the South was not making the most of its possibilities in cotton culture, and so proceeded to make a thorough study of "the most valuable plant the earth has ever produced," as he puts To Double the Cotton Crop, riis effort liae been to find a hybrid plant, between the long staple which is raised successfully ouly on the coast and the less valuable upland coton, which can be profitably pro duced in Middle Georgia. By patient eiorimeotation, in co-operation with tke Department of Agriculture, he has made (jreat progress In this direction and is gradually evolving a cotton plant which promises to bring a much higher average return than the far mer has realized in the past. This is th sort of work which few men have the patience to do, but which confers its benefits upon all when once ac complished. It is a wonderful thing to lift an entire industry, and thus to elevate the standard of living for tens of thousands of families more wonderful, far, than building a rail oad or a cotton mill, as I have said. What he has done with live stock and cotton, Mr. Hunt has also done with fruit culture. He has taken the lead In planting orchards, and in dem onstrating what varieties of peaches, miples and pears are best suited to the soil and climate and to the markets open to the Georgia farmers. He has done the same with grapes and ber ries, and thus again achieved results which have benefited other growers as much as himself. In the course of his studies he has visited the most famous fruit-growing and wine-pro-(Uiclng districts of the world, includ ing those in California and in France and has necessarily become a man of science. In this way he has made the acquaintance of the foremost scien tists of the world and on the occasion of Herbert Spencer's visit to the Unit ed States he was the only man out side the ranks of professional scien tists invited to meet, the world's greatest thinker. Incidentally, it may be mentioned that he is an enthusi astic collector of Indian antiquities, and that his search for rare speci mens has carried him all over the United States and Mexico, and even to distant islands of the Pacific. No Antagonism to Northern Men. Although It goes without saying Scene in one of Mr. Hunt's Full Bear in g Peach Orchards. that the North ha9 not sent many mon down South who have accom plished as much In raising the eco nomic standard as Benjamin W. Hunt has done, It is noue the less true that Soul horn cities and towns, and par ticularly Atlanta, are full of Northern men who are injecting a new spirit into the life of the region. And It is vastly creditable to the native stock that thoy welcome enterprising men from north of Mason and Dixon's Line and fcVovy in their achievements. It they tire less proud of the new comer than of the old-timer they cer tainly conceal the fact. The truth seems to bo that the whole community is permeated by the spirit of enter prise which those Northern men have brought, mill it scorns to be reflected In the buildings, the stores, the ho tels, and In the faces and bearing of tho people themselves. The population of Atlanta nnd its Immediate suburbs is now probably nboiit 150,000 and is rapidly growing, at least twice as rapidly as the pop ulation of the United States. But its business, ns evidenced by bank clear ings and postal receipts, is growing much faster than its population. TlUs business is largely in the form of manufacturing, although the whole sale trade is also expanding to enor mous proportions. The growth of railway, telegraph and telephone sys tems naturally keeps pnee with trade, manufacture and population. All this requires constant activity In building operations nnd the employment of an Increasing army of labor. In other words, Atlanta, and the great State of Georgia of which it is the metrop olis, are enjoying an era of extraor dinary prosperity. Science Supplants Chance. This prosperity is due in large part to the extent and value of natural re sources, but it is also largely due to the new methods which have been in troduced in recent years. Beginning with the farmer and goiug on through Hi line of industrial factors men are working In the light of science in stead of depending on chance. What Mr. Hunt has done In connection with live stock, cotton culture and fruit growing, everybody is doing to some extent. They are getting the aid of State and National Governments, and thus asserting their control over the forces of nature in a way which ap proaches ever nearer to perfetlon. Jliis means less waste, Ejors sfleloncy and a better disposition of the com forts of life. It would be ungracious to say that all this Is due to the influence of men from the North, and it would be un true as well as ungracious; but it Is nevertheless a fact that the ideas which dominated in the old days were not adapted to the best use of Southern resources and opportunities for development, and that these old ideas had to surrender to new and better plans and methods before the South which is now rapidly develop ing could be possible. One of the sfongest forces in the new movement is the stream of Northern blood and capital which has flowed into the beautiful Southern land since the days of reconstruction. And I repeat, because it cannot be said with too much emphasis, that Georgia knows this, appreciates It, and want3 more of It. These are facts which may he prop erly taken Into consideration by North ern people who are looking for homes. They are quite as important as soil, climate and markets. In this connec tion, I am tempted to make a final quotation from Mr. Hunt, because n has an important bearing upon the social life of the region and is dis tinctly in line with my own observa tion. "The caste instinct is always resi dent in the brain of the white man, North or South, be he Catholic, Prot estant or Quaker. In the North, this finds expression in social distinction based on the possession of wealth and culture. South, the caste instinct finds so much greater differences In inherent civilization, In the white race, against inherent barbarism In the black race, that the caste senti ment justifies Itself in dividing the white from the black. Hence, there exists fuller democracy among all white people in the South than else where. Here, minor Bocial differences are annulled by the one great caste distinction. This condition gives freer play to altruistic social usage among the white people here than In other parts of our country." "Isben" Loved Liberty. An accomplished poll-parrot, known as "Isben," belonging to a well known member of Washington society, es caped from captivity the other day, and the efforts of a number of intrepid A Family of the "Hunt Jer seys" Mag nificent Milkers tnd Breeders. climbers to secure the pet bird afforded much amusement and consideable ex citement to a crowd of hundreds of on-lookers. The fact that the mistress of the bird had offered a large reward for his safe return spurred over a score of men of all conditions of life to cap ture the feathered truant. Polly, escaping from his cage, made a bee-line for one of the trees near the Treasury Department building, and sat there looking around, a gorgeous bit of green and red. The fun commenced when a rather corpulent individual es sayed to climb the tree and secure the bird. "Isben" is an accomplished talker, and as he flew to the next tree he called out very distinctly "nay! nay!" A colored youth climbed tree number two, and, after nearly breaking his neck through the rotteness of a limb, succedod in getting within about two feet of "Isben." "Put salt on his tail," said a wag in the crowd. The youth Bhowed his apti tude for going after birds that roosted high, such, for instance, as chickens, but he was not used to the flying kind, and just as he "reached" for "Isben" the bird flew up to the top of a tall telegraph pole. At this point there sal. lied forth Walter Perry, who claims to be the best coon hunter in Alabama, and scrambled up the pole in record time. Then with a stout wire, crooked at the end, he hooked Poll's leg, and a vast fluttering ensued, with a yell of triumph from Walter. The crowd cheered, but "Isben" had apparently been lariated before, for ho quickly dis engaged himself and with a cheerful hee-haw! flew away about a block and alighted in a large cottonwod tree. "Send for Santos Dumont and nil air-ship," piped up one of the crowd; then a telegraph messenger boy, three or four colored men, a jack-tar from the Navy Yard, and a college athlete climbed trees and poles to secure the reward. The parrot kept up a more or less continuous conversation with his would-be taptors, but it was noticed that his remarks were of a quite proper nature, "hot air" being the most ob jectionable. After flying around sightseeing for an hour or so, "Isben" flew into a tree near a police station. ""Isben," when last seen, was roost ing in the branches of a big elm tree, apparently asleep. One old and very black darkey remarked, confidentially, to a companion, " 'Lijah. when It glta real dark. I sure will ketch dat bird, 'case I argues dat no bird, whether he parrot or whatsoever, can see a met ob my color on a bun dark night." GOTHAM'S STREET CARS. THE GREAT SUB-WAT OF XEW YORK AL WA YS CROWDED FOR STANDING ROOM. Forty Million Dollar System Proves . Entirely Inadequate to Transport Crowds.-INeed for an Additional System. Now York's underground street rail way, the "Sub-way," lias been in full op eration just about a year and abalf. The relief which this J40,000,0u0 system was expected to give the elevated roads end surface lines has proved inade quate to meet the needs of the increas ing traffic. Within a month from the day the first subway train carrying paymg passengers made the trip from City Hall to Harlem, the crush on the elevated and surface cars during the rush hours was as great as ever. Owing to the peculiar elongated form of the city, the bulk of the traffic trav els north and south. It was estimated that the subway would relieve the north and south daily rush by 43,000, .,rjr Mm, , Excavation for Tunnel on New Jersey Side, Irk;:' - but the morning and evening crowd that makes the lively hours on' the elevated and surface roads had In creased by 60 per cent., or from 67,000 to over 100,000, before the subway had been in operation nine months. ' For all hours of the day between 9 In the morning and 5 in the afternoon, the city's rapid transit system is more than adequate, though the average dally traffic amounts to about 2,000,000 north and south, and about 400,000 east and west. The trouble comes be tween 7:30 a. m. and 9:00 a. m when thousands from all directions within a radius of 35 miles of the borough of Manhattan are rushing toward the downtown Bection of the city (below Twenty-third street), and again be tween 6:00 p. m. and 6:00 p. m., when the same thousands are struggling back to their homes. By far the greater portion of New York'B business is transacted below Twenty-third street, on an area having a maximum length of three miles and a maximum width of two miles. Where there Is so little ground to build upon, Mturally real estate and skyscrapers rise together, the former to millions of dollars, the latter to tens of stories. On that triangle having Twenty-third Btreet for its base and the Battery for Its very pointed apex, there are hun dreds of buildings housing over 6,000 people each during the working hours. Btcnding on the roof of one of these towers of Industry, one rising twenty nine stories, for instance, with the aid of a glass, a man may count four ele vated roaas running from the upper sections of New York City down to the triangle; surface line after surface line running under or paralleling the "L." roads, but converging and becoming consolidated at Twenty-third street into only six roads, there being room for no more below that thoroughfare; crosstown surface lines still served by about 400 horse cars; the innumerable little glass and iron entrance and exit structures that dot the route of the subway from the Bronx to City Hall; the twenty or more tireless ferries pad dling back and forth across the Hud- eon and East rivers; every car and boat crowded to the last inch of stand-. lng room,- all unloading into that roar ing triangle. The problem is to carry Into and distribute through this tri angle, within a given time, a constant If increasing horde of workers. Forty-five Hundred n Minute. The traffic returns for the year end ing June SO, 1004, show that during a single rush hour, the elevated and sur face lines running north and south carried 67,000; the ferries crossing irom Brooklyn, other Long Island points and Staten Island, 31,000; cars over the Brooklyn Bridge, 33,000; the New Jersey and Hudson river ferries, 82,000; crosstown lines, 12,000, a total Of 175,000 landed and distributed be tween Twenty-third street and the Bat tery In 60 minutes. By June SO, 1905, the rush hour crowd had increased to 270,000. The strain of carrying the Increase falls tnost heavily on the elevated roads, the surface lines and the sub way, which have to take care of not only the business people from Man hattan and the Bronx, but the thou sands of Hudson river commuters landed by the New York Central at Forir seeond street, and on the Brook lyn Bridge. The new Williamsburg bridge Is vnpopular because only one Brooklfn elevated line connects with it, and also because its New York term inal Is a mile and a half from City Uall. A Host of New Subways. To relieve the elevated roade. sur. face lines and subway of New York City Itself, nineteen new subways have been proposed. Greater speed or ltr number of trains on the "Ls" tat subway ls Impossible without dai- p 1 , , 7 ' . ,1 j . I' WWA ger of accident. Already 600 cars art run on Broadway between 6 and 6 o'clock in the evening, and Mock-ups occur every few minutes. To provide greater accommodations . . , - for people crossing from Brooklyn and ftther Lnnst Island rlMpn nnrl tnwna tther Long Island cities and towns, two new bridges are under way the Manhattan, to be finished next year, and the Blackwell'a Island bridge, to De linisned in iau. The Bast River Tunnel to connect the New York sub way with Brooklyn may be completed li 1916. The experts say that these two bridges and the tunnel will ac- commoiiate 175,000 per hour, The pres- nt traffic by bridges and ferries be- tween Long Island and Manhattan Is- land approximates 100,000, the rate of increase last year being about 50 per I cent. There Is no reason to expect a j smaller Increase in anv one of the ten t yearf before the East River Tunnel will be opened. It would seem, therefore, j that the Long Island side of the prob-! lem is fc no means solved. . v f nineteen no with which it Is planned to honeycomb ; Manhattan, it will be yearB and yeara ! before they can be put into-operatlon, The Pennsylvania R. . Hudson River Tunnel which will carry Passengers un der the River to the ji"iv York Sub-way Trains 1 A 1 ! W W 'v t,h" and In the meantime the population is lncms'ng to astounding numbers. Ita traveling portion is also increasing. 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