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Newspaper
Atlanta Constitution
Location
Atlanta, Georgia, United States of America
Date
May 29, 1914
Page
9
Governor Hooper of Tennessee visits Georgia with politics off limits. He deflects questions with a polite smile as Tennessee’s hot race looms. Hooper, two term governor, faces term limits and potential Senate talk. Atlanta trip includes highway commissioners and convict inspection.
Governor Hooper toured Georgia convict camps with A E Davidson and S B Turman to inspect methods for employing prisoners on public roads. The party, including leaders from Tennessee, observed Hobson and Roseland camps then the federal Reiger, noting well treated inmates and clean facilities while weighing Georgia versus Tennessee systems. A road bill draft commission of fifty prominent men accompanied the governor for study and future policy decisions.
America Georgia May 28 Special Shipments of peaches were sent today from Americas orchards in less than carload lots to Mobile and New Orleans. Ware Orchard company sold thirty five thousand crates under season contract to the local canning company. Estimated local crop totals include five carloads of peaches, fifty to seventy five carloads of watermelons, and about twelve carloads of cantaloupes.
Harry K Thaw departed from Canenra Clonee on May 28 to Gorham in the White Mountains for a summer at a hotel. He was accompanied by custodians Snerit Holman A Drew and Deputy Clark D Stevens.
The first Georgia peaches of the 1914 season depart for New York by special train over the Southern railway. From Byron, Ga, the car, delivered in Atlanta, heads to reach New York by Saturday market time. Officials from Southern, Pennsylvania, Central of Georgia, Atlanta Birmingham and Atlantic, Macon and Birmingham, Fruit Growers Express, and Georgia Fruit Exchange organized the peach traffic. The Georgia crop is about five thousand cars, with fifteen to twenty peach trains planned from Atlanta each night.
The steamship Luckenbach, nearly 1600 tons, with a crew of 29, is reported lost at sea after leaving Tampa May 15 for Baltimore. Wreckage off the South Carolina coast suggests disaster though identity of the drifting material is unconfirmed. Captain A K Webb commanded the ship, most crew hailed from Baltimore, and the cargo was mainly phosphate.
Washington May 28 Secretary Bryan instructed Minister McMulin to seek recognition of the new Peruvian government led by Colonel Benavides. Lima, Peru and Santiago, Chile report Brazil Argentina and Chile officially recognizing the administration on May 28.
Miss Annie Kenney a suffragette known for militant protest, was arrested at Lambeth Place residence of the archbishop of Canterbury and later returned to lie on the pavement outside the home as suffragette nurses attended the scene drawing a crowd.
The Southern Commercial Congress forms a commission led by Clarence J Owens to study urban conditions in England France Germany Italy Austria Hungary Switzerland Belgium and the Netherlands. It sails July 9 to London to attend the International Congress of Municipal Executives and Civic Leaders, then tours Europe before reporting to the Muskogee convention in November.
The first cotton bloom of the 1924 crop was brought to Pelham by farmer W H Butler, three miles east of town. Despite dry weather hurting other crops, the cotton crop is growing well and is very fine in parts of this county.
Central of Georgia announces a schedule change effective May 21. The Ne train for Macon Albany Thomasville Montgomery and intermediate points will depart Atlanta at 1 01 am instead of 11 45 pm. Ponieneer Agent adv.
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