The Macon Telegraph from Macon, Georgia • 1

the the the the the Spot Cotton Middling Strict Middling Middling Strict Low Low Middling THE MACON A Georgia Paper for Georgia DAILY People A Thoughtful Established 1826. MACON, GA: TUESDAY MORNING, SEPTEMBER 10, 1912-FOURTEEN PAGES FOR SUBSCRIPTION RATES SEE EDITORIAL PAGE TELEGRAPH Paper for Thinking People "MACON NERVE" ELECTRIFIES THE STATE FROM BIBB COUNTY TO ALABAMA LINE LIVE WIRES ON TRAIN ALL TO MAKE TRADE EXCURSION GREAT EVENTEVERY YEAR COLUMBUS, Sept. people on the Trade Special are more than gratified with the results of the first day of the tour. Some are desirous of continuing the tours each year, while others want to go even further and make it a semi-annual event. All are satisfied that it is doing more good for Macon than anything that has been done in years.

Here are the expressions of a few of the prominent men on board: R. S. THORPE, of R. S. Thorpe Sons: "I never dreamed that it would be as successful.

I am in favor of making it an annual event. I can see where much has been done already to help Macon." W. E. DUNWODY, of the Standard Brick Company: advantages that will accrue to Macon are beyond my expectations. I never realized what a trade train could do.

With the first day out I am satisfied with the results." J. E. SATTERFIELD, of the American National Bank: "This is the most progressive effort that Macon has ever made. It means a lot to Macon. There is no reason why Macon should not have and hold all of the trade in this section.

Macon has the best natural resources of any city in the state. It has the cream of Georgia." J. T. WILLIS, of the J. W.

Burke said: "Fine trip. Results are better than was expected. I am sure that Macon will profit by it." A. E. CHAPPELL, of Cox Chappell: "The excursions should be given regularly, at least one each year.

It helps the other advertising that is done." ALBERT McKAY: "It's great! Should be given every year." A. T. VAUGHN, of Flournoy Vaughn: "The Booster excursion is a big success. It will be a bigger success next year." W. H.

ROPER, of the Mallary Mill and Supply Company: "It's a profitable thing. Next time it will be easy to interest the public in it." JOHN J. McKAY, of the Atlantic National Fire Insurance Company: "It's the best that Macon has ever done. It brings her to the attention of the people we meet and is a boom for us all over the country." H. SCHALL, of the Central Manufacturing Company: "Perfectly satisfied with, the results." PROF.

W. P. GRAHAM, of Wesleyan College: "Everyone is enthusiastic. I think that it has been a big help to Macon and to Wesleyan." BOOSTERETTES ON BOARD BOOSTER TRAIN, WESTERN GEORGIA, Sept. H.

O' Rourke hails from Louisiana--but he's enthused over the "Macon Nerve" and isone of the most jovial men on the train. Mr. O'Rourke, is in a way connected with the S. R. Jacques and Tinsiey Company, of this city, in that the Macon firm is the representative of Neutriline Milling company.

On the the way down to Perry some of the passengers were a bit nervous By the time Fort Valley was reached they began to wonder why SO many stops were made. "They've stopped just eighteen times," remarked O'Rourke with 8. laugh. "Yes sir, I've counted them. Want to know why? Of course everyone wanted wanted the answer.

"Before I left Macon," continued O' Rourkef "I 'put a bag of Momlk Dairy Feed on the cowcatcher. The engineer simply had to stop to prevent running down the animals." The Pullman company spared no pains in seeing to it that the members of the Macon party were provided for on this trip. W. M. Camp, of Atlanta, superintendent of the Pullman company, C.

E. Corsey, of Boston, who has had charge of many important trips in this country and in Canada, was inauced to come here. Mr. Corsey has handled special trains for the Vanderbilts and many other prominent people. The biggest ot these was an im perial party over the Grand Trunk in the Dominion of Canada a few years ago.

Besides these well -known men the conductor of the Pullmans also has a reputation. It was he who cared for agricultural train that toured the state. His name is Roy B. Elliott. The man at the throttle of the Booster train, S.

L. Taylor, of Macon, has been connected with the road for twenty Ave popular years. engineers He is on the one of system the and has in his time carried many other notable parties. He will continue with the party as long as the train remains on the of the Central of Georgia. The conductor, of the train is H.

A. Burke, also of Macon, who has been with the company for the past twenty years. J. E. Adams, of the Lawton -Jordan company, has been voted the handsomest man on the train.

If one doesn't believe it ask the gentler sex along the route. When the fife and drum corps was not busy Abe Abraham was shouting: "Everybody drinks American He was the jovial representative of the Acme Brewing Company on the tour. AUTO MURDERER STUNT GROWS MORE POPULAR Pool Room at Knoxville, Scene of Attempted Killing Much the Same In Detall as Rosenthal Assassination. KNOXVILLE, Sept. Morris, of Asheville, N.

was attacked in a billiard and pool resort, in the business center of this city this afternoon in a manner similar tc the Metropole tragedy. Jos. and Henry Browns, entered the pool room, greeted Morris cordially, immediately after which one of the Browns drew a pistol and fired. The bullet, however, missed. Morris.

With the butt of the pistol and a black jack, the Browns then assaulted Morris, leaving him prostrate and bleeding. while they made their escape in an automobile, passing through the main street of the city a nigh rate of speed. They are still at large. Morris says he had been friendly to a woman to whom one of the Browns had been paying attention and this, he says, the possible explanation of Asheville. the attack.

All parties are from CITY EDITION 40,000 LIVES GO OUT THROUGH TYPHOON China Is Visited by Terrific Storm and Torrential Rains in Province of Chikiang. 10,000 DIE IN ONE CITY River Overflows and Carries Death and Devastation. Famine Specter Now Raises Head. SHANGHAI, Sept. 000 and 40,000 lives were lost in the vicinity of Wen Chow, in the province of Chekiang, as the result of a typhoon, combined with torrential rains and high tides, on August 29, according to mail advices just received from place.

Subsequently floods in the upper Wen Chow river overflowed a vast area and the town of Tsingtien, forty miles northwest of Wen Chow, was submerged, 10,000 of the inhabitants losing their lives. Various other towns were washed away and the. prefecture at Chu Chow, an important missionary station, was destroyed. The typhoon of August 29 swept over several provinces on eastern coast of China, including Chekiang and Fukiang. Previous telegraphic advices reported great loss of life and damage to property around Foo Chow, the sea at the mouth of the Min river being strewn with hundreds of bodies.

The province of Chekiang, which has a population of about 12,000,000, congists in part of flat low lands and is considered one of the most fertile provinces of China. In consequence of the floods the inhabitants will be in danger of famine. Last year the flood caused by the overflow of the Yangtse river, which was the most extensive in memory, caused the death by drowning of 1,00 persons and left millions to face Starvation. 729,926 BALES COTTON GINNED SEPTEMBER Georgia is Far Behind Figures of Last Year, TEXAS SHOWS INCREASE Star State Only One Without DeLone crease--Provision Crops to Be Bumper This Year Forecasts Government. Treasury May Help Out Banks.

WASHINGTON, D. Sept. first cotton ginning report of the census for the 1912 season, issued at 10 bureau today announced that 729,926 bales of cotton of the growth of 1912 had been ginned prior to September 1, counting round as half bales. To that date last year bales, or 5 per cent of the entire crop, had been ginned; in 1908, 402,229 bales, or per the crop, and in 1906, 407,551 bales, or 3.1 per cent of the crop. Included in the total ginnings were 6.134 round bales, compared with 7,709 round bales last year to September 10,976 round bales in 1910, and 11,587 round bales in 1909.

The number of bales of sea island cotton included, was 213, compared with 456 bales 218 bales for 1910, and 1,236 bales for 1909. Ginnings prior to September 1, by states, with comparisons for last year and other big crop years, follow: Alabama1912 12,798 1911 40,501 1908 26,298 1906 24,312 Arkansas 1912 81 1911 170 1908 323 1906 446 Florida1912 1,769 1911 3,796 1908 2,524 1906 1,898 Georgia1912 33,984 1911 134,431 1908 64,693 1906 25,298 Louisiana1912 1,702 1911 8,120 1908 4,018 1906 14,033 Mississippi1912 456 1911 1,865 1908 4,330 1906 9,690 North Carolina1912 670 1911 1,245 1908 101 1906 32 Oklahoma1912 273 1911 4,255 1908 8 1906 13 South Carolina1912 4,524 1911 19,364 1908 9,399 1906 3,240 (Continued on Page Two.) Old Spanish Frigate In Savannah Harbor Dredge Uncovers Hulk of Old Vessel, "Either Spanish Ship Galleon. or Ancient SAVANNAH, Sept. by a used in keeping the Savannah river channel clear just below the city the frame of a very old ship, thought to be either a slave ship or an old Spanish war ship, has been found. Spanish coins, a number of sets of manacles, old musket locks and timbers, well preserved though long buried in the sand, have been sucked up from the river bed.

Divers were at work today trying to determine the dimensions of the vessel. She probably was 160 feet long. Her beam has not yet been measured. The government snagboat Tugaloo will use dynamite in an effort to uncover all the old wreck. Old river men remember no old i stories any ship sunk in this location, a mile towards the sea from the city.

Charge Vote Buying In Morgan County MADISON, Sept. charging the buying and selling of votes in the recent democratic primary for Morgan county offices are expected to be handed down shortly by the grand jury which has quietly been pursuing an investigation for several days. It is reported that votes brought as much as $60. Many of the candidates have given their testimony to the grand jury. MRS.

JOHN R. M'LEAN IS DEAD AT BAR HARBOR Publisher's Wife and Famous Hostess Passes Away at Maine Resort--Her Entertainments Famous. BAR HARBOR, Sept. John R. McLean of Washington, died at her summer home here at 8:30 a.

today, after being ill a week with pneumonia. Mrs. McLean survived hours after the arrival of Dr. L. D.

Barker. of Johns Hopkins hospital, who was brought from the North Carolina mountains in special train at a record breaking speed. Mrs. McLean's husband, publisher of the Washington Post and Cincinnati Enquirer, was at the bedside when the end came. Her son, Edward McLean, and his wife also, were present together with her brother, Truxton Beale and her sister Mme.

Bakhmetzff, wife of the Russian ambassador to the United States. Mrs. McLean was very weak last evening except for a short rally about midnight, she steadily lost strength. Shortly before sunrise she became unconscious and remained 80 until her death at 8:30 a. m.

It is planned to hold both funeral services here. The body then will be taken either to Cincinnati or Washington for burial. WASHINGTON, D. Sept. Mrs.

John R. McLean was one of the capitol's most widely known hostesses. Her entertainments for the last twenty-five years have been looked upon as milestones in a Washington social season attracted wide attention for their splendor. She was the daughter of the late General and Mrs. Beale.

Her only sister is Madame Bakhmateff, wife of the ambassador from Russia and her only brother is Truxton Beale, of this city. LOCAL WEATHER For the twent ho ending at p. m. yesterday. Hourly Temperatures.

5 pm. 5 72 11 6 pm. 6 am. .84 pm. 1 7 .74 8 pm.

2 am. 8 2 pm83 9 pm. 3 9 .781 3 pm79 10. pm. 4 pm85 Highest temperature, 85; lowest, 71; mean, 78; normal.

74. Rainfall. Total rainfall since January 1, 48.51 inches, an excess of 3.42 inches. River Report. The Ocmulgen at Macon at 7 a.

m. read 3.5 feet. WEATHER FORECAST GEORGIA-Probably fair in north; showers in south portion Tuesday; a fair, except showers near the coast. SOUTH CAROLINA-Showers Tuesday and Wednesday, unsettled. FLORIDA-Fair In northwest portion; probably showers In peninsula Tuesday and Wednesday.

SUMMARY OF THE NEWS LOCAL. Ditch diggers' strike has brief existence, but lands five of the malcontents behind the Union paper- -hangers and employers get together and sign contract ending strike. Prospects for building of. new rallroad between Macon and Perry are growing brigther every day. Police raid saloon after defendant in recorder's court says he had purchased there, but fall to find desired "booze.

Roland Ellis' campaign, for solicitor- -general costs Macon's streets yesterday had the pearance of a college campus. Bids on new city lighting contract will be received by council tonight. South Macon street car service is scored by A. J. Long.

Two damage suits filed In. which plaintiffs ask for a total of $50,000. Judge Hodges issues bench Warrants for three men who fall to appear to swer charge of gambling. Rev. T.

S. Hubert is named chairman of the Macon Baptist conference. T. J. Carling, supreme chancellor of the Knights of Pythians, returns from tour of northern states.

Water commissioners notified that purity of Macon's water is far below average and aid of state board of health will be asked. Water company will begin making nections in South Macon Thursday. Father Richard White dies at St. Stanislaus' college. Itemized statement to be issued monthly by the board of water commissioners.

Tassie Mack Is acquitted in police court. Playground girls are to take an outing Wednesday. SECOND OUTRAGE SHOCKS CUMMING Young White Girl Found With Throat Cut in Ravine, BLACK TAKEN TO ATLANTA Lynching Averted by Prompt Action of Judge: MISSING SINCE SUNDAY Negro Confesses That He Met Girl on Road, Beat Her Into Unconsciousness and Then Threw Her Over the Cliff--No Further Trouble Feared Unless Five Are Brought Back. CUMMING, Sept. sending of Bud Smith, a young negro, to Atlanta for safe keeping, after his alleged confession of the assault on a young white girl, who was found unconscious in a ravine near here today, prevented a probable lynching and another outbreak of race trouble here.

The young woman, a daughter of a prominent planter, has been missing since Sunday afternoon. She left home to visit her grandmother, a half mile away. According to the negro's alleged confession, he met her on the road and after beating her into unconsciousness, attacked her and threw her body over a cliff. A small pocket mirror found near the scene of the crime led to his arrest. News of the arrest quickly spread and the prisoner was hurried to Gainesville and placed in jail.

Reports that a mob was forming in the country for the purpose of attacking the jail caused Judge J. B. Jones to order the negro taken to Atlanta. The chief of police of Gainesville and two deputies with the prisoner started to the state capital by automobile. There is little fear of further trouble here unless the five negroes arrested last week and placed in jail at Marietta are brought back for trial tomorrow.

Feeling still is running high and a lynching is threatened if the blacks are returned to this county. Negro In Atlanta. ATLANTA, Sept. of Police Smith, of Gainesville, having in custody the negro, Ernest Cox, who had confessed to attacking a white girl near Cumming, yesterday, arrived here at 10 o'clock tonight. Chief Smith brought word that the negro's victim died at her home near Cumming tonight.

The prisoner will be held on the double charge of assault and murder. AMERICAN OFFICERS GO TO MEXICAN BATTLE Ojiniga is Being Attacked by 400 Rebels, COWBOYS STOP SALAZAR Rebel Chief Wanted to Get Tobacco and -Campa Says He'll stroy Railroad If They Haul Any More Federal Troops. MARFA, Sept. Mexico, opposite Presidio, Texas, is being attacked from two sides by 400 Mexican rebels. The battle commenced at 3 o'clock, this afternoon.

A bullet from Mexican side struck an American at Presidio piercing his hip. A party of United States officers left Marta for the scene of the engagement early tonight. Marfa is fifty miles from the border. General Sanchez is in command of the federals defending Ojinaga. EL PASO, Sept.

cowboys on guard on the Mexican boundary near Hachita, N. prevented Inez Salazar, Mexican rebel leader, yesterday from crossing the border to get tobacco and other supplies, according to information brought here today by Bishop O. P. Brown, of the Mormon church. Bishop Brown says the cowboys sent word to Salazar that they would resist invasion by any of Salazar's men.

The cowboys said they can plainly see in the possession of zar's men many horses stolen from American territory. TUCSON, Sept. Campa today served notice on the Southern Pacific officials at Tucson that he would destroy the railroad system in western Mexico if the company persisted in hauling Mexican federals. He began at once by burning a passenger train captured Sunday at Villa Verde on the branch line from Naco to Cananea after allowing a coach of passengers He now to is roll engaged down hill in ihtching engine to the telegraph poles and puinng them down. EL PASO, Sept.

number of disarmed Mexican rebel soldiers are crossing into Texas east of El Paso, according to reports brought here today. The rebels a quit the command of Pascual Orozco east of here. Mexican federal advices are that Orozco is about to be captured by federal troops. Apparently he is surrounded south of Ojinaga. Company U.

S. army corps, reached here today from Fort D. A. Russell, to establish communication along the Texas, Arizona and New Mexico frontier. MEXICO CITY, Sept.

Santes, editor of El Pais for ten years and a noted political insurgent, died bere yesterday. Santos had been jailed many times for his indiscreet polltical utterances, and writings. WOULD DIG OUT RUINS OF ANCIENT NATIONS NEW YORK, Sept. to dispatches from Rome, J. Pierpont Morgan has laid before the Italian government a plan for completing the excavation in Pompeii and Herculaneum.

It is said Mr. Morgan is. willing to undertake the entire task of uncovering Herculaneum at his own expense. REPUBLICANS REGAIN CONTROL IN MAINE AS EARLY FIGURES TREND Democratic Governor Appears to Be Beaten, NATIONAL AGAINST STATE Democrats Made Their Race On National Issues, While Republicans Fought On State Questions. Many to Desert to Moose.

PORTLAND, Sept. turned back to the republican party in the state election today, William T. Haines, of Waterville, being elected governor over Governor Frederick W. Plaisted, his democratic opponent, who sought a second term, while the republicans regained one of the two congressional districts lost to the democrats two years ago. The new legislature is expected to have a small republican majority although returns before midnight were not sufficient to show whether former congressman.

Edwin C. Burleigh, republican, or Senator Obadiah Gardner, democrat, will be chosen to the United States senate for the term beginning next March. Returns for governor from 525 out of 634 election districts gave Haines, republican, Plaisted, democrat, 53,706. The corresponding vote for 1910 was: Fernald, republican, Plaisted, democrat democrat, 58,851. These returns show a republican gain of 9 per cent and if a democratic loss of 9 per throughout the state Haines' indicated by maintained, about 3,750 plurality, compared with 8,660 given Plaisted in 1910.

The congressmen elected are: First district, Asher C. Hinds, republican. Second district, D. J. McGillicuddy, democrat.

Third district, Forrest Goodwain, republican. Fourth district, Frank E. Guernsey, republican. Hinds, McGillicuddy and Guernsey were re-elected. Returns for the legislature showed eight republican and three democratic senators and 43 republican and 36 dernocratic representatives elected out of a total membership in the senate of 31 and in the house of 151.

The last legislature was heavily democratic in both branches. PORTLAND, Sept. struggle between the democrats and republicans in Maine today for control of the executive and legislative departments of the state government the four congressional districts and county offices was one of the closest in many years, with returns up to 10 o'clock tonight in favor of the republicans. With half the state on record, William T. Haines, republican, had a slight lead over Gov.

Frederick W. Plaisted, and the percentage system indicated that if the same ratio was maintained the republicans would win the fight for the head of the ticket by about 3,000. Returns from the four congressional districts also leaned toward the republicans, especially in the First, Third and Fourth districts, with the Second district showing a democratic tendency. The legislative returns were too meager up to late hour to give any indication of- the complexion of either branch, so the outcome of the fight for the United States senatorship between Senator Obadiah Gardner, democrat, and former Congressman Edwin C. Burleigh, republican, was in doubt.

The democrats went into the state struggle this fall on the defensive, won control of the state government in the election of 1910. They based their campaign almost wholly issues, although defending their nationase in the state administration. The republicans used state issues entirely as the weapons of attack. The progressive element of the republicans was in full control of party machinery, but with the approval of Colonel Roosevelt, a split was postponed until after today's struggle. Many of the leading state speakers in the campaign announced tonight that they were no longer in the republican ranks, but would take the stump immediately for Colonel Roosevelt.

The republican organization was able (Continued on Page Nine.) Great Crowds Meet Jubilant Boosters Starting at Perry, Fort Valley, Reynolds, But- ler, Talbotton, Paschal and Ending in Whole-Hearted and Enthusiastic Reception in Columbus Upon Arrival at Night, At Every Stop Hundreds of People Extend Glad Hand to Emissaries of Commerce and "Get- Together" Spirit in Georgia--At Talbotton Fully 2,000 People Turn Out to Greet the Train, Telegraph's Booster Edition Eagerly Gobbled Up by the Waiting Crowds and Joyfully Handed Out by Macon Business Men on Train, Club Privileges, Theater Entertainment and Night Ride at Columbus, While Talbotton Secretary Hyman received the following telegram from B. H. Richardson, superintendent of the Cherokee Life Insurance Company: "Sandersville, Sept. the Chamber of Commerce, care Macon trade special, Talbotton: Success to Macon boosters. Will be one of your citizens on October 1, and am interested in your great city's future.

Good luck to you." W. H. Underwood, of the Jacques Tinsley missed the booster train out of Macon this morning. He hopped into an automobile and reached the train Fort Valley. He will continue on the trip the rest of the way.

E. L. Vickers, of the Vickers Realty Company, had a cotton bush in the smoking compartment. "Just going to show this to the people of South Georgia that we can raise cotton here, too," he explained. The banners on the Macon booster train attracted great attention along the route.

These were worded: "Keep your eye on Macon," "Always first in every move, Macon." There were twelve banners in all to advertise the city and the Georgia State Fair. J. F. Curington, years old, a Confederate veteran, was one of the most interesting persons who were found at Talbotton. "I've never been to Macon but once since I surrendered to Wilson In that city," he told a Telegraph man.

"That was at the last U. C. V. reunion held there in May." The gray bearded old man told a remarkable story of how three generations of his family had fought in wars. His father was in the Indian war, he in the civil war, and his son in the SpanishAmerican war.

"But that is not all." he added. "Father and I practically ended our war record at Columbus. His company disbanded there. My company was captured there, but I escaped, fled to Macon and was again captured there. Macon is a great city.

It will be greater I am sure when such spirit is shown as to send a train right to our very door." Mr. Curington was in Company Third Georgia Regiment. The exhibits on the train are as follows: Acme Brewing Company, Mallard Mill Supply Company, H. D. Adams Company, Joseph N.

Napier Thurston Hatcheton Gantt Manufacturing Company, Company, ProcterGamble Company, Georgia Seed Store, Chappell, Jacques Tinsley Brunner Drug Company, J. Schofield Sons' Company, G. Bernd Company, Standard Brick Company, E. A. Waxelbaum National Milling Company, Bibb Sewer Pipe Company, A.

J. Long Cigar and Grocery Company, Wesleyan Female College, J. W. Burke Company, Macon Stone and Supply Company, H. Stevens Sons' Company.

GRIFFIN. PROGRESSIVES CLIMB ON THE BAND WAGON They, Too, WIll Pulibsh List of tributors--Want to Know Where cratic Money Went To. NEW YORK, Sept. H. Hooker, national treasurer of the progressive party, announced today that he -will make, public tomorrow a statement covering all contributions to the progressive party since it was founded and all disbursements, unpaid bills and obligations to date.

Mr. Hooker said he read the list of contributors to the democratic national campaign fund with surprise as he looked in vain for the corresponding list of expenditures. "What the American people are deeply and vitally interested in is where does the money. go," Mr. Hooker said, "and how it is used in furthering the election of our public men to office." Asked if his statement of contributions would include those prior to republican national convention at Chicago Hooker said the list would begin with the formation of the progressive party after the nomination of President Taft." By G.

W. GRIFFIN. COLUMBUS. Sept. the Macon boosters put in a tedious day, they arrived in Columbus tonight just as fresh and full of ginger as when they left Macon yesterday morning.

They not only kept up their schedule throughout the day, but arrived here tonight thirty-five minutes ahead of time, paschresult of a burst of speed from Columbus. John W. Blount, director of the railroad end of the tour, was urged to make faster time if possible from Paschal to Columbus. He cleared the track, got every train out of the way and the "Booster special" came through like a comet. The early arrival Macon boosters upset the plans of the Columbus boosters, who had arranged to entertain them at the Muscogee Club tonight.

were not at the station when the train arrived, but met the Macon party up- Tonight nearly one hundred of boosters are being entertained at the Majestic Theater, a vaudeville house. The freedom of the clubs is theirs, and every man in the visiting party is having the time of his life, and incidentally boosting Macon and getting busi- ness. Everybody Wanted The Telegraph. The showing that The Macon Telegraph made in the special booster edition was one that received attention on the train, as well as off the train. The part that the Macon business men played in disposing of this edition also is something remarkable.

They gathered the packages of papers up by armsful and delivered them into the hands of readers. They did not scatter to the four winds, but placed them with people whom they were satisfied would read everything from cover to cover. At every stop along the route there was marching and speech -making. When the train reached Paschal it had to take a short line, running to Talbotton, and consequently only the exhibition car and two others could be taken into Talbotton, all of the others, including the regular locomotive, being left behind on a siding at Paschal. The party arrived here in Columbus at 5 o'clock instead of 5:30.

Immediately after the boosters were met at the central part of the city by President F. M. Sommerkamp. The Columbus boosters' special cars were in waiting and the party was given an opportunity, line to see some of the city car. They started in day light, saw part of Wynnton avenue, which is one of the swell residential districts of this western city of the state.

Then they saw, further on, Wildwood Park, where thousands of little electric lights were at that time dangling from wires supported from limbs in what is claimed to be one of the prettiest groves in the state. While waiting at the entrance to this park to meet a car at the switch there the members of the party sang and made merry, as they had done all the way through the day. They had songs learned by heart before the trip was started, but an entirely new one was sprung on this trip, which made a hit with all of those aboard. It's short and like this: "Be a booster, Like a rooster; Sing a song, Make it longMacon! With considerable ginger in the yell. During the performance at the Majestic Theater tonight there were sev.

eral of the Macon party "hit" by the jokes of the actor folks. Mayor L. H. Chappell had appointed members of the board of aldermen as a special committee to meet Macon boosters and had requested the members of the Columbus board of trade and the Columbus Boosters' Club to act as a general reception committee. The coming of the local party was featured strongly in the local newspapers Sunday.

Mayor Chappell himself had planned to head the special reception committee, but was unable to do 80 on account of being called out of the city. The post-season ball game between Columbus and Jacksonville, won by the latter, this afternoon made the city look like a deserted village when the train arrived, save for a few members of the committee who, gotten ready to meet the train scheduled time. (Continued on Page Two.).