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VOL. VI. NO. 46.
ATLANTA, GA., FRIDAY, SEPTEMBER 27,1907.
PRTfTR. Is Atlanta: TWO CENTS,
a. J-VALiXti. on Train,: FIVE CENTS.
JONES AVENUE BRIDGE WRECKED IRFII SERVICE
BY SOUTHERN TRAIN THURSDAY
City Fathers Finally
Come’Round to The
Georgian’s Views.
LONE CITIZEN LEE
ISSUES A DEFI
Long Hearing on the Terrell
Resolution—Final Hear- .
ing Next Tuesday.
Two Men Slightly Hurt.
Traffic Tied Up For
Several Hours.
The Jones avenue bridge, one of the
most substantial nteel bridges In the
city, fell in about 11 o'clock Friday
Ing, as the result of a freight car,
ng at a high rate of speed, atrlk-
nc of the steel pillars supporting
It seem* that a string of freight cars,
about twenty in number, wero being
thought Into the city from the South-
ern yards by a double-header. The
ffrst engine passed under the bridge
end had'Just cmrrSrM on thd eastern
side when one of the freight cars Just
to the rear ran off the track and struck
the steel “bent" or pillar.
The pillar was doubled up and. the
main support of the bridge being gone,
the giant steel structure fell In with a
crash, breaking and bending as If
struck by a powerful, tornado.
By the most marvelous chance, not a
person was killed. Only two wagons, os
It happened, were rn the bridge at the
time, and the drivers, both of them ne
groes, were slightly Injured. One of the
horses wns killed almost instantly.
Jlnt Sellls, one of the negroes,, and on
employee of E. L. Bamspeek. suffered a
fractured ankle. Sam Awtrey, the other
negro, and an employee of the Cleorgla
Granite Company, was bruised. Both
were- taken to Dr. Hancock's sanlta.
Hum.
The bridge was built in 1896 at a cost
After three hours' caloric discus
sion. In which the street car service
was both condemned and praised and
the gas and car fares were character.
I zed both as too high and as low
enough, the Joint committee from the
council, which has the resolution by
Councilman Terrell under considera
tion, adjourned at 6 o'clock Thursday
afternoon to meet again next Tuesday
afternoon at 3 o’clock.
On only one question were all the
members of the committees compris
ing the Joint committee agreed, and
that waa that—
The service of the Southern Bell Tel
ephone Company was unqualifiedly
poor, und that something must be done
to have it Improved.
And In this council—at least, those
members at this meeting—seemed to
have at last awakened to the conclu
sion that The Georgian has been try
ing for many months to awaken it to—
that the people of Atlanta are not get
ting what should bo coming to them
from the Southern Bell.
Mayor Pro Tern. Quintan fired the
SENSATIONAL FIfiHT
OVER TWO CHILDREN
CLARICE AVARY, AGED 10.
HELEN AVARY, AGED 9.
he minced no words in denouncing that
of the Bell company. His views seemed
to coincide with those of every mem
ber of the committee, and most of
them so stated. Ah a result, W. B.
Roberts, local superintendent, stated
Avary Children Are
Said To Have Been
Kidnaped.
WHERE BRIDGE SMASHED WHEN IT FELL.
of $17,826. ” The Southern railway paid
* paid 16.000
16.000, the N„ C. 4 St L paid
and $7,882.25 was paid by the city.
. According to the city engineer, the
destruction Is practically complete and,
the Southern must rebuild the bridge.
No trains, passenger or freight, can
enter the city Friday except thoae of
the Georgln, the Central and the At-
iniT
laata and West Point.
Southern Is Liable.
"If thla accident had occurred be.
tween >1 and 8 o'clock tills morning,'
stated tho city engineer, "probably no
less than fifty people would have been
killed end many others Injured.
"During these hturs the river care
that pass over the bridge are crowded
and the schedule. Is.short. If one, of
these cars had been on the bridge at
the time a fearful'loss of life would
have resulted.
"In my opinion, the Southern Is liable
and must rebuild the bridge.”
The river car lino Is the only one
that passed over the Jones avenue
bridge and, some other means of travel
will have to be Improvised to got the
residents on this line to their homos
until the street car company succeeds
In arranging for relieving the tempora-
' ‘ Un ‘ • M H
ry blocking.of tho river line.
No sooner had the newa of the bridge
falling reached the city than the rail
roads and the city had a little army of
men at work clearing away a passage
for the railroads. -
The bridge was twenty-two feet
high—the clearance between the tracks
and the lowest part of tno bridge be
ing twenty-two feet. It consisted of
two spans, one eighty feet long and
ithe
the other sixty feet long, making the
total length of tho bridge proper 140
feet. It waa built of steel and the
walks were of tile.
The army of workmen began work
shortly after the wreck. They concen
trated their efforts toward removing
the slxty-foot span, which would leave
enough space for the trains on two of
the tracks to come In. It la planned
that all the trains come In on these
tracks.
Traffic la Delayed,
In the meantime, all the passenger
and freight trains of the Southern, the
Western and Atlantic, the Seaboard,
the Louisville and Nashville, the Nash.
Wile, Chattanooga and St. Louis, and
the other roads, with the exception of
the Georgia, the Central and the At
lanta and West Point, must stop on the
western side of the bridge.
At noon several trains had already
lined up. The passengers left their
trains and walked or caught electric
tars to the city.
According to Information furnished a
representative of The Georgian. Tom
Pulliam was engineer on the first cm
oubTe-header that did the
sine of the doubt. ■■■PBB
disastrous work, and Peter Andersdh
"t the eecond engine.
SPINNERS TO ARRIVE
IN N. Y. ON SATURDAY
New York, Sept. 27.—The Cunard
steamer Campania, having on board a
large delegation for the Atlanta Cot
ton Splnners’.conventlon in Atlanta, Is
expected to arrive at her pier at 8
o’clock tomorrow morning. Tho dele
gates will be met by a special com
mittee of the New York Cotton Ex.
change, headed by E. M. Weld. When
seen today Mr. Weld said:
."We have completed at tar at pot
■Ibte all arrangements to be tendered
the delegates at the Waldorf-Astoria
on October 2.”
OCTOPUS MADE 800
PER CENT ON PIPE LINES
New York, Sept. 27.—That the | 00000000000000000000000000
Standard Oil Company made over 800 1 °
per cent last year on one of Its sub
sidiary companies, which merely car
ried oil; was one of the astounding
facts brought out by Frank Kellogg,
who, on behalf of the government, la
by the Standard to conceal enormous
profits In its pipe line business were
also laid bare today by Mr. Kellogg.
The fact that the Southern Pipe Line
Company earned over 27,000.000 in
1900, but that figures were Juggled ao
tfeat a loss of $6,569.12 appeared on tho
lance sheet, was established.
The Indiana Pipe Line Company Is the
concern that yields the enormous profit
of more than $4,000,000 annually on an
Investment of only $600,000. From the
unwilling lips of George ChesbFo.
comptroller of the 8tandard-owned pipe
lines, this testimony came.
It Is the contention of the govern
ment attorneys that the tariff rates
posted by the pipe line companies with
the Interstate commerce commission,
In compliance with the Hepburn law,
are exorbitant and practically prohibit
O CHARTER OF OIL TRUST
0 ATTACKED BY PHELPS. 0
o o
O Findley, Ohio, Sept. 27.—An- 0
Q other blow was aimed at the Q
0 Standard Oil Company here this 0
0 morning, when suit was brought 0
O by George 1L Phelps, acting for 0
O independent producers, against 0
0 the Standard Oil Company, sev- 0
0 en subsidiary concerns, John D, 0
O Rockefeller and seven other oltl- 0
O clals of the concerns. The char- O
O ter was attacked and receivers 0
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producers from using the pipelines.
These
... rates are the same as charged by
railway companies, and result in huge
profits to the corporations owning
the™. _ . .
These profits do not affect the Stand
ard because the company owns the
lines, and when It pays the rates It
George Spivey, a negro employed at
the warehouse of the King Hardware
Company, was an eye witness of the
wreck, and he described It as It la giv
en here. Others corroborated what he
said. '
The bridge was built by the Toledo
Bridge Company. _ _ . .
It Is probable that enough of the de
bris will be cleared away by night to
allow the trains to pass and rt-pass.
simply transfers the money from on*
pocket to another.
Messrs. Chesbro and H. C. Pajtic,
vice president of the National Transit
Company, both admitted that the pipe
lines never carried any oil for Inde.
pendent companies, and by their testl.
mony Mr. Kellogg showed that the de.
livery stations had been so arranged
that the Hepburn law was nullified In
Its application to the pipe lines.
That the Standard Oil Company has
a pipe line through Manhattan, by
which It Is able to laugh at the Hep-
bum law, waa another thing Indicated
at the hearing.
An interesting and Important de
veloped yesterday at the government
Investigation of the Standard Oil trust,
when John G. Mllburn, attorney for
the oil company, admitted he had
taught his client to .evade the Hep-
bum law.
OIL MAGNATE MUST
GO BEFORE JUDGE LANDIS.
Chicago, Sept. 27.—James A. Moffett,
president of the Standard Oil Company
of Indiana, will be In Chicago next
Continued on Pags Three.
new exchange on
Auburn avenue la ready for use.
Oppote Resolution.
The committee lacked only one of
being unanimously opposed to the res
olutlon by Councilman Terrell a« re.
gards cheaper rates for the street car
company and the gaa company. Thla
was the vote of Councilman Terrell
himself.
Alderman Beutell, Alderman Peters,
Alderman Qutlllan, Alderman Curtis,
Councilman Grant, Councilman Hud
dleston all opposed the proposition to
request the rallgoad commission to re
duce the street car fares to eight for a
quarter and to fix the gaa chargta at
75 cents per thousand feet. .
Citizen Lee on Hand.
The meeting waa further enlivened
by a second speech of "Lone Cltlten”
J. B. Lee, whose grand peroration was
a dell to The Georgian—a challenge
that fairly rung through the committee
room.
"The Georgian," he said, “asks me
why, If 1 was a supporter of the Hon.
Hoke Smith, and stood sponsor for his
policies, I now denounce those policies.
I’ll tell you. Suppose a poor si
like me was to go to hear Dr. Broi _
ton or some of those other big preach
ers and be converted, wouldn't
change?
"That’s the way with me. I was
converted. 1 thought reduction of
freight rates would help us common
Hoke Smith. Then I found that
the reductions caused many men to
lose their Jobs and caused salaries to
be cut down, and I haven’t been able
to see where they helped anybody. I
Just swapped sides and I am torry I
dldn’r swap sooner."
Lone Citlxen” Lee did not give the
name of the "Dr. Broughton” who had
converted him to the corporation aide,
preferring probably not to delay the
grand climax—the bold deft to The
Georgian—the challenge to arms.
His Challenge to Georgian.
"Now,” he said, ”1 want to make
this proposition to The Georgian,
want to Issue this challenge:
"Let The Georgian select one man
and I'll select one, and these two will
select a third, and this commltteo will
see the first hundred people on the
street, and If a majority of them don't
■ay 1 am right. I'll give $50 to any
charitable Institution. If a majority
does say I am right. The Georgian to
do the same.
That’s all I have to say and I hope
The Georgian will accept the chal
lenge."
'Lone Citizen" Lee has stated, among
other things, that Hoke Smith's admin
istration has done more harm than
good; that the railroad commission
should repeal all It has done; that a
reduction In street car fares would hurt
the common people; that he Is not In
any way connected with the street car
company, and the company didn't ask
him to appear before the committee.
Another Citizen Appears.
J. R. Smith, an Atlanta merchant,
also appeared before the committee
and urged that the resolution by Coun.
cilman Terrell be reported adversely.
"I am of the opinion,” he said, "that
there has been or la being too much
meddling with these companies. They
have built up our city and we should
encourage them to continue to dotao.
It we take away what money the rail
roads have spent here for the last ten
yean we would not be far from where
we started ten years ago."
C. J. Simmons, president of the At
lanta Telephone and Telegraph Com-
A sensational fight on Broad, near
Peachtree, In which a woman's scroams
were mingled with shouts from her
husband on the ground, marked the
culmination of a struggle for the pos
session of two little girls Friday morn
ing, and as a result the case Is now
enmeshed In a legal tangle.
The two children, who were the In
nocent cause of this trouble of their
elders, are Clarice, 10 years old, and
Helen, 9 years old, both daughters of
Dr. M. B. Avary, the druggist, at 78
North Brood street.
The husband and wife who sought
to gain possession of the children were
Mr. and Mrs. A. S. Crumpton, the lat
ter a sitter of Dr. Avary's wife.
Other characters In this sensational
drama of real life are B. L. and Dr.
Arch Avan- and the two.sons of Dr. M.
B. Avary. Hugh and Hnrold,
For the past year the two little girls
have been living with their aunt, Mrs.
Crumpton, at her homo. 27 East Four-,
teenth street. They had been with their
grandmother until her death.
According to the story of the Avarys;
the father of the girls. Dr. M. B. Avar)-,
placed them with hit sister In Decatur
two months ago. One night, he says,
Mrs. Crumpton kidnaped them nnd
took them back to her home, on Four
teenth street, but he admits that the
children were willing to go.
The next chapter was written Friday
morning when Hugh and Harold Avary,
A. 8. CRUMPTON.
nilt'll liUBH 46 8114 8 80IUIU AfUIJ.
brothers of the children. Intercepted
them on their way to the Tenth Street
school upon instructions from'their fa
ther and took them to the drug store,
on North Broad street.
Said Gagged Children.
According to Mrs, Crumpton’s side of
the case. Hugh and Harold gagged the
children so they could not make any
noise and hustled them off In a buggy,
It was not long before Mr. end Mrs.
Crumpton learned of what had hap
pened to the little girls. Mrs, Crumpton
says their father telephoned her to
come and say good-bye to them.
But it was the visit of Mrs. Crump
ton and her husband to the Broad street
drug stui
re that brought on the fight,
Both got out of the buggy. Mrs.
Crumpton entered first, followed by her
husband. What happened next Is not
lulte clear, as the Crumpton version
loes not agree with that given by the
Avarys.
"Where are those children?" Dr.
Avary says Sirs. Crumpton excitedly
asked.
Then he says Crumpton entered with
his buggy whip In his hand.
“I would thank you to leave this
store." Dr. Arch Avary says he request
ed of Mre. Crumpton.
“If you want her out. put her out,"
he declares Qrumpton replied, and be
their, buggy and rapidly drove away.
The next chapter was written by the
Crumptons.
Warrants Sworn Out.
Immediately after the fight they went
to : the offices of their' attorneys, J. E.
& L. F. McClelland, In the Temple court
building. Crumpton went, to Judge
Bloodworth and swore out warrants
against R. L. Avary and Dr. Arch Ava.
ry, charging them with assault and
battery.
Returnlng.'ha bad habens corpus pa
pers drawn Up by Attorney Alonso
Bond, of the firm of McClelland & .Mc
Clelland: By the time the papers were
complete and ready .for Judge Ellis’
signature, It was 11:45 o'clock. The
Crumptons believed that the Avarys
would attempt to take the children to
Alto, Ga„ at 12 o'clock.
Attorney Brand hurried to the court
house and breaking Into the midst of
gan using his buggy whip. It Is denied
by Mrs. Crumpton that her husband
used tho whip.
Fight Begins.
But the rest of the scene was wit
nessed by people on the street. Dr.
Arch Avary brought his cane down on
Crumpton's head nnd the latter ran
from the store. He ran across Broad
street toward the Engllsh-Amerlcan
building and pedestrians stopped to see
thtee of the Avarys following.
While crossing Broad street, Crump
ton slipped on a banana peel and fell
to the ground.
"Murder!" he shouted loudly as he
hit the ground, and the crowd swelled
as If by magic.
Cotinued on Page Five.
ton side »f the story. It Is claimed
that Dr. Arch Avary again used his
cane on Crumpton und smashed It. It
Is also claimed that his brothers, R. L.
Avary and Dr. M. B. Avary took a few
whacks at Crumpton on the ground.
Mrs. Crumpton to Rescue.
Not thinking of herself, Mrs. Crump
ton thought only to save her husband.
She rushed In between her brothers-
In-law and her husband and, scream
ing. began to wield her umbrella.
"Save hlmt” some bystanders claim
she screamed, while she did the best
■he could to use her umbrella on Dr.
Arch Avary. Dr. Arch says she hit
him, while Mrs. Crumpton declares R.
L. Avary hit her.
The sensation was concluded without
police Interference. Finally the blows
ceased to fall and Crumpton got up
from the ground. His eye wee black
ened, his head cut and he looked the i
worse for wear.
A policeman In plain clothes arrived
and prepared to summon Dr. Arch
Avary to police court. In ihe mean
time Air. and Mrs. Crumpton got In
to Judge Ellis. Four minutes later ths
Judge had signed the order restraining
the Avarya from taking the children
out of the city.
In the hallway of the court house Mr.
Brand found Courity Officer Colley,
whom he asked to serve the papers.
They ran to where Mr. and Mrs.
Crumpton were waiting outside In a
buggy. Officer Colley Jumped In with
Mrs. Crumpton and drove rapidly to
the Terminal Station, arriving there
four minutes before 12.
Neither the children nor the Avarys
were In sight. Furthermore It was
found that no train'left for Alto until 4
o'clock. They drove hurriedly to
Avary's store on Broad street, but Dr.
Arch Avary told Officer Colley that the
children were In tho custody of their
father and had been taken out of the
city. He declined to say where they
hud gone.
Mr*. Crumpton Talks.
In telling her side of the case, Mrs.
Crumpton still showed traces of the In
dignation she felt. Her brown eyes
flashed and her hands clenched.
"The first I knew," said Sirs. Crump
ton, who Is a handsome brunette, "was
when people living near Juniper and
Tenth streets, where the children were
caught by their brothers, telephoned to
me that two strange men had Jumped
out of a surrey and seized the girls. A
negro girl told mo that one of the chil
dren screamed, 'Oh, Humid,' and in that
way I knew It was their twin brothers.
The people said they were bound and
gagged and carried away screaming.
“Just a few minutes later Robert Li
Avary telephoned that he had the chil
dren and that they were to be sent to
school at Alto, Ga„ and that If we want
ed to tell them good-bye we had better
come to the store, where they were
Immediately, as they were going away
at noon.
"We had no Idea of giving the chll-
MAKE RULES
10
F>. 8. ARKWRIGHT.
He Proposes For R. R.
Commission to
Make Rules.
PROPOSITION MADE
IN EARNESTNESS
Head of Car Service and Gas
Company Tired of Con
tinual Complaints.
proposition that the railroad commit*
slonere of Georgia promulgate ell tho rules
whereby the public utility corporation) hi
which be Is Interested shall be governed
wn» made to the mllrusil commission Fri
day morning by Preston H. Arkwright, vice
president of the Atlanta Gee Light Com
pany. and president of the Georgia hall-
wey mnl Electric Company.
Mr. Arkwright's suggestion, which was
ic of the fotreet ever made by nny parly
Interested In a public utility corpornUmi,
was inode during the discussion of the peti
tion nictl l>y s former sntitcrlbor of tho
gns light company which Becks to cotnp.-l
the coui|iany to install s gas meter In Ids
residence.
In making his suggestion, Mr. Arkwright
■Id:
■ would suggest, gentlemen of tho com.
mission, that yon, ns railroad commission.
of Georgia, should promulgoto the roles
whereby the companies with which I nsi
connected shall bo governed.
We lied much rather enforce your rules
thnu ours. When we mnko opr own rules
sad try to enforce them w.
or oppression and arbitrary treatment of the
f public whom ws try to serve. We are get.
Png tired of these continual cnmphilnis, nnd
theu there
Sr.-
Kuitilssleit make rules by which the <
. iratbilis shall bo governed wns evident
made In a spirit of absolute sincerity n
fairness, and with n desire to deal Jus
The petition to compel the gns light
company to pnt In a slot meter wns din-
eilMHHt *t some length by Attorney T. A.
Hammond, representing tho Atkuit
Light Company, snil Attorney . Thoume
Goodwin, representing tho complainant.
Did Not Act Maliciously,
Attorney Hammond drnled that tho com
pany had refused to furnish gns to tho
complainant maliciously nr with the Intent
to do him an Injustice, hot that the action
of removing the meter from bin boose wns
taken only after be bad refused to pay
the tint Installment on a debt of al
leged to have been due tbo cumpuny for
gnn already furnished.
"We made a contract with him fo let
him pay thla debt In lnslallun nts." said At.
torney Hammond, "and when he refused
to make tha tint payment we took out the
meter." h
petition, the boar of ndjo
rived.
will go over until
meat having arrived.
The petition will go
Wednesday's session of the commission.
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dren up, as we had kept them ever since
sister, died.
their mother, my sister, died, nearly
seven years ago. But we decided that
the best thing to do was to let the
Avarya keep them until we could settle
the matter In the courts.
"Mr. Crumpton and I drove to Av
ary's store and I walked In ahead. I
turned and saw Dr. Arch Avary telling
Mr. Crumpton to leave. Mr. Crumpton
turned around and Just ns he did so Dr.
Avary hit him on the head with a stick
which he had hidden behind him when
we eame In. Then both Dr. Avary and
Robert L. Avary Jumped on Mr. Crump
ton. He waa taken Into Sharpe's tailor
ing establishment, unconscious.
"When he was revived and came out
again Dr. Arch Avary tried to get at
hlin. Dr. Avary acted like a crazy man.
Mr. Crumpton has been til with typhoid
fever for six weeks or they could not
have Injured him so badly.
"When my slater died six years ago I
took the children because their father,
M. B. Avary, was addicted to the use
of whisky and morphine. The little
girls are devoted to me nnd my hus-
nd. Once we gave them up to their
father, who sent them to live with rela
tives In Decatur. They ran away and
came to us at about 10 o'clock at night.
We have kept them since nnd intrad
that they shall never leave us If wo can
help It.”
Mr. Crumpton Talks,
Mr. Crumpton declared that the
Avarys had Invited them to the store
for no other purpose than to beat th'm.
"R. L. Avary," said Mr. Crumpton,
"has a grudge against ms because I
beat him In hla office In tho Century
building some time ago. He Invited me
to the store this morning for no other
purpose than to attack me. Ha had a
buggy whip and a pistol behind his
back when I walked In. Hla brother.
Dr. Arch Avary. had a big Btlck.
I walked In behind my wife, and
Arch Avary cams up Co me and said:
Take your wife and get out of here.' I
didn't want trouble, so I turned to go.
He struck me and that was the last I
knew until I awoke In Sharpo's tailor
ing shop. A man was shaking ine.
Warrants for Brothsrs.^l
■The latest development to this sln-
Igular case was when warrants were
sworn out by Crumpton before Justice
of the Peace Klngsbery against Hugh
and Harold, the 19-year-old twin sons
of Dr. M. B. Avary, charging them with
kidnaping. At 2 o'clock these war
rants bad not been served, neither had
Ithe .children nor their t 'her been lo-
ented. Crumpton g ive/ - Ids opinion
that the children had be- (taken to"'
catur at 10 o’clock.