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THE WEATHER. For Atlanta and Vicinity—Show. c rt tonight and Saturday, warmer tonight The Atlanta Georgian Full and Complete Market Reports are Printed Every Day In The Georgian. \ A “The Sr<lcebr,[, 0® Diamonds," a thrilling mystery story. Is now a»--LN W being printed In The Georgian. SPOT COTTON. Mrerpoof, qulqt; 6.60. Atlnnta, qnlet; 115-16. New Orleans, quiet; JIVj. N>w York, quiet; 11.75. Savannah, steady; 117-16. Augusta, steady; 11H. 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 0 asked. 0 O O O0000000000000000000000000 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. 00000000000000000000000000 o "LOW" OUT OF WE9T, LT OF WEST, o AND RAIN FOLLOW8. o A low area Is drifting tills way O O out .of the west, and It will bring o O rain. Thursday night nnd Fri- O 0 day morning were coollsh, but the o - bunch of "low" will cause warm- O er weather. o Forecast: o "Showers Friday night and Sat- O urday, warmer Friday night." a Friday tomperaturcs: O 7 o'clock a. m.. • • *60 degrees. O 0 8 o'clock a. m.. • e # 60 degrees. o 0 9 o'clock a. m.. # ..61 degrees. o 0 10 o'clock a. m.. . s»C3 degrees. o 0 11 o'clock a. m.. • a *63 degrees. o 0 11 o'clock a. m ... • ..63 degrees. o 0 12 o'clock noon.. . ..64 degrees. o O 1 o'clock p. m.. . . *.66 dlfVMk a 0 2 o'clock p. m.. . « . 165 degrees. a 0 a 0000000000000000000000000a 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.