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: • \ " For Atlanta and Vicinity—Partly cloudy tonight and Saturday, ril ing temperature. Full and Complete Market Reporta are Printed Every Day , In The Georgian. • i a -vy-T-T-v ■VJ'TlTTrO “The Braeebrldge Diamonds,” a thrilling mystery story, Is now \j X^l l2j' W ^ being printed In The Georgian. 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.