minutes no cherries remained. Then
nished the gulls with all the ex-
citement they needed, and for sew
eral hours they played dead, tum-
bled over each other and wabbled
along the beach when they tried to
walk. Hundreds Of persons on the
beach watched the antics of the
gulls.
High rents have well nigh made
floating city of Hartford, Conn. Hun
dreds of families, unable or unwill-
ing to meet the increased rentals
asked by their landlords, built for
themselves houseboats and anchored
them along the banks Of the Con-
1iecticut river. And so well do they
like the free and easy life they have
led during the summer months, with
out the worriment of the approach
ing rent collector, that many are
thinking of turning them into per-
manent homes. The East Hartford
bank of the Connecticut is lined with
these households. some Of which
shelter two families. Each family
figures to save between $500 and
$500 a year on rent alone, and the
saving on living costs under this
plan is also a big item.
A new way to get rid Of toothache
has been discovered by Mrs. Teresa
fifty years old; of Mount Wi
mans, who made the contribution to
the science of dentistry without ever
having taken course at a dental COL
locro 1E,.s. LE11radar had aching