Below is the OCR text representation for this newspapers page.

Second Section The Atlanta. Georgian and News VOL. VI. NO. 70. Second Section CENTRAL SYSTEM MAY BE OWNED BY ms, ATLANTA, GA., FRIDAY. OCTOBER 25, 1907. PRICE: PILOT OF WINNING BALLOON "No Change in Situation, Thorne Telegraphs Pres ident Hanson. Macon, Ga.. Oct. *5.—There seems to bo no foundation here for the report eil sale of the Central of Georgia rail road to thc.Horrlman Interests. President J. F. Hanson yesterday wired Oakletgh Thorne, of New York, Asking him for Information of the re ported sale of the controlling stock of tl,o Central of Georgia. Last night he received a reply by wire, signed Oak lelgh Thorne, saying: "Absolutely no change In situation. NORFOLK AND SOUTHERN MAY CONTROL CENTRAL, Special to The Georgtuu. Richmond, Va., Oct. 25.—According to reports here, the Central of Georgia mllroad has been sold to the Norfolk and Southern. Qaklelgh Thorne, one of the owners of the former property. Is said, admitting In New York on Tuesday that It had been sold, hut de dined to give the names of the pur chasers. .Marsden J. Perry, part owner with Thorne, Is chairman of the board of directors.of the Norfolk and South ern Railway Company, which controls practically all of the network of the lines In eastern North Carolina, with Norfolk as the main port of entry. At a meeting of the stockholders of the Norfolk add Southern at Norfolk'on Wednesday the action of the directors In vollng an Issue of bonds, amounting to 125,000.004 for the purchase of equip, tnent, wns approved. Frank S. Gannon, the president. Is an old Southern rail way man. There arc two opinions an to being that rthc Southern railway Is the real ownership of the company, one barking It and the other that the Stand ard oil Company holds the controlling Interest. Starting with a handful of short lines, the Norfolk and Southern has gradually extended Ita territory, having acquired the Atlantic and North Carolina rail road from Goldsboro to Morehead and tlie sett for a term of ninety-nine years. With a link to Augusta and connec tion 'here with the Central of Georgia, and Us 2,000 miles of-track, the re organised concern would bo one of the strongeat In the South. From Raleigh, N. C„ to which point the line haa Just been opened, there are projected roads to Augustn, Ga., and Charleston, S. C„ the ownership of which haa been somewhat In’ dispute. The general Idea ls that the Norfolk and Southern wlW get control of the road from the capital of North Carolina to. Augusta, there, to connect with the tracks of the Central of Georgia. In the event of this the parent road would touch Norfolk and Savannah, on the ocean, extending to Chattanooga, Blrm Ingham and Montgomery and renchlng Atlanta, Macon and practically the en tire business heart of Georgia. SITUATION IS CLEARING IN N. Y. Continued from Page On*. America, the Colonial Trust Company and the Lincoln Trust Company and the Dollar Bank. Men and womi In front of these Institutions, so they might be the flrat to withdraw their money today. $10,000 Cheek Cloaed Bank, The Wflllamtburg Truat Company, Broadway and Kent avenue, Williams burg, closed Its doors at 1:15 p. in., being unable to cash a check for S10.000. Frank Jenkins la president. The bank bee n capital of|700,000. Liabilities are estimated at 19,676,484. The International Trust Company, N’o. 266 Broadway, Manhattan, an nounced Ita suspension until the re storation of public confidence. The United States Exchange Bank posted a notice before banking hours organ, announcing Its temporary sus pension. The Borough Bank, of Brook lyn. and the Brooklyn Bank, both lo cated In the Borough of Brooklyn, also Posted notices of suspenalon. FINANCIAL SITUATION CLEARED IN PITTSBURG. Pittsburg. Pa.. Oct. 26.—With nddl llonal millions In money now deposited In Pittsburg, United Btates depositories t>y Secretary Cortelyou, and announce. ">ent that the Weatlnghouse plants will continue In full operation, he situa tion In this city has tremendously Im proved, Still more gold Is promised by treasury official*. Local bankers and •rust company officials fear nothing. Receivers are appointed „ FOR FISHERIES COMPANY. Philadelphia, Oct. 25,—Local banking »nd business circles were surprised yes- if.njay when It became known that the fisheries Company, a corporation " t hlch Is the principal factor In the Menhaden fishing Industry, with offices In this city, has been declared Insolvent •id temporary receivers appointed. Theodore Stevens of the Second Na- tlonol Bank said today: The panic has had absolutely no ef fect on banking business here. It I* entirely local to New York and has not “*•» felt here. currency bill „ TO CORRECT EVIL8. Washington, OcL 25.—A new curren cy bill will be Introduced In the coming ^oooooooooooooooooeooooooo £ AGED man in line S STOOD TILL HE COLLAPSED. O X - ° “ „ N ’«W York. Oct. 25.—Arthur C. O Simpson, aged 60. had stood In the O “ line of depositors making th* run O ” ;>n the Dollar Savings Bank so t» f. ’-I-S that today he collapsed. O “It was believed that he had O “ neen In tine since daybreak yes- O “ terdny and that ho had had no O “ nourishment. O “ The run on the Dollar Bank set O “ n With renewed vigor today, there O « “dng more. than 400 persona In O “ line. Many of the depositors wets O “ women who had been In line a O a *r ea, *r Part of yesterday and a}l O ~ "f last night ^ « C053G000000000000000000000 BY DREADED 13" Tenor Travels Far But Even Atlanta Hands Him Fateful Number. I« Signor Oulaeppe Cumpnnnrl, the futnoua tenor, being pursued by n singular fate that bode* him evil? He think* he la, aud ns a result he Is go ing to get back to that dear old Broadway Just r.a ao4)ii as lie can. Hlgnor rampanart arrived ’n Allan** Fri day morning from Athens, where he sang Thursday night, a ml hi* recital at the Pied mont Hotel of the strange ehatu of clrcum- ns 1 can.” And ns be sold It he look in his eyes showed bis singular ad- enturea were getting on hts nerves. All of these udventures come, believes Hlgnor Cnmpanarl, ns the result of th« j>er- IT IS A REAL COUNT WHO FOLLOWS VIOLINIST New York. ckrt. OSCAR ERBSLOH. He has issued a challenge to the American Aero Club and It haa been accepted. The race will be from Dallas, Tex., eaetwsrd (for the Lahm cup. Three balloon* ylll be.entered. ~ , congress to correct the evils that are responsible for the money panic, declared Senator Elkins this morning, after he had had a long talk with Pres ident Roosevelt. The senator did. not say In so many words that the presi dent would back the bill, but Intimated that It would have strong backing from the dominant side of the senate. •[BULLOCH COUNTY WINS FIRST PRIZE No Trouble in Buffalo. Buffalo, Oct. 25.—Buffalo bankers are Arm In their declaration that no trou ble Is In eight for their Institutions and there Is apparently little loss of confl- dence on the part of depositors. Detroit Banks Steady Detroit, Mich., Oct. 25.—In pleasant contrast to the reports from the fever ish Ananolal centers of the East were the scenes at the Detroit hanks yester day anil today. The banks In Detroit are perfectly solid and the eastern sit uation has not affected them In the least. Cincinnati Unaffected. Columbus, Ohio. Oct. 25.—The Press Post publishes Interviews with leading bankers of this city and all are unani mous In saying that the Ananclal Hurry In New York has not affected the sit uation here and they don’t anticipate that It will do so. Run on Baltimore Bank. Baltimore, Md.. Oct. 25.—The run on the eaatern branch of the Home Bank continues today. The crowd, held In check by police, has already with drawn 860,000. Other banks seemingly are unaffected. London Market Stronger. London, Oct. 25.—Sentiment In rela tlon to American securities has been much strengthened by the support glv en to the situation by the Federal treasury and our leading financiers and the late rally on the New York ex change yesterday. 1 Chicago Financiers Ready. New York, Oct. 25.—A conference of promlitent financiers at the clearing touse haa Juat adjourned. James Still man said that the conference had ar ranged to throw 814,000,000 Into the stock exchange money market. Planty Caah in New Orleans. New Orleans. Oct. 25.—Local banka made preparations months ago to take care of the drain that was sure to be made upon them. For months no loans were made of any extent and the local banka held plenty of money In their vaults. MARSDEN PERRY’S BANK SUSPENDS Providence. Oct. 25.—The Union Trust Company, the largest financial Institution In title city, cloaed It* door* today, potting a notice that It waa com- pelled to do to because of the strin gency In the money market. |uap|»*Id SJ|A *| Auaj r u»P*J»I< COAST LINE CLOSE8 SHOPS AT MONTGOMERY. Special to Th* Georgian. Montgomery, Ala. Oct. 25.—The Montgomery shop* of the Atlantic Coast Line, employing 846 men, and with a monthly pay roll of 816.000. wa* cloaed yesterday, and the men let out of em ployment Matter Mechanic Peanall announced that a few of the men would be retained after November l and the company would operate email repair shops here. Awards at State Fair Being Rapidly Completed by Judges. For the best, Inrgeat find most nrtlstleul fr displayed agricultural exhibit at the tt«fe fair thla year, Bulloch county was awarded the flrat prlan of $1,200 by three competent Judges Friday at noon. The an nouncement that Bulloch county had cap- fit red the flrat prise was made by the Judges Ju*t before Lieutenant Governor (.’hauler, of New York, began bis speech, and It was received with great applause. The necond prlxe, of $1,001, was awarded to Cobb county, which tin* been a flrat prise winner for three or four years. There were aeven counties eon testing for prlaea, and the order In which the other awnrd* were made la n* follows: Worth county, third, price, $84); Hall county, fourth prise. $200; Hatwrubam county, fifth prise, $200; Camden county, sixth prlxe, $290; Cherokee county, seventh prise, $IW. Bulloch cimnty’a exhibit at the Ntute fair this year la In charge of J. L. Miller, ed itor of The Htateaboro News. It was one of the largest, moa tlntlc agricultural Georgia State fair. hlbit* wen* of an unusually high class, and the Judges figured closely In making their awards. Individual Exhibits. Mr. Miller, who waa In chargs of the Bulloch county exhibit, also won the flrat prise of $Sfc> for the best, largest and most artistically arranged Individual agrl cultural exhibit. The second prlxu in this class waa $299, and waa awarded to Mrs. Monk, or Worth county. The third prise of $190 was awarded to T. M. Clod bey, of Camden county. The cotton awards were oa follows: Best a. IKills attar flrat w>nd •talks or ses Island cot* Attached* J. R. Miller, of Htates- John It. Broadwnll, prise, $$; J. o. Morr. j>ris*| Ijy Best ten stalks of f; hu '\|orrisT second prixe. $£ —- Prlxe. .$$; Be»t two |K>unilt of lint rotton, abort, Johu B. Broadwell, 6r»t priie, 88: ‘ ~ ‘ ‘ Broadwell, Brwt prise. 816: arcond. J. O. 51orris. 85. Large*! yfcid of cotton from 1 •ere. J. U. Broadwrrll. Unit prlxe, 819; J. O. Morrl,. accond prlie. 85. Other Awards Soon. Th* other sward* for agricultural e>8H>lta will ba announced ae eoou ne the Met, which l( n very lengthy one. can b* gotten rendy for pnbllcntlon. Th* nnnonnrement of the prlxe winner* In .a- poni.,, .how will probable 1- mail* *atunt«j.' 'Thla fiat I. alao n very loo.: on*, and requires conaldernlila time In which to I> Konr-piano* plneeil on exhibition by tbn w II flowunl liana Company, of Atlanta, were decorated with bine ribbon* by Bee- retnry Wddha Frida/ morning. The Plano* •re of tha Hmltb k Barne* nuke, and bare already* been aold to the following Atlanta fiacretaryof Ktat* Philip Cook I(r/U. Adolpbua. Mra. 11. T. Connally ami Hr. Braateton. of the Andereon Hardware Company. The nhIMte of the lluwanl It.no.'ompany were la charge of Mr. W. II. Howard. ;s •ole „ __ , money from his pianist to get back home. Troubles in Arkansas. It waa on October 1$ that Hlgnor Camps* narl left Fort Hmltb, Ark., for Raleigh. It took him fonr <lay». The flrat misfortune waa the burning of a bridge In front of the train. Then he had to walk n plank over a nwnlug chnar * - At MemphtaHBBHPH ended. But they weren’t. _. ■ lu n sleeping ear. the best he could get. uml across from blm was a dying consumptive. “Alt night loug,” said the famous slnr “the poor man coughed, moaned and “ for his aon. I could not sleep. The of death haunted ine all the night." At Birmingham the dining cur conductor was left and it wns with difficulty the great were focked'un nud tbe guests had to use telegraph blanks. Thu waiter took several orders, nil of which were numbered, and when ho hu tided Hlgnor Canipauart bis tele graph hlnnk It was numbered— THIRTEEN! Lost His Bank Roll. At Raleigh Hlgnor Cnmpannrl sung, but he was taken sick sad could not All the engagement In Charlotte, lie was so 111 with feVer he bnd to get back to New York, William Jennings Bryan was there, and so was a big crowd. At the railroad station a man took Signor Cam pa nail’s grip. The signor started to chase him and In the chnsc two pickpockets relieved him of bis wallet, containing the $1,200. HBrnmgjmH lie got better In Ni Houth agnln to slug l . he had troubles wjileb l>eiran by getting n room with a T1URTKKN lu It. Them was no lock on the door, nod the signor put his bed Against It, because be hud not forgotten bis recent loss. He came to Atlanta Friday mornlng-n bad day to hogln a Journey, he thougbt—and here he fully believed his troubles would end. He went to the Piedmont, registered and was sent up to bis room. He was about to enter when h»» looked nt the door. He saw the number-two hundred and— THIRTEENI Down be went to (he clerk and got .an other rodth. appearance constantly of that number, is bringing me all sorts of mlsfortuue. To- uui going to the theater to take a j«i I’ll wager a supper they put mo lu seat IS.” Hlgnor Campanarl leaves Saturday for ~‘ ~' after New believes the fact flint he gets $1,000 a night causes kefs to watch him, but he didn’t l>e- i New York, and then came Chattanooga, where lie will slug, nf which he says he will get back to ,Ni York ns quickly as possible. He belle* RmU L tlU he had rubbed In on him that number— THIRTEEN! QUI8EPPE CAMPANARL He says that he la being haunt ed by “Thirteen” wherever die goes. FIREMEN’S BRAVERY SAVED THREE LIVES Special to The Georgian. Chattanooga, Tenn., Oct. 28.—Brave. > of the firemen who rushed up to gaa tanks that were llabl* to explode at any moment, saved the plant of th* Chattanooga Gas Company. When the firemen reached the ga* plant a short time after the explosion yesterday they were warned not to go too near, aa other explosions were likely at any moment. Faying no heed to the want ing, the firemen rushed Into the plant and soon had the blaxe under control. John and Grant Hammlll and Perry Lane, the men dragged out of the gen erating room after tho explosion, are badly burned from head to foot, but are expected to recover. POOR RUSSIANS DYING LIKE FLIES Vienna, Oct. 26.—Cholera la raging with frightful violence throughout southeastern Russia and the poor peo ple are dying like files. At Kelff alone the death Hat it averaging a hundred dally. The hoapltaia are filled and phy- alclnna nre unable to care for half the patients. May Cheat tha Gallows, Special to The Georgian. Charleston, 8. C., 'Oct. 25.—George Kenny, a negro, who, with two other,, killed Guard Stello at the county stock, ade In August. 1666, and escaped, to be captured later, was sentenced to' hang on December 6, by Judge Gage. Kenny ba- dropsy and may not Uve to be banged. - MISS MABELLE ADAMS, VIOLINIST. it Taclgaluto anno theater throughout tho country and She says Count Tacigaluto annoys her by chasing her from theater to ' ia in Atlanta now. Pretty Mabelle Adams Says He Is Annoy ing Her With His Flowers and Love Letters. Is Miss Mabelle Adams, the Attractive youug woman .whose violin playing Is a feature of the vaudeville bill nt the Or phean) this week, being followed by an Italian nobleman—a real live count? Miss Adams nays It Is true, aud she •tamps her dnluty little foot when she snya ft, aa if she did not like the atten tions being showured upon her by the. blue blooded Count Marta Toctgatuto—for that !• the name the nobleman uenrs. Miss Adams says further that the count Is In Atlanta this very day, despite the fact that she left Boston and came here for the solo purpose of getting rid of him. Her statement to a. representative of The (ieorglnn Friday morning, carrying with It. ns It does, n romance that would l»ut ordinary Action to shaine, In extremely utercNtlng—and she vouches for the truth fulness of the story. “I met this man In New York nt a din ner two years ago,” she Itegan, aa she r- ■tuned a comfortable position In a we..- upholstered clmlr lu her apartments at the Aragon. “That he la what he represents himself to be I bavo no doubt. In nddltlou to being n noldemnn, lie Is what Is stranger still— acnlthy noldemnn. 'From that dny to thla ho has been following me. It seems that 1 ran not go, anywhere unless the count Is rlr* * “ ns I am nssiduous In trying to avoid him, HtlU, he Is always courteous. The notes he sends me hro always worded Inoffen sively. lie sends me beautiful books and flowera all tho time. “I come hero direct from Boston, and am going direct back to New York. 1 canto here this week hoping and thinking possi bly I cquld spend one week without hnvluj to suffer his attentions, but who should see Tuesday night but my friend, tl count, Intently gnxlng nt me from a bl and seemingly wrapt Tn the clouds whence ho hart flown on the wings of the sweet strains of my vIolTfu* »- “Wednesday night, be sent me flowers, which I proceeded to send bock. He baa been In that box at every |>erformance since Tuesday night, and it annoys tne much more thsn I can tell. He has been In ‘ or teu years, but Is sttH i appearance, suave, eru live—and I want to get rid of this man: And no snylug. MIsa Adams* stamped foroincntloned dainty llttlo foot with fo lough to crush several noblemen. , “It wns eltbet tne violin or the costnm It wasn't lifeShu explained, nnd looked wickedly at the' violin ami cant a acorn fill eye nt the trank wherein nestled the ATLANTA'S HONORED GUEST 1,000 LIVES MAY BE LOST III RUINS BY'QUAKE Three Hundred Dead Bodies Have Already Been Discovered. Rome, Oct. 26.—Latest reports In dicate that the disaster caused by earthquake shocks In Sicily and Cala bria .* even greater than at first *up- poxed. Th* de*d will number more than 500 and will poxelbly be as many as 1,000, while the property loss I* tremendous. The government has sent troops to dig In the ruins of Ferruxxano, where many people, yet living, are tmprlson- Three hundred bodlea have been recovered thus far, and tho city has not been searched over more than half Its area. Tho population was 2,000 and becauso of the panic, which scattered the survivors. It has been Impossible to learn how many are left. At Reggio and Messina houses top pled over like plies of blocks and many people were burled. Two walls of the cathedral at Gerace collapsed and a number of buildings fell, at Sxlnopoli. In scores of villages, where the shocks were violent, the people fled to the open and now nre encamped, miserable end tick from the torrential rains. It Is possible that nearly half tha jopulatlon of Ferruxxano perished. Re. lef could not reach the city quickly enough to find out Just how many es caped, for It Is perched on a hill. Iso lated by mountains. Great cracks have appeared on the surface of the earth, running several miles In length and hundreds of feet deep. Heat rises from some of them, thus tracing the, cause of the earth quake to tho volcanos, which have been muttering tor some weeks. The dis aster will possibly prove greater than that of 1905, as ths shocks were much ' nger. The neighboring country Is flooded with rains, which makes the work of rescue decidedly slow. There will be no popular relief because of the fhlch surrounded the 1905 re- all The government will help o pope, When Informed this morn ing of the destruction, wan much dis tressed and said, with tears In his eyes: \ ’Are wo having a reptltlon of the disaster of 19057 God help the poor souls.” The pontiff has decided to send a aum of money for the relief of the sufferers. ' - i COWBOY IS DEAD; FAR FROM FRIENDS William A. Underwood, former cow boy and circus rider, died at a private sanitarium Friday morning at 5 o’clock after an Illness of nlno days with pneu monia. Underwood was a cowboy with Ranch 101 at the state fair. He came to At lanta with the show from Birmingham. Ala., last Thursday afternoon In a very bad condition. , His people live In Virginia, but Just where no one knows, it was nt first thought he lived in Richmond but some claim he resided at Wallace. Va. The body Is bolng held nt Greenberg, Bond & Bloomfield's undertaking estab lishment until his relatives are heard from. $136,000,000 FOR U. S. NAVY IN 1908 'Washington Oct. 25.—Secretary Met calf has completed the estimates f.n- the maintenance of the navy depart ment for the coming fiscal year, nnd they are by far the largest ever sub mitted to congress, aggregating more than 8136,000,060, In each of the bu reaus of the department a substantial Increase In the number and salaries of clerks and the working force of the de partment has been passed on favorably. J3jr JXA/iCCAVtW. ■ nm ' r ' mut rmmu-uanoMtt though tho Republican gubernatorial candidate waa elected. Mr. Ci-anler io making hit first visit to Geergia, having never been farther South than Norfolk before Special to The Oeorglen. Brunswick, Oa„ Oct. 25.—Argument* are being heard In the city court In the case of the city of Brunswick against IL Neff, of Jacksonville, Fla. Bruns wick city council granted Neff a fran chise for a street railway, for which he put up a 810,000 bond, guaranteeing to construct the raflwav In s specified time. The time having expired and no work having been done, the city Is suing for collection of the bond. PROMINENT VETERAN DIES IN MACON, OA. Rpeclil to The Georgian. Macon. Ga- Oct. 20.—David I„ Walk- aged 76 years, one of the most prom inent bualnees men and Confederate veterans of Macon, died this morning the home of his aon-ln-law, Charles Rhodes, on Forsyth street, Vlnevlllr. He la survived by his wife and two sons. Berrien and Legare Walker, liv ing In New York, and alto two daugh ter*. Mrs. N. O. Kvans, of Edgefield, S C. and Mra. C. B. Rhodes, of M»con. He was a brother of B. Presley Walk er and John 31. Walker, of Macon. Special to The Oeorglen. Birmingham, Ala., Oct. 21.—W. P. G. Harding, president of the Flrxt Nation al Bank, in discussing the present rail road altuttfon In Alabama, expressed ths belief that ths 4«o*ra| demand throughout the country for reduced freight and passenger transportation waa Ill-timed. ' V! vjHB As a result of this agitation, he says, the railroad* are abandoning their plans fur continued Improvement* They are unable to secure funds ami nre curtail ing all «»xpendlture*. llu!ftiu>>« every where ha* wonderfully expanded, re quiring added equipment, new double tracking, new sidings ar.d enlargad terminals.