Atlanta Georgian and news. (Atlanta, Ga.) 1907-1912, June 17, 1911, Image 1

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Newspaper Page TextTHE WEATHER. Unsettled. with local showers Saturday night or Sunday. Tem peratures Saturday (taken at A. K. Hawkes Co.’s store): 8 a. m„ 78 degrees: 10 a. m., 80 degrees; 12 noon. 88 degrees; 2 p. an.. 86 de grees. The Atlanta Georgian Nothing Succeeds Like—-THE GEORGIAN' AND NEWS "Nothing Succeeds Like.—THE GEORGIAN" VOL. IX. XO. 272. HOM E (4TH) EDITION ATLANTA, GA., SATURDAY, JUNE 17, 1911. HOME(4th) edition They're the Flower of the Colleges mSAVEMTH IS GIGANTIC FARCE Stansbury Was Rolling Under Train When Perry Jerked Him Out. BOY DIES FROM WOUNDS Dalton Life-Termer, Always Good Prisoner, Plays Hero For a Fellow Prisoner. Roscoe Stansbury, a young Atlantan sentenced to lour years Imprisonment ,he charge of forgery, was shot and killed Friday by B. A. Thomason, a guard at the Utoy Springs convict camp on the Cascade road, west of the city Stansbury had been in the camp but one day and was making a break for liberty. He was shot as he ran, and died about an hour and a half later. The story of Stansbury’s death tragic but It paved the way for an act of heroism that defies the creations of melodrama, and the part of the hero In the drama was played by John Perry, a life convict from Whltllcld county. Young Stansbury hnd been In the camp only one day. Owing to his deli cate build, and his reftned appearance, he was allowed to go unshackled. The gang of prisoners were working near the Cascade crossing of the A., B. & A railroad at the time of the Incident, and the Idea of making a break for llbertv doubtless occurred to him when he saw a freight train approaching. As It neared the scene of the work he drorped his tools and ran, Intending, it Is supposed, to cross th© track and .swina the passing-train from th© fur- ther side. Cries of the guards to stop went unheeded, and It was then that the shot was fired. John Perry Plays Hero. Stansbury had Just reached Oie edge of a cut, when the shot was fifed,'and a charge which was Intended for hts legs reached him Just In time to go trashing thru his back. He fell In a heap, and rolled down the embank ment directly onto the railroad tracks, utterly helpless. The train was ap proaching at a considerable rate of speed, and it seemed Impossible that he could be rescued from a horrible death. Here, enter John Perry. Perry Is a trusty and serves as water carrier for the gang. He was a short distance away when he noted the slt- uation. without a thought of tKe'~<Mn- Carnegie Characterizes the Crowning of King George as Foolish Display. HE RAPS JOHN W. GATES Skibo, Scotland, June 17.—Andrew Carnegie, laird of Sklbo Castle, thinks the coronation Is a gigantic farce. •it la a sinful waste of money," he declares. "I don’t know If there will ever be another coronation, but I don’t believe England will ever stand for an other foolish display euch as this." The Ironmaster had many other In teresting things to say. Hero are some , of them; “John W. Gates Is a browendownl gambler, I have nothing to do with 1 him. “They say I sold out to the steel trust. I know nothing of any ateel trust. “In America from now on all parties to monopoly must open their booka to critical Investigation by auditors/' ■ *-••-**• iiiiusu|uiiuii uj auuiiura. f Promising to return to America to testify before the Stanley committee, Carnegie declared he would "remove every Inch of cuticle covering the am ple form of Gates, and having accom plished this, will boll him In some of his Texas oil." Photo by Mathewson. DELEGATES AND VISITORS TO THE ALPHA DELTA PHI CONVENTION. The convention, at which all fiftean c hapten are represented, with over 100 viaitore and delegates, comes to a close Saturday night. The sorority, which is fhs eldest organization of its kind, i a one of the moat prominent in the country and was founded before many of the leading men’s collage fraternities. It was founded at Wesleyan at Macon, ^ Organist Starnes’ Contract Has Expired and Festival Asso ciation Has Not Funds to Pay His Salary—Great Musical Work Planned For Year—Subscriptions Will Be Asked. ger to himself, he rushed up and lifted the unfortunate young man from the track Just ns the big mogul engine thundered by, brushing his very clothes. Young .Stansbury was mortal ly wounded, as his subsequent death showed, but this fact doea not detract from the performance of Perry. Risked Life For Stranger. Here Is the manner of man, who, serving a life sehtonce In the state prison, risked his life for an unknown man, whom he had never seen until the day before. John Perry was for merly a resident of Whitfield county. In his home town, Dalton, he was known as a care-free,' happy-go-lucky fellow, who never manifested any un usual ambition, but who loved hti friends and who would go his enfire length to do one of them a kindness. He was a man of small means and never able to render milch financial nld to his fellows, but 'tls said of him that he was such a kind, big-hearted lellow that he would frequently spend the whole day hunting or flBblng, and when he returned to the town with his game sack well stocked would freely dis tribute his catch among hla sick neigh bors and friends. Some ten years since, John Robin son's circus visited Dalton. Perry at tended the show, and with a healthful curloelty and appreciation, waa stand Ing very close to the orchestra, taking In with delight the snappy selections rendered by the musicians. A perform er In the hand becamo angered at some thing which Perry did and ordered him away. Perry did not move Immediately and the musician gave him a savage kick In the aide. Perry was weak from a recent Illness and fell He arose and the musician kicked him down again. Shot the Musician. Perry left the show grounds and pro ceeded up town. He went to a hard ware -tore and bought, on credit, a new revolver. Armed with the weapon, he returned to the show grounds and shot the musician. He was tried, convicted and sentenced *° hang. Efforts were made to secure a new trial, but they failed. Perry, In Continued on Last Page. Is Atlanta a music-loving city? The success-of the opera seasons,Indicates It. The patronage_at the Sunday afternoon organ concerts at the Auditorium bears It out! Next—la Atlanta willing to ppy for Its music T —Here's. tta»OBliijrtuntty -.to,•prp.y.att-by.dollars and cants. Citizens must ve 15,00# If AtUtntti ja 'to kecp'Dr, Percy J. Stomea.'.the city organist, Snapped When He Wasn't Looking Are Drafting Many Non-Union Men to Man Their Vessels. SMUGGLE THEM ON BOARD give for another year. Dr. Starnes It one of the two or three really great organists of this country. He was engaged by the Music Festival association a year ago, at a salary of 55,000 a year. Hla first year expires on July 1. The associa tion has not the funds to spare to pay hla salary another year. But the di rectors of the organisation are’ contributing liberally ' from their private purses and urge'that other public-spirited lovers of muslo add to the fund. Another year of Dr. Starnes' work will mean more than merely a series of organ concerts. It will mean the official organisation of Atlanta's musi cal talent, players and singers, the production of several great oratorios, the training of a really fine chorus, the development of the scattered musicians of the city Into a definite body which will make Atlanta known far and wide aa a city of music. It will mean splsndld entertainment at reason able rates, and all the year round. And unlese Dr. Starnes la rttalned, the giant organ at the Auditorium will be voiceless, Its enormous cost a wasted Investment. The following subscription paper has been signed by a number of eltl- sena, and the trolley company, has contributed 1500 to the fund. Those desiring to subscribe are requested to send their names to President IV. L. Peel,, at the American National bank, or Treasurer C. B. Bldwell, at the American Audit Company’s office. Here la the llat to date: "We, the undersigned, hereby subscribe the amounts set opposite our names, respectively, to a fund payable to the Atlanta Muslo Festival as sociation of Atlanta, to be used to engage the services for one year from July 1, 1811, of Dr. Starnes aa organist for said association, and to form a chorus and give series of concerts during the season of 1811-1812, such subscription to be paid one-fourth on.demand and balance In three equal Installments, payable on or before two, four and six months from date.” W. L. Peel 5100 Many Strikebreakers Are For eigners, With Chinese Among Them. Liverpool, June 17.—Ship owners are making vigorous efforts here to break the seamen's strike, and non-union men are being drafted In greut numbers to man the vessels. Many of the strike' breakers are foreigners, while a large number of the dockers who are taking the places of strikers are Chinamen. Strikers are attempting to prevent non-union men being smuggled aboard ships. Phillips & Crew Cable Plano Company W. Woods White Georgia Railway and Electric Co.. V. H. Krlegshaber 100 100 100 J. R. Gray Clifford L. Anderson John E. Murphy .... V. L. Smith ... .. .. C. B. Bldwell .. .. . R. S. Wessels CREWS OF THREE LINERS DE8ERT ON SAILING DAY Glasgiw, June 17.—The crews of the liners Fumetsla, Ionian and Cassan dra deserted as the vessels were about to anil on their regular trans-Atlantic voyages today, and they were held up at Greenock pending efforts to enlist new crews. The men are required to sign under the old scale. FIFTY 8TEWARD3 ON LINER GIVE UP THEIR JOBS New Yerk, June 17.—Fifty stewards on the Morgan liner Momus quit work today. They claimed that 40 other 50 stewards and the balance of the crew, 50-including 180 seamen and firemen, 251 would strike before the liner sailed. The 25 strikers went out. It waa said. In sym- 25 pathy with the striking seamen aboarJ. Garden Truck Jumps Clear Out of Reach of Ordinary House wife’s Purse. 17 DAYS OF SUNSHINE Showers Promised For Sunday, But Not Large Enough to Relieve the Situation. Talking about long dry spells, the one we are having nom. Is aa long as the longest on record for Atlanta, and. what la more, It Is going to be longer. It hasn't rained In and about Atlanta, except that little shower of .2 Inch Fri day night, since May 31, and the only hope the weather bureau offers Is slight —very alight—showers Saturday night or Sunday. In 1885, from Juno 27 to July IS, just ssventeen days, the long est summer drouth since the weather bureau waa established here In 1879, waa recorded. Since then there ha3 been nothing to equal the 1895 drouth. But that dry spoil showed spasmodic showers amounting to .78 Inch of rain, more than has fallen here this month. If It hadn't been for that brief show er Friday night, & record hot night for this season would doubtless have been established. That bit of rain caused- the temperature to drop to 61 degrees about 10 o’clock. At 7 o’clock It was up to 81 degrees. At 8 o'clock Friday afternoon It was 88, equal to the swelt ering mark of last Sunday. Garden Truck Jumps. This hot dry spell Is not only uncom fortable, but Is costing the people of Atlanta real money. It has limited the supply of vegetables and garden truck so much that prices aro soaring almost beyond the reach of tho average wage- earner. Practically the only home grown vegetables on the Atlanta market are new potatoes and string beans and the supplies of those aro very-limited. A Broad-sL commission man said Sat urday that If a good rain would come now tho bottom would drop out of prod uce prices within ten days, MeMM tha market- would bo flooded with fresh vegetables from the nearby truck farms. Farmers are now receiving 88 a bush el for beans and 82 a bushel for new potatoes. Add 20 to SO per cent to th,s and you have the retail prices—what the consumer must pay. Florida toma toes are bringing 81.60 to 88.25 a crata of six baskets. A little home-grown corn la bringing 20 cents a dozen ears, and shipped corn about 80 cents. Squash at wholesale coat 81 to 81.60 a hamper, and cucumbers 76 cents to $1.26 a hamper, these receptacles hold ing about three pecks. Shipped can taloupes are 51.50 to 13 a crate, accord. Ing to else and quality. Average slsed frying chickens are 86 cents apiece by the coop, which means from 10 to 50 cents each at retail. And up In ths north Georgia mountains, away from the railroads, these same sized chickens can be bought at 15 cents retail. LORD 10 SEND OS RAIN SECOND IN COMMAND OF GEORGIA FIREMEN rail WANT ADS Published by all the Atlanta papers for the week ending June 10,1911, six days to the week: Georgian ssi Joyrnai . . . Constitution 2,855 .. 72,129 ... 1,153 On yesterday the Atlan ta papers carried Want Ads as follows: Georgian.... Journal Constitution.. IS HELD BY THE POLICE EFFECT8 OF THE 8TRIKE ' ARE FELT NOW IN AMERICA i New York, June 17—Effects of the I International seamen’a strike were felt In America for the first time today, ! when a strike of cooks, sailors and fire man on the Morgan steamship line was called by the International Beamon's Photo by Mathewson. CHARLEY RYAN GOING TO LUNCH. Ths cashier of the Fourth National was dodging thru Whltehall-st traffio when the oamsra caught him. BLAZING OIL GIVES Arrested For Personal Trans- actipn—He Is Believed to Know Where Fugitive Is. GBOROIAN prints no beer, T ,k / , or unclean advertising. to help those who art out of a po- riler" FL who dstlrs t better one, GEORGIAN prints want ads 2!?er ths classification -'Situations fret. Other classifications Working on the theory that Berry Smith, of College Park, step-brother of J. Wylie Smith, the missing secretary and treasurer of the defunct Commer cial Loan and Trust Company, knows more about, hla brother’s whereabouts {than he has up to date been willing to l tell, the detective bureau of the Atlanta police department caused his arrest ; Saturday morning "on suspicion" and . had him transferred from the county Jail to a cell In police-headquarters. Smith was willing to talk Saturday morning, but shied at the mention of hla brother’s name. He was willing to tell all about the bogus check charge he Is facing In Judge Bloodworth’s court which , caused bl« arrest by the county authorities Friday night, but persistently refused to give Information to the detectives or the newspaper men relative to nls brother. Berry Smith Arrested. Berry Smith was arrested at 8:20 o'clock Friday night as he alighted from a West Point train at College Park, returning (Tom Falrburn, where he had been during the afternoon. The which adjourned Its meeting In Home! out by Friday. Americus was selected as the n w ‘ n ' r Union of America, and about 700 men went out on two passenger and three freight ships of tha line. The passenger ships affected are the Antlllus and the Momus. The freight ers are the El Rto, El Norte and El Cld. At the headquarters of tho union Or ganiser Richard 8assen said that 2,500 men would go out In the, course of a week, the men striking as soon as the ships docked. “The complaint is about food, sleep ing quarters and hours," he said. "The men want four hours watch, nine hours off In port and no work on Sundays and holidays. They are also kicking on the mess, the food being given them not being fit. to eat." The company claims that It will have all the men necessary to man their ship*. Southern Shops Scene of Dan gerous Early Morning Fire. Heavy Loss. CREW OF MINNEWA8KA DE8ERT AT ENGLI8H PORT London, June 17.—Owing to the sea men's atrike. tha liner Mlnnewaska waa unable to sail for New York today. The regular crew refused to re-algn for tha A dangerous fire In a shed contain ing 200 barrels of oil at the Southern railroad (hops gave the firemen a hard battle about 8:80 o'clock Saturday morning. The cause of the fire la un known and when the alarm was sound ed half the oil barrels had burst asun der from the heat and their contents were biasing. All of the 200 barrels were burned and two freight cars bad ly damaged, aa were two engine ten< Motion Pictures, Free, Offered by Chosewood, if Board Consents. Journey and prevented non-union men from taking their places. derfc standing on a nearby track. CHILDREN SEE SUICIDE WHEN HE ENDS HIS LIFE W. B. CUMMING8. Chief of Atlanta fire department who was re-elected vice president of the Georgia State Firemen's association. Wanted’ ONI CENT A WO.ID next Meeting place of the association. The following ofilceri were elected: President, Thomas Ballentyne, Savan nah; vice president, W. B. Cummings, Atlanta; secretary, Eugene A. Burch. Hnwkinavflle; treasurer, F. G. Reynolds. Aurusta. ar.-I statistician, \V. P. McAr thur, Americas. R. H. O'Kelly, Of 61 Garnett-st., who charged Smith with giving him a bogus check for |«0 on a College Park bank. Smith said the check matter waa in no wise connected with the Commercial Loan and Trust Company's buslneas, being a personal transaction. Friends New York, June 17—While several children were playing near him, S. V. Price, of Winchester, Ky., committed suicide by shooting himself thru the head In the east drive of Central park. His Identity was established by means of letteri In hla pockets. Doughty On Board. Dr. W. H. Doughty, Jr., of Augusta, was named by Governor Brown Sat urday momtng to succeed the late Dr. _ . J. B. Morgan, of Augusta, on the state of Smith In College Park arranged to 1 board of health. Hla terra txplres Jan- Ccntinuea on Last Page, uary 1, 1816 As the barrels burst tha biasing oil flowed In every direction and water seemed only to make the flames risa higher. The firemen formed a line In front of the oil and with powerful streams of water succeeded In forcing back the flow and keeping It' away from other buildings. That no one was hurt by the explo sions or badly burned by the oil seemed almost a miracle. A quantity of car grease and some gasoline were pro tected frum the names by the hose and dkl not catch fire. Several other fires were reported In tha same night Two negro houses were totally destroyed at 58 and 61 Ollver-at. and a negro boarding house at 60 and <2 Ollver-at. waa damaged on the roof by a fire which broke out at 2:10 o'clock Saturday morning. What raii.au this lira la alto unknown. At the meeting of the finance com mittee of the park board Friday after noon 5872 waa found and will be added to the 51,000 provided by council for replenishing the Oram park soo. Coun cil will be gsked to authorise the trans fer of this money. A number of valuable donations for the soo are expected from private cltl- sena, and with more money given by council In January, It la hoped the zoo will be developed Into a real Institution Commissioner Frank Wllby opposed transferring this money to the soo, but he waa voted down by Commissioners R. M. Harwell and James E. Warren, and then changed hla vote. A special meeting of the park board will be called next Tuesday to consider allowing free motion pictures In the park. Charles L. Chosewood, who has leased the privileges of the park, will furnish the pictures and they will be shown on the lawn. If the board con sents. The board ivflt also consider build ing a swimming pool In the park. Special Services Will Be Held Sunday in Tabernacle Baptist Church. t Macon, Ga., June 17—Rev. T. W. Callaway, pastor of tha Tabernacle Baptist church of this city, has made a call on all of the Christian people ot Macon to Join with him and his congre. gatlon tomorrow In a definite prayer that God will send rain to this section. Dr. Callaway says that It Is known that the gardens of the poor as well as those of tho rich are suffering very much for need of rain, and that tba farmsrt of this section will suffer great losses unless there Is rain In the next few days. All ministers of the gospel and Christian people In this city have been asked to join with Dr. Callaway and hit congregation. PERFORM OPERATION ON MANAGER JORDAN Manager Otto Jordan has wired President J. W. Helsman that ha will be forced to undergo a slight operation on his leg and that In consequence he will be out of the game far a while. Thlf will necessitate a decided shift In thi line-up and will, of course, cripple thi Cracker club materially. Jordan reports that Knotts has Joined the Atlanta club and has signed hl< contract, and that he la sending Mena- fee back to Atlanta. H-H-K-H r BROOKLYN BUYS OSTEEN. 4 Montgomery, Ala,, June 17— ■! ■ Champ Osteen, Montgomery's •} > shortstop, was sold today to the 4 ■ Brooklyn Nationals. McEtveen will 4 • be shifted from right field to short 4 ’ and Dobbs will play In right. Bat- 4 ’ ley, the southpaw procured from 4 ’ the St. Louis Browns, has been 4 ’ signed and will pitch this after- 4 1 noon against Chattanooga. 4 NAPS WIN MORNING GAME. Bank Increases Stock. The Bank of Mldvllle. located at Midvllle, Ga.. a seven-year-old Institu tion. was granted an amendment to its charter Saturday by Philip Cook, sec retary of state. Increasing Its capital stock from 525.030 to 550.000. The bank was chartered May 27, 1801. American League, R. H.E Cleveland . . . .080 010 010—7 11 I Boston 200 000 010—3 1 • Batteries: Gregg and Land; Mose. and Nunamaker. Umpires. Mullen ant Evans. • Notices of Sunday Ser vices in Atlanta churches appear on page 20.

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Atlanta Georgian and news. (Atlanta, Ga.) 1907-1912, June 17, 1911, Image 1