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THE ATLANTA SEMI-WEEKLY JOURNAL, ATLANTA, GA., TUESDAY, JULY 8, 1913.
BACON PROTESTS AGAINST ICONGEDE BALLOON RAGE
DELAY IN APPOINTMENT TO BIC
Bulg ars Flee in Wild Disorder
From Greeks in Decisive Battle
Senior Sen'ator Believes His
Choice for South Georgia
Should Be Appointed,
BY BAX.FH SMITH.
WASHINGTON, D. C., July 7.—Sen
ator Bacon went to the Wfcite House
Thursday and protested vigorously
to Secretary Tumulty because of the de
lay In nominating Joseph R. Davis, of
Albany, for United States marshal for
the southern district of Georgia. The
senator recommended Davis’ nomination
some ten days or two weeks ago, but it
has never been sent to the senate.
Senator Bacon is understock to have
beerr very much disappointed at the
failure of Davis’ nomination to come in
on yesterday along with that of Howard
Thompson, Senator Smith’s selection
for marshal in north Georgia. The sen
ator feels that he is being placed in a
false position before' the people of Geor
gia and insists that his recommendation
of Davis be accepted immediately.
It is believed here that Davis’ nomina
tion will be made eventually by the
president as a result of Mr. Bacon’s in-
-dorsement. It is not known positively
what has occasioned the delay, unless it
be the fact that a number of protests
havse ben lodged against the appoint
ment. These protests, as has been indi
cated in these dispatches, come from
south Georgia and P n me of them are
most earnest.
TE AC H ERSTO 0 R EST P AID
0 FALL THE PROFESSIONS
Official Figures Won't Be Giv
en Out Till Monday-K, C,
No, 2 Is Second
(By Associated Press.)
SALT LAKE CITY, Utah, July 5.—
"Salaries paid school teachers are by
Tar the lowest paid to any class or
profession. Teachers must be paid more,
or the Rublic must be content to see the
quality of the teaching force undergo
progressive deterioration.’’
This was the declaration of Super
intendent of Schools Carroll G. Pearse,
of Milwaukee, in discussing the report
on teachers’ salaries at the opening day
of the .fifty-first annual convention of
the National Education association.
Aat the afternoon session President
James H. Baker, of the University of
Colorado, presented a report on the
"economy of time in education” in which
he declared that school and college
courses are too long and that they
should be shortened so that the stud
ent might graduate from college before
the time he was twenty.
(By Associated Press.)
KANSAS CITY, Mo., July 5.--Unof
ficial figures on the landing places of
the four balloons in the national elimi
nation race made by Aero club officials
tonight give first place in the race to
the Goodyear bag of Akron, Ohio, which
landed at West Branch, Mich, an esti
mated distance of 652 miles from Kan
sas City.
While John Watts, pilot of the Kan
sas City II, telegraphed that he had
flown 730 miles in the Kansas City II,
which descended at Goodrich, Mich.,
Aero club officials figure his distance at
630 miles; giving him second place in
the race.
Third place is accorded Captain Hon
eywell in the Kansas City Post balloon,
which landed near Rockwood, Mich., and
last place to the Million Population club,
of St. Louis, which came down at Man
chester, Mich., a distance estimated at
625 miles.
The result of the race will not be
definitely known until the 7 figures have
been recanvassed by the Aero club. This
cannot be done tonight because of the
absence of aeronautical maps.
All of the balloons encountered
storms in the vicinity of the Great
Lakes and their trips were curtailed be
cause of the elements.
The foregoing figures were given out
by the Aero club.
If tonight’s figures are verified as of
ficial. America’s representatives in the
James Gordon Bennett trophy race in
Paris this fail will be:
The Goodyear, Akron, Ohio, R. H. Up
ton, pilot; R. A. D. Preston, aide; the
Kansas City II, John Watts, pilot,
George Quisenberrv, aide, and the Kan
sas City Post. H. E. Honeywell, pilot.
Ward Gifford, aide.
Storm in Michigan Wrecks
Kansas City Post Balloon
DETROIT, Mich., July 5.—A terrific
wind and rain storm which swept
Lower Michigan literally drove the Kan
sas City Post to the ground. Wire com
munication was demoralized and it was
several hours before the crew could
communicate with Detroit.
The gale drove the big bag into a
giant oak tree and the occupants of the
car were saved only by keeping low in
the basket. The limbs of the trees put
the rip panel out of commission and
with the gas emiting, the balloon ca
reened across a wheat field and was
brought to a stop.
Greek Newspaper “Atlantis"
Receives Graphic Descrip
tion of Friday’s Battle at
Kilkish-City Is Completely
Destroyed
(By Associated Press.)
NEW YORK, July 7.—A graphic story
of the battle between Bulgarians ano
Greeks at Kllkish, twenty-five miles
north of Saloniki, was received by the
Greek daily newspaper "Atlantis,” today
direct from Saloniki. It says;
"The battle between the Bulgarians and
Greeks at Kilkish ended at 10 o’clock in
the morning of July 4 in the complete de
feat of the Bulgarans after a severe
bombardment of the town by the Greeks
who carried the place at the point' of
the bayonet. The town was then occu
pied by a part of the Hellenic troops
while their comrades continued the pur
suit of the Bulgarians who had fled m
disorder, leaving many of their field guns
and machine guns in the hands of tne
Greek victors. More than sixty cannon
were captured. *
“Kilkish was almost completely de
stroyed by fire before the Bulgarians
fled.
"The battle in front of Kilkish was
more important than any of those fought
by the allies in the campaign between
Turkey and the Balkan states. The Buir
garians, who were much superior in num
bers, had surrounded the town with de
fensive works and trenches nearly six
feet in depth and very narrow’ so that
their occupants were sheltered from splin
ters of shells.
. "Firing started at 8 o’clock Thursday
morning. The Bulgarians had station
ed their heavy artillery on the heights,
from which they first fired with great
precision, the distances having been
marked before the opening of hostili
ties. The guns first opened at a range
of two miles. Their field artillery was
too much exposed on the plain below
and they found it impossible to bring
R into action.
“The Greek infantry received orders
to advance by short rushes by the
double quick so as to render ineffica
cious the marking of the distances by
the Bulgarian artillery.
BULGAhS DEMORALIZED.
"By 11 o’clock the Bulgarians had
come to the conclusion that it was im
possible to stop the advance of the
Greeks, so they started a great con
flagration along their front for a dis
tance of over two miles in order to
hide the movements of their army.
"The Greek light infantry, however,
dashed forward, darted through the
circle of flames* and brought about the
complete demoralization of the Bulga
rian troops.
"In the meantime the Greek artillery
had taken up fresh positions whence it
opened a fierce cannonade, which soon
reduced the Bulgarian batteries to si
lence.
"In the meantime the Greek infan
try, with their bayonets fixed, had ar
rived within 30 feet of the Bulgarian
trenches.
"Then .ensued a wild spectacle,
Greeks and Bulgarians being mixed to
gether in a furious hand-to-hand fight.
"At 5 o’clock on Friday morning the
Bulgarian lines had been pierced, but
one of the heights around Kilkish still
held out .It was occupied by a com
pany of Bulgarians.
"The Greek light infantry dashed up
the side of the hill to dislodge them
and came into fierce contact which end
ed by the Bulgarians abandoning their
munitions and their wounded, and flying
in disorder toward Doiran, further north,
with the Greek troops pursuing them
without pity.
TRENCHES FILLED WITH DEAD.
“The trenches around Kilkish were
filled with dead.
"The Greek army from Ghevgheli has
crossed the river Vardar and is march
ing to the assault of the aRnost im
pregnable gorges of Teurka, northwest
of Doiran.
"The resistance offered there by the
Bulgarians is much greater than at
Kilkish, but they are gradually retreat
ing and the capture of Doiran by the
Greeks is merely a question of hours.
"The victory of the division at Nig-
rita also was complete. General Sotilles,
commander of the Greek division, has
telegraphed that a steamer be sent to
Stavres to embark Bulgarian regiments
with ten of its officers taken prisoners
at Nigrita.
"It is said that the Bulgarian troops
when they abandon the towns and vil
lages devastated them after massacre-
ing the women and children in a bar
barous manner.”
WAYGROSS POSSE KILLS 'GETTYSBURG VETERANS
BANDIT: WOUNDS BROTHER
Solomon Brothers, Wanted on
Charge of Robbing Train,
Are Shot
(Special Dispatch to The Journal.)
WAYCROSS, July 7.—Officers yes
terday afternoon shot and instantly kill
ed Andrew Solomon, leader of a band of
alleged outlaws that has hidden in a
swamp near here for the past two
weeks, and seriously wounded his both-
erl Randall, when the two resisted ar
rest when located in a cabin near the
| swamp.
The men were located by a posse of
seven, headed by Deputy Sheriffl J. E.
Shaw, of Coffee county. It ' said that
they drew pistols on the officers who
then fired in self defense.
% The Solomons were suspected of hav
ing held up an Atlantic Coast Line
freight train near Kirkland about two
weeks ago, firing on the crew. They
were chased to a big swamp near Kirlk-
land and ’efied the officers! for days.
Anlrew Solomon was tken to Douglas
for medical attention, and is in a seri
ous condition.
ABBEVILLE BAND TRIES
TO ENTER WILCOX JAIL
(Special Dispatch to The Journal.)
ABBEVILLE, Ga., July 5.—A poorly
organized band early yesterday morning
tried to secure possession of the keys
to the Wilcox county jail in an effort to
get W. A. Coleman, charged with the
murder of a sixteen-year-old boy near
Rochelle in the early spring.
Deputy Sheriff O. L. Smith was called
from his bed and asked to turn over tne
keys. He turned the band away by tell
ing them that the keys were held by the
sheriff w r ho lived in another part oi
town.
Women Cast Ballots
In Illinois Towns for
First Time Today
BEGIN HOMEWARD MARCH
Last Meal to Be Served in
Camp Sunday-Tfiou-
sands Leave
Big
(By Associated Press.)
CHICAGO, July 5.—Women of three
Illinois towns were today given their
first opportunity to vote under the
new suffrage law. At Libertyville an
issue of $10,000 in city hall bonds is
in the balance and from all indications
the women are for the issue and it will
be passed.
Two hundred women of North Chi
cago were asked to vote on a bond is
sue for schools.
The women of Wamac, near Centra-
lia, are asked to vote for the completion
of tile village corporation.
BLOODHOUNDS TRAIL
BAND OF TRAIN ROBBERS
NEW ORLEANS, July 5.—Blood
hounds have hit the trail of the Illinois
Central train, three miles east of Pope,
Miss., according to a message received
here today by Superintendent Porter
field. The message said that the pack
followed by the posse was pushing
eastward as rapidly as possible.
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CORNISH, N. H., July 7.-—Pres
ident Wilson, always fond of sim
plicity and seclusion when seek
ing rest and diversion from offi
cial duties found in his summer
home here which he saw for the
first time today, the extreme of
isolation and quiet. Arriving- at
noon at Harlakeden house
whiqh has been leased for
two years as a summer capital
the president saw nobody in fact,
but the members of his family.
The evening was spent at home
in the shadows of oil lamps and
candles, for there are no electric
lights in Cornish.
The president’s arrival was in
conspicuous and attracted little
attention. Windsor, Vt., the near
est town of any size to Cornish,
contribtued a handful of Its 2,000
people to greet the president. Ex
cept for a single cheer there was
no demonstration.
ON SIGHTSEEING TOUR.
The president was taken on a
sightseeing tour of his home by
Mrs. Wilson imediately on his ar
rival. He stepped out to the porti
co that fronts on the Connecticut
river. Looking down, he saw a
mossy banked stream shallow and
filled with logs and debris. The
j president took a nap in the after-
! noon and a short motor ride be-
I fore dinner.
Miss Jessie Wilson returned
tonight with her fiancee, Francis
Bowen Sayre. They had been
visiting in Pensylvania and had
spent hh ( ).’ *SHRDLaoitaoi
spent the day at Williamstown,
Mass.
The family circle was not com
plete as Miss Margaret Wilson,
the eldest daughter, is visiting
near Madison, Wis., at the home
of Mr. and Mrs. Joseph E. Davies,
viest.
PRESIDENT TO LOAF.
The president brought with him
only his physician, Dr. Cary T.
U. S; N., leaving be-
secretaries and stenog-
He said he expected
to do no work, but would "loaf.”
He denied himself to the corres
pondents, saying that if anything
of importance developed at
Washington requiring comment
from him he would go there at
once and become fully advised of
the situation.
On Monday he probably will
play golf. His schedule calls for
his departure on Tuesday, but
there is no possobility that his
stay may be lengthened.
GETTYSBURG, Pa., July 5.—Thousands
of veterans began their homeward maren
today after *l last exchange of greetings
with the new comrades they found here.
Before night more than half of the army
of E0.0U0 probably will have gone. Tomor
row the veterans will be given breakfast,
the last meal in camp. That is what the
army says, but those who have seen the
kindness, the courtesy that has been
shown the veterans by these busy men
throughout a trying week, know that
they will be fed as long as they stay
here, if it’s a month. \
The army tents probably will stand
here until next week. The regulars will
stay until the last veteran is gone. Some
time before the end of the month the
brown city will come down, the army
will go back to other tasks and leave
the field at Gettysburg to memory. Omy
the paths that thousands of feet have
made through the grass and timothy, tne
shady depths of Seminary and Cemetery
ridges with their spiked and silent can
non, the observation towers that overlook
the fields, the monuments that crown tne
hills and the graves of the dead will be
left to tell the story of the greatest re
union.
That it will live as long as life lasts
j in the men who were here cannot be
J doubted by the worst of cynics. Its *n-
i fluence Would be hard to calculate, but
I if the old men who gathered around its
I fires act as they acted here, talk as they
talked here, the war between the states
is really over, so far as those who fought
in it are concerned. The unreconstructed
"Rebel” and the unforgiving "Yankee*
will be hard to find.
New York raised the statue to her
own dead and beneath in a half circle
are rows or graves of her men who
fell here fifty years ago. It takes
but little imagination to make that tall
column, with its speaking figure, the
moulded voice of the nation. It takes
but a little touch of the sentiment that
has grasped every man who has come to
the veterans’ camp to think of that out
stretched arm as lifted, not in horror,
but in benediction of an ever silent trib
ute to the men who lived and the men
who died on this greatest battlefield
of the war. Down a hundred yards
through the trees around the statue
runs the Emittsburg road, the main ar
tery from Gettysburg to the camp.
Over that road in the heat of a July
sun the veterans of the armies of Meade
and Lee streamed today toward home,
tired possibly, but lifted out of them
selves by four days’ of a reunion such
as seems hardly possible in any other
country in the world.
Many a veteran who passed over that
road today and many who have passed
before turned with streaming eyes to
catch a last glimpse of that long arm
with wreath as he trudged the dusty
roads. It is the first landmark that
stands high enough to be seen on the
way to the battlefield and it is the last
as the town swallow’s up the road.
General Hunter Liggett, who com
mands the Gettsburg camp, paid high
tribute today to Major J. E. Normoyle,
army quartermaster, who had been its
guiding spirit. He said:
Grayson,
hind all
raphers.
FIRST HEAT VICTIM
DEAD IN NASHVILLE
NASHVILLE, Tenn., July 5.—
; Robert Segwick Hutchins, aged
j thirty-one, of Owensboro, Ky.,
; died here late this afternoon from
heat prostration, being the first
I local victim of the excessive hot
weather which has gripped middle
Tennessee for more than a week.
Mr. Hutchins was found uncon
scious on the porch of a residence,
where he w r as a guest, and did not
I regain consciousness. A brother
! is a prominent banker of Halifax,
N. S.
NEW TARIFF TO BE LAW
SEPT. 1, SAYS SIMMONS
Chairman of Senate Finance
Committee Predicts Passage
of Measure in Upper House
(By Associated Press.)
WASHINGTON, July 5.—Senate Dem
ocrats caucus again today to put the
finishing touches on the tariff bill, pre
paratory to its being formally reported
to the senate next week.
Practically all the revisions of the
house rates have been downward. Chair
man Simmons, of the finance commit
tee, hopes to see the bill passed by the
senate and signed by the president be
fore September 1. Today he made this
statement:
"The caucus has sustained the com
mittee in all of its actions on the tariff
bill except on one or two minor and
relatively unimportant matters. I am
satisfied that the bill as approved by
the caucus will pass the senate and
with such modifications as may be made
in conference between the two houses
will be enacted into law.
"I am confident that there will be no
disturbance of legitimate business in
this country as a result of the operation
of this new tariff law. 1 am confident
that it will result in relieving the peo
ple of the United States of many bur
dens from which they suffer under the
present tariff law’. It will lay the foun
dation of a greater prosperity.”
ATHENS BANK HEAD IS
GIVEN SIX-YEAR TERM
PUBLIC UTILITIES’
CA. HOLDINGS GROW
Property. Value Has Grown
to $143,614,140 in the
Past Year, According to Fig
ures of Comptroller General
The taxable value of the property of
the public utilities companies operating
in Georgia has increased this year by
$5,593,026, according to figures made
public Saturday by Comptroller General
William A. Wright. , V
Of the total increase $3,900,000 is due
to the rise in the value of the property
over the state held by the Georgia
Railway and Power company of At- *
lanta.
The aggregate value of the property *
of the public utilities in Georgia, as It
was returned is approximately $143,*
614,140 this year. #
COMPARISON OF VALUES.
The following comparison of taxable
values this year and last is obtained
from figures in the comptroller’s office:
Atlantic Coast Line .. ..$14,721,169 14,857,221
Central of Georgia .. .. 22,808,346 23,155,016
Seaboard Air Line .. .. 12,873,223 12,654,003
Southern Railway .. .. 18,243,563 17,910,042
All other railroads .. .. 33,902,096 33,750,073
Total for railroads ..$102,548,397 $102,126,418
treet ruilways $17,497,021
Telegraph companies.. .. 1,455,998
Telephone companies .. 7,211,505
Express companies .. .. 1,013,078
Pullman company .. .. 771,578
Electric Light and Pow
er companies 5,896,305
Gas and water coompanies. 4,678,825
Steamboat and steam- •
ship companies 2,541,433
,034,449
,412,569
,791,738
,219,206
767,991
,232,263
,908,208
2.528,272
Aggregate $143,614,140 $138,021,114
While the totals quoted above are
correct as the returns now stand there
are several minor additions to be made
as several of the smaller corporations
have not yet had their returns adjusted.
TAXES TOTAL $2,900,000.
These figures show that the state
taxes on public utility corporations
alone this year will* amount to more
than $718,000, which is exclusive of the
tax that these corporations will have
to pay to the counties, the municipali
ties and the school districts in which
they operate. The taxes to the counties
are nearly twice as much In the aggre
gate as the tax to the state; the taxes
to the cities are usually about $100,000
less than to the state, and to the school
districts about one-fifth the amount of
the state taxes. As a result it is ex
pected the total taxes to be paid this
year by public utilities corporations will
be approximately $2,900,000, against
$2,513,113 last year.
The public utilities make their re
turns annually only to the comptroller
general, who tabulates the amount to
be paid to the state by the counties, the
municipalities and the school districts,
and no returns are made to the oounty
officials as in the cases of individuals.
The corporations will this year have
to pay their state taxes for 1913 by
the first of September. The corpora
tion tax to the state is due on that date
now through virtue of a constitutional
amendment adopted last fall. The coun
ty, municipal and school district taxes
becomes due on December 20 as hereto
fore, their status not having been
changed by the amendment.
The steady increase in the value of
the property of the public utility cor
porations of the state is accepted by
business men generally as a certain
evidence of the state’s increasing pros
perity.
FORMER FRISCO SYSTEM
HEAD IS U. P, DIRECTOR
B, L, Winchell Succeeds L, J,
Spencer as Union Pacific
Traffic Manager
(By Associated Press.)
NEW YORK July 5.—B. L. Winchell.
formerly president of the St. Louis and
San Francisco railroad and latterly re
ceiver for the system, a position which
he resigned yesterday, has bee;i ap
pointed director of traffic of the Union
Pacific Railroad. Announcement of his
appointment was made here today.
L. J. Spence was formerly director of
traffic for the Union Pacific-Southern
Pacific systems, but the dissolution
proceedings necessitated his resigning
from one of the roads, and he assumed
the position for the Southern Pacific
only.
ATHENS, July 5.—J. W. Griffin,
president of the defunct Athens Trust
and Banking company, was sentenced
to serve six and one-half years in the
state penitentiary by Superior Judge
Brand Saturday morning. Judge Brand
passed sentence shortly after the jury
formally brought in a verdict of guilty.
His sentence really amounted to seven
years, as Griffin has spent six months
ir. jail awaiting trial.
The courtroom was crowded with
spectators when sentence was passed,
hundreds of persons being attracted by
prospects of another clash between
Judge Brand and Judge G. C. Thomas,
one of the attorneys for the accused.
Shortly after court adjourned Thurs
day Judge Thomas denounced Judge
Brand as prejudiced and unfit to try the
case. Judge Brand retaliated with a
short and ugly word and Thomas struck
at him with his umbrella. Friends in
tervened and averted further trouble.
Bachelor Criminals
Outnumber Wedded
(By Associated Press.)
NEW YORK, July 5.—Bachelor crim
inals outnumber the married ones in
this, city nearly 4 to 1, according to the
annual report of the chief clerk of the
district attorney’s office. Ther were
2.068 convictions of unmarried men and
789 convictions of married men in the
past year. Of the women convicted,
66 were married and 100 were single.
A classification of the crime shows
that the married man is in the minority
ir. practically every crime except sui
cide. Of the total number of convic
tions 833 were for second offenses.
Killed by Auto
(Special Dispatch to The Journal.)
AUGUSTA, Gf.., July 5.—Oscar Pear-
re, twenty years of age, and an em
ploye of the Clinton Transfer company,
was run over by an automobile driven
by the negro chauffeur of Dr. J. M.
Hull, this afternoon, and died three
hours later at the city hospital. His
skull was fractured and he never re
gained consciousness. Pearre was get
ting off a wagon and did not look be
hind him. He steped directly In front
of the automobile. He came here from
Thomason, Ga., and is survived by his
wife and father and mother and two
sisters.
Soil Fertilization
(University Missourian.) f (
Do not use commercial fertilizers un
less you know what your soil needs and
v/hat you get when buying them. * Their
continual use 6n the same soil is In
jurious unless the crops 'are rotated. A
rotation of corn, oats, wheat and clover
allows each field to be fertilized every
other year.
Stops Tobacco Habit
in One Hay
Sanitarium Publishes Pr e e Book Show
ing How Tobacco Habit Can Be
Vanished in Prom One to
Pive Days at Home.
The Elders Sanitarium located at 640
Main St., St. Joseph, Mo., has pub
lished a free book showing the deadly
effect of the tobacco habit, and how it
can be banished in from one to five
days at home.
Men who have used tobacco for more
than fifty years have tried this method
and say it is entirely successful, and
in addition to banishing the desire for
tobacco has improved tnelr health won
derfully. This method banishes the de
sire for tobacco, no matter whether it
is smoking, chewing, cigarettes or
snuff dipping. ^
As this book is being distributed free,
anyone wanting a cpy should send thoir
name and address at once.—(Advt.)