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SPOT COTTON.
Atlanta, dull; 14%. Liverpool
id. New York, qplet; 14.95.
nah, quiet and steady; 14%. A
quiet; 14 15-16. Galveston, flr
Norfolk, steady: 14%. M
steady, 15%. Mobile, quiet; 14 :
tie Rock, firm; 14 13*16.
'Nothin* Succeeds Like—THE GEORGIAN’
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On Train,. FIVE CENTS
In Atlanta, TWO CENTS
WIFE JUMPS FROM WINDOW
TO ESCAPE ANGRY HUSBAND
the weather.
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Forecast: Fair Wednesday night
an d Thursday. Temperatures Wed
nesday (taken at A. K. Hawkcs
romnany's store): 8 a. m., 62; 10
t ro!. 65; 12 noon, 65; 2 p. m.. 65.
The Atlanta Georgian
"Nothing Succeeds Like—THE GEORGIAN”
AND NEWS
VOL. IS- NO. 155.
NEW YORK CITY SHAKEN
BY EXPLOSION OF DYNAMITE
death in instant
COMES TO SCORE;
51 ARE INJURED
Wall-st. and Singer Building
Thrown Into Panic by Mys
terious Blast.
LOADED CAR AND BOAT
SUDDENLY BLOW UP
Ellis Island Is Torn and Tat
tered-Windows Crash From
Buildings—Men’s Heads
Torn From Their Bodies.
New York, Feb. 1.—A terrific explo-
■Ion, which is reported to have dealt
death to a score of persona and In
juries to more than 600 others and
which shook up the southern end of
New York city and Us environs as tho
an earthquake were rocking the com
munity, occurred at noon today when
a carload of dynamite, which was be
ing unloaded from a freight car to a
lighter at Pier No. 7, Jersey City, Igw
nlted.
It was the most mysterious disaster
and the worst that has visited the vi
cinity of Greater New York In a dec-
ade. A Catholic priest, who was an
eyewitness to’ the calamity, saw a
workman’s head blown from his shoul
ders and his body blown to atoms.
Wreckage was blown hundreds of
fret nnd the detonation was heard for
miles. Windows In the financial dis
trict of New York were shattered and
hnge buildings as far away as Brook
lyn trembled upon their foundations.
Appeals were sent to all towns within
a radius of twenty miles to rush medi
cal aid. Fire caused a great pall of
smoke to hover over the city, obscuring
the sun nnd giving rise to reports that
the entire town was on Are.
.Tho car. owned by the Central rail
road of Now Jersey, and the lighter
were blasted Into fragments. Pieces of
human flesh were picked up In the
bay 100 yards from tho scene of the
disaster. Scores of freight cars were
shattered and the trainmen Injured by,
flying wreckage.
Twenty Men Missing.
An hour after the explosion twenty
men were reported missing.
All of tho superstructure of several
schooners nnd steam craft which were
anchored near the lighter Catherine W.
the barge upon which tho dynamite
was being loaded, was blown away.
Half a dozen railroad cars near there
were wrecked.
The explosion cracked tho front of
the flve-story building of the National
Casket Company nt 40 Myrtle-ave.,
Brooklyn, about eight miles from the
scene of the explosion, and broke a half
dozen large windows. After nn ex-|
smlnatlon of the building by Inspect
ors from the bureau of buildings, men
were put to work shoring tho front of
the building. The men were then al-
[ lowed to return to work. Tho explo-
«lo caused a tie-up of all trains on the
central railroad of New Jersey, but two
hours after It had taken place,General
Passenger Agent Hope, of Jersey City,
directed that schedules be restored.
One of the early rumors at police
"'“^'loarters In Manhattan was that
WOO persons had been killed and in
lured.
City Given Shake-up.
The entire downtown section of New
i 01 * south of Brooklyn bridge was
•naken as tho by an earthquake. So
jreat v.ns the contusion that It was
nearly an hour before the exact location
*»s known. It had been reported at
Ithat the explosion had taken place
|h Barclay.st., where a new building Isl
2™* erected, and a second report stat-|
""hat the Standard Oil ptnnt at Com-
tolnupaw, X. J„ had been blown up. The
'ar which contained the explosive was
jnown to atoms and the greater part of
|he pier was shattered. Wreckage was
"'own for hundreds of feet and there
a score of narrow escapes op the
kart of persons a great distance away.
r Wall Strest Goes Wild.
OtCvL ron fu»lon prevailed In Jersey
mL. Th °™ were half a dosen varying
J”"" concerning the cause and loca-
n of tho e xp i 0 ,| 0n However, this
wcitemont could not be compared with
“‘frenzied Interest of Wall Street.
rne explosion took place when brok-
Iclerks were going to lunch and
li,'In the financial district were
5™me,|. The ground suddenly trem-
E. “ tho from an earthquake and
began to fall from the windows of
«r"at skyscraper, that make Wall
I . Hroad-sts. mere canyons.
'landing at Wall and Broad-
P i, ,ron t of the banking house of J.
• Morgan 4 Co. suddenly shouted:
“ bomb. Somebody has
P 0 *" a bomb.”
Morgan’s Windows Wrecksd.
ins threw the already excited pop-
a panic and secres rushed
ra the entrances of the Morgan of.
H n .u I*"* ln half a doxen wln-
BT,2?* he upper floors had crashed to
Ln^. h "* e out Immediately and the
Uf.._*ere compelled to battle with
RS»u? < *.J > * ror8 re 'cuers could begin
Pr^gth. debris.
bs received from the nf-
u, ” Commissioner or Immigration
* et Bails Island that the ex-
1 n . "ocurred on a schooner loaded
.v’T^'inUe which was bound up
L ",. h rtver. It was stated that the
r erploilcd when the schooner
Conti ru,—* |j it p,„,.
HE’S OWNER OF PAPER
THAT ATTACKED KING
ACCUSER OF KING
WILL SERVE YEAR
Edward F. Mylius Is Found
Guilty of Libeling Brit- '
ish Ruler;
GEORGE V CHARGED WITH
CLANDESTINE MARRIAGE
EOWARD HOLTEN JAMES.
Ho Is the publisher of The Liberator,
the Paris paper which lately revived
the story of the morganatic marriage
of King George to a daughter of a
British admiral. As a result of the
publication of this story, Edward E.
Mylius, the London representative of
the paper, has been found guilty of
libel. James Is - an American and a
relative of Profecsor James, of Harvard
university. When the story appeared,
King George and the government lead
ers determined to put a stop tq It for
all time, and as James could not be ar
rested, as he was living ln a foreign
country, Mylius, thk London dlstribut
Ing agent .of the paper, was seised ant
thrown Into Jail, his bail being fixed at
6160,000.
Governor Delays Signing Local
Option Bill Before Jan
uary Expires.
Indianapolis, Ind., Feb. 1.—The Dem
ocratic local option bill had not been
signed by Governor Mnrshall early to
day because It was being re-engrossed
to correct errors. It la said that behind
this delay Is a plot of the wets. In
many counties the county option law
expired at the month’s end and had the
new law been In effect petitions for an
option election could have been filed,
hut now they must go over for a month.
In the meantime under the now law,
saloon licenses may be obtained from
the county eommlssloners. These will
pot be affected by subsequent elections
this year.
Panic From Hospital Firs.
Altoona, Pa., Feb. 1.—Fire broke out
In the Mercy hospital, here today, lm-
periiing the lives of scores of persons
and throwing the patients Into a panic.
The sick persons were carried to the
street by firemen and there were a
number of narrow escapes from deatn.
Accusation Against Monarch
Was Made in The Liberator.
Editor Is Convicted on
Three Charges.
Aimed at Those Receiving
Bribery Overtures Who Do
Not File Charges.
ENACTMENT OF SUCH LAW
IS PROPOSED IN NEW YORK
Committee That Investigated
Corrupt Practices in Fight on
Anti-Racing Bills Makes
Recommendations.
London, Fab. 1.—A prison sentence of
one year was today Imposed upon Ed-
wnrd F. Mylius after he was found
guilty of criminally libelling King
JJeorge. Mylius had published ln The
Liberator an assertion that tbe mon
arch, while Prince of Wales, had nor
gaoatlcolly married a daughter of Ad
miral Seymour and that several chil
dren had resulted from the union. He
was tried on three counts and was con
victed on all of them.
With the demand that King George
bo brought Into court, Mylius was ar
raigned before the lord chief Justice ln
the king’s bench division of the high
court today and the most sensational
litigation of Its Wind In a century was
begun.
Thera was an Immense crowd pres
ent and hundreds about the outside of
the court clamored for admission. Pub
lic curiosity waa at fever heat because
of the likelihood of sensational evidence
which Mylius has threatened to intro
duce to establish his claim that King
George, while Prince of Wales, was
clandestinely married to the daughter
of an admiral at Gibraltar and that
several children were born to this mor
ganatic union. ’
The attack upon the morality of the
king was printed In a paper called The
Liberator, published In Paris, and the
Issue containing the story come from
the press late last year. Many women
were In the crowd which surged about
the court, attempting to break by the
guards and enter. It required the ef
forts of fully a score of policemen to
keep back the people who tried to light
their way Into the room after It was al
ready filled. Mylius conducted his do
fense In person. Immediately after the
opening of court he petitioned the tri
bunal to compel the attendance of King
George. He gave three reasons why
the king should be present, summing
up his contentions In the following
words:
”1 demand the presence of King
George V, because the accused has the
right to bo faced by his accuser In
court.
“Rerond, because In libel actions the
accused must bo In court.
•’Third, because without the accuser
In court there Is no proof that the
prosecutor Is alive.’’
Mylius also demanded the return of
[irivate papers which, he declared, had
icon seized.
Associate Justice of Cuttorti, Court.
Washington, Fob. 1.—Tho president to
day nominated George E. Martin, of Ohio.
to be an associate justice of the court of
customs and appeals anil Charlea F. Bo
rah to he naval officer of customs at New
Albany, N. Y., Feb. 1.—Enactment of
a law Imposing prison penalty and
heavy lino for legislators who refrain
ffom filing charges Immediately after
bribery overtures are made to thorn,
was a recommendation to the legisla
ture today by the Joint tfommittee of
tbe senate and assembly of tho state
of New York, appointed to Investigate
corrupt practices ln connection with
legislation and the affairs of Insurance
companies other than life. Tho com
mittee’s report upholds all that has
been said ln regard to the use of a
6600.000 bribery fund In nn effort to
defeat the antt-raclng bills of former
Governor Charles E. Hughes.
Frank Gardiner’s Lobbying.
Tho evidence ln the report shows
that In 1808, one Frank J. Gardiner was
a lobbyist at Albany and that he waa
retained to attempt tho defeat of tho
anti-race track gambling bills. It fur
ther appeared that Gardiner and oth-
er persons, directly or thru others, ap
proached a number of legislators with
offers of large sums of money In con
sideration of tltelr voting against the
passage of these bills. The report re
lates the unsuccessful efforts of com
mlttee to bring Gardiner, who formerly
was a senator from Brooklyn, within
Its Jurisdiction and his Indictment in
New York county. Later Gardiner
appeared before the committee os a
witness, but refused to testify on the
ground that his evidence might tend
to Incriminate him, ho having pre
viously been admitted to ball under an
Indictment.
\ Committee’s Recommendation.
Tho committee’s recommendation of
a bill aimed at attempts at legislative
bribing Is based largely upon these
facta It recommends that If a mem
ber of tbe legislature maintains si
lence following bribery overtures a
penalty or not more than ten years Im
prisonment and a fine of not more than
66.000 be Imposed, If It becomes known
that he has kept silent, following such
advances.
Aside from this, enactment of ten
other laws, all relating to the subject
of Are Insurance. Is recommended.
One of these urges the appointment of
a state fire marshal at a salary of 64,000
per annum and a corps of assistants to
Investigate all Ores. Reforms, oil of
them exceedingly technical In thelg
nature. In the fire Insurance laws are
urged In a series of other bllla The
not result of their accomplishments
should the recommendations be enact
ed Into laws would be one of the most
sweeping reforms ever effected In
single line of business.
Insurance Reforms.
The authority of the state superin
tendent . of Insurance would he vastly
Increased and he would be given al
most supreme power In fixing rates.
The power of Insurance broken would
be taken from the present authorities,
the New York fire Ineurance exchange
and similar organisations throughout
tho state, and vested In the state su
perintendent of Insurance. A proposed
anti-rebate bill would prohibit the
sharing of premiums and make It
misdemeanor to give or accept rebates.
Another measure would compel all fire
companies to report to the state su
perintendent of Insurance the amount
of Insurance Issued by them In con
gested centers of all the cities In the
Continued on Last Page.
Another Month of Progress in the History q( Want Ads
Each day for more than a year the actual Want Ad figures of the Atlanta papers
have been carefully compiled and printed in The Georgian.
These statements always show The Georgian in the lead, even tho the other papers
publish seven issues each week, while The Georgian publishes only six. The following are
the detail figures of January, 1911 and 1910:
• The Georgian’s records for January, 1911-, six days to the week, show a gain of
7,279 Want Ads over the same period of 1910. This increase is nearly seven times the
increase of our nearest competitor.
.
Jan., 1911—The Georgian printed (6 days to the week) 16,840 Want Ads
The Journal printed (6 days to the week) 8,350 Want Ads
The Constitution printed (6 days tp the week).5,460 Want Ads
The Journal printed (7 days to the week) 12,212 Want Ads
' The Constitution printed (7 days to the week)... 8,036 Want Ads
Jan., 1910—The Georgian printed (6 days to the week) 9,561 Want Ads
The Journal printed (6 days to the week)..: 7,304 Want Ads
The Constitution printed (6 days to the week)... 4,847 Want Ads
The Journal printed (7 days to the week) 10,716 Want Ads
The Constitution printed (7 days to the week)... 7,384 Want Ads
Increase of 1911 over same period of 1910 (6 days to the week):
Georgian 7,279 Want Ads
Journal 1,046 Want Ads
Constitution 613 Want Ads
JACK KINGSTON AND MRS. ODESSA KINGSTON
era is cm
COUNTRY BY
EOF
Disappearance From Train,
Told Only by The Georgian,
Followed by His Arrest.
EVIDENTLY SUFFERING
FROM SUDDEN DEMENTIA
Jack Kingston, Pistol in Hand, Frightens a Whole Boarding
House—Recorder Broyles Advises Him
. to Sue For Divorce.
While her Irate husband. Jack Kings
ton, who Tuesday afternoon unexpect
edly returned from Boston, struggled,
revolver ln hand, to free himself from
several hysterical women boarders,Ttfrs,
Odessa Kingston, his pretty young wife,
screaming and begging her husband not
to shoot her, leaped headlong Tuesday
night from a second-story window at
118 Gomett-st.
Finally breaking loose from his wom
en captors, Kingston, unaware that his
wife had made a leap for life and still
clenching this revolver In his hand, be
gan to search thru the house. In the
confusion, W. L. Pritchett, a merchant
boarding In the hou'w and the cause of
the trouble, made his escape and tele
phoned the police .station for help. Po
licemen Posey and Dodd were then qn
the scene In a Jiffy and took Kingston
Into custody.
Despite her reckless leap, Mrs. Kings
ton was not seriously hurt, escaping
with a considerable shock and some
alight bruises.
Kingston's wrath grew out of alleged
attentions paid Mrs. Kingston by
Pritchett.
Husband Plays -Dstactive.
The dramatic scene of Tuesday night
followed a bit of detective work by
Kingston, in which, he says, ho ’’saw
things for himself.” Kingston, who Is
an expert cotton mill machinery erector,
had been In Boston for several weeks
nnd Tuesday afternoon returned to At-
lanta unheralded.
Having already gained Information
Continusd on Last Pag*.
BRIDEGROOM AND LEGATEE
BELIEVED TO BE SLAIN
William Pounds, of Atlanta, Just Married, Disappears—Re
mains of Stranger Found in River—Fortune Await
ed Him—Deep Mystery in the Case.
While Atlanta police and detectives
and detectives ln other places vainly
searched tor a young Atlanta mail,
William F. Pounds, who married a
wealthy woman In Tampa, Fla., on .Jon
uary 4. and for whom a fortune Is mys
tcrlously waiting In Philadelphia, the
remains of a young man, believed to be
the missing Atlantan, were Tuesday
taken from a river near Belleville, Fla.
John F. Pounds, of 18 Capitol place,
father of the young maa left Atlanta
Tuesday night afor Belleville for tho
purpose of Identifying the stranger. The
description given of the dead man led
Mr. Pounds to believe the body to be
that qf his missing son.
According to Information received
here from Inspector F„ L. DePew, of
tho Tampa police, who has been work
ing on the Florida end of the mystery,
young Pounds Is believed to have been
murdered.
The finding of the dead stranger In
the river has led to tho theory that
possibly tho young Atlantan was the
victim of some vendetta—that his mar-
rlngo to the woman of wealth may have
In some way led to a tragic end.
Up to Wednesday afternoon the police
hod received no definite word as to
whether the body haul been Identified.
Would Leave Him Fortune.
The mystery surrounding young
Pounds and his strange disappearance
Is rendered even darker by the re
ceipt of a telegram by his father short
ly before Christmas from a wealthy
woman In Philadelphia. In this mes
sage, the woman said she was anxious
to find the whereabouts of youni
Pounds, as she desired to make her will
and wished to leave hlm a considerable
fortune.
His father, however, waa unaware
Continusd on Last Page.
STREET CAR HEARING
TAKES PLACE THURSDAY
THE TIME AND THE PLACE t
FOR STREET CAR HEARING +
—— +
The hearing will be held at 10 +
•• o'clock Thursday morning In the +
+ appropriations committee room. +
+ which Is located In the southeast +
+ corner of the capital on tho third +
floor. •>
+
Thursday the Georgia Railway nnd
Electric Company must go before the
railroad commission and tell that body
why It does not give Its patrons better
street car service In Atlanta.
The commission, without a petition
before It, called the hearing of Its own
Initiative, and ordered the street car
company to show cause why better
service should not be given, after ex
amining the flies of The Georgian which
gave figures of the number of posaen
gers aboard the rush hour cars. The
commission not only examined The
Georgian's figures and Investigated the
many kicks which hod been made to
it. but appointed a committee of Its
own members to see for Itself.
With tho report of the commission’s
own committee, which, by the way. Is
a majority of the commission, finding
the cars crowded enough to Justify a
hearing, matters look very favorable for
the patrons of the service. However,
the commission wants to be Informed
to the facts as the patrons themselves
find the situation, and this opportunity
will be given Thursday. Many will be
Continued on Last Pegs.
NATIONALISM IN BUSINESS
CREATED BY ADVERTISING
New nationalism!
This was the Idea presented at the
meeting of the Ad Men at the Cafe
Durand Tuesday night—the most rep
resentative gathering of business and
advertising men held Blnce the club
began. It was submitted with empha
sis by 8. Wilbur Corman, of the ad
vertising Arm of N. W. Ayer A Bon. of
Philadelphia, and It caught the spark
of enthusiasm of every one present.
With diie respects to tho Honorable
T. R.. It was not his new politics that
was discussed. It waa the new na
tionalism of commerce and Industry,
made real by the educative light of ad
vertising. Best of all. Mr. Connan Im
pressed the great benefits the move
ment should bring to tbe South, "when
you can buy Nunnally*s candles as
readily on Broadway as you catz Hur
ler’s on Whitehall.”
'There are many, many Southern
products that are Just as good as any
manufactured In any part of the world.
You have as much right to advertise
and sell your goods In the North and
West as sny producer of goods there
has to •»!( hta goods In the South,” said
the speaker.
"And yet, many of those manufactur
ers have advertised their underwear on
to the backs of half of the men of At
lanta, when there Is Just as good un
derwear made In Atlanta.
”We want to get Into the tune of the
times and In the spirit of new national
ism. wipe out sectional lines and make
Continued on Last Page.
Has $22,000 in Bonds in His
Pocket—Left Sanitarium,
Eluded Officer and Made
Escape on Train.
Charlotte, N. C„ Feb. 1.—Telamon
Smith Cuyler. of Atlanta, whose strange
disappearance from-' a railway train
yesterday near Bostic, N. C„ excited
that entire country, Is'still missing, ac
cording to reports received this morn
ing.
Judgo E. C.' Kontz, of Atlanta, and
Shoriff Wilkins have gone toward John
son City, Tenn., and developments In
the mysterious case may take place
from that end of the line.
It appeared that Mr. Cuyler, whoso
mental balance Is believed to be Im
paired, started south and later turned
north, going toward the Tennessee
town, tho Information thla morning waa
Indefinite.
Judge Konts and Sheriff Wilkins are
expected to return to the starting point
of their travels tonight. Cuyler was
In a hospital at Rutherfordton when
Sheriff Wilkins and Attorney McMIl-
lln, of Shelby, reached the scene and
effected his releaso. They were near
Bostic, so far as can be learned, when
Cuyler disappeared from the train, and
as the Carolina, Cllnchfleld and Ohio
connects with tho Seaboard at that
town. It la believed that Cuyler Is en
deavoring to catch a train on the lit
ter road.
The Mystery Cleared.
When last heard from Wednesday
morning Telamon Cuyler, the Atlanta
man who disappeared from a Southern
train Sunday morning, was leading a
chase thru the mountains of North
Carolina and going toward Tennessee,
carrying with him 828,000 In Rock Is
land bonds which he had brought from
New York and fleeing under some de
lusion that he was being pursued by
legal authorities.
Mr. Cuyler, always an eccentric
character. Is believed to be suffering
from temporary dementia. Induced thru
reported buslnesa reverses or by some
other cause. Judge E. C. Konts, of
Atlanta, who had been his legal adviser.
Is on the trail of his client thru tho
fastnesses of North Carolina, and a
dozen depatles and other county offi-
clals are aiding In the chose ln order
that Mr. Cuyler may be restored to h: i
right mind and brought bock to his
home.
Told Only in The Georgian.
The strange disappearance of Tela
mon Cuyler from a southbound South
ern train on ’his way from New York
to Atlanta was told exclusively by The
Georgian Tuesday afternoon, following
Southern railway officials’ alarm at the
arrival of Cuyler’s baggage without Ite
owner and passengers’ stories of the
queer actions of an unknown traveler
who had vanished at soma small sta
tion near Kings Mountain. The disap
pearance was a mystery, until dis
patches later In the day told of further
strange actions of Mr. Cuyler, his ar
rest as a suspicious character and sub
sequent escape.
Arrested at the Station.
Tueeday afternoon about 6 o’clock
the further story of Sir. Cuyler was
ascertained for the first time thru a
telegram sent to railroad officials from
the telegraph operator at Kings Stoun-
taln, N. C„ saying a man answering
the description of Mr. Cuyler had
dropped off the train at Kings Moun
tain Sunday night and 1 after sending an
Incoherent telegram had made off thru
the woods.
This telegram, sent- from Kings
Mountnln. was addressed to James IV.
Continued on Last Page.
WANT ADS
ONE CENT A WORD
On yesterday the Atlan
ta papers carried Want
Ads as follows:
Georgian .;... 632
Journal 357
Constitution . ; ... 204
To help those who are out of a posi
tion er who desire a better one. The
Georgian prlnU want ads under the
classification, “SltuattCRs
free.
WANT ADS PUBLISHED BY ALL
THE ATLANTA NEWSPAPERS
FOR THE WEEK ENDING JAN
UARY 28, 1911. A PERIOD OF SIX
WORKING DAYS. THE GEORGIAN
^ -
_ . 2,
1,284 WANT AOS.
THE GEORGIAN PRINTS NO
SUNDAY PAPER.
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