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5, £ L. RAINEY
LOANS ARE LACKING TO FI
NANCE DELAY IN SALE»(:F
COTTON AND WHEAT.
GROWERS FAIL IN UNITY
Country Banks Eager to Lend What
Assistance They Can. All Federal
Reserve Banks Now Hold Big
Loans to Other Banks,
KANSAS CITY, Mo.—Efforts of
farmers’ unions, federations of farm
yureaus and other agricultural bod
ies to stimulate the holding of wheat
and cotton for higher prices are en
countering obstacles. The principal
obstacle is in the position of banks,
which being already heavily loaned
up cannot extend loans in liberal
emounts fo finance the holding of
crops. Another is the lack of unity
of action among producers. There is,
of course, also disagreement as to
the wisdom of holding for better
prices.
Farmers are sufficiently well or
ganized to make their present cam
paign to hold wheat and cotton ef
fective in reducing receipts on mark
ets to an appreciable extent. In oth
er words, there are enough farmers
in the organizations favoring delay
in the sale of these crops to make
a great difference in receipts, but
this depends on the ability’ of the
producers to carry out their desires.
Qo far as bankers in the south and
west are concerned, it is obvious that,
they are eager to do whatever they
can to insure high prices for cotton
and wheat. The more money a bush
el of wheat or a bale of cotton
brines the quicker the producers
will be able to pay off the obligations
they incurred in making these crops
and the greater will be the deposits
of the crowers with the bankers.
They are, dfor this reason, un
questionably on the side of the pro
ducer, but their powers of assistance
are limited. [
In addition to the loans held by
the federal reserve banks in the
wheat and cotton areas it is import
ant to note that the loans held by
the federal reserve bank of Kansas
City total $112,795,000. The Dallas
bank is holding loans of $75,128,000.
The St. Louis bank has loans of
$116,191,000. The Atlanta bank has
\oans of $121,558,000. The loans
held by the Richmond bank total
$113,182,000. The Minneapolis bank
has Joans of $86,156,000. The total
loans held by the banks is $625,-
005,000 while the amount of, money
they loaned out but which they were
forced to discount with other federal
reserve banks aggregates $157,999,-
000
Thus far in the new harvest sea
son there has been only slight im
provement in the position of banks
in the wheat and cotton areas, large-
Iv because of insufficient marketings
of crops. Normally this is a period
of liquidation of loans and accumu
lation of deposits in agricultural dis
tricts, money received from the sale
of new crops being used to pay off
obligations, At Kansas City, for ex
ample, the first two months of the
new wheat crop year, which begins
in July, witnessed an increase of
only §10,000,000 in bank deposits,
against an increase of $65,000,000
in the same period a year ago.
Federa] Reserve Statements.
An excellent barometer of the
condition of banks in the wheat and
cotton areas of the country is to be
found from the statements for the
past week by the federal reserve
svstem. These statements show that
the federal reserve bank of Kansas
City, after having exhausted its own
!}H:-‘ur::' resources, was forced to
orrow $22,842,000 to maintain its
legal minimum reserves. The federal
reserve hank of Dallas, in Texas, has
borrowed $39,097.000 to enable it to
{fl"'-‘i the demands of its member
panks for loans. The federal reserve
11‘(}”“\ of St. Louis owes $26,172,000.
ie federal reserve bank at Atlanta
;“-‘\' $31,711,000 and the one at
flm'hn‘x‘nml. in Virginia, owes $20,-
""'~"“”< In the spring wheat coun
iry the federal reserve bank of Min-
Neapolis owes $18,177,000.
$3 a Bushel Is Wanted.
: ‘lw,hcutlve of the lack of unison
among producers is the fact that, at
@ meeting on the financing of live
‘a“r'* ¢ at Chicago last week, it was
mL“ri.'fd to urge the interstate com
o‘,,‘y"i'—' commission to issue a prefer
-1'1{«”] order that would bring about
i e of wheat to market for two
Doies The stockmen took this action
0 they need loans badly to
fl!';i‘} cArTy to purchase live stock.
“'“L]«ln(*y know that new money
wpid become available if more
fpoat was sold, Almost at the same
:\_(”M‘\'\'heat growers met in the
("r:‘:-"l vest to urge holding of the
fian for §3 a bushel. Larger sales
me COtton would “also :mprove the
triet. Y Sicuation in agricultural dis
in:; ¢ and assist in live stock financ:
r:\ hu_re farmers do not need te bor
eOF even to extend old loans to
B tfhhf‘m to defer marketings of
fhoae tobankmg situation is not
bk o the whole, however, the
will 13 situation is so tight that it
azain s ort a powerful influence
ot holding of crops until suffi
o sales have been made by grow
| wheat and cotton to effect a
el reduction in loans. Then the
wPaien to hold for higher prices
' no longer confront its most se
s obstaele.
MAN AND SON-IN-LAW
RUN FOR SAME OFFICE
WILMINGTON, Del—Two
members of the same family are
the contestants in a political fight.
Joseph C. Hutchinson is the re
publican candidate for assembly
man from the Fourteenth repre
sentative district, and his son-in
law, Wal @, = -e. is his democratic
opponent. dlaa
A feature 0, %F _ ‘ost is the
fight for the vote . Tee,
daughter of Mr. Hutchi.
yet she has not decided whe..
to vote for her husband or her
father, declaring that the doubt
arises because she is republican at
heart. Friends and relatives are
divided on strictly party lines.
NO RELIEF UNTIL NORTH AND
WEST ARE SUPPLIED, SAYS
THE COMMISSION. |
H. B. Kennedy, chairman of the
special coal committee of tne cham
ber of commerce of Atlanta, has re
ceived information which shows
that this section faces a most seri
ous and acute coal shortage this
winter, with practically no hope for
any kind of adequate: relief.
The information came from the
United States Chamber of Com
merce, whose aid had been enlisted.
The national chamber informed .the
Atlanta chamber that the interstate
commerce commission could not see
its way clear to the desired relief to
the south and that until the north
and northwest had been given relief
the south would not be granted ad
ditional aid. :
Mr. Kennedy said that the coal
committee had” requested the inter
state commerce commission to put
domestic coal users on the same pri
ority list with public utilities, and
to alse allow railroads to send more
empty coal cars to the mines in
Kentucky and Tennessee, from
whence the major portion of this
section’s coal supply is drawn,
Mr. Kennedy also gave out some
interesting figures, prepared by coal
dealers of Atlanta, which show that
there is no surplus coal in the At
lanta yards at present, while deliv
eries of coal during the summer
months have been only 69 per cent
of normal.
ASKS $29,166 IN
A NEW YORK BUYER CLAIMS
BREACH OF CONTRACT WITH
MARSHALLVILLE GROWER.
MACON, Ga.—Suit for alleged
damages for $29,166 was filed and
docketed in the United States court
here Saturday against J. C. Lee,
fruit grower of Marshallville, by W.
H. Behrenburg, of Hilton, New
York. Breach of contract is alleged.
The petitioner claims that he and
Lee entered into a contract last June
under which the defendant was to
ship to the plaintiff the entire crop
of peaches, not including culls, from
his Macon county orchards at $2.10
per crate. It is further alleged - that
Mr. Lee shipped to the plaintiff 19,-
444 crates and bushel baskets for
which $40,832 was paid.
~ Apparently the peaches were in
good condition, the petition recites,
but; ‘they contained latent defects
‘which caused them to decay in a
short time. The shipments were made
between June 17 and July 29, at
which time the plaintiff alleges se
lect peaches were selling at from
$2.25 to $2.75 per crate, or an aver
age of s2.so~per crate. In arriving
at the amount of damages asked the
plaintiff figured the difference in
the average price and the price for
which poorer grade of peaches were
selling for at the time amounted to
$1.50 per crate.
MODERN CRUSOES, SEEKING
ARCADIA, SAIL FROM LONDON
ADVENTURERS, TIRED OF FOGS,
STRIKES AND HIGH TAXES,
WILL ESTABLISH COLONY IN
SOUTH SEA ISLANDS.
Rhodes Disher, a London manu
facturer, plans to sail from the Brit
ish isles soon with a shipload of
kindred spirits, seeking a South sea
island where they may like in a per
fect climate, free from labor troub
les and high taxes. The Crusoe ex
pedition will seek a home in the Sa
moan or Marquesan groups, where
each family may have a garden, poul
try, fruit, and bees. The colony will
have music, tennis, boating, theater,
a good water supply and medical at
tendance.
Mr. Disher said that more than
300 persons had already signed up,
and S\at the party, when it sails, will
probably consist of abou 1,000 per
sons. A careful selection is being
made to see that only good temper
ed, tolerant, temperate persons join
the expedition. Each man should
have about $l,OOO to meet his nec
essary expenses, including cost of
land, seeds, implements and other
expenses.
The colony will raise its own food
and a surplus of cocoanuts which will
be sold on a co-operative basis, the
THE DAWSON NEWS
INMIGRANT TIOE POURS
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INTO UNITED STATES
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TWENTY-FIVE THOUSAND SEEK
ING THE NEW WORLD ARE |
ARRIVING EACH WEEK. ;
CLOG NEW YORK HARBOR
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Ellis Island Cannot Begin to Accom- |
modate Arrivals From Abroud.\
Majority of Foreigners Seek In
- dustrial Centers on Atlantic Coast.
Immigration is rapidly approach
ing pre-war figures, according to.
United States officials at Washington |
and New York city. An average oti
between 25,000 and 30,000 foreign-|
ers have been arriving at the port of
New Yark*every week for the last}
two months and this number wbuld;
be twice as great if shipping accom
modations were available, accordingl
to steamship agents abroad. |
The rush of immigrants from Eu-?
rope has become so-great that immi- |
gration officials at Ellis Island, in!
New York harbor, are swamped. The
government station on the island cani
not begin to accommodate the thous
ands of foreifners arriving each!
day, making it necessary for the
steerage passengers to remain forl
several days on the vessels which
carried them across the Atlantic.|
Last Saturday night eight passengeri
ships were anchored in midstream
off Ellis island, waiting to discharge
their steerage passengers, for whoml
there was no room on the island.
Cannot Hurry Work. |
Commissioner Wallis and his staff
at Ellis island are working virtually
24 hours a day inspecting and pass
ing the arrivals from abroad, but the
commissioner has firmly refused to
speed up the work by making mere
ly superficial examinations.
“Too little caution in such matters
has been the root of bolshevism in
America,” said Commissioner Wallis.
- The immigrants are coming from
all sections of Europ®, save Ger
many and Austria, but the great
bulk of them are southern Europeans
__Jtalians, Greeks, - Czecho-Slavs,
Magyars and Spaniards.
Too Many From Southern Europe.
This heavy influx from southern
Europe is not held desirable, and
Commissioner of Immigration Cami
netti will probably put before the
next congress a plan to restrict im
migration from that part of Europe,
particularly Greeks, Italians and
Magyars, and to take measures that
will attract immigration from the
hardier races of northern Europe.
Organized labor leaders also will
make an attempt to have the next
congress restrict immigration, be
cause of the fear of an over-supply
of labor, particularly unskilled. The
present tidal wave of immigration
does not include a large percentage
of skilled labor, as the Scandinavian
countries are not largely represent
ed, while France is keeping its work
men home, and the Germand are
barred by reason of the state of war
still existing between the two coun
tries by reason of the failure of the
senate to pass-the Versailles peace
treaty.
Flock to Industrial Centers.
Aside from inadequate port facili
ties to handle the great rush of for
eigners seeking the promised land in
America—a rush will continue all
year, for steamship companies report
bookings that far in advance—per
haps the greatest problem is the de
sire of the new arrivals to seek the
industrial centers, which have also
attracted the aliens of less recent
arrival from the rural districts,
which in the ten years preceding the
war claimed more than a majority
of the newcomers. This has tende_ed
to increase the housing problems in
New York, Chicago and in Philadel-
Iphia and has left the farming sec
tions without "the needed labor.
Until recently the greatest portion
of the arrivals went west, having
been headed for Oregon. Less than
25 per cent of those who arrived in
August went far from the At'lantl.c.
coast, says Commissioner Caminetti.
SR eTu e SRS sSR O
proceeds of all sales to go into a
general fund. The expedition will be
accompanied by physicians, dentists,
teachers, carpenters, engineers and
skilled men of all occupations, all
eager to live the free life on a tropi
cal island, exempt from strikes, fogs
and heavy taxes. Mr. Disher further
announced that recruits from Amer
ica will be welcomed.
G mamer B
$lO,OOO in Currency Received by
Wife of a Missing Chauffeur. ”’
Turned Over to Police.
. SAN FRANCISCO, Cal.—A shoe
box containing $lO,OOO in currency
was received through the mails here
today by Mrs. Charles Hayes, wife
of a former chauffeur of the Anglo
and London-Paris National bank,
who dropped from sight September
] simultaneously with the disap
pearance Of a bank automobile con
taining $59,000- in currency and
bonds. The box was postmarked
New Orleans. .
Mrs. Hayes turned the box and
money over to the police.
DAWSON, GA., TUESDAY EVENING, SEPTEMBER 28, 1920
PORCH CAMPAIGN
OF APOSTLE PAUL
MARION, O.—Marion church
folk were informed today that the
“front porch” campaign is not a
novelty, but, in fact, dates almost
from the beginning of the Chris
tian era.
According to the Rev. George
M. Rourke, of Long Beach, Cal,
who' preached the morning ser
mon at the First Presbyterian
church, the first ‘‘front porch”
campaign was conducted by the
Apostle Paul.
The apostle, the Rev. Mr.
Rourke said, during the first cen
tury of the Christian era for two
years conducted a religious cam
paign from the front porch of a
rented house:-in Rome, where he
received pilgrims and spoke to
them and wrote letters to those
who could neot visit him.
U. S. SEEKS $10,000,000
IN SHIPS’ FURNISHINGS}
LINEN AND SILVER OF SEIZED
GERMAN LINERS NOT RE
TURNED. BIG SEARCH ON.
WASHINGTON, D. C.—The wor
ried housekeeper who wondered
where she was going to get enough |
clean linens to supply all of thel
guest rooms at once cannot hold a|
candle to the United States shipping
board which until recently was’ en
gaged in a still hunt for approxi
mately $10,000,000 worth of linens,
silver and other furnishings that
were removed from the seized Ger
man liners at the outbreak of the
war and since have vanished into
thin air.
The trouble started when the gov
ernment made plans for convertingl
the former German liners into trans
ports so they might be used for thel
carrying of troops overseas. l
As the equipment was removed it
was turned over with little or no‘
formality to the various welfare or-|
‘ganizations for their use ‘“pending|
‘the emergency’’ and somehow a cog |
‘slipped and the usual highly red- |
taped governmental accounting wasl
not required.
When the geustion of disposing of|
| the German liners arose, however, |
~somebody happened to inquire as to |
' what had become of all the furnish- |
'ings that had formerly filled theiri
| interiors. The principal aim of the
| shipping board in selling these ves-‘
| sels has been to avoid the expense
of refitting them amd consequently
‘tracers were sent out after the miss
i ing artieles. |
| The search promises to be limit
less, as portions of the vanished sup
!plies are stored all over the United
States, some in the homes of sou-
Ivenir hunters, and unremitting toil
iso far has only resulted in the dis
| closure in storage of a very small
‘percentag‘e of the furnishings given
| for use of welfare workers.
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50,000 OUT OF JOBS I
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~ AS AUTO BOOM ENDS
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| AKRON, OHIO. SUFFERS GREAT
| SLUMP IN POPULATION. CUT
i WAGES IN RUBBER MILLS.
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; AKRON, Ohio, ‘Sept. 25.—Picture
a town that in tem years increased
1 201.8 per cent in population, jump-%
{ing from 69,067 in 1910 to 208,438!
} in 1920, and then in three months
| losing not far from 50,000 of that
' population, with those that remain
. working part time or not at all, and
largely at smaller wages, and you
have an idea of what the break in
' the automobile business has done to
. Akron, the premier automobile tire
'town of the world.
! Vincent S. Stevens, secretary of |
| the Chamber of Commerce and rated |
'by conservatives as a “sound man,”
estimates that the number of rubber
'workers laid off since June 1 18 28,-
000.
' More Than Half Laid Off.
. The head of one of the largest tire
companies, talking not for quotation,
says 45,000 rubber workers have
been laid off, leaving something less
than 30,000 engaged. The editor of
a local paper, including all classes
affected by the decline, places the
total number of persons thrown out
of employment as in excess of 50,-
000. l
In laying off men care has been
used to retain wherever possib]e{
married men with dependents, mar
ried men who are paying for homes,
single men with dependents and
those paying for homes. Previously
the wsual rate of “entrance pay” in
Akron has been 75 cents an hour.
On this, working in pools or teams,
it was possible to earn as high as
$l4 to $lB or more a shift of eight!
hours—from $BO to $lOO or more ai
week. i
Make Only Small Wages. i
‘ Those who may be shifted on to
| the probationary system in new de
' partments, working eight hours a day
{and but five a week (all are on a
| five-day basis now), earn but $15.20
ja week. .
i According to Stevens the causes
| of the deflation are first the tight
| ening of credits; second, a poor
| spring and summer for motoring,
iand third, a mor%‘or Jess general
‘slacking off in buskess.
| Harry Giletley, president of the
' Central labor union, declares that
'the plight of many of those remain
ing at work is worse than that of the
men who have left town.
’ 10,714 PERMITS ISSUED
, UNDER U. 5. DRY LAW
DRY AMERICA HAS 32,960 DOC
TORS AUTHORIZED TO GIVE.
WHISKY PRESCRIPTIONS.
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50,000,000 GALS.IN BOND
More Than 350 Warehouses Filled
With Liquor Alone; Supply Gets
to Trade, and the Thirsty Wayfar.
er May Yet Buy a Drink.
WASHINGTON; D. C.—There
were in full effect on September 1
a grand total of 70,714 government
permits for the sale or use of intox
icating liquor in one form and an
other. That amazing figure was con
tained in a statement made by Dr.
A. B. Adams, head of the division of
technology of Commissioner Kra
mer’s office, who passes, upon and
actually issues the liquor permits.
There are 32,960 doctors, in dryJ
America, who possess government}
permits to write prescriptions call
ing for not more than a pint of
whisky to a patient at a time.
Of the 70,714 government permits
of one kind and another, through
which the holders are authorized to
import, export, manufacture, distill,
buy or sell whisky and other intox
icating liquors there were, on Sep
tember 1, a total of 3,846 wholesale
permits. The wholesale permits com
pose the spigot of the big booze bar
rel, and all the other permits, far
greater in number but less potent
in meaning, form merely the trail ofl
the red herring across the real
tracks. ‘
Ninety Per Cent Not Necessary. \‘
Ninety per cent of those wholesale
permits are not necessary, Doctor
Adams declared.
“Those wholesalers are the buga
boos of the adequate enforcement
of the prohibition law. It is through
them that the whisky flows unre
strained. Those wholesalers are sup-'
posed to sell liquor only to the hold
ers of other permits—holders of per
mits authorizing sale and possession
of liquor for various purposes.
But by juggling of bogY(s and oth
er ways that are dark, and tracks
that are vain, the law is sidestepped.
~ Some idea of the reasons why the
‘thirsty wayfarer may buy a drink
iwith ease, or carry home a quart of
'whisky in such cities as New York,
Philadelphia, Pittsburg, Buffalo, Bal
.timore. Chicago and San Francisco is
‘revealed by the number of those
t wholesale permits effective in these
particular cities.
New York state leads the list, with
the astounding total of 1,579 whole
sale permits for wholesale traffic in
whisky, regardless of several thous
and other permits which authorize
“possession.” In Pennsylvania there
are 767 wholesale permits; in Illinois
306; in Kentucky 206; in California
163; in. Massachusetts 90, and in
Maryland 64.
There are now in bonded ware
houses—more than 350 of them—
throughout the United States more
'than 50,000,000 gallons of whisky,
that is “known” whisky—whisky of
’which the internal revenue depart
ment has a record. That immense
stock of liquor is whisky alone; it
does not include rum, gin, brandy
and other such “hard stuff,” nor does
it take into account the vast stocks
of wines, foreign liquors, cham
pagnes, ete.
Access to Ocean of Liquor.
By virtue of their permits those
!3,846 wholesalers have free and easy
access to this ocean of liquor, osten
sibly for lawful “non-beverage” pur
‘poses, but actually a majority of
them are serving as the great, spe
cially privileged underground pipe
line to the bootlegger, the saloon
‘that still thrives under its ‘‘near
‘beer" camaflouge, the gay cabaret
and the circumspect baron, who sells
'in 100-case lots only.
4.900,000 INCOMES
ARE WITHIN $5,000
MORE THAN 5,500,000 FIRMS
AND INDIVIDUALS ARE PAY.
ING THE INCOME TAX.
WASHINGTON, D. C.—More than
5.608,000 firms and individuals are
paying income taxes this year, ac
cording to figures just made pub
lic by the bureau of internal reve
nue.
The bureau’s statement shows
that 4,900,000 persons are paying
income taxes on incomes of $5,000
or less*and that fewer than 600,000
of this number have not paid the
taxes in full, choosing the alterna
tive method of paying by install
ments.
Indidvidual returns for incomes in
excess of $5,000, including those in
dividuals and firms, number 700.-
000. Approximately half of the
number have paid all income taxes
to the government in the first two
installments.
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Wilson and Watson Contribute to Fund l
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ATLANTA, Ga‘—Among contri- NEW YORK, N. Y.—A $5OO con
butions received here to the demo- tribution to the democratic *national
cratic national campaign fund is a campaign fund was received here to
check for $250 from Thomas E. day from President Wilson, who
Watson, democratic nominee for the!wrote that he was offering the mon-
United States senate. Accompanying|ey as a “private in the ranks.”
Mr. Watson's check was an expres-| “I feel very deeply that the honor
cion of optimistic feeling as regards and destiny of the nation are in
the party’s chances for success in volved in this campaign,” he wrote
November. h | the committee.
KEEP CLOSE TAB
ON MONEY KINGS
CHICAGO, Ill.—Radicals fol
low the movements of interna
tional bankers so closely that they
are able to tell at any time the
whereabouts of every well known
financier, Chris Sloier, head of
the police anarchist squad, an
nounced today, following a raid
in which a copy of ‘“The Anarch
ists’ Soviet,’”” published in New
York, was found.
The headlimes of the paper,
dated June 19, 1920, read:
“Lamont in Paris, Morgan in
London, Vanderlip in Tokio, Kahn
in Berlin, Schiff in Amsterdam.”
The paper was taken in a raid
on I. W. W. headquarters on the
west side a few days prior to the
New York bomb explosion.
FORMER BANDIT SHOCKS GOV
ERNMENT WITH ORDER FOR
TOOLS. COST .THOUSANDS.
When the Mexican government
pomised Francisco Villa, the erst
while bandit-revolutionist, that it
would set him up in the farming
business as one of the provisions of
his recent surrender it bound itself
to a bigger proposition than it prob
ably thought at the time. The item
ized requisition for farm machinery
and equipment which Villa has just
placed with the government would
indicate that he plans a wholesale
conquest of the soil. |
However much the big order may
have shocked the government offi
cials in the city of Mexico it met
with the prompt approval of Presi
dent De la Huerta, and it was im
mediately dispatched to Louis de
Oca, Mexican consul at El Paso, Tex.,
with instructions that every item in
it be filled and shipment made as
quickly as possible to Villa at- Can
utilla, state of Durango, where the
land that was granted him by the
government is situated.
What Villa Wanted.
Among the machinery and equip
ment ordered by Villa are 800 doub
le-row cultivators, 200 breaking
plows, harness for 1,600 mules, two
modern threshing machines, 50 har
vesting machines} 30 mowing ma
chines, 400 scythes, 300 spades, 300
picks, 300 axes and many other
}things, the total cost of which reach
‘many thousands of dollars.
. According to Villa he will have
‘need of everything which he has or
dered,- and it is said the government
is perfectly willing to humor him in
his extensive farming plans if it will
only keep him off the warpath.
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SAFE BLOWERS ESCAPE WITH
LIBERTY BONDS, NEGOTIABLE
~ PAPERS AND JEWELRY.
No clue has been found to the
safe blowers who wrecked the vault
of the Bank of Lumpkin and escaped
with liberty bonds, negotiable paper,
jewelryt and other valuables. Be
cause most of the loot was stored
in safety deposit vaults by patrons
of the bank it will be some time
before the total amount stolen will
be known.
. The combination lock on the outer
and inner doors of the vault were
blown off. The bank safe within the
vault, where most of the money and
papers belonging to the bank were
stored, was nct molested. All safety
deposit boxes, many of them of
flimsy tin censtruction, were rifled.
Many of Bonds Are Registered.
The yeggmen got very little mon
ey, something like $l5O or $2OO,
from the bank and out of safety
boxes belonging to other parties. It
is understood that many of the bonds
secured by them-are reégistered and
will be non-negotiable.
Officers and bank officials who ex
amined the wrecked vault said that
the work was undoubtedly that of
professional burglars. Nitro-glycer
ine is believed to have been the ex
plosive used. The outer door of the
vault was entered after the combi
nation lock had been blown off by
the burglars. The inner door was
also disposed of with explosives. The
bank safe within the vault where
most of the money and securities be
longing to the bank were stored was
not molested by the robbers. All of
the deposit boxes, most of them of
tin construction, that had been stor
ed in the bank vault by patrons
were opened and their contents rifled
before the burglars left the build
ing. |
There is great excitement as a re
sult of the robbery. '
First Section
VOL. 39.—N0. 4
PRIVATE AGENCIES ARE COIN
ING MONEY SINCE THE RE
CENT BOMB EXPLOSION.
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BADLY FRIGHTENEDJLOT
'Fifth Avenue, Formerly “Million
‘ aires’ Row,” Is Now Nicknamed
“The Avenue of Tombs.” Many
Have Moved Into Hotels.
NEW YORK, N. Y.—Police are
guarding persons of the rich. Private
detective agencies are coining mon
ey. Thig is the fear aftermath of the
Wall street disaster. It has develop
ed the interesting sidelight that many
of the persons of wealth no longer
live in private dwelling, but in ho
tels and apartment houses.
In days gone by Fifth avenue was
known as “millionaires’ row.” Today
it has acquired the new nickname of
“the avenue of tombs,” for bringing
‘the daily parade of the showily
dressed women, perfectly tailored
men and prize dogs on foot and in
‘automobiles are virtually empty pal
atial residences, many the homes of
‘men who are dead.
On the northwest corner of Thir
ty-ninth street and Fifth avenue .is
the old-fashioned brick and brown
stone dwelling of the late John J.
Wendell. His great-grandfather was
in the fur business with the first
John Jacob Astor. His three elderly
sisters now live there, At 579 Fifth
avenue is the Jay Gould home now
occupied by Mrs. F. J. Sheppard
(Helen Gould). The Russell Sage
residence is at 604 Fifth avenue.
Betwgen Fifty-first and Fifty-sec
ond streets on the west side of the
avenue are the twin Vanderbilt
houses built by the late Commodore
W. H. Vanderbilt, the northerly one
being occupied by his daughter when
she was the wife of the late William
D. Sloane.
At Fifty-second street, on the
northwest corner, is the Indiana
stone mansion of the late W. K. Van
derbilt, laid out in the style of a
French chateau of the fifteenth cen
tury, The residences of the late Wil
liam C. Whitney is near by.
Off Firth avenue in east Thirty
sixth street is the modest home and
beautiful library of the late J. Pier
pont Morgan.
_Between Sixty-first and Sixty
second streets is the home of the
late Commodore Elbridge T. Gerry,
‘and a few doors east on Sixty-second
’street is where the late Joseph H.
Choate once lived. The magnificent
pile of marble at the northeast cor
ner of Sixty<fifth and Sixty-sixth
streets was the home of John Jacob
Astor, who lost his life on the Titan
ic. A half-dozen doors north is the
home of the late Grant B. Schley,
Wall street banker and broker. Up
Sixty-sixth street is where General
U. S. Grant made his home.
In the upper reaches of the avenue
and bi-secting streets we find the
“tombs,” or rather -the former
homes of the late Henry O. Have
meyer, E. H. Harriman, Anthony J.
Brady, Henry Phipps, Frank Wool
worth, Henry Clay Frick, Charles T.
Yerkes, John W. Sterling and An
drew Carnegie. They indeed look
desolate, forbidding and are sad re
minders of outstanding personalities
who have journeyed to another
world. One naturally speculates up
on how much actual enjoyment they
got out of their lavish expenditure
in murble, mortar and brick, to say
‘nothing of the costly paintings and
‘tapestries with which they hung the
interiors.
Before Central park was laid out
Fifth avenue, north of Fifty-ninth
street, was a dismal district of
'swamps, thickets and stagnant pools.
It was inhabited by squatters who
lived in the most nondeseript shacks.
But it did have a population? At the
present writing the ornate dwellings
which supplanted the frame huts of
the non-rent payers are in the pos
session of caretakers. ;
Those buildings which are not
“tombs”’ are possessed by persons
who pass their summers either on
Long Island or in Europe and their
winters either in Palm Peach, or in
southern California. True, the Fifth
avenue area contains the homes of
New York leaders in society, finance
and commerce, but their owners do
not live there. In fact, the fashion
is growing to rent out the Fifth
avenue mansions- to new rich folk
whose names-are not yet in the so
cial register.
BIG NEGRO VOTE WILL
BE CAST IN PIVOTAL STATES
Seems to Be Numerous Enough to
Swing the Election.
In a bulletin of the National As
sociation for the Advancement of
Colored People is the statement that
negroes have the balance of power
this presidential election year in
eight pivotal states with electoral
votes to the number of 165. The
states, as named, with the number
of negro voters in each are: Illi
nois, 125,000; Indiana, 45,000; Ken
tucky, 150,000; Maryland, 150,000;
Michigan 25,000; New Jersey, 75,-
000; New York, 125,000; Ohio, 100,-
000: In each case, the bulletin says,
the negro votes are numerous enough
to swing the state.
HENRY FORD WINS LAURELS
AS “FIDDLINEST FIDDLER”
Henry Ford, of McFall, Ala., was
awarded the prize as the “fiddlinest
fiddler” in Alabama and Georgia, at
a fiddlers’ contest in Anniston, Ala.