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THE ATLANTA GEORGIAN. TrfT'RSPAY. AUGUST 23. ion* Sage Company Owes Many Millions of Dollars. OOO&XKrtOQQtQQWOOOOOWOQa O O O PIEDMONT SHOP O IS CLOSED DOWN O O | O O The Piedmont Brokerage Com- O 0 pany, located In the baaement 0 0 of the Piedmont Hotel, closed Its 0 0 doors Thursday morning. The O 0 Piedmont company was opened 0 0 up several months ago under the O 0 management of a stock company O 0 capitalized iit $2,000. O 0 The company came before the 0 0 public during the Southern Cot- O 0 ton Association Investigation, O 0 when It was discovered that A. A. 0 0 Fairchild, manager of the pub!!- 0 0 cation bureau for the association, 0 0 was one of the eight stockholders. 0 0 Manager W. C. Love stated 0 0 Thursday: "I hope to have the 0 0 doors opened again tomorrow. If O 0 so, we will do business through 0 0 Odell & Co. of Cincinnati. I am 0 0 now waiting to see the president 0 0 of the company, who Is out of the 0 0 city. Of course, I cannot act un- 0 0 til the consent of the stockholders 0 O Is obtained.** 0 0 Manager Love also stated that O 0 the company was hurt very little 0 O by the Sage failure, ns there were 0 0 only » few customers at the time. 0 0 On the board of the Piedmont 0 0 shop. Instead of the usual line of 0 O quotations, appears the following. 0 0 which was sent out by M. J. Sage 0 0 to all the shops under his manage- O 0 inent: 0 "Our backer, who has been fur- O 0 nlshlng us finances to run this 0 O business, refuses to put up any 0 O more money. This leaves us w ith O 0 but one alternative. That is to O O close up. However much we rtf O O gret to make this statement, >i r Q 0 cumstances force us to do so, T*~ O actlonl Is as much of a surprlsi 0 us as to any of you. . O (Signed» "M. J. 8AOE & CQT< T* O Oh another board Is wrltteitr : O O "Business suspended on accotinli 0 0 of M. J. Sage’s failure." O 00000000000000000000000000 HUBERT L. CULBERSON ELECTED TREASURER Defeats James G. Woodward by Five Hun dred Votes in Red Hot Race. In one of the hntlnt race* ever known In Ffilton county. Hubert L. Culbernon wn, Wednesday elected county treasurer agalnat a field of seven other candidate*. HI* neareat competitor was Mayor James Q. Woodward, who polled 3,038 votes *« agalnat Mr. Culberion'a 3,672. Macon C, Sharp ran a close third, hla total being 1,837. Charles I. Branan waa fourth and Draper waa fifth. Following la the unofficial rote tabulated hy ward* and preelncta: FOR COUNTY TREASURER. First Ward Second Ward Third Ward Fourth Ward Fifth Ward Sixth Ward , Seventh Ward Eighth Ward Adamsvllle Battle Hill > Bryants Blackball * Buckhead ... ... ... .. College Park rolling ... Cooks East Point Edge wood... ... .. • ... ... ... .., Hnpevillc Peachtree*.» ... . * Oak Grove... ... ... ... South Bend Totals £ m X c/> •™H»IO T J 1 J 3 2 f f 3 c I ; to t <3 i e Q ni 28 181 17 302 47 23 334 112 393 112 2.11 100 9* 217 71 417 82 178 48 61 17J 90 193 77 116 24 $2 164 36 340 49 140 41 6* 28(1 H5 207 48 101 42 139 41 12 43 14 51 31 11 69 46 34 12 II 8 44 4 5 1 10 1 2 i 7 2 2fi 11 i 1 18 10 6 22 2 60 « i 2 6 2 11 7 8 2 16 7 ii 24 16 3 20 18 9 114 5 44 4 ii 12 5 9 3 123 3 38 1 10 8 5 13 3 9 7 7 1 4 8 i 4 4 4 3 7 3 8 1 13 • 2 16 4 15 9 13 7 8 1927 412 2038 450 1476 437 647 INCOMPLETE TABLE I By Private !.enaed Wire. New York, Aug. 23.—Inveatlgatlon to day Into the operation, of M. J. Sage A Co., the bucket .hop brokerage con cern backed by "Al" Adama, ex-convict and policy king, with offlcea at 67 Broadway, which hna announced Ita "suspension," brought out the atarttlng fact that 36.001) persona throughout the country who were led Into speculation have been fleeced of 12,000.000. While many of the ftago concern's dupea were people of other rltle. and towns, several thousand of them nrn New Yorkers and hundreds of these latter, long before the usual Wall street hours, gathered at the concern's Broad way offlcea, angrily trying to find some one who could give them aatiafactlon. Crowds B.ai.g. Office. At the Sage company', office, at No. 1 Montgomery etreet, Jeraey City, the game thing occurred. This “get rich quick” concern was started by "Al" Adam, through hla son, Alfred L. Adams. Jr., even before the father waa out of hla cell at Bing Bing, where he wa. serving a sentence in connection with hi. policy shops swindle. The nollcy king, when he determined to abandon the game In which ho hnd ground out a fortuhe of several millions from the gullible public, picked out the bucket shop lure and rallied to his support a band of men, nil officer* or director* of M. J. Huge A Co., wlioae previous records were notorious. Federal Folk T.k* Hind. - Application was to have been made today In Jersey City for the appoint ment of William Beverly, chief clerk of the Jersey City offlcea, as assignee of the Bags concern. The Federal authorities took a hand today In the affairs of the bucket shop firm. . Aw soon as the postofflee department heard that the concern hnd suspended they bq.iln an Investigation, with the result that today a great quantity of mall, addressed to the Arm, wa* held tn the New York postofflee. Money It Captured. A number of the I'nlted Plate, postal Inspectors were Immediately detailed On the case. The first fruits of the Investigation revealed the fact that "Al" Adam* himself Is In Mexico. The Inspector set to work to locate the other, of the syndicate. ' It was said by the postal authorities that the mall which haa been detained here contains thousands upon thou sands of dollars In checks and money orders from gullible victims all over the country. Each day's mall to Hage A Co. con tained large sums In checks, cash and money orders. Mxth Ward... Bevcnth Ward. Eighth Ward.. Adamsvllle... Battle Hill .. Hlnrkhnll... . Bryants Buckhead... t'olllns Cooks East Point, College Park. Edgewood... Ilnpevllle... . Oak Grove... Peachtree .. Smith Bend... (... FOR GOVERNOR—FULTON COUNTY. FI rat Ward Hecond Ward... Third Ward... . Fourth Ward... Total*. 633 283 687 *05 240 191 170 214 18 27 43 11 ii5 21 26 37 36 69 47 h 257 51 174 30 42 49 78 2? 43 14 49 44 28 27 94 33 ,882 8,422 J ml 111 s D ce J mJ fc HI X 1- 1 <0 2 -> 69 7 1 • 126 10 2 137 7 6 71 12 6 95 • 6 67 9 2 28 2 12 3 4 3 i « 17 6 i 8 i 6 l 10 . l 2 083 to IS LATE BULLETINS OF THE ELECTIONS FLOYD COUNTY. Rome. Oa„ Aug. 3*.—The official re turn* of Floyd county give Hoke Smith 471 majority over Howell. For comp troller-general, William A. Wright re ceived 1,404 and V. T. Sanford 868. Mosc Wright Is re-elected judge of Romo district court, WILKES COUNTY. Washington. Go., Aug. 31.—The of ficial consolidated returns from the voting precincts In Wilkes county show the following results: Hoke Smith 608. Jim Smith 418, Russell 34, Howell 17, Estlll 8. The election passed off quietly. A smaller vote was polled than waa an ticipated. only 1,127. being cast out of 1,600 registered. William A. Wright defeated Vine# Sanford 3 tn 1. and Merritt defeated Johnson hy a like vote. About twenty votes were thrown out on account of mutilation. . HENRY COUNTY. McDonough. Ga., Aug. 23.—Hoke Smith's plurality in Henry county Is 370 Wright’s majority over Sanford Is 1.080. Merritt's majorl'y over John ston Is 1.000. Rengnn for Judge carried Henry by 880 over Y. A. Wright. DOOLY COUNTY. Vienna. Ga., Aug. 21.llnke Smith has carried Dooly county by 14* majority. COBB COUNTY. Marietta, Ga., Aug. 23.—Complete re turns In Cobb countv give Hoke Smith 1.4*9. Howell 477, Russell 136, Estlll 39, Jim Smith 11. R A N OOL PHCO U N T Y. Cuthhert, Ga.. Atig. 23.—Hoke Smith and Colonel Worrtll carry Randolph county by nn overwhelming majority. LOWNDES COUNTY. Valdosta, Ga., Aug. 23.—The follow ing offldai vote of Lowndes county: Estlll 71. Howell *32, Russell «, Hoke Smith 760. James M. Smith 0; W. B. Meriitt, 1.228, Mark Johnson 132. V. T. Sanford »«. William A. Wright 1,128. IwuHRAY COUNTY. Spring Place, Ga.. Aug. 23.—Hoke Smith has carried Murray county by 2*3 majority. SPALDING COUNTY. Griffin, Ga.. Aug. 23.—Hoke Smith'* majority In Spalding county 267. Reagan, for Judge, get* 722 majority. CHEROKEE COUNTY. Canton, Ga., Aug. 23.—For governor, Hoke Smith 828, Howell 310, Russell 61. Estlll 7, James M. Smith 3. Hoke Smith’s plurality 647. For comptroller, Vincent T. Sanford 318, Wright 884; school commissioner, Johnson 742, Mer ritt 668. Roy.ton, Ga., Aug. 23.—Franklin county give. Hoke Smith 1,013, Bussell 300, Jim Smith 26*. Estlll 7, Howell 3. Merritt, Wright and Brand will win. M’DUFFIE COUNTY. Thomson, Ga., Aug. 28.—Despite the fact that Hon. Thomas E. Watson en tered actively Into the campaign In the Interest of the candidacy of Hoke Smith for governor, the county was carried by Jamea Smith by a safe ma jority. PIERCE COUNTY. Blackshear, Ga., Aug. 23.—Offldai returns of Pierce county give Hoke 8mlth 418, Estlll 188, Howell 1, Rus sell 10. BIBB COUNTY. Macon. Oa., Aug. 33.—A division of the solid Democratic vote of Bibb be tween Clark Howell and Judge Russell ha. unquestionably lost the county to Hoke Smith and hla plurality will b. In the neighborhood of 200 vote.. M U 8COQ?ECO U N TY. Columbus, Ga., Aug. 18.—The official count In Muscogee county gtvee Smith 1.14*. Howell 672. Russell 84, Estlll II, Jim Smith, Sanford 413. Wright 1,090, Merritt 1,077, Johnaton 398. GWINNETT~COUNTY. l-awrencevllle, Ga., Aug. 23.—Russell lore* Gwinnett county by 44 votes. ■ II.— Appling Baker Baldwin .. .. Banka Bartow Berrien ..... . Bibb Brook* . Bryan Bulloch Burke Butt. Calhoun ('arqden Campbell ,, ,, Carroll Catoosa Charlton .. .. Chatham .. .. Chattahoochee Chattooga .. ., Cherokee .. .. Clarke Clay Clayton Clinch Cobb Coffee Colquitt Columbia ... ,. Coweta .. .. .. Crawford .. .. Crisp Dade Dawson .. .. Decatur .. .. DeKnlb Dodge Dooly DougheOrty .. ., Douglas Early Echols Effingham .. .. Elbert Emanuel .. .. Fannin Fayette .. ., Floyd Forsyth Franklin .. Fulton Gilmer Glascock ., .. Glynn Gordon .. .. Grady Greene .. .. Gwinnett .. .. Habersham.. Hall Hancock .. Haralson .. .. Harris Hart Heard Henry Houston .. .. Irwin .i .. .. Jackson Jasper Jeff Davis .. ., Jefferson .. .. Jenkins Johnson Jones Laurens I-or Liberty .. Lincoln Lowndes .. .. Lumpkin .. ., Macon Madison .. .. Marlon McDuffie .. .. McIntosh .. .. Meriwether.. .. Miller Milton Mitchell .. .. Monroe Montgomery .. Morgan Murray Muscogee .. .. Newton .. .. .. Oconee Oglethorpe.. .. Paulding .. .. Pickens Pierce Pike Polk Pulaski Putnam .. .. § ultman nbun Randolph .. Richmond .. .. Rockdale .. .. Schley .. .. i. Screven .. .. Spalding .. .. Stephens .. .. Stewart Sumter .. .. Talbot Taliaferro .. .. Tattnall .. .. Taylor .. ., ,. Telfair Terrell Thomas Tift Toombs Towns Troup Turner Twiggs Union Upson Walker .. .. ,. Walton Ware Warren Washington .. Wayne Webster .. .. White Whitfield .. .. Wilcox .. .. .. Wilkes wiiklnson .. .. Worth 1. V. RICHMOND IS SAFE WAR DEPARTMENT FOR W. A. WRIGHT IS IN A TURMOIL By GOOD MAJORITY OVERJIS ROW Major Says Brigadier Is Ignorant and Incom petent. Indications Are That He Did Not Lose a County. Merritt Won Out. From Indications Thursday William Wright, comptroller general of Georgia, carried exactly 146 counties over his opponent, Vincent T. Sanford, of Floyd. Disquieting reports reached’ Atlanta Wednesday night, to the effect that Captain Wright's homd county, Rich mond, was going against him through a curious combination of 'circum stances. About midnight the comp troller received a message at his Peachtree street home giving assurance that the county would give him a hand some majority. During Hon. Boykin Wright's cam paign for the legislature recently he made some statements which offenddd the A. P. A.'s and certain mill oper atives. In the primary Wednesday the report was spread that Comptroller Wright was a brother of Boykin Wright, and that this would be an excellent method of reprisal by knifing his relative. For tunately the comptroller's friends dis covered the matter early In the day, and set matters aright. Sanford has several.brothers In Augusta who stand well, and naturally they worked hard for their brother. Floyd county, Sanford's home by adoption, went against him by some thing like 500 votes. Geoernl Wright stated Thursday morning that he was profoundly grateful to the people of Georgia for their splendid Indorsement of his long public service. Merritt Sure Winner. •Figures on the state school com missioner's race are difficult to obtain. In the overshadowing gubernatorial contest little, has come In concerning that place. It seems assured, however, that Commissioner W. B. Merritt has been re-elected by a very large majority. Chattaooga county went for Colonel Mark Johnston, and It Is probable that he has carried several others. Commissioner Merritt had not turned Thursday from Lowndes coun ty, where he went lo cast his ballot, and no statement could be secured from him. afterTooIgstore ROBBERS START FIRE By Private Leased Wire. Washington, Aug 28.—Because Ma Jor John B. Bellinger Is quoted as hav ing referred to Brigadier General Wil liam Carter as "woefully ignorant and grossly Incompetent," the whole war department Is In a turmoil. This morning,arf article was publish ed quoting Major Bellinger as saying, In regard to General Carter's strictures on the quartermaster's department: “Brigadier General William Carter In his attack on the quartermaster’s de partment la cither woefully Ignorant of what he Is talking about, or Is grossly Incompetent. Ho can take hla choice." By Private Leased Wire. South Bend, Ind, Aug. 23.—After looting the general store of Eugeno Adams at Rollins Prairie, four miles west of South-'Ben^, early this morning, burglars set fire to the place and en tirely destroyed Odd Fellows’ hall block, the lodge owning and having their hall In .the building. The loss will reach 310,000. The officer* are on the trait of some local men whom they believe commit ted the burglary, and who also are suspected of having committed a sim ilar robbery at Berrien Center, Minn., several weeks ago. Jenkins county. Mlllcn, Ga., Aug. 23.—The consolidat ed returns of Jenkins county glv* Hoke Smith 363, Estlll 118, Howell 108, Rus sell 109. For school commissioner, Merritt 429, Johnston 183. Comptroller general, Wright 641, Sanford 88, « For congress In the First district for the regular term, Brnnnen 627, Shep- perd 78. For the unexplred term, Clifton 287, Overstreet 284, Saussy 23, J. Hartrldg. Smith 18. The vote on bonding Jenkins county was lost by a small majority. FACING LUNACY TRIAL MRS. DENNVOIESIN JAIL Instead of being tried nn a lunacy charge Thursdny Mrs. Susie Denny, who was taken In custody Monday, August 12, after having entirely Inst her reasoning power, wilt he buried. She died In a cell at the Tower early Thursday morning. She hnd been liv ing at 18 Reinhardt street when she was taken In charge by Office Moncrlef on Decatur street 1 , and sent to the po lice station. Ten days ago she was sent to the Tower on papers sworn out by Call Officer J. A. Chandler. The low requires that a person thought to be insnne b* held In custody for 'rn days before being sent to an asy lum. 00000000000000000000000000 a • o 0 CULBERSON THANK8 0 HIS 8UPP0RTERS. 0 O Hon. Hubert L. Culberson made O . the following statement: 0 0 "I desire to make public ac- O 0 knowledgment of my gratitude to 0 0 the voters of Fulton county foi 0 bestowing upon me by their suf 0 frages the honor of being county 0 0 treasurer. I hope by faithful and 0 efficient service to show them that 0 their confidence has not been mis- 0 O placed. 0 0 "In the canvass for the office, 0 0 which, while free from bitterness, 0 0 was a close and hot one, I waa 0 0 untiringly assisted by more true 0 S and loyal friends than any man 0 could deserve. To each of them I 0 0 owe a debt of gratitude I can 0 0 never hope to discharge. Their 0 0 names and faces will never .bo O 0 forgotten, and my highest ambl- 0 0 tlon will be to so live that they 0 0 will not regret the stand that they 0 O have taken nor the work they O 0 have done for me." 0 00000000000000000000000000 00000000000000000000000000 0 JOYNER EXPRESSES 0 O THANKS FOR SUPPORT. 0 0 —: o 0 Concerning hla election. Chief 0 O W. R. Joyner said: 0 O "I want to thank my friends for 0 O their most earnest efforts In my 0 S behalf. 0 "It has been the ambition of my 0 0 life to be mayor of Atlanta, and 0 O I feel that by achieving the posl- 0 0 tlon I have secured a. high an 0 O honor as any man could receive. O S "It ahull be my effort to make 0 auch a mayor that no one who O 0 voted for me shall ever regret hla O 0 action." 0 0 ' O 00000000000000000000O00000 MED TO DEM DOT NEITHER DID IT Jas. L. Key Demands That Maddox and Felder Step Down. , ^ OOOO00O0O00O0OO00OOO000000 ° DR. CURTI8 THANK8 O THOSE SUPPORTING HIM. 0 0 Dr. A. L. Curtis, who was elect- 0 0 ed alderman from the First ward, O O said: O O “I wish to extend my thanks to O O all who supported me In my cam- 0 0 palgn." O 0 O 00000000000000000000000000 ELECTION GAUGES NOT ONE ARREST Order, order everywhere— And not a drap to drink. Only nine arrests were made by the police force from midnight Tuesday night until midnight Wednesday night, twenty-four hours. But the feature of the line work of the police department during the twenty-four hour* wa* the fact that not a single man created dis turbance In regard to his candidate or candidates. Not an arrest made nor a copy of charges served at'any of the polling places. The police department, headed by Chief Jenlngs, are certainly to be con gratulated for their tine work, and the lack of disorder during the time which riot usually runs rife In the city. Resides there not being arrests made for lights about votes, Wednesday night waa one of the quietest for the call officer* that has been known for many a week, only one addltonal case was made between midnight Wednesday night and noon Thursday. "Although I had taken every pre caution that there should be no trou ble. I am surprised that none of the big crowd was arrested," said Chief Jennings Thursday morning. The official count of election returns will show that Hoke Smith swept the county and that the majority of ijh given him by The Georgian Wednes day night Is practically correct. The Joint county committee is can vassing the returns. Owing to the complexity of the list and the number of candidate* figuring In the contests the tabulation had not been completed up to the hour of going to press. Alderman J. L. Key created a small sensation at the committee meeting by calling upon both Chairmen Felder and Maddox to resign. Neither chair- man showed any inclination to heed the request and the matter was dropped. Joint Committee. The Joint committee, composed of members and chairmen of the Felder. and Maddox committees, met at 12 o'clock In the basement of the court house to canvass the returns, accord ing to the compact made some time ago. Secretary Charles N. Allen re ceived fhe ballot boxes and tally sheets from the various managers. When the meeting was called to or der by Chairman Thomas J. Felder, J L. Key rose and asked for the ear of both chairmen. He then said: •'We have no use for two commit tees. The people have settled this and I think we ought not to Impose our selves on the public. There Is no need to perpetuate .this strife and friction. The thing for you two to do Is to re sign what you both consider an empty honor." Mr. Felder explained that a resolu tion had' provided that the Joint com mittee canvass the returns. He and Mr. Maddox were acting under a com pact. This would be the last election before the flection of a new executive committee. MT. Key again called upon the two chairmen to resign. "To whom shall we tender our resig nations?" asked Mr. Felder. "To the people,” replied Mr. Key. Applause from members of the com mittee followed. "You ’Are Not the People.” "I decline to recognise you, Mr. Key, as the people or the representative of the people," retorted Mr. Felder. Mr. Maddox explained that the mat- r would go to the state executive committee anyway. The meeting then proceeded harmoniously. The commit tee agreed that the canvass of the re turns, a tedious process, be left to Sec retary Allen and published In the newspapers and most of the members retired from the room. Burton Smith, a brother of Hoke Smith, occupied a front seat, but took no part In any discussion. He left with the other members of the com mittee. The city returns were canvassed by the city executive ctftnmlttee at Id o'clock In the city hall. Chairman M. W. Welch presided and the count was made by a committee composed of E. F. Childress, Frank West and C. F. Rice. No friction was shown at the meeting. The Old Standard, Grove’. Tasteless Chill Tonic, drives out m.lerla and build, up the system. Sold by ail dealers for 27 yean, "vice 60 cents. POPULISTS MEET HERE • If the plans announced several weeks ago are followed the Populists of Geor gia will meet at the cspltol In Atlanta on August 27 to finally determine the course of the strelghtouts as regards putting out a state ticket. Somq weeks ago when about seventy- five Populists from over the state met at the eapltol In response to a call Is sued by Chairman Holloway, of th* state executive committee. It was de cided to call a convention here on Aug- gust 27. So far as known no additional call has been Issued nor the original call rescinded. It remains to be seen how many will come here on next Monday. Populists voting In the Democratic pri mary Wednesday evidently left the pledge on the ballot, aa no Information has been received of ballots being thrown out on that account. It Is believed that Torn Watson's ad vice to his party to vote In the Dem ocratic primary haa been pretty gen erally followed, and that the percent age of Irreconcllables Is very small. It Is doubtful, therefore, If many win come here to the convention called for the 27th. OUR SHOW LAST NIGHT was the result of over 200 of our own correspondents in' the state telegraphing us. Every preparation in advance—even down to our adding machine—so our figures would be added correctly. 15,000 people watched it because they believe The Georgian. The Postal Telegraph Company used our figures for all their reports, because they believed The Georgian. s The Georgian is not a “Sky Rocket”—just a plain newspaper in which the people have confidence.