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NO. 55.
CAIRO CALLS TO
NATION FOR HELP
GOVERNOR PAUSES; WON’T
SIGN COPPER CO. PAPER
Flood Waters of the Great
Mississippi and Ohio Rivers'
Hurl Themselves Against
. Surrounding Communities
• Floods In the Ohio river from It*
mouth to Marietta, Ohio, due to. the
great volume of water pouring into it
during the past Week by its tributaries,
have caused thousands of people to
leave the lowlands and seek refuge on
higher ground.
Early today the water is still rising
and at every city along the river heavy
damage to property is Reported. Rail
road traffic has been impaired and
many miles of track washed out. * .
In Illinois, Governor Dunne has or
dered 1,500 state troops to proceed by
special trains to Cairo and Shawnee-
town for the purpose of patrolling the
levees| Hundreds of laborers also have
been sent to pile sacks of sand on the
levees.
Reports early today from Henderson,
Owensboro, Louisville, Newport and
Covington, Ky.; Evansville, md.; Cin
cinnati, Portsmouth, Marietta, Ohio;
Huntington and Parkersburg W. Va.,
sjiows that stocks of goods in build
ings near the river have suffered heav
ily and that the damage will run into
the millions.
There has been no loss of life at
any of these points.
A telephone message from Cairo, Ill-
early today shows that the leves were
still holding and that the town was in
less danger than was believed last
night. The water was still several feet
below the tops of the dikes.
Wilson Asked to Use His
Office to Aid the District
CAIRO, Ill., March 31.—The Cairo ex
ecutive flood committee last .night, sent
an appeal to President Wilson, asking
for aid for Cairo and towns nearby.
The message was as follows:
“The 1 worst floood ever known in the
Ohio valley and Mississippi is now ex-
-pected. All previous high water records
at Cairo and south may be broken in a
few days. We are making every effort
in our power to take care of local situ
ation. but the river communities near us
should have assistance. Boats, sacks,
foods and other supplies are needed.
. May we riot have the help of your great
office for this district?"
Many Rescued as- Flood.
Creeps Into .Louisville
(-By Associated ?ress.)
LOUISVJLLE. Ky., March 31.—Re
peated warnings by the police that a
record flood was on the way to Louis
ville has not served to preclude the ne
cessity of rescue work, which has been
going on extensively in Louisville since
early Iri the week, when the water
first went over the "cut-off" at the East
End ot the city. i
Yesterday when the water began to
reach the second floor of houses be
tween Main street and the river, in the
business district, boatmen were kept
busy removing occupants who had es
caped inconvenience from previous floods
and had disregarded the recent warn
ing. \ .
The fire department was called upos
yesterday to rescue an aged couple, both
over seventy year's, who had been ma
rooned in the attic of their home four
days with a loaf of bread as the only
bite of food in the house.
When the firemen found them they
were in a pitiful state of exhaustion
and their home was on the poyft of
collapse
RESCUED FROM FLOATING HOUSE.
• Asother crew of firemen was called
upon to rescue a family of, eight—a
man, his wife and three children—from
a # liouse which already had been moved
from its moorings and was drifting
down stream. Several houses on "the
Point" which have entirely disappeared
are believed to have been carried down
stream. *
The life-saving crew received a hurry
call early yesterday morning to a veri
table bedlam of frightened negroes
screaming from the tops of some 300
houses which were rapidly becoming
submerged from the waters of the large
southern outfall sewer, the caps of
which had burst. The overflow waters
from Bear creek creek, flowing through
the sewer were responsible for the out
flow which flooded several acres of a
thinly populated section and left about
1,000 negroes homeless.
After the life-saving * crews’ work
here yesterday and last night it was
believed today that few families re
mained in homes likely to be affected
by the crest of the flood.
Reports today from Ashland ana
Maysfleld, Ky., and Madison, Ind.,
which began yesterday to feel the ef
fects of the final swell told of endrmous
prop.i ty damage.
MANY FLEE LOWLANDS.
Western Kentucky towns today were
features of refugee for many people
that continued to flee the lowlands,
many hundred acres of which already
are under water. Henderson,* Oyens-
boro and Paducah and other points re
ported the river still rising. The cit
ies themselves, for the most part, are
high and the ‘suffering and damage ft*
in the surrounding country.
The Pennsylvania system announced
that it was prepared today to establish
regular service in Indianapolis and
through sleeping car service to Chicago,
but on most of the other lines entering
this city from the north, service was
interrupted. In the case of the Louis
ville, Henderson & St. Louis, service
was entirely suspended.
Decides He Lacks Authority
to Bind. State to Terms
With Dycktdwn Smelters
Governor Brown has changed his mind
—temporarily, at least—about signing
a new Contract^with the Ducktown Cop
per company. Xast week, following sev
eral conferences' with attorneys for the
copper company, he was bent upon ex
ecuting a new ,- contract without ques
tioning- the wishes of the legislature.
Now he is disposed to allow the mat
ter to go to the legislature. Accdfrding-
ly he has put aside the tentative con
tract outlined fey him and prepared by
the attorney gfenera! under his direc
tion. " - 1
It is said th^t the governor changed
his plans only .after he had been con
vinced that, he • was without authority
to enter into a View contract and after
he had been shoyn that the legislature
had charged the vattorney general with
the duty of safeguarding the state’s in
terests as opposed .to those of the cop
per company.' 7
Attorney General T. S. Felder was in
Brunswick Monday representing the
state in the Yarnfarrt Naval Stores com
pany’s Injunction suit. He could not,
therefore, be interviewed concerning the
proposed contract ^ith, the copper com
pany, but It is understood that it is
his purpose to subrfeit the matter to the
legislature. ' ‘ j
The present ^ contract does not expire
until some time in:October, and as the
legislature meets ip June there is am
ple time in which to riorisult its wishes
regarding the . terms of . a new contract.
The last legislature declined to sanc
tion a contract whifch, in its terms, was
very similar * to the one favored by
Governor Brown, the only essential dif
ference being in tne amount of the in
demnity fund to be required of the cop
per company for the protection of the
citizens of Gilmer, Fannin and other
north Georgia counties from damages
to their crops by the fumes of the
copper smelting plants.
It was proposed in thq contract re
fused by the legislature to create a
board of appraisers to pass upon dam
ages to the property of Georgia citi
zens and to provide an indemnity fund
of $10,000 from which proven claims
for damages should be settled.
Governor Brown’s contract provided
also for a board of appraisers and an
indemnity fund, this fund to be $16,000
instead of $10,000.
There seems little likelihood that the
governor will reopen negotiations with
the copper company. He is expected* in
l\ls message to the legislature to rec
ommend the adoption of the .contract
prepared under his direction.
Foremost Financier of the World Is Dead
MISSISSIPPI VALLEY
People Along Route of Missis
sippi Had Better Prepare for
a Forty-six Foot Stage, Says
River Levee Engineer
(By Associated Press.)
WASHINGTON, March 31.—Woodrow
Wilson will receive his first pay check
as president of the United States today
when Secretary McAdoo will present him
with a treasury warrant for $5,625, repre
senting his salary from March 4 to 31.
On payday, hereafter, however, thfe
president will, ^ receive $6,250, a full
month’s proportion of his $75,000 annual
stipend. ^
The treasury department contemplates
establishing a precedent in the method
of paying President Wilson. Since the
days of Washington the president has
been paid by what Is known as an "ac
countable warrant" which means money
to be accounted for. A "settlement
warrant" which closes an account, has
been given the president only on his
last payday when his services were deb
ited on the books against the credits
S ade to him during his term of office.
r. Wilson, however, probably will be
given a "settlement warrant” each
month and his salary account with the
government balanced monthly as his
term transpires.
No one today knows why the presi
dent always has been paid by an "ac
countable warrant" which is issued in
other cases only in connection with ad
vanced money. The president is the on
ly official whose salary is paid directly
by the treasury department.
Vice-President Marshall will receive
from the secretary of the senate today
the portion he has so far earned of his
$12,000 annual compensation.
(By Associated Presa.)
MEMPHIS, Tenn., March 31.—"The peo
ple in the Mississippi valley had just as
well prepare for a 46 fqot stage in the
Mississippi river," said Major T. G. Dab
ney, in a long distance telephone state
ment from Clarksdale, Miss., today.
Major Dabney is the engineer in charge
of the north Mississippi levee board
with headquarters at Clarksdale.
He also declared that none of the
levees could hold over 46 feet of water
and* predicted a maximum height ot
65 feet at Cairo. He said that a cer
tain amount of relief would come to that
city because of the Drlnkwater, Missou
ri, gap being opened, but not enough
to lower his estimate.
A 45 foot stage at Cairo will give Mem
phis 45.3. feet, the highest point in 1912
when levees at Hollybush and Mound
City, Ark., broke.
Correspondent 7 ells
How Bulgariat s Took
City of / dri inople
(By Associated Press.)
PARIS, March 31.—A correspondent
of The Journal sends an^ account ot
the storming of Adrianople in a dis
patch dated Adrianople, Marcli 28. tie
says the collapse, after a- forty-eight
hours’ assault of the fortress, which
had resisted the efforts of tne besieg
ers for five months is soon explained.
When the allies get within the lines
the “terrible" • forts, which were sup
posed to have thick walls of concrete,
turned out to be more or less imagin
ary. The so-called “Indestructible"
Aivas Vabieh, the key of the defense
was really only of brick construction.
Durf ng the * siege Shukri Pasha had
more heavy guns than the investing
armies and by moving cnem was able
to crush the fire on the side attacked.
On March 24, however, General
Ivanhoff ordered a general attack • from
all sides. The only point where the
fight was slack was opposite Aivas
Tabi h. There Ivanhoff massed 25,-
000 packed troops. yTfaelr flrjst operation
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pOsTtttms at Maslak. Tfife
Turkish artillery at Aivas Tkzieh open
ed a terrific fire on Maslak and two
Bulgarian batteries were wiped out.
The Bulgarians then directed elgnty
heavy siege pieces on Avias Tabien,
which soon became a shapeless mass
of. crumbling masonry.
Meanwhile, the Bulgarian infantry
crept cautiously forward ready to rush
the fort from which the firm bed prac
tically ceased at nigtfall. When the
supreme moment arrived General Ivan
hoff ordered four regiments to ad
vance.
The Twenty-Third got through the
barbed wire entanglements by throwing
their coats across Lae wires. The
Turks bolted, abandoning their posi
tions. The Twenty-Third rushed into
Fort Alves Tableh and immediately the
Bulgarian field guns and mortars rushed
up* and took positiones. These and the
guns in the .forts were turned on the
other Turkish defenses, attached on tnu
flank, made slight resistances.
In the meantime, two Bulgarian regi
ments entered the city in triumph, with
colons flying and bayonets fixed. At lu
o’clock in the morning, Shukri Pasha,
who had hoisted the white flag on the
watch tower and sent out flags of truce
to ask for a cessation of hostj—des was
taken prisoner before any of his mes
sengers returned.
1837--- John Pierpont Morgan---iqi3
“ OF ST. JAMES
ADVENTURES OF DAYTON’S RESCUE
SQUAD MAKE UP MANY THRILLING
STORIES OF PERILOUS ESCAPE
S0L0NS> LEAVE STATE
TO DEFEAT A MEASURE
The stage* of the Ohio river here at
7 o'clock this morning was 43.7 feet, a
rise of 1 « feet in the last twenty-four
nours.
How the Ohio River Stands
At Different Cities on Route
(By Associated Press.)
' WASHINGTON, March 31.—This is to
day’s special river and flood bulletin is
sued by tne weather bureau:
"The Ohio river is falling from Pitts
burg to about Huntington, W. Va. It
Is still rising from Cincinnati to Cairo.
The gauge readings at the principal
weather bureau stations at 7 a. in. Mon
day thus far received, Pittsburg to
Cairo, follows: Pittsburgh 63.7 feet, .8.3
feet below flood stage. Cincinnati 69.2
feet. 19.2 feet above flood stage. JLouis-
vilTe '43.7* feet. 15,7* feet above flood
stage; Cairo 52 feet, 7 feet above flood
Tennessee Legislators Go to
Kentucky to Defeat Amend
ment to Elections
KNOXVILLE, Tenn^, March 31.-—A
special to the Sentinel from Middles-
boro, Ky., says: v
Nine members of the Tennessee legis
lature arrived in Middlesboro this
morning. They have engaged quaraters
at a local hotel for a term of three
weeks, and declare tney will remain
here as long as may be necessary to
carry out their avowed purpose ot
breaking a legislative quorum and pre
cluding the possibility of the amend
ment to the Tennessee, election stat
utes becoming a l^w.
Plans of Filibuster Were
Carefully Carried Out
NASHVILLE; Tenn., March 31.—F<jr
several days rumors that a fusion
fiilibuster in the legislature was likely
to havfe been current, out if such
plans have been matured, they have
been carefully guarded. The legislature
•Friday took a recess until tomorrow.
As a result few legislators are in
tqwn today.
Filibusters out of the state have
been features of the past two sessions.
A bill which has passed both houses,
making breaking a legislative day of a
quorum, a felony is now before the
governor. \
Mother hinds Girl
With Gypsy Band
At Elberton Camp
(Special Dispatch to The Journal.)
ELBERTON, Ga., March 31.—Mrs.
Madgelene Small found her long-lost
daughter, Mary Grachen, eleven years
old, with a band of Gypsies near Elber
ton yesterday. ^
The meeting between mother and
daughter was almost hysterical and
moved the swarthy Gypsies to tears.
Grandparents had the girl but deny
that they kidnaped her.
Prior to her husband’s death, Mrs.
Small was a member of the band of
Gypsies and her old comrades were de
lighted to see her again. ^
She and her daughter left Sunday for
Atlanta. The story in The Journal was
tne means of bringing the mother and
daughter together. The grandparents
saw the story and called Mrs. Small
over long distance phone.
TAFTS LEAVE AUGUSTA
ON AFTERNOON TRAIN
(By Associated Press.)
AUGUSTA, Ga-., March 31.—Former
President Taft, accompanied by Mrs.
Taft and Master Charlie Taft, will leave
Augusta tomorrow afternoon at 3:30
o’clock. Mr. Taft will go to New Ha
ven to assume his new duties at Yale,
after stopping thirty minutes in Wash
ington.
Master Charlie Taft and Mrs. Taft
Will leave the car at Washington.
Mr. Taft announced that he will re
turn here about the same time next
winter, when it is his purpose to have
u. Taft familv reunion.
WHITFIELD FUND GIVEN
FOR CATTLE TICK FIGHT
(Special Dispatch to The Journal.'
DALTON, Ga., March 31.—The b<pard
of county commissioners, in special
session, decided to aid mate: -~ily in the
work of tick eradication, and appro
priated money to pay the salary of one
of the men who will conduct the work
this year. The state will furnish" eithe*
one or two more. Dr. P. F. Bahnsen,
state veterinarian, was present at the
meeting.
According to the men in charge of the
work in this section, the county will
be free of cattle ticks at tne end or
this year. The state will furnish either
conduct the work in the county. It
is believed that this year will see the
raising of the quarantine regulation,
enabling the stock men here to ship
their cattle to any market in tne coun
try.
Jackson Court Ends
(Special Dispatch to The Journal.)
JACKSON, Ga., March 31.—The city
court of Jackson adjourned Friday night
after a busy week’s grind. Several
civil cases were disposed of in addi
tion to a number of criminal matters
The damage suits against the Central
Georgia Power company were not tried
at this^ term, owing to the inability
of the attorneys for the defendant to
b* present.
Walter H, Page, North Caro
linian, Appointed Ambas
sador to England
/
WASHINGTON, March 31.—Walter H.
Page, of Garden City, L. I., editor of
the World’s Work and member of the
firm of Doubleday. Page & Co., publish
ers, has accepted President Wilson’s
offer to be ambasfeador to Great Britain.
Mr. Page is a North Carolinian by
birth. David A. Horiston, secretary of
agriculture, and Josephus Daniels, secre
tary of navy, were born in the same
state.
The post to Great Britain had pre
viously been declined by Richard Olney,
of Massachusetts, and Dr. Eliot, former
president of Harvard university.
JOURNAL FLOOD FUND
REACHES $7,000 MARK
Subscriptions to the Amount
of $7,055,10 Have Been
Received
, The fund for the flood sufferers now
exceeds $7,000. Subscriptions, to the
amount of $144 were received Monday
morning, increasing the total relief fund
to $7,055.10.
The new subscriptions follow
Previously acknowledged $6,883.85
Grace Methodist church ...... 30.00
Wesminister Pres, church .... 7.7G
Cash . 2.00
Branch No. — Glass Bottle
Blowers 25.00
M. A. Morgan .... C 5.00
Antioch Baptist church 3.00
Cash 1.00
Cash 10.00
B. H. Clark .... 1.00
S. E. Oliver .75
Ben H. Lawson .75
E. L. Ivey .50
J. Blackberby .25
W. C. Johnson .... 5.00
Mrs. Charles White .... 1.00
M. L. Davis : 5.00
H. M. McCord 10.00
Cash 15.00
Ed Montag 5.00
Cash 5.00
American Mills compapy .. .. 5.00
W. R. Logan ........ 1.00
Cash 1.00
C. A. Dickinson 5.00
Mr si R. L. Cuter 3.00
Cash . y 1.00
Cash 5.00
Citizens of Perry 26.25
J. N. Mitchell 1.00
How Drowning Women Were Taken From Surging Current,
Babies Picked Off of Tree Limbs and Families Rescued
From House Tops Is Related by Survivors
(By. Associated Preps.)
DAYTON, Ohio, March 31.—With the
rapid subsiding of flood- waters and dis
sipating of panic among refugees, thrill
ing adventures continue coming to light.
Among the most interesting of these
was the experience of the family of
Charles M. Adams in Riverdale./
When the flood first rushed through
that section of .the city Mr. Adams put
his wife and ten-months-old twin girls
into a skiff and took them to the home
of a friend in Warder street. An hour
later it was again necessary to move
and the family was taken by rescuers
out of a second story window.
The canoe in which they were riding
was dashed against a telegraph pole and
c'apsized. Adains swam in the icy wa
ter several minutes , before he was
picked up. Just before he was rescued
he saw his wife sink for tfhe third time.
The baby girls were floating down the
street. Then he cbllapsed.
Three hours later he regained con
sciousness to find himself in an attic^
Beside him on his floor, laid his wife,
whom he believed to have been drowned.
A few minutes later a man crawled in
the attic window from the floating roof
of a barn, bringing with him the twins.
SAVED BY BOY SCOUT.
They had caught in the branches of
a tree and were picked,off unhurt. Mrs.
Adams was rescued as she was going
down the third time by a high school
boy on a hastily improvised .raft. The
lad* was a member of the Riverdale
,troop of' the boy scoots and had been
trained to administer first aid. to the
drowning.
John Stone, 78 Victor street, was one
of the large rescuers.
He rescued a woman from the second
story window of a house in Linwood
$7,055.10
WILSON TO DETERMINE
FATE OF FREE SUGAR
WASHINGTON, March 31.—President
Wilson will decide if raw sugar shall
go on the free list or carry a small
duty in the new tariff bill. Congres
sional leaders are willing to defer to
his attitude. Chairman Underwood, of
the ways and means committee, i& wait
ing to hear from the president. The
Louisiana delegation and congressmen
from the beet sugar districts want a
duty.
(By Associated Press.)
GETTYSBURG, Pa., March <31.—Eight
hundred thousand meals will be fur
nished by the federal government to
the Union and Confederate veteraiis of
the Civil war while they are in cariip
on the battlefield of Gettysburg next
July when the semi-centennial of the
historic battle will be celebrated by all
the states that participated in the
struggle.
The preparations for the establish
ment of the great camp where will be
quartered the survivors of the battle
are well under way.
They are in charge of. Captain H. F.
Dalton, of the quartermaster’s depart
ment of the United States army. This
camp is to care for 40,000 veterans and
will open at supper on June 29 and
close after breakfast on July C. Allow
ance wild be made for twenty meals for
each veteran.
This will require 800 cooks and as
American Money King Dies in
Rome, Italy, following
Breakdown-Retained Con
sciousness Till Day of Death
street, who insisted in bringing with
her a snow-shovel. Clutching the shovel
to her breast she sat on the stern seat
of Stone's boat, alternately singing a
hymn and laughing hysterically. In at
tempting to round a street corner,
where a torrent pohred in from a cross
street, the boat struck an electric light
pole arid Stone lost the paddle with
which he was propelling his craft.
PADDLED WITH SHOVEL.
"God. told me,”, shouted the woman,
a Mrs. Clemens. "He told ’me. Now,
use the shovel."
Stone managed to paddle his boat
with the shovel to a place of Safety.
Rescuers found a Mrs. Atherton stand
ing in water waist-deep in the second
story of her home in East Riverdale. An
hour before the rescuers arrived the
woman had given birth to a son, which
she was clutching in her arms. The
babe was dead. Mrs. Atherton is ex
pected to live.
Coming out of the front door of his
residence at 31 South Main street,
Charles McComber saw the flood com
ing. He rushed back to his garage and
brought his motor car around in.front.
Calling to his wife and three children
he began loading the car with chairs
and rugs from the parlor. He moved
the piano out to the front porch.
Then McComber lifted his wife and
children into the car and just as he was
starting away the car was overwhelmed
and had to be deserted. Refuge was
taken by the family in a passing boat,
which had started out from a laundry
not far away.
"It was apasia,” said McComber in re
lating his expreience. "I don’t remem
ber anything about it," he said, "but
there stands the loaded motor car,
ruined, of course, and there is the piano
where I brought At.”
800,000 MEALS TO BE SERVED
BY U. S. TO BLUE AND GRAY
SURVIVORS AT BIG REUNION
(By Auociated Prau.)
HOME, March 31.—J. Pterpont Morgan,
the American financier, died at live min
utes past 12' o’clock noon today, ,s,'05
a. m., New York time. 5:06 a. m. Atlanta
time).
Dr. M. Allen Starr, of New York, call
ed into consultation in connection with
J. Pierpont Morgan's Illness, attributed
the financier’s breakdown to emotion
caused by the investigation carried out
by the Pujo committee at Washington-
into the operations of the “money trust.’*
When the death of Mr. Morgan was
seen to be approaching rapidly Prof, r
Bastianelli and Dr. Nixon forced Mr. and
Mrs. Herbert L. Satterlee, his son-in-law
and daughter, and Miss Helen Hamilton,
who had been In constant attendance to,
.leave yie room.
Mr. Morgan toward the end showed
that he was suffering internally only,
by a movement .of his right hand; Other
wise he displayed no sign o'f vitality'
except by continuous heavy breathing.
HOPE LOST AT 11 O’CLOCK.
Frequent bulletins were issued during
the morning showing' that his condition
was gradually becoming worse and by
11 o’clock the physicians had given up
hope.
Mr. Morgan was unable to assimilate
the^artificial nourishment administered
during the morning and hta physical
weakness was extreme. Heart tonics
were Injected but these had no effect
and for several hours before his death
he was In a state of coma, unable to
respond to any questions or to recognize
any of those at his bedside.
Besides 11*o four trained nurses In
attendance. Miss Helen Hamilton was
of great assistance to the three physi
cians, Prof. Giuseppe Bastianelli, Dr. M.
Allen Starr and Dr. George A. Dixon.
During the morning George Post
Wheeler, secretary of the American?
embassy, called to make inquiries on.
behalf of the American ambassador,.
Thomas J. O’Brien, and was told, that
Mr. Morgan had collapsed and that bi»
condition had been rendered worse by:
increasing deafness.
ROME CLIMATE TOO M'lBD.
From his arrival In Rome Mr, and;
Mrs. Herbert L. Satterlee had feated a! 1
mistake had been made In bringing Mr.
Morgan to Rome instead of taking hint
direct to London, where he would have,
been In his. own house Instead of ar
noisy hotel and they thought, too, that
the climate of Rome was too mild and
inervating for him in his condition olf
ill health..
Cable dispatches from America, Great
Britain and other parts of the world
poured In all day making anxious in- *
qulries and expressing the affection in
which Morgan was held everywhere.
The financier’s secretary found It Im
possible to reply to all the inquiries,
and Mr. and Mrs. Satterlee expressed
the desire to inform the Inquirers how
touched they were at the manifestations
of sympathy they had received.
The body of the late J. Plermont Mor
gan Is to be embalmed and sent to the ,
United States on board ship from Naples.
A funeral service will be held here be
fore Its departure.
Announcement of Financier’s
Death Made in New York
(By Associated Press.)
NEW YORK, March 31.—J. Pierpont
Morgan Is dead. He died*at 12:05, Rome
time. This announcement was made
by the offices of J. Pierpont Morgan &
Co. today.
Henry P. Davison, a member of the
house of Morgan, made the announce
ment. He said merely that he had re
ceived a cable that the financier had
passed away shortly after noon. Mr.
Davison had planned to go abroad some
time this week, but it Is thought prob
able that this trip will be postponed.
Mr. Morgan’s fortune Is not known but
it is estimated that he left between $100,-
000,000 and $300,000,000. His control went
far into the billions of dpllars.
Coincident with Mr. Morgan’s death
it became known that he had sustained
a serious attack before his departure
for Europe, but had rallied so rapidly
that it was not considered a forerunner
to fatal Illness and. was khown only
to his most intimate friends.
For many years Mr. Morgan spent a
considerable portion of his time abroad,
but on this trip for the first time he
severed all connection with business af
fairs and left his partner to shoulder
all responsibility for their conduct. It
was the first instance ot his taking such
a complete rest -since he entered the
banking business In this city before
the Civil war. /
Prominent bankers In this city said
this morning that they did not predict
any decided unfavorable effect on the
stock market by reason of Mr. Morgan's
death. The reason of * thl3, they ex
plained, was that the recurrent rumors
of his. serious illness nad prepared the
market for any possibility and enabled
those engaged in market operations to
prepare for just such a situation.
"Please don’t speak to me now," was
the request of J. P. Morgan, Jr.—now ,
J. P. Morgan—to the small army at
newspaper men who* greeted him when
he left his home in Madison avenue this
morning.
many helpers and,125 bakers, the bak
ing to be done in field bakeries and the
preparing of meals in field kitchens. The
feeding of tjhis army of veterans will
require 40,000 mess kits, comprising one
plate, cup, knife, fork and spoon for
each man. In the camp will be more
than 9,500 tents, which will be pitched
in fields not far from the “scene of
Pickett’s charge. The camp will be ex
clusively for veterans.
Pennsylvania will allot space In the
camp by states, the commissioner for
each state being in charge of the space
assigned to him.
Knight Is Sentenced
NASHVILLE, Ga., March 31.—Bailiff
William Knight, .* who was convicted in
the superior court for having killed
John Studstill, has been sentenced by
Judge Thomas to three years in the
pe'nttentiary.
Notice to Sheriffs, Marshals,
Police, Etc.
Look out for Chas.
Gardner, ldst heard
from in South Carolina,
and C. W. McAiley, in
Florida. These two men
are claiming to be my*
agents, soliciting sub
scriptions for The Semi-
Weekly Journal. Wire
R. R. Bradley,
Care Atlanta Journal,
Atlanta, Ga. •