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' (Copyright, 1914, by Kladderadatch)
This picture is from the Gerinan comic weekly, Kladderadatceh, and gives an idea of the eutonic esti
mate of Colonel Roosevelt's South American exploit. Kladderadatch explains that “the natives discovered by
Colonel Roosevelt in South America, according to all advices, must be web-footed and have mouths that
open back of their ears.”
314,900,000 FOF
DOUBLE TRACK,
SO.RY. PLAN
The Atlanta and Charlotté Air
f.ine Railway, which is a part of the
Southern Railway system, has applied
to the Georgia Railroad Commission
for authority to issue $20,000,000 of
first mortgage bonds, for the purpose
of completing at once the double
tracking of the road from Atlanta to
Charlotte.
The road proposes to use $5,500,000
in retiring some matured bonds, and
the remaining $14,600,000 is to be
used in the work of double-tracking,
and in the addition of somé necessary
terminal facilities. The bonds are to
be issued from time to time, as ap
proved by the Commission.
The Southern already is double
tracked about 40 miles between At
lanta and Galnesville, and it is the
purpose of the road to push its dou
ble tracking to Charlotte at once.
Bond Permit Assured.
By the time this work is completed
the Southern will be double tracked
all the way from Atlanta to Wash
ington. ;
The commission has set the hearing
on the bond application for June 10,
and it seems assured that the petition
will be approved.
The total distance to Charlotte from
Atlanta is 263 miles, and with 40
miles already double tracked there
are 223 remaining miles to equip in
that manner.
The division of the Southern from
Birmingham, via Atlanta, to Wash
ington is the cream of the system
and its business has grown so heavy
of late that complete double tracking
is necessary.
Vital Railway Move.
The bonds asked for are to be 30-
vear, payable in gold, and carrying 5
per cent interest.
The Railroad Commission views the
proposed doubie tracking of the
Southern as one of the most impor
tant and significant works of railroad
extension ever coming tc the atten
tion of the commission.
It is almost impossible for the
Southern now to handle its great
business between Atlanta and the
East.
Ignores Physician's
gnores Phy
Warning; Strangles
GADSDEN, ALA., June I.—P L
Thornton, a grocery clerk, died to
day of a tumor in his throat.
A physician warned Thornton he
would be dead in twelve hours unless
be underwent an opergtion. Thorn
ton did not consider hig condition se
rious, and failed to take the advice.
He strangled to death.
FRENCH BANK FAILS.
Special Cable to The Atianta Georgian,
PARIS, May 28. -The failure of the
Bangue Miniere, Metaliurgique Bt In
dustrill, was announced to-day
THE GEORGIAN'S NEWS BRIEFS
Financier Doubtful
0f Early Trade Boom
NEW YORK, May 30.—Alvin W,
Krech, president of the Fquitable
Trust Company, is a skeptic on any
immediate improvement in business,
and believes it will take some univer
sal factor to turn the tide.:
“Such a factor,” said Mr. Krech,
“would be bountiful crops. but these
must be irrevocably assured before
general improvement can take place.
“I do.not believe we have anywhere
near reached the limit of the gold ex
port movement. They want gold
abroad. Our banking condition at
present permits a free movement, and
completion of the Federal reserve
organization will release still more
gold.
“Phere is phe redeeming feature in
the situation. That is the more gold
we ship the more easily can we get
what we neéd when we want it."”
Woman From Chair
NEW YORK. May 30.-—-Mrs. Magda
lena Ferola, convicted of murder In the
first degree in the Bronx County SBu
ipreme Court, will be sentenced to die
n the electric chair. Immediately after
she will be removed to Sing Sing pris
on, where a special death cell has been
constructed for her.
District Attorney Francis Martin con
tinues to receive letters pleading with
him to take some action to prevent the
execution of a woman in the State of
New York. Most of the letters are writ
ten by women. Several organizations
have made the same appeal.
If the sentence is carried out, Mrs.
Ferola will be the first woman to die
in the chair in New York since Mrs.
Martha Place, of Brooklyn, was exe
cuted” in 1898,
rMs_ Ferola killed Carmelo Cane
strano, 23 vears old, on the night of De
cember 29, 1913. She is 55 years old.
She claims he refused to marry her
after they had secured a license at the
City Hall, Manhattan,
Traffic Barred So
Children May Play
CHICAGO, May 30.--Aldermen Fick
and Franz, new representatives of the
Twentieth Ward in the Council,
scared one for the “kids" of their dis
tfict vesterday when they obtained
an order forbidding street traffic on
West Twelfth place between Jefferson
and Clinton streets from 4 to 7 p. m
every day.
Children now will have unrestrict
ed use of the place after school hours
for play.
Busch Plans Hotel as
Memorial to Father
ST. LOUIS, June I.—Ag a memo
rial to his father, Augustus A, Busch
has purchased one-half block «f
ground on which he plans to erect a
sixteen-story hotel to be known as
“The Adolphus.”™
The cost has been estimated at
$2.500,000. The hotel will face City
Hall Park on the south and Twelfth
street on the east and will be one of
the finest west of New York.
Uncle Sam oil Head
Freed of Conspiracy
OKLAHOMA CITY, May 28.—
H. H. Tucker, president of the Uncle
Sam Oil Comjany, has been acquit
ted of the charge of conspining to de
fraud the United States Government
in order to secure leases on valuable
oil lands owned by Osage Indians.
The other defendants may not be
tried.
34,900 ROBBERY
CONFESGED BY
- MESSENGER
Oscar Lee Williams, of Fort Val
ley, Ga., an express messenger for the
Southern Express Company, has been
released on bond after being arrested
at Macon on a charge of stealing
packages of money totaling $4,900,
part of which was consigned to At
lanta banks. - According to the au
thorities, Wiliiams confessed and re
turned $3,250 of the money, the great
er part of-which the officers found
buried under his mother's home at
Fort Valiey.
Williams asscrts that he gave $9OO
to Fred Thompson, of Macon, for safe
keeping, and that Thompson refusad
to return it. Thompson has been ar
rested and is held under a charge of
gamire. He also has made a counter
charge of gambling against Williams.
Williams had a run on the Georgia
Railroad between Camak and Macon.
His arrest followed the disappearan ‘e
of a package containing $2,000, con
signed by the Bank of Sparta to the
Lowry National Bank of Atlanta. He
protested his innocence for two days,
the authorities say, and then broke
down and confessed that he had stolen
seven packages of money, each con
taining amounts ranging from a few
httndred dollars to the $2,000 in the
last one His operations covered a
period of several months,
Urge Young Irish
To Remain at Home
DUBLIN, May 28—In a strong
warning published here, Michael J.
Jordan, secretary of the United Irish
League of America, urges against
Irish immigration to the United
States.
The article declares that benefits
anticipated by emigrants are illu
sory and that it is worse than folly
for voung Irishmen to attempt to
compete with young Americans
trained upon their own soil
California Road Has
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16 Miles of Roses
ILOS ANGELES, May 28.—Visitors
to San Fernando Valley in the last
few days have been amazed and de
lighted with the glorious spectacle
presented by the hundreds of thou
scnds of beautiful roses that line
Sherman way on both sides for six
teen miles.
The plants, nearly 40,000 in num
ber, are crowned at the end of every
cane with blossoms of extraordinary
size and perfection of form.
Cook, With Ice Pick,
Stops Train Robber
SAN FRANCISCO, May 30.—An at
tempt was made by a masked bandit
to hold up Southern Pacific passen
ger train on the Coast line, due here
at 10:30 p. m. from Los Angeles. The
attempted holdup occurred on the
cutskirts of the city. While the ban
dit was at work a negro cook rushed
into the car and felled the robber
with an ice pick, and he was over
powered and placed under arrest.
HARDWICK HURL
DEBATE DEFI TG
OPPONENTS
Urges Slaton and Felder to Meet
Him on Platform — Opens
Headquarters Here.
Congressman Thomas W. Hardwick
icsued a challenge on Monday to
Governor Slaton and Thomas S. Fel
der, hig rival candidates for the un
expired term of Senator Bacon, to a
series of joint debates, and an
nounced that he will open immedi
ately State campaign headquarters in
Atlanta.
Mr. Hardwick's Atlanta headquar
ters will be located in the Kimball
House, and will be in charge of John
T. West, of Mchwaffie County, one of
the best-known ~'en in Georgia, who
will be assisted b Judge E. W. Jor
dan, of Sandersville, and Messrs. D.
G. Fogarty and (. E, Dunbar, of Au
gusta, and J. E. Hyman, of Sanders
ville.
Mr. Hardwick states that he is
much pleased with the progress of
his campaign, and proposes to can=
vass the State thoroughly.
= Replies to Slaton.
Mr. Hardwick discussed in vigore
ous language Governor Slaton's Sune
day card.
He said: “I am gratified that Mr.
Slaton is disposed to become a little
more specific than at first in outlin
ing his views and positions. As I pro
pose to show later, he still has ample
room for improvement in that re
spect.
“1 will not just at this moment un=
dertake to reply in detail to Mr. Sla
ton’'s statement. 1 shall do so later,
and fully. I will only say now that
the feature of his interview, namelv.
his charge that Mr. Felder and my<
self constitute a political partnership
for the purpose of accomplishing his
defeat, the loser to be rewarded by a
Federal appointment, is not only un
true, but silly.
“If Mr. Felder and 1 were in any
sort of partnership, we would not
both be candidates for the Senate,
and if both of us were not in this
race, no one knows better than Mr.
Slaton that even his present chance
of being an indifferent third in a con
vention fight would be goape, and he
‘would be the most unmercifully
beaten candidate that Georgia has
'seen in many years.
| Challenges His Opponents.
~ “Still, 1 congratulate the Governor
‘on his recently developed desire to
‘elucidate the issue of the campaign,
'so that the light may be turned on
before the vote is taken, I am in
'thorough sympathy with that idea,
and in order to fully co-operate in its
accomplishment I have to-day invit
ed Messrs. Slaton and Felder to join
me in a series of joint debates, in
which the public can hear us all,
weigh us all, and judge us all, man to
man and face to face. Surely a gen
tleman so brave in the newspapers as
Governor Slaton, so willing to make
unwarranted claims for his own rec
ord and unjust attacks upon those of
his opponents, will not shirk a full
and free discussion of the issues.
“The debates, if we can arrange
them, can and will be conducted on a
high plane, and can and ought to be a
‘dignifled and friendly discussion of
the public issues involved, free from
' personal bitterness or abuse. 1 be
lieve each of the candidates would
strive to accomplish that, besides the
punishment that the public would
swiftly and surely visit upon any can
didate who failed to do s¢ would be
uan additional guarantee that we could
have such debates.
“I earnestly hope that Messrs. Sla
ton and Felder will accept my sug
gestion and that the debates can be
speedily arranged.”
.
Two Boys Drown in
y . .
N. Carolina River
ASHEVILLE, N. C, May 29—
Wade Fain, aged 11 years, and Don
ald Christopher, aged 12, met death
to-day by drowning in the Hiawas
see River at Murphy, N. C.
While swimming in the river with
several companions they were heard
to call for help. Their companions
arrived in time to see them go down
for the last time in the middle of the
stream.
Million Ask Wilson
To Free Dynamiters
WASHINGTON, May 29.—A peti
tion signed by more than a million
Unionists asking President Wilson to
pardon Frank M. Ryan and his asso
c'ates in the Indianapolis dynamite
conspiracy cases will be presented to
the Chief Executive on Honday.
Representative Sabath, of Illinois,
will present the petition.
Suggestion Brin
ggestion Brings
.
Baby to Registrar
AUSTIN, TEXAS, May 28.—R. P.
Babcock, State Registrar of Vital Sta
tistics, attributes the arrival of a new
baby at his home to the power of sug
gestion.
He has been married for eleven years,
and it was not until to-day that the
union was blessed with a child.