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“Nothing Succeeds Like—THE GEORGIAN” AND NEWS “Nothing Succeeds Like—THE GEORGIAN”
VOL. IX. NO. 271,
HOME(4th) edition
ATLANTA, OA., FRIDAY, JUNE 16, 1911.
HOM E (4TH) EDITION
On Trains, FIVE CENT8.
Trust Official Tells Hardwick
Committee How Stock
Is Watered.
THE WITNESS GOT IN GOOD
Exchanged Beet Sugar Stock
For Trust Certificates
at 3 to 1.
Ready For the Crown
Washington, Juno 16.—Further light
nn the watered stock of, the American
Sugar Refining Company was furnished
he Hardwick committee today when
denrv T. Oxnard, president of the
tmerlran Beet Sugar Company, took
he stand.
Mr. Oxnard told how he and his three
Brothers cleaned up 1500,009 In a trans
action with the Havemeyer Company In
1S |n 1876, ho said, Jie and his brothers.
Robert, Benjamin and James, estab
lished a sugar refinery In Brooklyn,
capitalised at $100,006.
•'The plant was worth about 1200,000.
In 1887 we went Into the Havemeyer
combine and received $760,000 In trust
certiorates." he said.
Got Three For One.
"So vou got about three for one, part
of It In watered stock?" asked Chair
man Hardwick.
•That Is right.” said Mr. Oxnard. "I
think we subsequently sold the stock at
about $70 per share."
Mr Oxnard volunteered the Informa
tion that when the American Sugar Re
fining Company was formed in 1891 that
the Oxnard stock bad been exchanged
for that of tho American concern, dollar
for dollar. _
Ware Niealy Treated.
"I think wo were a little better treat
ed than some of those who went Into
the Havemeyer combine,” said Oxnard.
•I guess this was because Havemeyer
wanted Oxnard brothers In the trust,
and we were glad to go In because the
proposition was inviting, and unless the
beet sugar Industry developed It waa
not certain that we could hold up.”
"Kxaetly how much of the stock was
watered?" asked Chairman Hardwick.
”1 can't say.” waa the reply.
"Bui you got three for one,” said
Hardwick, "and when the trust waa re
organised in 1891 your certUlcatea were
exchanged dollar for dollar and the
same proportion of watered stock Is
now In the American company?”
"I suppose so,” replied Oxnard.
Detail* of Contract.
Mr. Oxnard related tho details of the
eonlract entered Into between the
American Sugar Refining Company and
the American Beet Sugar Company In
190$. Ho admitted that this contract,
which was put Into the committee rec
ord, turned over to the American com
pany virtual control of tho beet sugar
company. Tho agreement was that
there would b* no cut in prices', and
that neither company would Invade the
territory of the other. Explaining the
reasons for the agreetnent. Mr. Oxnard
said that Havemeyer had gone Into the
Missouri river territory and had cut the
prices of sugar.
"Competition waa being carried on,”
•aid ho, "to a ruinous degree and this
contract jvss made to prevent such
competition.”
Mr. Oxnard said that hie lawyer* had
Informed the American Beet Sugar
Company that tho contract waa not In
violation of the Sherman anti-trust law.
THE PRINCIPAL SPEAKER
AT THE COMMENCEMENT
Declare That No Concessions
Will Be Made to Strik
ing Seamen*
THE STRIKE IS SPREADING
KING GEORGE OF ENGLAND.
Ha will be crowned George V on June 22.
BLIND CORONER ADDS LAW
TO HIS MANY ATTAINMENTS
CONDUCTORS TO HONOR
MEMORY OF THE DEAD
The Order of Railway Conductors
nnd the ladies' auxiliary will hold me
morial services Sunday afternoon at
.1:30 o’clock at their hall, 44 1-2 East
Hi/nter-st. All brother conductors,
»h« lr families and friends, are respect
fully Invited to Join In paying: respects
to the memory of fhe departed.
WHITE MaFaTTEmTtS
TO ASSAULT WOMAN
Anniston, Ala., June 16.—A man by
the name of Williams made an attempt
to assault a married woman here thin
morning. When help waa summoned
he fled to the woods, without accom
plishing his purpose, and bloodhounds
nave been sent for to be placed on his
track. The woman and her sister-in-
law were walking in the woods In
search of blackberries when the man
made his attack.
ANT ADS
Published by all the Atlanta
papers for tne week ending
June 10, 1911, six days to
the week:
■ _ 2,855
Journal 2,129
Constitution 1,153
On yesterday the Atlan
ta papers carried Want Ads
as follows:
..568
... .364
Journal
Constitution
advertising.
iiti»« th 5** I* ho tn eut • pv
TH«r » belter onr,
uni:. prints want ada
vJ??r*hs classification "Situations
w *nted" free. Other classifications
ONE CENT A WORD
Paul Donehoo’s Career a Lesson to Shame Seeing Men Who
Say They. “Had Hard Luck”—He’s a Musician, Knows
Medicine and Holds Good Office.
When the degree of bachelor of law
Is conferred upon tho graduates of the
Atlanta Law school Monday night at
the Grand theater.. Coroner Paul Don-
ehoo will add unothcr to hla long Hat of
attainments.
Despite the fact that for year* he has
suffered from the moat terrible of af
flictions—blindness—Coroner Donehoo
has served Fulton county for two term*
us efficiently as any man who-ever held
the office.
He learned that In pursuit of the du
ties the use of the typewriter, for the
tabulation of evidence, would aid him.
He learned to use the typewriter.
flSonil of music slnpe boyhood, he be
came at ah early age an expert piano
plB.vv, and one of the most familiar
sigh’. In Atlanta several years ago was
Puul Donehuo at the piano In a motion
picture theater. He teaches the piano
successfully and recently graduated a
class.
While coroner he has mads a partial
study of medlclnfe and while not a grad
uate physician, th.ere are few doctor* In
Atlanta that can pift anything over on
him In tho rudiment, of the science
required In his position as coroner.
Hla graduation from the Atlanta
Law school, the receiving of a degree
In law I* undoubtedly the biggest thing
he has ever done, a thing that few
blind men have'ever done. It means
yeara. of toll and study even for a stu
dent equipped with every requirement.
For Paul Donehoo It la a superb tri
umph.
Mr. Donehoo flnde hla way about the
crowded afreets easily, and seldom asks
even the aid of a hand at a crossing.
White Star Liner Takes on a
Crew at Increased
Rate of Pay.
Liverpool, Jpne 16.—An official state
ment was Issued by the shipping lines
today declaring that no concessions Jo
tha striking seamen had been made by
any company belonging to the shipping
federation and that the men's demand
would be taught to the end.
A full crew was signed, however, by
the White star liner Georgia today at
the Increased rates M pay demanded by
the International Seamen’s union. The
crew of the Empress of Ireland, which
yesterday waa reported to have come
to terms with the company, today re
fused to re-sign unless given a flat In
crease of $4 a month. Instead of the
$1.50 offered.
The strike spread today to the dock
workers In the cities of Glasgow,
Southampton, Goole and the Albert
docks In thta city.
Ilavad to have occurred In Japan or Chi
na It waa also recorded at Florence.
Madrid and other continental points.
TSON TO MIX
IN SENATORIAL RACE
Sage of McDuffie Coming to
Open Headquarters
at New Kjjnball.
THINK GIRL WAS LURED
FROM HOME BY A WOMAN
Believing that Pauline Thompson,
aged sixteen, daughter of J. H. Thomp
son. a well known resident of Smyrna
Ga. was lured from her heme late Wed
nesday night by Essie Henton, a ne
gro woman, known In Smyrna anil re
puted to live In West End, tho Atlanta
detective department la making a strong
effort to locate the girl. '
The girl left home Wednesday night,
leaving behind her a abort note Inform
ing her mother that she had gone away
to get married. None of the members
of her family has seen her since.
Prior to the girl’* departure from
Smyrna Essie Henton came to the
Thompson house shortly before mid
night and asked to aee "her elck broth
er.” "Her elck brother” was not at
Thompson’s.
It Is believed by the local authorities
that the negro woman hBd planned to
spirit the girl away and that the "sick
brother” conversation was merely
ruse to signal the girl.
IS DAY OF DEATH
FOR ATM NEGROES
Explosion and Drowning Fol
lowed by Murder of Woman
in DeKalb-ave.
Culminating In the cold-blooded mur
der of Addle Watt#, a negro woman,
Who waa found early Friday morning
at the corner of DeKalb-ave. and Kmg
at., with her throat cut from ear to ear
and her skull crushed fxpm a blow with
a coupling pin, Thursday, proved a day
of desperate disaster for Atlanta's ne
gro population.
Thursday morning Sam Whitlock was
family Injured In a dynamite explo
sion at Bellwood-sve. crossing. Thurs
day afternoon Wash Kendricks waa
pitched headlong down an "levator
shaft from the eighth floor of the new
Third National Hank building and
crushed to a pulp. Two houra later
MENDENHALL FLATS
From statements made by Tom Wat
son at the' Kimball Thursday night,
from hla speech made at Senola Thurs
day, and from hie announcement In The
Jeffersonian, politicians gather that he
will be on hand during the eenatorlal
light before the legislature to muddy
the water against the Hoke Smith
forces.
He has announced that he Is coming
to Atlanta to take a hand In the fight
and while here will have headquarters
at- the New Kimball. From reports of
the speaking at Senola Thursday. Mr.
Watson will have quite a delegation
hand. When he asked how many would
come to Atlanta to help him fight, It Is
reported that 200 responded.
It-Is possible that Mr. Watson has
senatorial aspirations himself, altho ho
has stated that he Is not a candidate.
He was asked at one of his meetings If
he would accept the aenatorshtp If It
were tendered him, and he replied that
he would. It le hardly probable, how
ever that his name will come up before
the legislature.
There are only three announced «
dldates In the field, Senator Joseph M.
Terrell. 8. O. McLendon and Judge W.
A. Covington. Pleasant A. Stovall.
Thomas Hardwick and other# have
been mentioned as possible candidates,
but none has made announcement yet.
FALL TO HIS DEATH
Steel Worker Drops Thirty-one
Stories to the
Street.
WOMEN CRY AND SCREAM
Wall-st. Crowded With People
When Awful Accident
Happens.
New York, June 16.—A workman em
ployed on the Bankers Trust Company
building on the northwest comer of
Wall and Naasau-at*., fell II floors
from the top of tha steal frame of the
building to Wall-aL today.
It waa Wall-st.'* lunch hour and the
crowd packed the sidewalks, hundreds
of young women employees of the many
brokerage, law and other offices
being out. The fall of the man was
witnessed by hundreds who paused to
look upward at the feat completing
skyscraper. Aa the body shot down
ward. there was a shout of horror. Men
and women who had been laughing on
their way to lunch atood palsied with
fear. The body whirled aa If from the
very clouds and one witness declared
that the momentum was so great that
aa the workman shot to hla death hla
head was tom off.
A leg was thrown high In the air and
struck Robert J. Morris, who was walk
ing on Now-at, back of the exchange.
Another fragment struck a woman
almost half a block away.
The unfortunate man Is said to have
been a single man named Anderson,
about 35 years old.
BABOON CHEWS LEGS
Crook Finds “Sambo” in Ran
tankerous Mood and
Gets Bitten.
Kriegshaber Buys Peachtree
Apartment House From
Durant.
'For a consideration of $60,090, the
Mendenhall apartment house property
at 521 Peachtree-st. waa sold Friday
by Ed. M. Durant to Victor H. Krieg
shaber. The building Is a modern
three-story brick structure and con
tains sight apartments. The lot is 00
fedt front and extends 226 feet In
depth. It Is In the east side of Peach-
trre-st.. between Llnden-st. and North,
ave.
1
Will Arnold and his brother were
drowned In Germania lake. Thursday
night Addle Watts was murdered, and
negro, John Daniels, was held for
Complicity after a coroner's inquest.
Dr. Starnes’ Recital at 4 P. M,
Should Draw Thou
sands.
Thousands will again gather In the
big cool Auditorium for the organ re
cital by Dr. Percy J. Starnes Sunday
afternoon at 4 o’clock. It’s the great
opportunity continually being given At
lantans to hear the world’s greatest
music on a wonderful organ by an ar
tist performer, and tt’s free to all who
want to go.
From the time of the first music fes
tival, love and appreciation of good
music has grown among all classes of
people here, and the desire for It Is
continually responded .to by tho organ
recitals. The people are welcomed Sun.
day afternoons, and they go In thou-
Tho the day may be hot, the Audito
rium Is aa cool a place as can be found,
for It ta large and roomy and perfectly
ventilated.
Sunday afternoon Dr. Starnes will
play selections from Mendelssohn,
Thchaikowsky, Grieg, and Improvisa
tions.
GRIFFINMAN STRUCK
BY A CENTRAL TRAIN
Griffin, Ga., June 16.—T. s. Grant,
a farmer, was struck by a northbound
passenger train on the Central railroad
early this morning and received Inju
ries which may prove fatal. His horse
became unmanageable at the East End
PesvSd because he was being sent to
bed tort early, "Sambo," the big baboon
recently added to Klmballvllle’e me
nagerie, jumped upon J. . S. Crook,
poultry manager of the farm. Thursday
night and sharpened hla teeth on the
manager’s lags. Both leg* were lace
rated badly, necessitating a number of
stitches being taken. Mr. Crook wae
out Friday morning and able to walk
around, suffering only from tha sore
ness caused by the bite. Ills wounds
were dressed by Dr. I. N. Stowe.
"Sambo” waa regarded as a peaceable
lad, aa hla behavior had been above par
since hla arrival last week. Several
nights he had been taken from his cage
and walked around for exarclss, and
one night he waa carried to a neighbor's
house, and may It be said here, "Sam
bo” waa some shine when It came to
doing society. Thursday night ha waa
given hla usual exercise, but attended
no social festivities, and when Manager
Crook led him to hla cake and Inslstsd
on him taking a nap, "Sambo” got a
grouch and leaped toward and snapped
at all who tried to talk to him. He
stubbornly refused to enter his cage
and allowed nn one to coma within tho
limit of the rope with which he waa
tied, save his trainer. Crook. Finally
"Sambo” took a notion to frighten his
trainer away and gnawed some flesh
from each leg, only giving up and re
tiring to his cage after taking severs
punishment.
A MODEL PRISONER
Principal in Lake Como Trag
edy Languishes in Jersey
City Jail.
Losses Not Nearly So Large as
at First Believed and
Reported.
WHEREABOUTS UNKNOWN
MAGNUS JACOBUS WITMAN.
Macon young man who will be the
valedictorian of the graduating class
M’STEA WILL PLEAD
THE UNWRITTEN LAW
Former Augusta Man Found
Ball Player With
His Wife. .
Albany, N. Y„ June 18.—John V.'Mc.
Stea, of New Orleans and Augusta, Ga.,
who la charged with murder In the first
degree In the killing of Arthur B.
Brown, of Wllkeabarre, Pa, a baseball
player and a member of the Albany
Btate league team, was today formally
arraigned on that charge.' He pleaded
not guilty and was held to await the
action of the grand Jury. The local
lodge of Elks, of which UcStea waa a
member, secured an attorney to look
after tha Interests of the accused.
It Is probable that ttu unwritten Inw
will be McBtea's defense. He found
Brown and Mrs. McStoa at a boarding
bouso here last night and shot him
down. McStcs Is well known In the
South as an actor.
Flags of all the baseball field* of the
state league will float at half mast to
day. The funeral arrangement* of
Brown have not yet been arranged.
"MOTHER OF TRUSTS”
New Jersey Tax Roll Shows
7,008 Corporations
Assessed.
New York, Juno 16.—Porter Charlton,
who killed hla wife and tank her body
In Lake Como. Italy, more than a year
ago, and who waa arrested an he
stepped ashore from the Princess Alice,
of the North German Lloyd line. In
Hoboken,' on June 23, 1910, la still s
prisoner In the Hudson county Jail, in
Jersey City, where he was taken Immc-
dlately after his capture. Those who
have him in charge say he has changed
little since he first entered a cell and
that he takes philosophically the long
delay in bringing his case to a final
determination.
After Secretary of State Knox decid
ed that Charlton must be returned to
Italy a writ of habeas corpus was asked
for and denied by Judge Rellstab, of
the United States district court. In
Trenton. From this decision an appeal
has been taken to the United States
supreme court.
William D. Edwards, counsel for,
Charlton, said yesterday he did not
know when the case would be reached.
COOKE TAKES STAND
IN HIS OWN BEHALF
Trenton, N. J., June 16.—Ths stats
tax roll for 1111, made public today,
shows that the board of assessors hah
aaaeaaed 7,008 corporations for a total
of $2,478,928,182. This break* all rec
ords for the "mother of trusts.'
One hundred and thirty-nine of three
corporations have capital atbek Issued
^o the extent of $10,000,000 or more
each. Twenty-eight of the corporations
have capital stock outstanding of more
than $60,000,000. Several are in the
$100,000,000 class with capital stock
Issued In each Instance for more than
that sum. Tha United States Steel
Corporation la the largest on the Hat
with $868.66$,$00. Its tax this year
$47,170.
MAN COUGHS HIMSELF
* TO DEATHJN 3 HOURS
New York, June 16.—Michael Mafflo,
39 years old, who waa proprietor of a
shoe store In Bloomfield, N. J., waa
seised with a violent lit of coughing
and died. He had coughed for three
hours. Dr. Jacob S. Wolfe waa called
but waa unable to help the man. Dr.
M. Herbert Simmons, deputy county
physician, declared than death was
caused by heart failure, due to extreme
weakness from violent coughing. Be
fore the coughing fit Maffla was' In
good health.
HE HASN’T BEEN SEEN
SINCE WEDNESDAY LAST
So Many Had Drawn Big Divi
dends From Him That They
Are Nearly Even.
Cincinnati, Juns 16—Edgar Street Cook*.
crossing. and tha tender of the engine j former Chicago broker, went on the wit-
struck the wagon and threw Grant out. • ncM utand on hit own behalf today In the
He Is 66 years old and tai a family.] charging him with the emhexsle-
He lives on Crete Manley’s farm. The m .„t of $24,000 from the Blu Four rail-
horse was not injured In the accident. road.
J. WYLIE SMITH.
Here la the latent photograph, by
Tidwell, of the man for whom creditor*!
are necking ftfnct his disappearance
several days ago.
J. Caleb Clarke, an attorney, has been
appointed receiver for J. Wylie Smith,
the missing high llnancier, as an in
dividual, and also for tho Commercial
Loan and Trust Company, of which
Smith was secretary, treasurer and
principal stockholder. Immediately
after being notified of his appointment.
Receiver Clarke visited the office off
Smith at 29 1-2 Whltehal!-st., and took
possession of what property was to bo
found. He had the roll-top desk and
Iron safe, left behind by Smith, opened,
and took. personal- charge of papers
found therein. These papers, It Is said, .
consisted pf notes, mortgages and deeds,
alleged to be forgeries, some cancelled
checks and check stubs and a few old
account books. However, nothing of
value among these properties was re
covered, according to the receiver.
The receiver was appointed Into
Thursday afternoon by Judge J. T.*
Pendleton, on petition of W. F. Brandt.
J. W. Stallings and Dr. B. E. Dewberry,
The order Is returnable Juno 24.
At 3 o’clock Friday nothing had been
learned as to the whereabouts of Smith.
He has apparently completely van
ished.
Throughout Friday morning persons
from whom Smith, had borrowed mon
ey or who had other claims against him
congregated in the dingy little back
room office at 29 1-2 Whltehall-st.,
discussing this case of high financing.
The proverbial “Iff* was frequently ut
tered by those who felt they had been
."stung.” But the fact was constantly
cropping out that the high Interest
rates—higher than any bank or com
mercial enterprise con think of paying-
had drawn these Investors into tne
meshes of Smith's financial operations.
The luckless ones are those who have
made the more accent Investments.
Those who had put mone^ In months
and years ago had almost Invariably
taken out In Interest and principal as
much or more than they had put In. As
long as the business kept going the re
turns were good, because the money
paid In In the last investors was going
out to pay Interest and principal to
those who had dived In ahead of them
and- they, were coming to tho surfa™
and getting on dry land one-after an
other.
Lose Not So Large.
When ft Is figured out, the actual ,
monetary losses, which are extrava
gantly quoted at from 9150,000 to 3250,.
000, will dwindle to a comparativev
email proportion of these sums—may
be 20 per cent of 1200,000.
Take 31,000 at five per cent interest a
month for ;i year ami you have pa
rent of tho principal, or 3300. repaid In
Interest. But some of the more recent
lenders to Smith had been drawing.ten
per cent a month, at the rate of 120 per
cent per annum on their loans. They
would have received In a year, at that
rate, twenty per cent more than the
principal In interest alone. Even Rocke
feller, Carnegie and Morgan have not
discovered an Investment to yield such
returns as that.
Played Peter. Paul Game.
Froth surface Indications it appears
that Smith was constantly borrowing
from Peter to pay interent and some
times principal to Paul, and was grad
ually sinking deeper Into the hole ns
money became harder to get, which in
duced Smith to raise the Interest rate
as Inducements to Investors to turn
over their cosh. He had apparently
started out'to do a legitimate money
loading business at high interest rates
to partitas who needed money and
needed It had enough to pay the price.
But lock of abundant capital-Is said to
have made it necessary for him to seek
money from other people to carry on
this business and to pay them high In
terest rates to get It. Then it becamo
hard to pay back that money and tho
alleged forgeries of mortgages, notes
and other eecurltles was the result, it
being necessary to put up some sort of
collateral to secure loans.
Miller Started Scheme.
In New York a few years ago a man
mimed Miller vml« operating a high
finance scheme which In several ways
resembled Smith's plan, except that
Miller's operations extended over a
wider field and the money was easier
get hold of. He offered ten per cent
week on Investments. A man would
send him 3100. For ten weeks In suc
cession Miller would send him back 310
of his 3100. The Investor thought it
such a gold mine that his 3100 came
back for another ten weeks. He would
tell his neighbors and they would send
on their 3100 or 31.000. There was al
ways enough money on hand to pay th<
Interest and the scheme worked like ar
endless chain until the Federal posts:
1 authorities nipped it. When Miller’.-
desk was opened It was found stacked
j with greenbacks that h!s gullible vie*
' tlms had poured Into his coffers and
there were stacks of letters containing
money that had never’ been opened
Those who had come In too late to get
all their principal back in Interest wen
the real losers.
Mrs. Minnie R. Coulter,, who was re
ported to have used W. F. Brandt rath,
er roughly Thursday morning In th«
loan company offices, denies that sh<
attacked him or used personal violence
until the arrival of her attorney, desir
ing Brandt to acknowledge that th*
, signature on a deed to her property wa*
his own, and that she merely h**M hi?
hat to keep him from leaving. Brand
nfterward denied having signed the
per In question, according to Mrs
Coulter's attorney.
One warrant fo{ Smith’s arrest
charging forgery. Is In the hands «<
th« detective., buroau of the police de
partment. A creditor Is the prone
cutor. Justice Ridley issued the war
rant. So far ag^ha.-* been ascertained
this Is the only warrant outstanding
Justice Ridley said two or three other
called at his office to secure warrant*
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