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SPECIAL SATURDAY SIGHT EDITION. ' { he Atlanta VOL. I. NO. 57. QUARTER OF MILLION NEW YO . FLEE FROM TORRID RAYS Crowded Trains Leave Gotham for Cool Country Spots. 80,000 PERSONS SLEEP ON SANDS AT CONEY Reports From All Sections of Country Ind cate That Hot Wave Is Dealing Death. Mercury in Columbus Registered At the /00 Degree Mark Friday Friday and Saturday are the hottest days known in Georgia this year. In Atlanta the heat has been oppressive, but In the southern and central parts of the state the mercury has been reaching up to the very top of the tube. At Columbus Friday the maximum temperature was 100. At Macon, Montlcello, Xewnan nn<l August;! the maximum was 93. At no place In the state from which the local weather bureau receives In formation was the maximum temperature for the day less than 90. At such lofty and pleasant places aa Rome and Gainesville the emperature reached 91. In Atlanta the maximum Friday was only 91. Little hope for Immediate relief from the extreme heat Is felt by the local weather officials. ATLANTA, GA., SATURDAY, .11N £ ERS CONGRESS WAITS m UNTIL MOON Hy Private Leased Wire. New York. June 30.—/The glare of a merciless sky In the earlier morning hours promised that this would bo the '.armest day of the year, and by o'clock the promlso was being torrldly fulfilled. Within 16 minutes the deaths of four boblea» all heat stricken, wara reported to the coroner's office. ■ Thousands upon thousands who went there to got away from the unbearable conditions In the heart of the city, slept out on the sands of the shore, rather than return to swelter In fumace-llke homes. It was estimated by the police that no less than 10,000 men, women and children slept at Coney Island alone. , Thousands Leave City. Thousands of people who had gone through the terrible night In the cramped and almost stifling rooms of the tenements In the lower part of the city, with one Impulse made toward the public bath houses early today, and the frantic attempts of all to get into the places at once started disturbances that kept the police busy. The rush to get away from New York over the Fourth of July to the country' places found about the city began at dawn today, and Increased hour by hour. Tho shimmering heat In town accentuated the exodus so that this year It was greater than has ever been known before. It was estimated from the figures supplied by the railroads and steamboat lines that 260,000 left New York today. Trains Overtaxed. The railroads and several steamboat lines had prepared for one of the great est crowds of outgoing passengers In their history, asd they were taxed to the limit. Special excursions to varl- -wu* were overfull. The usual trains on most of tho railroads had hex n run in two and even three sec tion/ . 4 Nine Die in Chicago. By Private loosed Win*. ('himgo, June 30.—The third day of the Intense heat hero caused nine deaths and fifty prostrations, several of them serious. The police and hos- pital .forces were kept busy all day answering calls. The mercury In the office of the weather bureau registered 92 at 1:30 o’clock, while It was several degrees higher In the streets. Three Are Prostrated. By rrlvnts 1 erased Wire. Toledo^ Ohio, June 30.—Three pros trations have occurred here as a result of the excessive heat. The victims are Peter McGrath, John Nesbft and Thom as Fielding. The mercury reached 92. Is Driven to Suicide. By irivste Leased Wire. Louisville, Ky., June 10.—John Hil ton, a farmer, who resided near Pra ther, Ind., cut his throat from ear to car at 3 o’clock yesterday. It Is be lieved that Hilton was overcome by heat and became deranged In conse quence. Made Insane by HsaL By Trlratc Leased Wire. Fremont, Iowa, June 10.—Christ Fart lesson, an engineer, Is dead from the efTects of a 58-grain morphine pow der and a pint of whisky. The excess ively hot weather Is thought to have made him Insane. MUTUAL LIFE MEN SPEND $35,936,254 FOR PROPERTY WITHOUT SANCTION OF BOARD Theft of $300,000 Reported by Investigation Committee—Name of Guilty Persons Concealed. House Agrees to Re port on Building Bill. Washington, Jun. JO l-s At l|N p the house agreed to the gunferenett port on th. public build Ins bill At J p. m. rongres took h re until 6 p. in.. Saturday aft.moi. By Private teased Wire. New York, June 10.—The final re port of the Trueidale committee ap pointed by the board of trueteea to investigate the Mutual Life Insurance Company was made public today. It shows many hitherto unrevealed Ir regularities, Including a theft of 1300,- 000, but very carefully conceal, the names of the guilty officials. The committee states that Ellhu Root, former trustee and counsel for Thomas F. Ryan and the two McCur- dys, declined to answer questions In regard to the personal profits derived by them through connection with the company. Not Sanctioned by the Bosrd. Tt wee hardly to be expected that thay would,” says the report. One of the most startling revela tions la that "the purchase of most of the real estate holdings of the com pany (coating 326,938,364) and the Im provements on the same,” were made by certain oifictaia without "the ap proval or. uaflVHon of the board of truslces,” ob required by law, an;'. Here are some of transactions that the house cleaning committee • approved: Get Office Rent Refunded. Mutual trustee rente offices In com pany'a building for 116,000 a year, and gets tha money refunded as "attorney fees." Mutual trustee leases office for 32,- 600 and gets 36,000 back «a "attorney fees." No record of services render ed. Twenty-five Mutual trueteea Inter ested In truat companies which go! one-half per rent rati- off on 336,000.- 000 In loans made to Mutual In two years. Seven trustees of Mutual use nffl clal position to get Jobs for relatives In company. Interested In Syndicates. Eleven trustees have been Interest ed In • syndicates selling eecuritlee to the Mutual. Seven trustee! had Itnowledgo of abstraction of money from Mutual treasury for campaign funds, tho books being falsified to conceal It. To nvold >u lilchur, however, which would hurt the company, tha'cominU- tee advises the trustees not to do such thing! any more. $1,200,000 INCREASE IN CITY’S BUILDING Building in 1906. Month. Number. . Cojt January 240 $ {00.I0S. February 241 JJWJI May . 363 649,197 June 318 673,027 T&tal .~L819 $3,866,676 Building in 1905. Month. Number. Cost. April 279 266,626 May 166 <08,719 June ee 279 699,719 Total .T672 61,692,888 Increaee shown In number of buildings 147 Incresse In amount of money expended $1,166,848 PRESIDENT AT CAPITOL TO APPROVE MEASURES By Private Leatwl Wire. Washington, June 80.—*l hi* in *, r- ftwny day. for congress. Most of the big events had been pulled oft when the gate* closed last night, perhaps, leaving only one Important bill and a few minor •.!»••* f • « today's card. The |.i«--dd*-nt fdKti»*d the railroad rate bill late last night. The house amended the resolution of the senate making the rate bill effective sixty day* from June 29, 1906. An the rnto Mil pMNMPd. It Im .--.iii.-h t-ffiM't lvt> fi --tn the time It wan approved. Is Signing Measures. The president went fo tho capito! at 11 o’clock thin morning foi tln« purpose of signing up bills In tho last hours of tho session. He established himself In tho president's room. Just back of the senate chamber, and at once began the work of turning bills Into laws. The conference report on the sundry civil bill containing the $1,326,000 ap propriation for the Jamestown expo sition was adopted last night, and will today become a law. The pure food bill was also agreed to by both houses. The principal thing that pre vented adjournment last night wga the omnibus, public building btQ.Jiliaa "the pork bat 5 !." Items, Agreed To. The following Kerns, which] still In dispute In the public Ings bill, ware agreed on i>\ ti ferees this morning: New Yo customs office, $460,000; city assay office, $360,00 Mich.. $325,000; Columbus. 000; Chattanooga. Tenn , $ll<yi dar Rapids. Io.vn. $20(7,000; Minn., $ 115,000; Ocala. Fla.. Fernandlnn. Fla.. $100.00Q; Idaho, $100,000; Minneapolis $350,000; Richmond. Va., Uooi TRAGEDY FOLLOWS DISPUTE OVER U Apodal to The (learxfsD. Birmingham, Ala., June 20.—A die- pute over 33 Is aid to have caused the murder of James Caldwell, a young marrlod man, at Juniper mines. John Russell has been arrested, he being charged with the crime, brought to Birmingham and placed In the coun ty Jail. According to the story that oomos from Juniper mines six men started a dice game around a keg of beer and a dispute arose between Caldwell end Russell. The altercation led to the murder of Caldwell and another man wounded In the arm. THAW’S LAWYERS DECIDE TO RISK HIS FATE ON STORY OF PRETTY WIFE ■ FISH IS PREPARING CAPITAL P, 0. MAN, ID WAGE FIGHT She Tells All About White’s Persec'u- • tion of Her. Heat Kills Dairyman. By Private Leased Wire. Hamilton. Ohio, Juna 30.—All heat records In Hamilton were broken when the government thermometer register 'll at 1:30 o'clock (6 degrees. Harry Hclntselman, a dairyman,' was killed by the heat. Hot In Philadelphia. By Private Leased Wire. Philadelphia, Pa., June JO.—The gov ernment thermometer on top of the poatnfrice building registered 06 de grees yesterday, the record for the sea- .on. Many thermometers on the street touched 98. There were several heat prostrations, but so far no deaths have been reported. A marvelous Increase In the amount of money expended In buildings Is shown by tha building Inspector’s rec ord, for the half year passed In 1900 In comparison with the first six months of last year. Over a million of dollars more has been put out In building In vestments during this year than the first six months of last, which Is near ly double the amount expended during the similar time In 1106. This not only speaks well for the rapid growth of At lanta, but aleo for the superior quality of the buildings being erected as the Increase In the number of buildings la far below the ratio of Increase In money expended. Building Inspector P. A. Pittman said Saturday: “Tha great Increase this year comes largely In business houses. In the number of new dwell ings, although a substantial Increase Is shown, there le nothing so remarkable, but the Increase In the number of bust ness .houses, factories and warehouses Is certainly wonderful." When asked what was the cause of the Increase, Bulldlnr Inspector Pitt man said: "During the last seven or eight years the growth of Atlanta In a residence way outstripped the number of business houses erected. The busi ness men hare been remodeling, putting In new floors and In every way at tempting to make the old buildings accommodate the new state of things, until the old buildings bare become en tirely Inadequate, and now new ones are being built. Every day new cm- terprtsea are being started and tha In crease In business houses will. In my opinion, continue for some time.. The buildings now being erected are bet ter In workmanship and material than aver before.” FOUR WORKMEN INJURED AT BATTLESHIP LAUNCHING By Private leased Wire. Philadelphia. Pa., June 80.—Barring a alight accident which Injured four men, the 18,000-ton battleship New Hampshire was successfully launched from the yards of the New York Hhlp Building Company on tha Delaware liver In South Camden, N. J., at about 3 o'clock this morning. Governor McLane, of Naw Hamp shire, and his daughtsr, Mias llaxel McLane, the sponsor, with othsr mem bers of th# christening party, were on hand ten minutes before the signal was glvsn by Decouraay May, president of the company, to send the steel hull oft the ways. While the workmen were engaged In removing the shoring blocks, aeveral pieces of heavy tlmbera fell. Injuring four workmen, two of them so severe ly that It was necessary to remove them to the Cooper hospital In Cam den. The accident was unknown to the By Privets tedesd’Wire. New York. June 10.—Life or death for Harry K. Thaw depends now upon the story which ' his beautiful young wife, Kvclyn Nesblt Thaw, will tell on the witness stand. Thaw’s lawyers, chief of whom la ex-Judge W. M. K. Olcott, hare deter' mined'to rest their entire case on the etory of Mrs. Thaw. It. la a dramatic and sensational narrative Counsel for Thaw etudled this nar retire In detail last night. Today they had concluded that In It rested Thaw’s Justification. They determined that Mrs. Thaw .would ba thslr chief wlt- ' r story of White’s per form the basis of the tjtH. Thaw Tells All. Mrs. TnaW'a i attltude‘Is ons of con' earn-only for -b*r husband. In her story, to tha lawyers she talked with absol&te' frankness. - ness end that her story of White's per secution . should, f defense. T HARRI B/ Private Uik4 Wire. Naw York, June 8Q.—President Htuy vesant Flah. of the Illinois Central Hailfoad, hae fired the Orel gun, the echoes of which rumbled through Wall street today, in what pfesngrs tho moat desporate, determined warfare between him and Edward If. Harrfi the man of "not yet" fame, for the trol of the Illinois Central. It will be the most stirring battle that Wall street has seen for years. H .rh in* n nr.- ..ijt r-.r l-l'.od, jin<! financiers on the street ngioed today that he chances of a compromise wet so remote aa to not be worth RUINED BY RACES, ADMITS STEALING' i - j Private I/rased wire. Washington, June 30.—Charles W.J MnrW'horler, assistant cashier In thaj Washington pout office, Is locked up Ini the hirst precinct police station, a rnn J fesaed emboxxler of $10,000 of govern*! icWhorter wsa arrested at tha, of Postmaster John A. Mer- vhoin a confession waa made flee of the prisoner’s attorney, W. II. Robeson, In the Rond building, The prisoner hud Intended to glv* blm«f self up today, the police said. Friends of MacWhnrter say his