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CHAPTER 66 1888 HE municipal election of December 7, 1887, resulted in the appearance of two new aldermen-at-large in council, and one new councilman from each ward. Albert Howell and Jacob Haas defeated H. C. Stockdell and T. D Meador for the aldermanic positions. The new councilmen were: First ward. James M. Stephens, manager Western Union Telegraph Company; second ward, Paschal J. Moran, editor, Constitution; third ward, James G. Woodward, printer, Evening Journal; fourth ward, Sampson A. Morris, grocer; fifth ward, Andrew P. Thompson, hardware merchant, and sixth ward, Martin F. Amorous, general manager, Atlanta Lumber Company.1 In addition to Mayor Cooper and Council, Atlanta's official family for 1888 was composed of the following: CITY OFFICERS: Clerk, J. H. Goldsmith; marshal, James W. Loyd; auditor and recorder, James A. Anderson; city attorney, John B. Goodwin; tax receiver and collector, David A. Cook; treasurer, Robert M. Farrar; city engineer, R. M. Clayton; messenger, Jacob Morris; sexton, W. A. Bonnell. POLICE DEPARTMENT: Commissioners, J. W. English, W. T. Goldsmith, John Stephens, E. W. Martin, W. H. Brotherton. Chief of Police, Arthur B. Connolly. Captains, William M. Grim, W. Pink Manley, E. F. Couch and J. W. Mercer. FIRE DEPARTMENT: Chief, W. R. Joyner. Foremen, Jacob Emmel, T. W. Haney, M. R. Murray, H. P. Haney and W. H. Clowe. BOARD OF HEALTH: Drs. W. S. Armstrong, J. B. Baird, J. F. Alexander, W. M. Curtis, and Mr. Aaron Haas. WATER COMMISSIONERS: C. C. Hammock, H. C. Erwin, W. M. Middlebrooks , M. L. Collier, Zachariah H. Smith, Joel Hurt; W. G. Richards, superintendent . BOARD OF EDUCATION: President, W. A. Hemphill; Vice-President, John T. Glenn; Treasurer, R. J. Lowry; Secretary and Superintendent, William F. Slaton; E. J. Roach, M. C. Blanchard, A. L. Kontz, T. L. Bishop, David Mayer, D. A. Beatie, Hoke Smith, P. J. Moran, A. L. Greene, George S. Cassin, W. S. Thomson, W. R. Hammond, W. M. Bray, J. E. Brown, L. P. Grant, and John T. Cooper, Mayor, ex-officio. COMMISSIONER, PUBLIC WORKS: Michael Mahoney. Clerk, Clarence E. Moore. ASSESSORS: Thomas J. Malone, David A. Cook, and Charles D. Meador.2 The Board of Health had its hands full during August, 1888, when the city became host to a large influx of refugees from Jacksonville, Florida, where a yellow fever epidemic held sway. While there was no rigid quarantine against those seeking safety from the dread disease, yet proper precautionary measures were taken to prevent it from securing a foothold in the city. Beginning on August 14th, every passenger train coming into Atlanta was carefully inspected by a physician, one being assigned to each of the railroads. Suspicious cases were promptly quarantined. A special fund of $5,000 was appropriated by council to be used in the work of prevention. Happily, however, no actual case of yellow fever was brought here, nor did a single case develop among the thousands of refugees who passed through, or who remained in Atlanta.3 T THE EIGHTEEN-EIGHTIES 165 A notable event in local legal circles took place on April 28, 1888, when, with some 100 lawyers present, the Atlanta Bar Association was organized, The constitution thereof was drawn by Judge John L. Hopkins. First officers, elected unanimously, were: Judge Hopkins, president; Nathaniel J. Hammond, first vice-president; Edwin N. Broyles, second vice-president; Walter H. Rhett, secretary. The original executive committee was composed of John B. Goodwin , William S. Thomson and Thomas P. Westmoreland.4 A fee bill, unanimously adopted by the association was drawn by a committee composed of Hoke Smith, Eugene M. Mitchell, Walter R. Brown, Adolph Brandt, Hubert L. Culberson, William P. Hill, Wellborn M. Bray, Albert H. Cox and W. M. Haight. The organization was chartered by order of Judge John T. Pendleton, of Fulton Superior Court, on September 8, 1906, under a charter drawn by Clifford L. Anderson, Walter W. Visanska, E. Marvin Underwood, James L. Key and Alexander W. Stephens. Organization under this charter was effected on September 15, 1906, and the officers then elected were: John L. Hopkins, then 78 years old, president; Benjamin F. Abbott and Clifford L. Anderson, vice-presidents; W. P. Hill, secretary-treasurer; and an executive committee composed of Sanders McDaniel, Eugene M. Mitchell, Charles D. Hill, Reuben Arnold and Alex W. Smith.5 The reading tastes of Atlantans, with the money to collect books and the leisure to read them, is indicated by a survey of private libraries made by the Constitution on June...

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