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ing temperature.
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SPOT CQTTON.
Liverpool, easier; 7.10. Atlanta, nominal;
lie. New York, steady; 12.80. New Or
leans, nominal; 130. Augusta, steady;
12*4. Savannah, steady; 12%.
VOL. VL NO. 34.
ATLANTA, GA., FRIDAY, SEPTEMBER 13,1907.
DPTrfC 1 . 1b AtlanU: TWO CENTS.
JrJtU.Ui2i: on Trains: FIVB CENTS.
Nearly Every Bed in
City Institution
Is Filled.
COUNTY AND CITY
may act together
Hospital to Cost $100,000 To
Be Proposed, To Be a
Joint Institution.
The erection of a Jolntcltyendcounty
S, TSaf t^ey co-o^r^ with the city
TcX* £ of com-
"Trl-cnglno believes «>-t the^.xp.-
rlence of this ""uS*bed In Atlanta
t,me ^\ V n ry wnrrTn . an 'nc,«a.e In the
=5rs&J--35»
c " , i et,o ritv limit* could not get
outaldo tne cuy 111111 • -Ruttle
sgstggss
ill with typhoid fever at a
private^ hospital^ In y Atlanta. Thl. Is
tho second time that they lmve raised
t
FoF two weeks at a time
If t£ Grady every bed woe occupied
£d no new patients could be brought
anmn of the old ones 1011. in
nrlvate sanitariums a similar con*
hi exlated. From conversations
2J“h *b?h£ds of the various hospitals
VSno's plan la for th, clty and
im.?^oola only! The old Grady hos.
$n£wSal turn over to tho negro
W The county would furnish enough pa-
tlents to Justify Its "I*""®;'°, r ”turing
the city are many manufacturing
plants, railroad camps and a large gen
'atlon, but no hospitals.
TO MAKE SPEECH
AT GEORGIA F
ts Invitation to Visit
tlanta on October
19.
VlUlam Jennings Bryan, twice candl.
* for president, champion of the
>ple and leading Democrat of Amer-
, will be Atlanta's guest on Batur-
r, October 13, and will deliver an
trees at the State Fair. _ . .
l letter was received from Colone ‘
ran Friday morning by Secretary
ink Weldon, of the State Fair, ac-
itlng the Invitation to be present at
i big show and saying he would be
•e on the date named. .
rhe great commoner will arrive in
anta Saturday morning and will
kt his address about midday. On
turday night he will leave for the
rib. Arrangements will s! once bs
da for Mr. Bryans entertainment
fie in the city, and the Indication.
. that he will be given the most en
islastlc reception Atlanta is capa
ff was extended an Invitation some
nths ago to be present In Atlanta
ring the fair, but until now It his
•n Impossible for him to so arrange
dates as to Include Atlanta,
rhere Is little doubt but that Satur
r" October 1». will be the big day of
■ fair. Thousands upon thousands
•r* Arp in Oeorala who look to Colo-
Bryan as the leader f°r Democracy
the next campaign, and they win
tbably come here to hear hit elo-
WILLIS JAMES DIES
OP HEART DISEASE
New York. Sept, ll—Willis James,
i member of the firm of Welch, Dodge
t Co, died today of heart disease ti
the White Mountalne. at the Ashland
Hotel. Mr. James for the last quarter
it a century has been conected with a
many great enterprises. He was horn
m Liverpool April 15, 111*. He was a
lirector in many big companies.
THE LUSITANIA LOWERS RECORD
FROM QUEENSTOWN TO NEW YORK
Screaming Whistles
and Cheering Crowd
Greet Racer.
five days, one hour
IS TIME OF VOYAGE
Vessel Crosses Bar at 9:05
A. M. Friday—More Con
tests Promised.
New York. Sept. 13.—The big Cu-
narder Lusitania reached New York
today on her maiden trip Just forty-
nine minutes ahead of the beet trans-
Atlantle record for tho Westward pas
sage held by the Hamburg-Amerlcan
liner Deutschland.
From Daunts Rock to Sandy Hook
the elapsed time of the Lusitania’s pas
sage was live days and fifty-four min
utes. Her average speed was 23.01
miles an hour. The Deutschland on
her fastest trip maintained an average
speed of 23.15 miles an hour, making
the trip from Cherbourg to New York,
a distance of 3,024 miles. In five days,
eleven hours and forty-live infinites.
Her record for the Lucanla’s route
would bo five days and five minutes.
The following Is from tho log of the
Lusitania, transcribed by Captain J. B
Watt:
•Left Liverpool stage at 9:13 p. m.
Saturday. Arrived at Queenstown at
Q.RS a_ m Sunday, September 8.
"Left Daunts Rock (ths start of the
race^agalnst time) at 12:11 P- m. Bun-
**'Tlapsed Vlme Ho*
an7l£dr H»k lightship 5 days. 54
m "Da?ly runs: Sunday. September 8.
The most Important **>•
Atlantic "learning had " u9l ^la, the
finish today whin W orid, steamed
largest "‘«; m Hik "Ad headed up the
P“"‘ ^hrnse channel, greeted by toot-
new Ambrose enann . ■ icraamln g 0 f
M and the cheer, of thousand, of
,l sTncV'the sailing °f ^he^great stjam;
ship, five days f ol ® owed dally by
Lusitania has-been flashed
Trim on bosnl. ^°TKS
many ***7’Jffina ctrcl* *• there ,B
cltement In niari Lusitania. The
over the com ng of the excitement
single exception In point ma tden
K’■»wfffte
,h ' n “ nd
,h * ’“eX Day***Run*Raoordad.
wtth the Lusitania It U different.
HeTevery day's run has been marked
Her every j tbat t , a ble to toot
down the bay xo ‘ ocean Club
BABB CONCEDES VICTORY
TO BILLY SMITH’S TEAM
A. f.r U Moata-m-T I.
Atlanta I? th, "winner of lb. Southern Lenttue pennant Th- lonni ninn
“SI rtSiSi'eSSi owe ..«> »«»•» “5
■a S.SK1SS a. 1 !”
"Yes it looks as If It Is all over but the shouting. I am not put
tidnly Hhetf to*have*played ^fimr'game* he/e ."of two. x’tUnta will
- float the banner."
MITS MW MEAT
lin MEWL
Eccentric Millionaire Con
vict Placed in Govern
ment Hospital.
Washington. Bopt 13.-Demtndlng that all
his meats be served raw, Louis A Ckmr-
dtln, the eccentric millionaire convict of
Chicago, who attracted moch attention e
veer ago through hit effort! to break Into
the federal penitentiary at Joliet, Hla. ar.
rived at St. Elizabeth* hoapltal In thla
city today from tho Atlanta penitentiary.
ilotirdnln, according to tho authorities at
Bt. Elisabeth#, entered the hospital .this
moralog fully fqutpped with a fresh supply
of the wildest Ideas. He told ths author!-
ties at th® hospital that h« had*served bia
sentence Id full, nod. while not offering any
objections to eojournlng for s while at the
hospital, wan very nnxlonn to know If the
transfer from Atlanta to Washington would
not Increase hta sentence.. He was teas-
gured tbat anch would not be th# caae,
and seemed eatlafled as to this POlnt. _
Oourdalo told the phyelcUns he wootd not
eat any cooked meets.
"I wsnt my meats row. flaw, do yon on-
derate nd?" bo la said to have exclaimed In
the midst of his argnmant
tlon decides to tour Europe.
Boat Is TOO Foot Long,
The Lusitania Is 790 feet long, II
feet In breadth, 10 feet moulded depth,
has a gross tonnage of 12,500 tons, and
displacement of 45,000.tons.
Her funnels are 24 feet In diameter
■nd 155 feet high. It required nearly
three years to build her. She hu nine
docks In all and Is fitted out with 175
water tight compartments.
New York, Bopt. II.—Her 2,100 pas-
sengers cheering her as queen of the
Beven Seas, the mammoth Cunard tur
bine liner Lusitania ended her record-
smoahlng dash across ths Atlantic at
Sandy Hook llghtahlp at 9:05 o’clock
this momlnr.
Vernon H. Brown, American repre
sentative of the Cunard Line, wtth a
party of Ambrose channel englneora on
a tug boat, met tho Lusitania at the
Hook and proudly algnaled greeting to
her captain, J. B. Watt. The ocean
going tug Eugene H. Moran took a
party of the Cunard Line’s friends down
to sea the huge ship as she completed
her run.
Then there was a government tug
nrai , « new jhlp. Tne Tnen tnero was u. iwanasm i«s
down the bay to^me*' a " 0cean CTub wlth em | nent engineers on board. MIs-
sirius was Chartered “Y ‘ der „ d sf e cellaneous craft from catboats to Iron
to welcome the new steamships and everything floatable
he 5 CO, VSn P un ch^Sel SSSked It. Set^n. .oiled out tow.3 the Hook
inWund ship*. The channel early today to accompany the glantee.
SSL* "wuJC’aiiw « «....»
vxnPsrsargirv8 sss-s *a£*,s’s, 1 si. lsis
,, n * r k n v 11 me s ho arrived and a. an d yelled U If the ahlp belonged to
Quarantine an> urne^ would come up them and her ncord waa their own.
soon as snt . ■ .■■■
%aa3.i®: ’Si-■s"' t c '‘° L * N0 «v%5aii T oV’v M ^
STS’ 6A”8<4r .aSSJW
imo from the continent to take the th, m.ltonla breaking all rec-
Lualtanla!" La Provence Is ordered to orda and wre stlng the blue ribbon of
•mash her own record from Havre by tha mi from Germany. It Is believed
’uSst two hour*. Thisjvould bring J h v „„, wllI .how a startling Increase
her In In six days, one hour and soms of apMd m future voyage.. f
" tii^rivalry that* has^eeTi'cau.wl by NOTIFY GOVERNOR
,hJ voy.g‘^ the Lu.it.nl. u of th. 0F FITZGERALD ROW;
Sws.32- tSSToTfh^M: trouble feared
LUafcrd to n *ompete"wl"h the Cunard- yttagrrsM. Os, Sept. ll-Whim a nura-
Dlverpool t Lusitania took away her of mrtdents of thl* city sttempted Isst
pellre offlctele
" . si is .kin tn ovi'ol »K
Mil YET RECOVER
miMTUMiun
snonunn
Defaulter Arrested While
Contemplating Death
In Jlississippi.
New Orleans. Sept 12.—Apparently
the shortage In the account, of the first
district tax collector, as a result of
Charles E. Lstten’s alleged defalcation,
will be considerably more than 2112,000.
It may be that half of this amount will
be recovered by solxure of the prop
erty that Is In the name of Virginia
Reed, the negress who, Letten stated,
got practically all of the money he
stole.
It Is possible tbat the charge of per
jury will be made against the Reed
woman. That appears to be the only
charge that can be made against her.
and this by reason of the fact that sho
denied Letten hod given her any money
when questioned regarding the matter
yesterday.
In his statement Letten sold he had
given the woman between 275,000 and
<80,000. If the perjury charge Is mode
It will be based on that statement.
Captain Richard Meredith, the offi
cial who led the men making tha cap
ture, has made a statement to ths ef
fect that he will not accept the 11,000
toward offered by Captain Fltspatrlck
for the arrest of the defaulter.
At the time of bis arrest he was seat,
ed under a big umbrella reading tha
■toriei of hla shortage in the newspa
pers. He sold the aun waa hot and he
read between hie efforta to tighten up
hla nerve to commit aulclde.
When he waa carried before the po
lice Inspector he said ha had apent the
entire sum of his shortage on Virginia
Reed, a negress. who Is also under ar
rest. The woman lived In a handsome
ly furnished apartment In the French
quarter. The greater part of the sum,
he said,.had been Invested In realty.
She hod made a will leaving the greater
part of her estate to an orphanage.
When arrested Letten had 81 cents In
his pockets. He had been hiding In the
weeds along the river’s-bank since hla
■llsaiipenrnm «.
Virginia Reod, who Is sold to have
bled Letten for 2100,000, tried to commit
suicide this morning by Jumping Into
Bayou 8t. John. She was rescued and
locked up. Letten’a ball haa been set
at 160.000.
GOVERNOR TO SPEAK
AT
Hoko Smith to Address Big
Rally and Visit
Romo.
Governor Smith will leave at 6:10
o'clock Friday afternoon via the West
ern end Atlantic railroad for Bummer
vllle, where he will address a big edu
rational rally Saturday. He will apend
Friday evening In Rome, and It ts un
derstood that a reception In hla honor
1 Is being arranged at the Cherokee Ho-
*tel. Oovemor Smith will return to At
lanta Saturday evening.
FIRING MEN
TO CUT DOWN
EXPENSE BILL
Southern Railway Re
ducing Shop
Force.
"Yes, the men are laid off for the
simple reason that there la no money
with which to pay them."
Short and to the point was Master
Mechanic J. F. Sheahan’s explanation
for the enforced Idlenesa of between
130 and 160 employees at the South
ern’* Atlanta shops Thursday after
noon.
Retrenchment, occasioned by recent
rate legislation which has cut down tlie
railroad’s revenue, was the cause.
And at present there Is no Indication
when there will be Jobs for these men
who have been fired. Master Mechanic
Sheahan does not know. Neither can
he state whether or not any more will
be laid off.
"The orders came from Washington.'
he said, "and there wna nothing to do
but lay off some men and cut down
expenses. We could not keep them
when there Is no money with which to
pay them. Between ISO and 160 have
been laid off.”
Of those men who have lost their
Jobs, twenty-three were machinists get
ting from 223 to 626 a week; one cop
persmith, at about $6 a day; three boil
er-makers, at 6#.10 a day; fifteen help
ers. at $1.20 a day; two blacksmiths,
at 22.20 a day. and one hundred car
penters and car builders, at <2 a day.
The heaviest cut was mode In the
carpenters and car builders, but there
were 600 af these before the cut.
Save $12,000 a Month.
Last month the Southern had 1,100
men on the pay roll at the. Atlanta
shop* and It Is estimated that the
shortening of the force will save tho
road at least 112,000 a month. Tho
cutting down of the force mians that
about'five-or six 'hundred persons aro
affected, as nearly all the men laid off
have families
Among Atlanta workingmen tho be
lief la prevalent that a shortening of
the force at the shops Is not really
necessary, and that It Is only a bluff to
Influence the country because of rate
legislation. Many of them claim that
the Southern can not afford to shorten
Its force In the shops and they pre
dict that If this continues the road will
be as badly handicapped as when the
■trike of Southern machinists was on
some years ago. and the round housea
were filled with "dead and crippled’
enflnM.
Railroad officials, however, say there
was nothing else to do In view of the
hostile legislation In several Southern
states. The shortening of forces, they
say. la In line with the stopping of new
work and the holding up of contracts
and that wtth the revenues of the road
greatly reduced the expenditure# mu#t
necessarily be curtnlled.
In Other 8hope.
The order which reduces the number
of men In the Southern shops In At
lanta hit the big shops at Spencer. N.
C where 160 men were also laid off.
It Is expected to take effect In the
■hopa all over the Southern’s system.
While the Atlanta, Birmingham and
Atlantic was allowed to charge I cents
a mile by the railroad commission, the
road has been affected by the order af
fecting the other roeds. The Atlanta.
Birmingham and Atlnntlc has been
compelled to meet the reduced rate* of
other roads entering competitive points
and the reeult haa been a reduction In
the revenue* of th* road. A* a result.
It vsi found necessary to lay off 110
men In th* ehope at Fltsgerald lest
Tuesday to curtail expense*. This road
la doing a vast amount of construction
work and Is under heavy expense.
SPENCER BHOP8 FIRE
8 180 MEN FROM FORCE.
Spencer, N. C, Sept. 18.—The South
ern Railway Company lost night dis
charged 160 of It* employee* at Spen
cer pursuant to a general brder, which.
It I* sold, cover* the entire Southern
111 ’t'was understood that the reduction
of the force had been made necessary
by adverse legislation and In order to
meet expen#**.
SHORTENING OF PAY ROLL8
18 NOT RETRENCHMENT.
Washington. Bept. 18.—O. B. Acker,
passenger agent of the Southern rail
way, denied that adverse legislation
had anything to do with the discharge
of the men on the Southern eyetem.
He eald that there w*a nothing unus
ual In the discharge, as the number of
men employed during the past ten
months has been very Urge, end It was
necessary to lay off * few of them be
cause of th* fact that work at the pres
ent time Is a bit alack. He said that
the men will probably be needed and
taken bock again toon.
43 MEN LET OUT R
Columbia, S. C, Sept. 12.—Pursuant
to an order received at the Southern
railway shop* here. 42 men were tem
porarily dismissed today.
165 MACHINISTS LAID
165 |N RI CHMOND SHOPS.
Richmond. Vo., Sept. 12—On# hun
dred and elxty-flve machinists am-
ployed at th# Manchester shop# of th*
Southern railway were laid off today
following order* to reduce expense*. Six
hundred end fifty nipn were employed
isa *>i« Mhntitf here. • '
USE
CAUSE
U. S. and S. Carolina
Courts May Lock
Horns.
Columbia, S. C., Sept. IS.—A clash
between the state and Federal courte
may result from an appeal In the caae
of Pink Franklin, the negro convicted
at Orangeburg last Monday of the
murder on July 29 of Magistrate's Con
stable Henry Valentine, white, and
sentenced to be hanged October 25. The
presiding Judge overruled three consti
tutional objections urged as grounds
for continuance os well as a motion to
quash the Indictment for Irregularity
In keeping coroner's records.
Defendant's Attorneys John Adams,
of Columbia, and Jacob Moore, of
Orangeburg, both negroes, will appeal
on the allegation that the circuit court
erred In not granting a continuance.
Valentine was killed while attempt
ing to execute a warrant for violation
of the state labor contract law. 5
law having recently been declared un
constitutional by Judge Brawley. of the
United States district court for South
Carolina, Franklin's attorneys argue
that the warrant was void and Frank
lin was, therefore. Justified,In resisting
arrest under It. Defense also alleges
that the franchise clause In the state
constitution Is In violation of the act of
congress of January 25, 1888, which re
quired that after reconstruction the
Southern stateB should remain In the
Union wtth their franchise require
ments unchanged.
Judge Brawley** decision threw the
labor system of the state Into chaos
and much high feeling has developed
between plnntcrs In farming sections as
the result of the practice followed by
some farmers since the decision of lur
ing to tholr own plantations negroes
who are already under contract, ac
cording to the old lqbor law, to \vork
for other planters.
•Federal court officials are known to
bo keeping an eye upon the case with
tho Intention of taking a hand should
the state supreme court set at naught
the Brawley decision.
TMtiTriTup
STATE WILE
WIRE STRIKE
Petitions FromGeorgia
Towns To Be
Heard.
H r. commission %
TO TAKE UP MATTER
Gainesville, Cedartown and
Marietta Complain of
Conditions.
Litigation Settled in Sum
mary Manner During
Night.
Bpeclsl to The Georgian.
Charlotte, If, C., 8*pt. II.—Th* entire
stete eras thrown Into excitement early
this morning by the news from Hickory
that unknown parties Isst night bad liter
ally cleared the ground of several hundred
feet of tracks of the Caroline end North
western railroad. In the heart of ths
freight yards. A long litigation In which
tbs town of Hickory wns greatly Interested
tome time ago resulted In s derision that
th* Southern and the Carolina and North
western roeds should us* the nos depot,
end that th# Carolina, end Northwestern
tracks should he moved.
V terday ths Csrollna and Northwestern
on. put a foreman end gang of men kt
rnrk to repair the tracks on ths forbidden
160 fast of tracks.
A meeting of the corporation commission,
th* people of nickory tnd the offtrlsl* of
the two roads Is called for thle afternoon,
when development* are expected. It was
said that ahontd a move 6* mads to re
place the torn-op tracks
-neue, th* yards
ritlaens end th*
Just how seriously the strike of ths
telegraphers Is affecting the companies
will be brought out In a hearing to be
had before tho railroad commissioners
on complaints filed by citizens of
Gainesville, Griffin, Cedartown and Ma
rietta.
Petitions from these places, calling
on the commission to Investigate and
compel tho restoration of telegraph
facilities at tho points named, were
filed Friday.
These petitions all bear from 25 to 75
names of leading citizens and business
houses. The petition from Gainesville
states that ths office there has been
closed since August 15. and nil commu
nication with tho outside world shut off.
As a consequence, business Interests
have suffered.
Marietta complains that no service
has existed since August 15, while Ce
dartown and Griffin state that the of
fices at thoso points have been "dead”
since August 10.
Controls Telegraph,
Under the rules of the railroad com
mission. that body has Jurisdiction over
telegraph companies, and no office can
b* closed wlthtfut the consent of tho
commission, unless valid reasons arc
glvsn. Inasmuch os officials of the tele
graph companies now assert that ths
strike Is cot affecting them. It Is ln|
tcrestlng to know what reason or ex
cuse will be offored for closing down
the offices at tho towns named.
Of course, tho railroad commission
would probably decide that a strike was
- matter beyond tho control of any one.
and a legal and valid excuse. But will
the telegraph companies admit that the
■trike 1* affecting them to such an ex-
tent?
It Is understood that these petitions
were drawn by C. T. Ladson. of At
lanta, and sent to all points In the state.
The wording of those filed with the
commission Is Identical. Other peti
tions of a similar purport aro expected.
Inasmuch as the commission will be
busied n good part of next week with
litigation In the courts. Federal and
■tats, on the passenger rates, no date
for hsaring the complaints about the
telegraph service has been fixed yet.
It Is the desire of the commission,
however to take up the matter as soon
as possible, aa It Is a matter of. greatest
moment to the public,
OGtWOOWOOOOOOOGOOClCHKKJCHJO
O WEATHER MAN FAVOR8 O
0 MANAGER BILLY SMITH. <t
£. ■ — O
a Weather man Is still oo-oper- O
0 atlng with Billy Smith In the ef- 0
0 fort to land the bunting for At- ’O
O lento. While ’’partly cloudy" Is 'O
0 forecasted, rain doe* not nppeatyO
O to be on the program. Q
0 ^partly* cloudy Friday night and 0
0 Saturday.”
O Friday temperatures.
0 3 o’clock a. m.
0 8 o’clock a. m.
0 9 o'clock a. m.
O io o’clock a. ra.
0 li o’clock a. m.
O 12 o’clock noon.
O l o’clock p. m.
0 x o’clock, p. m. ^
0O000OO00O00OOOOOO000O000O.
.68 degrees.
.71 degrees.
.75 degrees.
.77 degrees.
.78 degrees.
.80 degrees.
.81 degrees.
.82 degrees.
Growth and Progress of the New Sooth
The Georgian Her* record* vachday sejae
rconomlc fact Is reference to th# onward
progrraa of tho Booth.
BY •
JOSEPH B. LIVELY
.JBVtt ttS&JWSSrfl *3 bTft. «
por, ^«tMnl72rr?Sttoo l oll company appasrlgthr iwfrjn North Cara-
llna..Th"_reporta_from,Sws i ta*!»d* 1 *hr**. | a*JJSEj'SM^SraVuhsamsX*
states namedfoi th* vrrek la a* fol ^jg|j 0
Bt. Louie—828,000 construction company,
^“frmton-mSomllHn^compeny.
Ihvrriment company.
jsmravUl^^MOO 1 eoftrajutlL
system.
company.
Mount Pleasant—68,000 war.hones company, briek wortfc
;a—310.000 r”
its*—126.000 p.
I Rio—330.OJ0 ti
Campo—Ware
company.
packing plant,
telephone ayete
Hfl PIU fPIIIIIIII tnrjmuuo »/ ——
Ocntltrce—310.000 develmterat company.
Sand Falla—3310,008 '^'^T^hotNIA.
g—350,00? mining company
company.
oil and gna company.