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• VOL. VIII.
ESCAPED BED NOB
TO DIE OF KONGER
IN AOm STREETS
Pitiful Survivors w ande* 1
They Were Lost Througr*
Ruins of Their Homes and
Die of Starvation.
23,000 MASSACRED
IN OPEN DAYLIGHT
BY FRENZIED MOBS
Wretched Women and Children Wail
Through the Nights of Terror and
Many Become Insane—The
Hornet Are Charnel Houses.
(By imHitM Praaa.)
ADANA. Asiatic Turkey, Wednesday.
April 28. via Constantinople, May 6.—The
Rev. Stephen D. Trowbridge, a mission
ary of the American board of commis
sioners for foreign missions, estimates
the number of Armenians killed in the
province of Adana since the outbreak of
the anti-Christian rioting, at 23,00). The
missionary said today:
"A conservative estimate of the Chri-s
tians killed in the city of Adana is 3,000.
This calculation is made up from the
lists prepared by the priests and other
officials who give permits for burials.
“Not fewer than 20.000 perished in the
towns and villages of the province. This
figure is based on the full information
sent forward by the British consul.
Wretched Survivors
“The surviving Armenians tn the en
tire province are largely women and chiU
dren. They amount to about 36,000 souls
and are today without homes, shops,
tools, clothing or bread A most piti
able and wretched multitude is passing
up and down the streets of Adana like a
lost people.
•They throng the big factory yards,
where a dole of flour is given out by the
relief committee. Crowds of broken
hearted women and children are coming
in from the Country to even greater mis
ery m the city.”
Mr. Trowbridge has written a further
account of the events at Adana, espe
cially with reference to the attitude of
the Turkish authorities.
In thia recital be says:
The Awful Truth
"We understand, from consular tele
grams. that the sublime porte assured the
ambassadors at Constantinople that a
slight outbreak had occurred at Adana
with about 60 casualties and the burn
ing of few houses and the porte de
clared further that the Americans here
wwe amply protected.
•We do not know the exact origin of
the straggle I say struggle, because
this has net been a massacre in the sense
that the Armenians died without resist
ing. They fought desperately in self
defense. and the fury of the Turks in
creased in proportion as the Armenians
succeeded in slaying Mohammedans. For
two days preceding the outbreak ' there
had been a bitter feud between mos
iems and <_ art st tans. in one vineyard
shooting wai begun ana hatred was
aroused on April 12. An Armenian who
had been beaten, shot one of his oppo
nents dead and wounded two others.
This man escaped to Merslna and took
passage on a vessel.
Dragged Corpses Through Streets
"The Turks in Adana then assumed
a mdhaclng attitude, which greatly
alarmed the Artnenlans. The body of a
modern killed in the streets was pur
posely dragged to an open square and
left there exposed by the Turks as a fa
natical challenge.
“A rumor spread among the Armenians
on April 14 that massacreing by the Turks
already had been begun, and as a dem
onstration of self-defense, a volley of
shots was fired from the roofs of Chris
tian houses. This in turn was Inter
preted in the moslem quarters as an at
tack and the word spread like wildfire
that the Armenians were in revolt and
must be crushed.
••Subsequent events hace shown clear
ly tffat the Adana government acquiesced
if it did not actually participate, in the
cruel and indiscriminate attacks made
with fire and rifle and sword upon the
entire Armenian colony, including our
Protestant congregation which, as a
body, has been wholly loyal to the gov
ernment. Two Christian prisoners who
escaped from government headquarters
declared that horsemen came in at inter
vals from outlying towns and villages
and reported to the military authorities
as follows:
Death Knell Hung
Hamidleh is finished' or 'Osminieh is
finished,' meaning, of course, that the
Armenian populations of these places had
been put to the sword. The military of
ficers received this Inform atlon as a
matter of course.
' The further occupation of Mohamme
dan minarets by regular soldiers began
shortly after noon of April 14. at the very
outset ot the struggle. These soldiers
kept up a cruel fusillade into all parts
of the Christian quarter. They were
shielded by the parapets of the minarets.
There were no patrols of soldiers or po
lice all day Wednesday, the 14th, none on
Thursday and none even on Friday at
the real crisis, when a moslem mob filled
the streets from here to the river, surg
ing against the walls of the girls' school.
The government furnished us no protec
tion whatever.'*
Continuing, Mr. Trowbridge related how
Tie reached the governor of Adana by a
dash across the city carrying the Turkish
flag and accompanied by two Turk*.
Governor Turned Pale
"The governor was running about in
dismay.*' Mr. Trowbridge said, "and could
“"ircely give a coherent answer to my
questions and demands. I told him of
the murder of Henry Maurer and D. M.
Rogers, American missionaries. He turn
ed pale at my statement, although he
must already have heard of the killings.
His answers were. ‘I cannot be responsi
ble." To this I replied: ’You must be
responsible: we have no other force to re
ly on except the government. You have
completely abandoned ’h rough this cri
sis '
The governor was so alarmed and con
fused that it was clear that he had no
mastery of the situation. Prisoners and
soldiers, common Turks, were running
in and out of the governor's audience
chamber. The governor finally conferr
ed with hW - .’i««flr\.it. w* ordered 150
‘ -"a under Osman Be. * dispatch
ed to the American
his way back to the mtcrion house,
Mr. Trowbridge observed that all the
Atlanta Warnal
IMPEACHMENT FOR
MISSOURI JUDGES?
CONGRESSMAN MURPHY AN-
NOUNCES ON FLOOR OF HOUSE
THAT HE WILL FILE IMPEACH
MENT CHARGES AT ONCE.
*®- Associated Pres*.)
haSHINU...-, -day 6.—At the con
clusion of a lengthy statement in the
house today regarding his resolution of
inquiry into the official conduct of Fed
eral Judges McPherson and Phillips, of
the western district of Missouri, Repre
sentative Murphy, of that state, an
nounced that he would present formal
charges of impeachment.
Mr. Murphy brought the matter as a
question of personal prMlege. The res
olution involves the conduct of the
judges in relation to the two-cent pas
senger fare litigation and themaxlmum
freight law of Missouri.
Reads the Newspapers
Mr. Murphy had read some newspaper
dispatches to the effect that Frank Hag
erman, attorney for eighteen railroads,
had telegraphed the attorney general of
the United States alleging that the
charges in the Murphy resolution were
“an outrageous tissue of misrepresenta
tion by one who has no knowledge of the
facts." He said he had confirmed the
fact that such a telegram had been re
ceived by Attorney Oeneral Wickersham.
Mr. Clayton, of Alabama, a member of
the judiciary committee, objected, say
ing that the argument was not one of
personal privilege.
Speaker Cannon ruled that Mr. Murphy
was within his rights and could continue,
but he had not proceeded far when Mr.
Henry, of Texas, another member of the
judiciary committee, stopped him with an
inquiry at to whether he did not intend
to formally bring in charges of impeach
ment. i •
Rucker-* Hot Reply
The Missouri member, however, did not
give a direct answer, but continued his
recital of the charges contained in hit
resolution. He called on Mr. Rucker, his
college, to substantiate what he was say
ing.
Mr. Rucker did so, and declared that
Judge Philips should have been impeach
ed twenty years ago.
Continuing, Mr. Murphy denied that the
state of Missouri had been accorded ev
ery courtesy in the rate cases, as was
stated in Mr. Hagerman’s telegram. The
state, he declared, had no knowledge or
notice whatever of the first injunction in
t hoses cases.
The house then adjourned, and immedi
ately thereafter Mr. Murphy notified
members of the judiciary committee that
he would at once formulate formal
charges of impeachment against the two
judges.
RULING OF M’PHERSON
IN RAILROAD RATE CASE
KANSAS CITY May 6.-Judge Smith
McPherson today In a statement from the
bench in the United States court here
indicated that he believed the recent suit
brought by Seebert Jones, circuit attor
ney of St. Louis, enjoining the railroads
of Missouri from charging a three-cent
fare, had violated the injunctive order of
the federal court which restrained the
state courts ai.c' state officials from pro
ceeding against the carriers in the pres
ent litigation.
The judge added that, on the other
hand, he did not consider any action of
Attorney Oeneral Elliott W. Majors, up
to this time could be considered in con
tempt.
**l do not to prejudice this case," the
judge said, "but my present opinion is
that ICrcuft Attorney Jones has infringed
upon the jurisdiction of this court.”
The remarks of the court came at the
opening of the arguments on temporary
restraining order against the state offi
cials recently issued by Federal Judge
John F. Phillips, tn the absence from the
city of Judge McPherson.
The principal arguments today were
made by Jeptha Howe, of St. Louis, for
the state and by Frank Hagerman, of
Kansas City, for the railways.
BOTH JUDGES SILENT;
WAITING FOR FILING
KANSAS CITY, Mo.. May haw
nothing to say at, this time, and will make
no statement until Representative Mur
phy formally presents his charges of im
peachment." said Judge Philips when
shown the Washington dispatch.
Judge McPherson also declined to make
a statement.
shops on the central square of Adana,
both Christian and moslem, had been
looted. He related various examples of
the government's indifference to the
safety of the Armenians or its participa
tion in their killing.
Amenians begging refuge at government
headquarters were killed in the market
place. Villagers who brought prisoners in
were asked:
"Why did you not finish these giours in
the villages; why have you brought them
here?”
Fifty Armenians were thrown Into the
river above Adana and drowned.
A Frightful Conspiracy
Throughout the fighting, railroad, pdh
tal and telegraph communication was cut
off.
It is Mr. Trowbridge’s conviction that a
plot existed to destroy the 50,000 Arme
nians in Adana province, and that of this
total number 23,000 were destroyed.
SCENES OF MASSACRE
ARE CHARNEL HOUSES
BEIRUT. Asiatic Turkey. May «.-The
situation at Suadia, where a number of
Armenians have been massacred, has
been relieved as a result of the presence
and exertions of the captain of the Brit
ish battleship Triumph and the British
consul at Alexandretta, who went down
the coast on board the Triumph.
The two officials visited Caladoran and
Kessab, and found these towns indes
cribable charnel-houses. There are more
than one thousand helpless and destitute
women in a village on the eea coast near
Kessab.
DEVASTATED COUNTRY
NOW FACING FAMINE
HADJIN, Tuesday. May 4.—Hadjln is
facing a terrible famine. There Is neither
money nor food in the city. The orphans
that have been cared for by the American
missionaries are crying for bread, and
the missionaries are anxious that their
benevolent friends be notified of the sit
uation here.
SITUATION AT SUADIA
REPORTED VERY CRITICAL
BIERUT. Asiatic Turkey. May 6.—The
situation at Suadia and Deurtyul again is
critical. Trouble Is brewing and further
anti-Christian outbreaks are feared. Five
hundred Turkish troops have been dis
patched to those two points.
In addition the British battleship Tri
umph. with the British consul on board,
left here this morning for Deurtyuk
ATLANTA. GEORGIA. FRIDAY, MAY fa ‘1909.
FINGER OF GOUT 1
POINTED AT BOYLE
OF WILLIE WHITLH
I
Looking at Man Who Kid
naped Him, Victim Declared
“That Is the Man,’’ Before
the Jury in Court.
WITHIN FEW MINUTES
JURY FOUND BOYLE
GUILTY OF CHARGE
Immediately After Conviction of
Boyle, ‘‘Mrs. J. H. Boyle,” the Un
known, Is Placed on Trial for the
Same Crime.
(By Associated Press.)
MERCER, Pa.. May fl.-After being
out about 16 minutes, the jury in the kid
naping case against James Boyle, return
ed a verdict of guilty.
Willie Whitla, on the witness stand In
the trial of James A. Boyle, his alleged
abductor, today pointed his finger at the
defendant as he sat in the prisoner’s box
and said:
"That is the man.” ,
He had been asked if he could point out
the man who took him away from Sharon
last March.
Boyle Pleads Not Guilty
Hundreds crowded the frail building
Serving for a temporary court house
when court convened this morning and
the doors were ordered locked to prevent
a possible disaster from overcrowding.
Boyle entered a formal pleas of not guil
ty, the jury selected yesterday was sworn
in and the opening address to the jury
was made by T. C. Cochran, in charge
of the prosecution.
"Willie” Whitla was the first witness
and told of the man who saiji his name
was "Mr. Jones,” calling for him with
a buggy at the school and telling him he
had been sent to take him away on ac
count of smallpox.
•‘The boy said "Mr. Jones” gave him a
letter and asked him to write his moth
er's name and address on it. That he did
so with a pencil and the man mailed it in
Sharon. ,He told of the drive to Warren,
the subsequent trip to Niles and Ashta
bula, of visiting a park at Ashtabula and
standing beside a cannon.
Then he said he was taken to Cleveland
where he was told he was in a hospital.
14 contained, he said,' two rooms and a
bath. He told o£ hiding in the bottpm of
the buggy and tn the box under the
wash stand in the “hospital” lest the doc
tors should see him and put him in a
pest house. He said "Mr. and Mrs.
Jones” told him to do so.
The cross-examination of "Willie” was
very brief, the questioning indicating that
the defense would attempt to prove an
alibi. .
Charles Flowers, of Sharon, testified
he had seen Boyle In Sharon the night
before the abduction and had spoken to
him.
Wr.c Not Positive
J. Thompson,a liveryman. identified
Boyle as the man who hired the buggy
from him early on the morning of the
kidnaping but on cross-examination ad
mitted he was not positive of his iden
tification.
L. Smith, of Sharon, said he saw Boyle
on the morning of the kidnaping in a
buggy with a boy. > He said the buggy
stopped at a mail box and he saw "Wil
lie” Whitla get out and mall a letter. On
cross-examination he said the reason he
had not inforirffid the Whitlas of what
he had seen was that he did not want to
get mixed up in the case.
IMFULSETOIOOT
DOE TO INSANITY?
ALIENIST DECLARES THAT ACT
OF CAPTAIN PETER C. HAINS
WAS DUE TO ’ IMPULSIVE
INSANITY.
FLUSHING, N. Y„ May 6.—The exam
ination of export witnesses for the de
fense was expected to be concluded today
tn the trial of aCptain Peter C. Hains Jr„
for the killing of 'William E. Annis. Dis
trict Attorney DeWitt was prepared to
begin the examination of witnesses in re
buttal late today.
At the opening of court the district at
torney resumed his cross-examination of
Dr. L. S. Manson, the alienist, who tes
tified yesterday for the defense.
District Attorney DeWitt explained to
the court that he did not consider Dr.
Manson having qualified as an expert.
He said he would concede that Drs. Clark
and Brush, the other alienists fqr the de
fense, were qualified experts fmd his
cross-examination of them woulq conse
quently be much shorter.
' "When Captain Hains stood on the
yacht club platform at Bayside with fold
ed arms looking out over the water and
then grabbed the boom of Annis' boat
and shot Annis to death, what kind of
Insanity was he suffering from at that
time?” asked Mr. DeWitt.
"With impulsive insanity,” was the re
ply.
"At just what time did the impuse seize
him?” asked the district attorney.
“I can't tell; no man can,” replied the
witness. "It probably was when he first
heard the name Annis.’ ”
Dr. Arthur C. Brush was called and
qualified as an expert on nervous and
mental diseases. Predicating his opinion
on the hypothetical question in connec
tion with his own observations, witness
said the shooting of Annis was an Im
pulsive act of maniac depressive insan
ity. ’ ,
» With only one more alienist to call be
fore the defense rests. District Attorney
DeWitt marshaled his witnesses in rebut
tal at the recess tooday. There are about
twenty of them, including Mrs. William
E. Annis and eight army and navy men.
who have known the defendant for many
years.
Dr. L. Pleree Clark, the last of the
trio of alienists for the defense, tes
tified that the defendant was insane on
August 15th when be shot Ann la.
SHERIFF DEFIES
COMMISSIONERS
WON’T PERMIT* THEM TO PUT
LOCKS ON JAIL—ROW WILL.
PROBABLY GO TO THE CITY
COURTS.
It is highly probably, unless some sort
of agreement is reached, that the courts
will be called on to decide whd shall car
ry certain keys of the jail—A. D. Howard,
the engineer, who is tracked by the coun
ty commissioners, or Sheriff W. Man
gum. • . / ■' i
Sheriff Mangum, after he had received
the opinion us Aldine; Chambers, his at
torney, on Thursday, said that he would
not permit new locks to ba put on the
jail by the board, as it ordered at its
session Wednesday. Me also refuses to
give up what keys he has, although he
said Thurfcday that lie had never <oi
possession of the key* to the front and
side entrance. *
He said that the jailer. on demanding
these keys of HowardJ was Informed by
the latter that one wa| in Ma automobile
in another part of the county, and the
other his wife had. He, however, gave up
the rest of the keys.?
Chambers’ Opinion
The opinion of Attorney Chambers, in
substance, is that no court would permit
the sheriff to furnish £*ys of the jail to
a man who was not answerable to him.
Mr. Chambers also holds that the opin
ion of the county attorney, which was
give nthe board doesn’t au
thorize the construction, the board gave it.
The authorities quoted -by the county at
torney, according to ?jj. Chambers, are
substantially the sam® as those quoted
Ibv Mr. Chambers. *
Mr. Chambers says that section Itt? of
the criminal code defcnes the sheriff s
duties. One .is that M shall furfiish his
prisoners blankets, heat and hot water s
These were denied th<>{ sheriff, according
to him. Commenting op the grafid jury's
recommendation that t|e sheriff be given
countrol at the jail. Mfr ■Chambers quotes
further from a section! which authorizes
the grand jury to investigate the jail, and
make "which recom
mendations the Ordinaries (county com
missioners) shall strictly enforce. Said
juries shall also make such present
ments as to the general sanitary condi
tion of the jails hnd the treatmeftt of the
inmates as the facts may justify.”
Mr. Chambers admits' that the county
board may have general jurisdiction of
the jail .but holds that this supervision
may be exercised only when the sheriff is
neglectful of his duty.
Will Forbid New Locks
"What will be your next step?” Sheriff
Mangum was asked.
“To sit steady In the boat.”
"Suppose the board puts new locks on
the doors?”
"They won't do it. I wouldn’t permit
it. If they did, then we would have to
Iqt the law decide it. J would abide by
what the taw said.
"As far as the keys to the side and
front entrances are concerned, they were
never given to me. My jailer told me
that when he demanded them Mr. Howard
said that one was in his automobile in
another part of the county, the other his
wife had.”
a llegeiTnightrld'er
IDENTIFIES DEFENDANTS
Trial at Waverly Is Put at High Pitch
of Interest as Result of the
Identification
(By Associated Press.) t
WAVERLY. Tenn., May 6.—John Win
ters was again placed on the stand in
night rider i case by defense Wednesday
and in answer to a question by Attorney
General Bowman, the witness arose and
identified all of the defendants on trial
as being present and taking part in the
Rees whipping on October 15, last. This
at once put the trial at a high pitch of
interest.
Cross examined by Judge John T. Al
len, witness stated he was “Lieutenant”
of a night rider company of the Eighth
district, the company being twenty-one
strong. He quit night riding In Decem
ber last and went before the grand
jury. He did not think that either he
or his son, Harrison, had been indicted
for night riding. Witness denied that
he had solicited the bakers to go into
night assaults, not made public at the
time, or called them cowards for not
joining him.
Witness took part in the Mayberry raid,
when a well-to-do negro was taken out
and given twenty-five lashes. Mayberry
was whipped just to make him leave the
"Hollow.”
Winters denied that he had made the
statement that he and his son, Harri
son, were going into the night riders and
expose the members in order to obtain
a large reward; denied saying he would
swear that certain men were guilty. Wit
ness had been convicted in Perry county
for carrying a pistol.
The members selected to do the whip
ping was chosen by majority vote. Lee
Warren was first chosen, but he was
so strong there was fear he might kill
his victim,' and Sam Dickerson was se
lected. Members who deserted In the
raid were to be shot. Henry Marshall
and Ross Swan cut the telephone wires on
the night of the Rees raid. They were
detailedto do the work.
Young Harrison Winters followed his
father on the stand. He also identified
all of the defendants as having been
present at the Rees raid.
DID THIS ORATOR
PARAPHRASE H. W. GRADY
(By Associated Press ) 4
NOBLESVILLE, Ind., May 6.—R. L.
Holton, superintendent of the Nobles
ville schools, demands of E. J. Llewellyn,
ehuperintendent of the Sheridan schools a
gold medal and fifty dollars In cash gran
ted as first prize to John Miller, a Sher
idan youth. In a recent Hamilton county
oratorical contest.
Mr. Holton alleges that Miller’s address
on "The Typical American” originally
was delivered by a Wabash coulege stu
dent three years ago, and, at that, is
a paraphrase of Henry W. Grady’s trib
ute to Abraham Lincoln.
EX-SENATOR WHEATLEY
VISITS STATE CAPTOL
Ex-Senator Crawford Wheatley, who
represented the Thirteenth district in the.
state senate in 1905 and 73)6. visited his
many friends at Uie capitol Thursday.
Mr. Wheatley made scores of friends
during his term and was known as the
"Beau Brummel” of the senate as well
as the author of the bill for a lieutenant
governor and as a supporter of the Au
dubon bill.
WORLD-FAMOUS TENOR
WHO CLOSES FESTIVAL
qea—na*Wiateee: ,2J
*
■--'ata?-- W
i GIOVANNI ZENATELLO,
He will sing Thursday evening ifbthe final concert of great festival.
ZENATELLO’S MAGIC VOICE
IS MARVEL OF MUSIC WORLD
HIS RISE TO.FAME HAS NOT BERN. PARALLELED IN MODERN
TIMES—MOMENT OF SUPREME SENSATION WILL BE REACHED
WHEN HE APPEARS ON THURSDAY EVENING.
A few years ago the name of Giovanni
Zenatello came thundering into the world
of music with a magic unlike anything
heard in modern .times. There had been
tenors before him of rare lyric sweetness
and of wonderful technical mastery, but
this voice of hi® burst into being like some
elemental force of nature herself. It
setmed that the harmony of the winds,
the cadences of great rivers rushing to
the sea had been gathered, together and
turned to a miracle of concord within this
great Italian. He is the one supreme
artist of the entire festival.
People never speak of Zenatello except
in superlatives. It is impossible to do
otherwise. 'To hear him even in a re
hearsal has the effect of looking from
a mountain top across rolling landscapes
flooded with the light of noon. He is the
Shakespeare of all tenors today.
Zenatello is now the leading tenor ot
the Manhattan Opera house, and is reck
oned as the rarest addition that Oscar
Kammerstein ever made to American
opera.
Only 33 years ago he was born at Ve
rona, Italy. He came into world with
a tremendous gift of physical strength.
He labored with his hands when a boy.
The chest bones grew stronger with every
passing year. He loved the open air as
he now does. Every fiber in his physique
was firm, supple and tireless. He had,
to begin with, the things must /always
come as a gift from destiny. And when
he felt that he had a voice. His father,
a business man, protested at first against
the boy devoting his time to things of art.
But Zenatpllo’s spirit was as virile as his
body. Soon he had proved to his parents
GUMMING OF IOWA
SPEAKS ON TARIFF
COMMENDS COURSE OF DOLLIV-
ER IN HIS ATTACKS ON THE
PENDING BILL—REFERS TO
SENATOR ALDRICH.
(By Associated Press.)
WASHINGTON, May 6.—Commending
the course of his colleague, Mr. Dolliver,
in his attacks on the pending tariff bill.
Senator Cummins, of lowa, today in
opening his speech upon that measure
turned to Mr. Aldrich and said the man
who challenged the Republicanism of
senators because they seek to revise the
schedules of duties forty years-old, was
taking a most remarkable course.
"Have we arrived at that slackish state
of public opinion,” he asked, "in which
it becomes a question of political fealty
to Insist upon corrections of schedules
made forty years ago, when we consider
them in relation to conditions existing to
day?”
NINETEEN WILL FACE
CHARGE OF LYNCHING
TYLER. Texas. Mav 6 —District Judge Simp
son here today called the cases of the nine
teen citizens charred with nartlcipating in
the lynching ot thte negro Jim Hodge on lasi
Saturday.
A company of State Rangers are on hand to
preserve order 4
LIGHT STEEL RAILS
WILL (OST MORE
PITTSBURG. Mav 6.—Announcement wa>
made todav at the office of the Carnegie Steel
company of an increase tn the price of light
•leel rail* of from $3 to It a ton.
and to the city about him what genius
lay unfolding/witP.in him. At 27 he was
the marvel of Italy.
A study of Zenatello’s life would show
that it has been one ceaseless, gigantic
labor In art. And yet when he sings, he
does so as carelessly as a child laughing.
There is a fine, unpremeditated rapture
to every note as though he were simply
strolling through the world, singing be
cause it is In his heart to sing.
Hundreds of people have been wonder
ing what Zenatello has been doing since
his arrival £or the festival last Tuesday
evening. They could never guess, for
they picture him probably as some one
apart from the Test of life. On the con
trary he has been sauntering about ths,
streets at his own pleasure, taking auto
mobile rides With members of the music
committee and other Atlantians, living
just as an ordinary man 'would live.
Thursday morning he ate for breakfast
just what he would eat any other day in
the year, although he is to sing Thursday
evening the leading tenor role in the over
whelming sextet from "Lucia Di Lamme
moor.’.'
“I do what everybody else,” he said
in his Italian-colored English, "because
everything in life is crammed with in
terest.”
It is this very point of view which gives
to Zenatello’s art its illimitable breadth
and human appeal. It is because he
lives close to all mankind that he under
stands them and can make them feel his
own emotion.
His appearance with the six other fa
mous artists Thursday evening will mark
the greatest moment in the entire festi
val, the moment of supreme sensation.
GAPT. 0. E. PARK
DANGEROUSLY ILL
HE WAS BROUGHT HOME FROM
NEW YORK IN CRITICAL CON
DITION—OPERATION TO BE
PERFORMED.
State Treasurer R. E. Park was brought
home from New York Wednesday afteV
noon in a dangerously ill condition and
will be operated on Thursday afternoon
at the Piedmont sanitarium.
The outcome of the operation is doubt
ful. » ***
Mr. Park, accompanied by his wife and
daughter and his niece, Mrs. Dr. Hope,
left Atlanta Tuesday, one week ago, for
New York. The second day after their
arrival in New York he was taken ill
and his condition soon became serious.
He was brought back to Atlanta Wed
nesday afternoon at 5 o’clock, and an
examination by the family physician
showed that he was suffering from inter
nal trouble that demanded an operation.
Thursday morning he was removed to the
Piedmont sanitarium, where the opera
tion is to take place.
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Harriman Elected Director
(By Associated Frees.) ,
CLEVELAND, 0.. May 5.—E. 11. Harriman
was elected a director of the Lake Store and
MicMmui Southern Railroad company, at the
annual meeting ot the stockholders here today.
Mr. Harrihiau was elected to the New Yort
Central board recently and the election Tnea
dny to the Lake Shore hoard was for a [>eriod
of three years. W. K. Vanderbilt. Wm. Rocke
feller and H. Twombly also were elected for,
three yean.
FOOT miE FIGHT j
IS AIRED BEFORE ’
MIMI BOMO
Hearing Is Begun of Famous
Rate Question, Which Has
Been Agitated for j
Throughout State.
LOCAL COMPANIES ASK
FOR PORT REDUCTIONS |
ON IRON AND COFFEE
Petitioners Say That Atlanta Is U»«
able to Meet Competition Becau«<t
of I<ower Port Rates t® Othe.-
Cities. . I
Preliminary maneuvers in the "port
rate” battle, which has been agitateu in
Georgia tor so long, were begun before
the state railroad commission V.’ednei 3
day morning, when the first hearing took T|
place betore the entire commission, a
number of shippers and a strong array ui 1
counsel lor the petitioners and thu attor- j)
neys representing the railroads.
The entire morning session, which was |
not adjourned until 1 o’clock, was occu- I
pied with the presentation of the petitions
of the McCora-Stewart Grocery company S
and the Beck & Gregg Hardware com
pany, the answers of the railroads and I
the pretests of the Atlanta Steel com V
pany, and the Merchants and Manufae- x 4|
turers association and the Folwer-SuIU- H
van company, of Rome, Ga. )’
The petitions of the McCord-Stewart
Grocery company and the Beck & Gregg *
Hardwa-e company were presented by
Attorney W. A. Wimbikh, of Wimblsh,
Watkins & Ellis. In the petition filed with
the railroad commission, the McCord- a
Stewart Grocery company asked for a
revision of rates on coffee from Bruns
wick to Atlanta and other interior
Georgia points. The company itsked that
the port rate be reduced to 15 cents per
one hundred pounds. It was stated that |
the rate from Brunswick to Nashville
was now considerably lower than that io
Atlanta; so low. in fact, that the Nash
ville shippers were able to receive cos- ®
fee shipments from Brunswick and re
ship back to Atlanta qjtd sell at a price
lower than Atlanta coffee merchantsV
could do.
It was pointed out that the average
rate on coffee to Atlanta within an aver- «
age rate of 180 miles was 34 cents, while
Nashville enjoyed an average rate of 44 J J
cents per one hundred pounds for an
average 400 miles.
These facts were brought out by th® J
testimony of C. E. Hudson, of ’he Me-
Cord-Stewart company, the first wit>vas "/U
--used for the petitioners. • ” , .
The answer of the railroads to this oOn ‘ Y
tention was that the rate usdd from I
South Atlantic points was practically use
less as no business came through this
i channel, but was routed via New Or-' 1
leans.
The lines interested said ®iat the
rate to Nashville was in reality based
upon the New York to New Orleans
rate. A revision of the port rates to >
Atlanta would mean the readjustment
of the general rate schedule to and
from the east, so the roads stated.
Beck and Gregg’s Petition
The petition of the Beck. & Gregg
Hardware company asked for the reduo ?
♦ ion of iron product rates from Savan- M
nah to Atlanta from twenty-three rents
to thirteen cents per one hundred
pounds, it being the contention that the
present rates to Atlanta were far in ex
cess of those granted to competitive
points. The petition asked that the
rate from Savannah to Atlanta, thir- I
teen cents, be the same as that of from
I Atlanta to Savannah.
The railroads, through their counsel,
stated that the rate from Savannah to |
Atlanta bad been made so that it would
give the Atlanta steel manufacturers
a "chance to live.” It was stated that
the rate was reduced from Savannan
to Atlanta it would give the manufac
turers an opportunity to exploit the
Atlanta market at a market price that
would undersell the Atlanta manufae
tv .s.
A protest to the proposed revision was .fi
entered at this point of the hearing
by J. Carroll Payne, representatlng the
Atlanta Steel company. Mr. Payne said
that if the rafe was reduced the Atlanta
Steel company would lose its differential
rate of 39.60 a ton and that the Pittsburu
and eastern manufacturers would seU
goods in Atlanta at the same price ihat 1
it cost the Atlanta Steel company to mar- ■
ket its output. He stated that the com
pany had invested 31.500:000 in Atlanta,
and that when working in its full capac
ity, had an annual pa>- roll of $480,000. He
stated that under the reduction proposed
the company’s profits would be so reduc
ed that dividends could not be paid. , .'S
Wimbish Files Brief
In his brief presented to the commission j
Attorney Wimbish contended that Atlanta
is entitled to lower rates from Georgia
ports on the commodities affected, aa
the proximity to the sea entitles Atlanta '
to the benefits of ocean competition from
eastern cities to Georgia ports, "which is . |
now greatly restrained because of the
dominating influence of rail carriers." '' |
Attorney Wimbish that Nash-
ville, Lynchburg, Roanoke. Knoxville.
Chattanooga and other points, have rela
tively lower rail ano water rates from
the east than Atlanta has. He further
stated that as a result of the high rates
from the ports Atlanta and other Geot)-
gia cities are deprived of the ability to
compete with other markets of supply. ■.
which receive the benefits of reasonaMa
rates.
LOWER PORT RATES .
WOULD CURB TRUSTS '
The hearing upon the petitions for a re
vision of port rates in Georgia, which
seemed to have narrowed down into a
fight between the Atlanta Steel company
and Atlaattf jobbers, developed the fact
Thursday, according to witnesses for the
petitioners, that the question of a reduc
tion of ten per cent in rates, would not
only be a saving, but would at the same
time remove Georgia consumers of ircri'
from the clutches of the alleged steel
trusts of eastern and Pittsburg districts.
This was revealed in tl>e testimorty ol
Vice President and Treasurer W. E.
Newill, of the King Hardware company.
Vice President Newill stated that prices
on steel and iron were made upon vacil
latory bases either at Pittsburg or Iron
ten, O. When prices were made upon the }
fronton basis there was a reduction of
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