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'Nothing Succeeds Like—THE GEORGIAN'
AND NEWS
ATLANTA, GA„ TUESDAY, APRIL 20. 1909.
In Atlanta—TWO CENTS,
On Train*—FIVE CENTS.
TO ADDRESS BANKERS
ON GUARANTY PLAN
ABDUL HAMID, SULTAN OF TURKEY.
THE WEATHER.
Forecast: Showers Tuesday night
and Wednesday: (“•><*!.-r Tuesday
night Temperatures Tuesday
(taken at A. K. Hawkes Company's
store): 8 a. m., 63 degrees: 10 a. m..
72 degrees; 12 rn., 74 degrees; 2
p. m.. 76 degrees.
The Atlanta Georgian
"Nothing Succeeds Nike—THE GEORGIAN”
SPOT
COTTON.
Atlanta.
etenUy:
10 3-16 Liverpool,
ensler; &
48. New
Y<*rk. firm; 10.85. Sn
to nosh.
pilot: lu
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10 3-164j U
V Gnl
eetOll. quiet; Do 16.
Norfolk.
steady;
Mobile, steady;
lQtt.
This is a photograph of the rear of a Decatur-st. store. It is a verita
ble nest. The picture poorly shows the conditions here. '
There are many families of white people living in tho midst of filth and
insanitary conditions. The sunken eyes of the stooped, -dried-up human
beings speak eloquently of the lives spent without air, light and sunshine.
ft may not be the city s business where these people live, but it is the
city s business that such horrible, disease-breeding fire traos not be allowed
to exist in the heart of our c.ty, and under the noses of the merchants who
are trying to reclaim Decatur-st.
„ In the front of the building are two stores—one a grocery, run by D.
Katzoff, 258 Decatur; the other a restaurant, run by a negro woman.
We have written the owners of this property as follows;
TWO CHARTER PLANS
TO GO BEFORE PEOPLE
Commission Govern
ment or Smaller *
Council.
EITHER WOULD MAKE
MAYOR ACTIVE HEAD
ABDUL HAMID VACATES
W. G. BRANTLEY.
Congressman who will address
hankers on postal savings banks
and guarantee of bank deposits.
Plans Adopted by Two Com
mittees To Be Submitted
at Polls to People.
Gentlsmon—Ths Georgian is printing a photograph of ths unsightly and
Insanitary building occupying property at 258 and 260 Decatur-st., shown
on the city’s tax booka in your name. ^
It ia the opinion of the better element of Decatur-st. that the owners of
such properties could well afford to assist in cleaning out auch conditions.
Is it your desire to units in this effort, and will you take any steps
looking toward the betterment of the people and the street? 1 p
, THE ATLANTA GEORGIAN.
, F. L. SEELY, Publisher.
Ask $10,000
For Cabanne Boy
IS SET FREE
Girl Slayer of Auspitz
Under Suspended
Sentence.
New York, April 20.—Sarah Kotcn,
•layer of Dr. Samuel Auspitz, was set
free under a suspended sentence on
her plea of guilty of manslaughter to
day. With her baby in her arms, the
young woman stood bareheaded while
Justice Blanchard announced his Judg
ment She was taken In charge at
one# by Mies Ray Pearlman, of the
Council of Jewish Women.
St. Louis, April 20—Chief of Deteo-
tlves Smith today admitted that James
S. Cabanne, Jr., father of the boy
James S. Cabanne III, who disappeared
from the home fit bis grandmother her,
last Thursday, had received a letter
demanding a 110,000 ransom.
Chief Smith said neither he nor the
boy’s relatives placed much credenoe
In the letter. The Cabannes profess to
believe that the boy is still In Bt Louis.
Anniston, Ala., April 20-J. B. Mc-
Clurkln, a well-known farmer and mil
ler who reeldes near Oxford. Is dead,
«nd Irvin Pope, a negro, together with
two other negroes, are under arrest
•uspected as the murderers of Mc-
Clurkln. McClurkln was awakened
early by a noise at his mill, and went
tuere to frustrate a burglary," a negro
leaving. It Is sold. He followed the
negro and was assaulted with a maple
vole. After being beaten Into Insen-
slbility, his head was then beat to
Pulp. with
Bears Run Patten Into
#
Hole—May Quoted
at $1.23 1-2.
Chicago, April 20.—Wheat prices tum
bled today and the bears practically
took charge of the trading. Pande
monium reigned when May wheat
touched 81.23 1-2, following a closing
price Monday of $1.27. July wheat sold
8 cents lower than Monday's close.
T
LOSS $1,000,000
Pulp with a rock, the body being Little Rock, Ark., April 20.-St. LoiUs
drugged a distance of 40 feet and the Compress No. 2, one of the largest In
bead buried in the ploughed dirt,
negro residing near the scene says he
beard the cries of-McClurkln and the
oaths of the assailant as he applied a
club.
The crime has greatly aroused the
People of the community.
DECLARE MISTRIAL
IN JOHNSON CASE
Fitzgerald, Gs., April 20.—A mistrial
;** declared in tho .case of Officer
Johnson.
He was taken to Jail at Ocllla at
noon today for safe-keeping under or-
r o f , the court. Eight of the Jury
«ood for conviction of murder In the
nrst degree and four for acquittal.
A special term of court Is expected
■o be called next month to try the
m »n again.
Will Reopen
Haskell Case
Tulss, Okla.. April 20.—Authorized
, s Attorney Oeneral Wlckersham. At-
lorney William Gregg today asked
. i Campbell, of the United States
circuit court, for a special grand Jury
Httncn. made up from the old west-
district of Indian Territory, to re-
L^, e,tl *»te cases against Governor Has-
,25 a , na six Muskogee meta accused of
™»n lot frauds In Muskogee eight years
“ORDER 220 OFFICERS
AMONG YOUNG TURKS
Berlin, April 20.—A telegram from I
''"-tantlnople says that 220 Young
“tH ..meets. Including ail the officers I
, * cavalry regiment, have been mur- 1
••red by their men.
the city, was practically destroyed by
Are early today, causing a loss esti
mated at about $1,000,000. General Su
perintendent Wilbur F. Black places
the value of the cotton stored In the
building at $850,000, while the plant Is
valued at $100,000.
TWENTY ARE BUTCHERED
IN ALEPPO DISTRICT
That’s What Citizens
Want and Say
They’ll Get.
Two new public school houses, a Car
negie library and a public park—this Is
what la being planned by citizens of
the First ward, the movement for
which will assume dcflnttd shape-at a
mass meeting of citizens to ho held
Tuesday night at tho home of Assistant
City Attorney James L, Mayson, at
Walker and Stonewall-ats.
' Resolutions will be adopted, Incorpo
rating the» now plans, and the whole
matter will be taken up before the city
council at Its next session. Councilman
Frank Hiiburn, of the First ward, is
greatly Interested in the proposed
movement and will use every effort
possible to push It to success. i
Thoso behind the movement have
been working on the plans for some
time, and, It Is understood, the money
Is already in sight. '
Under the plan proposed, the present
Walker-st. public school building will
be topn away and will be supplanted
by the Carnegie library arid the new
ward park. Andrew Carnegie has al
ready donated the sum of $16,000 for
the library, and It Is proposed to erect
It In the center of the present school
property. Shrubbery, trees and flowers
will then be planted about the llbraby
building and a plentiful supply of
benches will be scattered over the
grounds. This place would then afTord
a splendid recreation spot for the citi
zens of this ward, j
The citizens will petition council for
the privilege of converting the school
property Into the library site and park,
and will then ask for two.new schools.
They already have two sites under con
sideration. and say that with the money
now In sight they will be able to -buy
these two pieces of property and erect
two modern school buildings. One of
these sites being considered Is situated
at West Fair and Chestnut-St*. The
.father'Site has not been made public.
The citizens are enthusiastic over the
outlook for these improvements and
declare their realisation will mean a
big uplift for that section of the city.
Constantinople, April 20.—Official re
ports were made today of a massacre
In the Marasch Aleppo district. Twen
ty were killed end wounded before the
rioters were suppressed.
U. S. WARSHIPS ARE
RUSHED TO TURKEY
Washington, April 20.—The navy de
partment has Just Issued orders for the
armored cruisers North Carolina and
Montana, now at Guantanamo, and part
of Rear Admiral Arnold's fleet, to pro
ceed with ell dispatch to Alexandretta
for the protection of American interests
there. Captsln Reynolds, of the Mon
tana, will command the squadron.
The people of Atlanta will vote soon
on their preference between two forms
of charter.
One charter will provide for the
straight form of commission govern
ment. such as Is now In vogue and
proving so successful In Galveston,
Houston, Des Moines and other cities,
with such changes ia suit conditions In
Atlanta. r
Thlb charter Is. being drawn by a
subcommittee of five of the charter
revision commission. Charles Hopkins
Is chairman of the subcommittee. *
The other form of charter will gro-
vlde for a council elected by wards and
by the city as a whole, such as Is the
case with the present general council—
only the new council will be smaller,
and there will be no aldcrmanlo board.
Mayor the Real Head.
The principal change In this form of
charter ns distinguished from tho pres
ent charter will be that tho mayor will
be, In fact os well as In name, the ad
ministrative head of the city, and to
this end the mayor will have the power
of appointment of all the heads of all
departments. /
At present the heads of all depart
ments are either elected by council or
by boards elected by council.
The cotrimlsslon charter will provide
for six or seven commissioners, the city
to be divided Into as many departments
as there are commissioners, and each
commissioner to be the head'of one of
these departments. .1,
The commissioners will bo elected
by the people directly, and. together
with n mayor, will constitute the ad
ministrative and legislative branches of
tile city. They probably will be sub
ject to recall, and the Initiative and
referendum may be embodied In this
charter.
Alex W. Smith Is chairman of the
subcommittee of nine appointed to
draw up a city charter different from
commission government, and It Is his
committee that has practically decided
on tho form of government whereby
the mayor appoints the heads of all
departments.
The committee wilt also. It Is said,
recommend limited woman's suffrage,
altho not embodying It definitely In the
charter It will draw.
Both the commission charter and the
other will be submitted to the charter
revision commission at an early day.
The commission will male* iuoh
changes as It sees tit, and then submit
the two charters to tho people, who will
vote their preference.
Both the committee headed by Mr.
Smith and that headed by Mr. Hop
kins have.met and decided, In a gen
eral way, on the charters as outlined.
BUSH TRIES
SUICIDE BT
AND TORCH IPPL0
Richmond, Va., April 20.—History
has been startingiy quick to repeat
Itself In tbe matter of the double) mur
der and robber)’ In Powhatan county,
for now comes the news of an almost
similar atrocity In the county of Buck
ingham. which has resulted In the
taking of two more human lives. This
time It Is two aged bachelor brothers,
William and Thomas Stewart, who are
the victims of the assassin or assas
sins. as was the case In the murder
of Walter G. Johnson and Mrs. Mary
O. Sklpwlth. The lust for booty li
what impelled the killing.
Nor does the analogy end here, for,
as was the case In the crime of Feb
ruary 12. an attempt was made to
Jildc all traces of the murder by ap
plying the torch.
OP C t-'t-EWKOWITZ
Tbfy (tflobe Optical (Tompait?.
Manufacturing Opticians and'Jewelers,
WHOLESALE AND RETAIL '
27 WEST MITCHELL ST.
Atlanta. Ca
we CARRY
WATCHES, JEWELRY f
AND SILVERWARE
THERMOMETERS,
BAROMETERS.
SIGNAL SERVICE,
FIELD AND MARINE !
CUSSES. ]
OPERA GLASSES I
AND TELESCOPES. !
YOUNG TURKS
HOLD EMPIRE
IH FIRM CRIP
I
Not Known Where
the Sultan Is
Hidden.
SIX PERSONS
+ PRINCIPAL EVENT8 IN +
+ WIDESPREAD REVOLUTION +
Total'number of dead In Adana .
4* district now numbered at 6,000; 4*
* 2,000 killed In city. . Adana now 4-
4* quiet. 4*
4* 'All forts surrounding Conetan- +
4- tlnople from Sea of Marmosn to +
4- Black Sea In hands of revolution- +
+ lets. 4*
4* Minister of War Edhem Pasha 4*
4" and Nazim Pasha, commanding 4*
4* capital forces, have resigned. +
4- Reported Young Turks have de- 4*
4* elded to hang sultan If he Is found. 4*
4- British warahlpe leave Malta for 4*
4* Turkey. 4-
+ Reehed Effendt proclaimed sul- 4*
4* tan at Salonlca. -I-
The Atlanta Georgian Bnd News, Atlanta. G»
worth
Gentlemen: About two weeks ago 1 inaugurated a sale of Gena Lenses. These lenses pre
regularly $6,' but, during the sale. I sold them at $1.
In order"to give this sale publicity, I advertised in newspapers and other mediums, using
the same amount of space in each instance.
After questioning each purchaser during this sale I found that about seven out of every
ten persons were brought to my store thru reading my ad in The Atlanta Georgian.
Within a few days I will put on another sale of optieal goods and intend using your
paper" exclusively. Kindly have one of your advertising men call and see me.-
I consider The Georgian the greatest advertising medium in the-city.
Yours very truly.
THE GLOBE OPTICAL COMPANY,
Dr. diaries L. Lewkowitz, Proprietor and Manager.
Atlanta. Ua., April 17, 1901L
Conetantinopls, April 20.—Abdul Ha
mid has abdicated the. tferone and Is In
Right, according to reports In circula
tion today. TRe troops from Macedo
nia havp arrived and the city le sur
rounded. Trains h^ve been seized and
the railway lines to Europe are In the
hands of the Young Turk forces.
At a secret meeting of the Young
Turks It was determined to hang .the
sultan In front of his own palace.
There Is no massacre of Christians
here. The Russian Black sea fleet Is at
the entrance to the Bosporus, a British
fleet is stationed at the entrance to the
Dardanelles and the Bulgarian army le
massed on the frontier, awaiting orders
to march upon Constantinople.
One of the rumors which could net
be confirmed was that the sultan had
lied on a warship. It was also Report
ed that he had taken refuge at the
British embassy. Another rumor was
that he had sought safety at the Rus
sian embassy, having abdicated In fa
vor of his nephew, Rechad Kffendl. At
botli embasalre all knowledge of the
sultan's movements was denied.
The abdication of Abdul Hamid (•
thought not ta be Improbable, and It- Je
believed that within a few days the
constitutionalists may accept as his
tucceseor Prince Yusauf Issedln, the
eldest son of the sultan.
The palace today wee under strong
guard and even high officials were not
permitted to enter.
The headquarters of the constitu
tionalist army are at Dedeagach and
General Huanl Pasha's forces, which
now number between 20,0t)0 end 20,004,
occupy a range of hills about twenty
miles from the capital.' Every hour
reinforcements are adding to their
numbers.
Private dispatches state that fully
4.000 persons have been slain In Adana.
The lire Is still raging. The situation
early today presented a much calmer
aspect. Quiet prevails ut Adana and
at Meralna, 200 sailors landing from
the British warships In the port.
Another report Is that Grand Vlsler
Ten-Ilk Pasha has resigned and Is now
conferring with the sultan upon the
advisability of surrendering the city
Into- the hands of the beleaguering
army. Representatives of the Young
Turks are said to be at the palace
swatting the result of the conference.
Caldwells and Vol
bergs, of West End,
Suddenly III.
Six persons, representing two West
End families, were poisoned Monday
night, after drinking aweet milk, and
two of them are reported Tuesday
morning* to be In a serious condition.
The victims of the supposed poisoned
milk are Mr. and Mrs. Kennon R. Cald
well, of 42 Beecher-st.; Mr. and Mrs.
F. L Volberg, Jr., of 7 Wllburn-st., and
their two little girls. Edna, aged
years, and Elisabeth, 3 years old. Mr.
Caldwell la a city, sanitary Inspector,
while Mr. Volberg l**qpnnectexl with the
Arm of Maler A Volberg. upholsterers.
Samples of the milk, which Is said to
have been purchased from a dairy In
West End. were turned over to the city
chemist Tuesday morning and will bd
thoroughly analysed for the purpose of
ascertaining whether It le poisoned.
The matter was also reported to Police
Sergeant Luck. In order that ait Investi
gation might be rpade by the police.
Mr. and Mrs. Caldwell are reported to
be the most seriously III. It, Is under
stood that their condition Is regarded
as serious, but It Is believed both will
recover. Dr. T. D. Longlno, who was
summoned to. the Caldwell home, re
mained with Mr. and Mrs. Caldwell
practically all of the night and was at
the home again early Tuesday morning,
rendering every attention possible.
Both of these patients were suddenly
taken violently III, after drinking the
milk, and suffered Intense pains.
These Children Escape.
Mr. Caldwell purchased a 'quart of
milk from the dairy as he was on his
way home Monday night, and, on ar
rival there, both he and his wife drank
freely of the milk. The children were
In bed asleep, and It was this that
saved them .troni being poisoned, as
they did not drink of the milk. It was
but a few minutes later that both Mr.
nnd Mrs. Caldwell became desperately
At the Volberg home ft wax the chil
dren who suffered most fronKthe effects
of the milk drinking. The two little
girls drank milk at supper, while Mr.
and Mrs. Volberg used only a small
quantity In their coffee. Shortly after
supper the children were suddenly at
tacked, and their parents also became
III. The attack on the latter, however,
wee only slight.
Came Near to Death.
The children grew rapidly worse arid
It looked for a time as tho both would
die before anything could be done for
them. Dr. E. B. Thomas, who resides
In Park-ave„ West End, was hurriedly
summoned and did everything In his
power to relieve the suffering of the
children. After herd work, they were
brought out of danger and Tuesday
morning were reported as being great
ly Improved. They are very weak and
arck. however, and are still under cate
of the qoctor.
It Is the opinion of the physicians
that the milk must have become poi
soned by being hauled into the city in
tin cane before It had become cooled.
The exact trouble with the milk will be
definitely determined by the analysis
by the city chemist.
At the board of health Tuesday
morning. It was stated that A. Y. Croal.
who tuns the Gorton dairy, hus the
reputation of tunning one of the best
and cleanest dairies'In the state.
We have the utmoat confidence In
Baltimore Mart, a New
Comer,Found in Aus
tell Building Office.
L.
By attaching a rubber tube to a gas
Jet and then tying the tube around hi*
neck in such a way that the gas flowed
into his nostrils, Walter^R. Hush, who
came to Atlanta from Baltimore about
two weeks ago. tried to commit suicide
early Tuesday morning in the office of
Brown, Fain & Co., 814 Austell building.
Mr. Bush would have succeeded In a
few minutes more, but the odor of gas
flowing over the transom was detected
by Z. P. Dean In the office of the build
ing. which is No. 820. onlv a few feet
aw'&y. Mr. D«an soon found from
where the gas emanated aud effected
entrance thru the locked door.
Mr. Bush was found lying on a cot.
unconscious. The gas was turned off
hurriedly, the ambulance was sum
moned and the would-be suicide wa«
taken to the Grady Hospital. It was
realised at the hospital that his lif*-
was in Imminent peril.
Mr. Bush waa found by Mr. Dean
shortly after 7 o'clock. At 8 o'clock It
was announced at the hospital that he
would probably recover. *
Had Been Despondent.
The cause of the attempt at suicide t*
not known. He had been somewhat
despondent for a week or more because
of slight physical ailments, but he was
a robust man of 38 years and he com
plained but little of his illness.
He had no financial troubles ns far
as is known and his domestic relations,
states D. H. Fain. Ills business partner,
were perfectly pleasant. His wife and
daughter, about 18. now in Baltimore,
were to have come to Atlanta soon. Mr.
Fain soys Mrs. Bush did not favor her
husband coming to Atlanta.
Letter to Hie Wife.
, In a pocket, when found, was a
letter Just received from his wife In
lultimoir. Which. It seem*, had not
been opened. On the desk in the rffllce
iv;h ;i h.'hI.mJ l**tt<t written hv Mr. Bn-h
to his wife, which had not been mailed.
It is presumed that this sealed letter
tells the reasons for his attempt at
suicide.
“I have been knowing Mr. Bush since
January.” said' D. H. Fain, of Hr.>\\;i.
Fain & Co., Tuesday morning, "and he
always struck me ns a fine, manly man.
He Is Intensely fond of his family. He
worked hard and was a picture of
health until about two weeks ago, when
his kidneys «w«nt wrong. This, how-
ever, was hot serious.
Discussed Monnish Case.
He came to Atlanta about two week*
ago as th® representative of Jacob
Shafer Company, Baltimore, on busi
ness, and he decided to go Is buslne**
here with me. He had been with us
about a week. The tube used in at
tempting suicide does not belong in this
office. He must have bought it for the
purpose.”
Monday afternoon, with a party of
friends. Bush was discussing suicide
from a psychological standpoint, the
suicide of Mrs. Monnish bringing up
the subject
MRS. PAPS POODLE
SAVES HER LIFE
Awakened by her little poodle dog
Jumping into her bed and clawing at.
her, Mrs. James Paf escaped being
burned to death Tuesday morning at 2
o’clock at her residence at Lindsey and
Pelham-sts., about two miles from the
city, near the River car line.
Mrs. Paf was sleeping alone In her
rooms, which adjoin the store conduct
ed by herself and husband. Mr. Paf
was away at Marietta for the night.
When Mrs. Paf was aroused by her
dog, the flames had already destroyed
a greater part of the building, and she
barely escaped with her life. None
of^her household goods or stock or
merchandise was saved.
The fire communicated to the cot
tage adjoining, occupied by W. W.
Weaver and his family. This building
was also destroyed, but the greater
part of Us contents were saved. Both
buildings were tbe property of Emory
Besser. The loss was about J3.000 on
the buildings and 4s covered by insur
ance. The origin of the Are is un
known.
Mr. Croal.” stated Dr. J. J*. Kennedy
lTealth officer. "He has always sob
fresh, pure milk and kept his dairy per
fectly clean. He buys from the best o:
the dairies around the city. Just whai
Is the cause of the Illnesses we don*<
know, bi^t It Is probable that some sort
of foreign matter got Into the milk In «
way that could not have been detected
or prevented.”
Mr. Croal cleaned out his dairy c
stock on hand and Is aiding the
sanitary men In every'way to ascei
the trouble.
Three dallies big hath Mias Atlanta,
Of which she's awfully proud;
But Tho Georgtan. sana banter.
Hath a tine way to draw s crowd;
She coin* the shekels In a canter
Without appearing over loud;
Nothing succeeds quite tnatanter
As The Georgian with the crowd
—Xewnan Herald and Advertiser.