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The Atlanta Georgian
“Nothing Succeeds Like—THE GEORGIAN
AND NEWS
“Nothing Succeeds Like—THE GEORGIAN
8POT COTTON.
Atlanta.
NewTork. quiet; 13.70.' Savannah,
nominal; 14\. Augusta, quiet; 15H. Gal
veston, quiet; 14%. Norfolk, quiet; 14c.
Houston, steady; 14%. Mobile, nominal;
14%. . Memphis, steady; 14%.
VOL. IX. NO. 299.
HOME (4TH) EDITION
ATLANTA, GA., WEDNESDAY, JULY 19, 1911.
HOME(4th) edition
On Trains. FIVE CENT8.
The Street Is Their Playground
'“Enemy" Strikes First Blow,
Tho, and Captures Torpedo
Boat Destroyer.
CORRESPONDENTS ON JOB
I Admiral Osterhaus Planned to
Make Land Attack on
Metropolis.
. Newport, R. I, July 19.—The first
»tlf In the naval attack on New Tork
til been fought and the Invading bat-
tl.ihipe B" believed to have been re-
I m’f.ii. Submarine boats saved the
nntrr city. The engagement began
Jit Block Island early today when Ad
miral Osterhaus. commander of tho
I “hlitA” fleet. steamed Into
iitacklng "blue" fleet, ateamed Into
rtht on his flagship Connecticut with
several other of the big gray war craft
trailing behind In battle formation.
The submarine division of the “red”
| fleet Immediately put out to meet them
I and caused so much havoc, among the
I "Miemv’s" ship* that they were forced
I to retire. The actual result will not
I be known till It la f t.nounccd at Waah-
(Ington. The first blow struck In the
[ maneuvers was the capture of the tor-
I win boat destroyer Reid, of the seventh
I torpedo division, by Admiral Osterhaus,
I earlier In the day. The Reid steamed
I Into Narraganeett bay with the Intelll-
I f.nce that she had been captured.
1 Several of tho fleet destroyers put
I Into Narraganeett hay at top speed
I shortly before the Reid announced her
I upturn and departed without making
II stop, steaming off toward Block
| Island.
Continued on Last Pags.
And What the Witness Says
Should Have a Little
Weight.
WEIGHS A TRIFLE OVER 300
Declares Wiehe Didn’t Say He
Contributed to Lorimer’s
Election.
New York Spurred to Activity
by Spread of the
Disease.
MAYOR MAKES INSPECTION
Washington, July 19.—B. A. Johnson,
formerly of the etaff of Tho American
Lumberman, of Chicago, wee recalled
to the witness stand today before the
Loiimer Investigating committee. John
son la one of the men who was on the
train from Duluth to Virginia, Minn.,
when C. P. Wiehe, secretary of the
Hfnes Lumber Company, la alleged to
have told witness Burgess, who testi
fied yeaterday, that he .countrlbuted
810,040 to the Lorlmer election fund.
Johnson again told the committee that
he was present In the emoktng com
partment of the train while Wiehe and
Burgess were there, and that no auch
conversation as Burgess described with
Wiehe took place.
Johnson weighs over 800 pounds. He
stated that he "occupied several seats
in the smoking compartment," and
when everybody In the room laughed,
Johnson also smiled and explained that
he had occupied them at different times.
On cross-examination. Senator
Fletcher questioned Johnson. e
“You appear to be a man of Intelli
gence and character, and I say this be
cause I want to ask you some ques
tions which may appear to be per-
Continued on Last Page.
EDUCATION BILL
Photos by Mathewson. i
SOME CHILDREN OF THE GILMER-ST. SECTION AND THEIR FUN IN THE SUMMERTIME.
Tho elty provided no publio playground with swings and sand piles In this crowded seotion of Atlanta, but tha youngetere do the beat they can
under the circumstances. A trolley track or a .vacant lot offers a makeshift diamond fonts game of near-baseball and the belgian blooke give plenty of
apace for a boxing match. The photographer has caught a asms of “frog in the middle," two young “white man's hopes," s Ball game in"a vacant lot
the two aides “ohoosing" by the tribunal of the bat. At the lower left Is shown' one of Gilmer-aL’s “little mothers,” snd st ths Hght s tiny girl
and
running an errand with supreme disregard for tho requirements of fashion.
AD MEN’S CLUB TO PUT OUT
SPECIAL ISSUE OF GEORGIAN
Health Department Test Tubes
Prove Valuable in Search
For Bacteria.
New York, July 19.—Spurred to ao-
tlvlty by six deaths from cholera, the
discovery of five "cholera carriers” snd
Die detention of several hundred Imml-
pants for observation. Mayor Oaynor
May made a personal Inspection of
Hoffman Island, accompanied by Dr.
holy. Health Commissioner Lederle,
nr Herman M. 1 Briggs, department
bacteriologist; Assistant Surgeon Gen
eral Cofer, of the Federal service, and
Dr. Von Esedorff, of tho marine hos
pital at Mobile. They left the city
esrly on a government tug.'
hr. Doty today announced that the
situation waa more encouraging than
Jt any time during the "scare." There
have been no new cases of cholera and
no deaths for two days. Dr. Briggs
»nd General Cofer, after their prelim
inary Inspection yesterday, announced
tint they were satisfied with the health
olHcers' handling of the situation.
"he discovery of tha live "carriers'
rwulted from the plan agreed on by
burgeon General Wyman and Dr. Doty.
They were discovered by means of the
health department's test tubes, and
promptly transferred from Hoffman to
s »lnburne Island. To find them It was
necessary to msko Individual bacteri
ological examinations of every person
detained on Hoffman Island. Had these
Peraona not been so examined they
probably would eventually have been
released, possibly to spread the Infec
tion,
WANT ADS
Published by all the Atlanta
papers for tne week ending
July 15,1911, six days to
the week;
Georgian 2,452
Journal 1,925
Constitution 1,151
On yesterday the Atlan
ta papers carried Want Ads
'Hit
as follows:
, . ....543
Journal 319
Constitution 179
shills ® BOR OIAN print* no beer,
.8!fi“!L savsrtlslng.
eitiM .f outot a po-
wietai" “Situations
"*nt*a fret, other claeelflcatlons
ON* CENT A WORD
Listen to this!
The Ad Men’s Edition of Tho Geor
gian will be Issued next Wednesday,
July 28.
Everybody knows thajs the Atlanta
Ad Men's club is going to Boston, leav.
Ing Atlanta with ,* b|r delegation of
Georgians on Saturday. July 28. Thu
Atlanta ad men are going with the de
termination of securing the 1(18 con
vention of the Association of Adver
tising Clubs of America for Atlanta.
The elaborate campaign they have
mapped out means that It will cost
money. This special edition of Tho
Georgian. July 26, will help provide
funds for the Boston campaign.- A
large percentage of the gross proceeds
from advertising In the Ad Men's Edi
tion will go to the club for Its Boston
expense account.
Paul P. Reese, president of the At
lanta Ad Men's club, Is now In Boston
arranging for tho reception and enter
tainment of the Atlanta delegation. In
his absence, W. F. Parkhurat, former
president of tha club, will be at the
head of the special edition. He will
establish an office In Tho Georgian
building ari3 each day from now until
the date of publication, will delegate a
commltteo from the club's membership
to solicit advertising copy for tho edi
tion. No advance In rates wilt be made
for this edition, and all contract rates
of The Georgian will bo observed.
The plan for Issuing this special edi
tion was made Wednesday at noon to J
WHAT LEGISLATURE
DID ON WEDNESDAY
H0U8E.
Passed Tarver bill 'providing •
4* that a child could sue for dam-
4* ages for the death of Us parent.
' Received educational bill.
Received pill prohibiting betting 1
or handbooKIng oil.baseball games '
+ or races.
+
the executive committee of the club,
which met at the office of Fred Houser,
the club's secretary. In the Equitable
building. The executive committee was
unanimous In accepting The Georgian's
offer to issue the edition. Before the
meeting had adjourned, considerable
advertising space was taken by the
committee members.
Besides advertising, the edition will
contain many special articles on the
art of publicity and will go Into ex
tended detail concerning the coming
trip to Boston. It promises to be an
edition extraordinary.
FRED GARNER, OF FIFTH,
Young Atlantan, Bathing in the
Surf, Is Carried Out by
the Strong Tide.
SENATE.
Passed a motion to reconsider
4* the oil Inspectors’ fee bill because _
4- It amended the wrong section of +
4- the code. +
4- Placed the Ault resolution on 4*
4- the basis of-a bill and held Its +
4- third reading over "until Thurs- +
4- day.
PLENTY OF CHILDREN HERE,
BUT NO GOOD PLACE TO PLAY
4- . Went Into executive session and 4-
D. 4-
4- confirmed the appointment of .
4* W. Krause and sent three ap- 4*
4- polntments to the general Ju- +
4- diclary committee. +
4- Received three appointments +
4- from the governor. 4-
+ • 4*
Down In the Decatur anil GUmer-
sts. section there are no playgrounds,
but .there are hundreds of playful chil
dren who force an outlet for their pent
up desires.
"That la the section where a play
ground It more needed than any other
part of Atlanta," says Dan Cany, gerw-
oral manager of parks. "The nearest
playground. Is Sprlngvals park. In In-
man Pork, snd that la tod far awsy
for these children."
Playgrounds are needed there for tho
reason that the houses are small and
close together, and large families live
In many. Then, too,' there are no open
spaces but the streets.
"The only way to get a playground
there," aays Mr. Carey, "la to buy
property and tear down tho houses on
It. And that, of course, Is not within
the Jurisdiction of ths park depart.
menL" -
But Just the kifme the children srs
playing happily,' tho awfully cramped.
Pnsslng wagons snd street cars sr«
very obnoxious to those participation
In baseball games, but they afford -the
'swinging on" opportunities to others.
And lift Is-ylrlg take smaller members
of the family out to run up and down
the sidewalk. Fire escapes also fur
nish sxcsllent climbing'apparatus.
But the Idea that Impresses every
one who looks at these children Is to
give them a better chance.
Some of the larger ones who have
reached the newsboy does have- found
a roomier place to play, and 'uny aft
emoon exciting baseball games ran be
seen In progress on the railroad tracks
between the Whitehall and Forsyth
viaducts.
FOR THE LOVE OF A GIRL
MARTHASVILLE WAS NAMED
Fred R. Garner, a nlneteen-year-old
boy, of 47 Estorta-sL, who went to SL
Simons, with the Fifth regiment, waa
drowned In the surf Monday night
while in bathing with a number of men
from Company D, of which he was a
member.
The young man was not missed when
Ms comrades came ashore, and hla ah
sence was not noticed - until roll call
Tuesday. Examination showed that all
his clothes except his bathing suit were
In his tent and then some members re
called the fact that he was last seen In
the surf. The sea was very choppy at
the time, with a hard driving rain, and
It Is supposed that young Garner drift
ed too far out and was drowned before
be could call for help.
The body floated near the shore late
Tuesday afternoon when it was seen
by members of Company D. who were
posted all day Tuesday along the shore
on the lookout. Mr. and Mrs. J. A.
Gamer, tho boy's parents, were then
notified by Colonel E. E. Pomeroy of
the accident and the remains were
taken to Brunswick by a detail of the
company, four of,whom accompanied
the remains to Atlanta
Young Gamer resided with his par
ents at tbelr home In Estoria-sL He
was an experienced concrete worker
and a popular member of Company D.
It Is stated that Colonel Pomeroy had
warned all members of the Fifth thro
their officers to bo esifccially careful
while In bathing and on the morning of
the drowning tho command had been
given for especial care against such an
accident.
The remains, which reached Atlanta
Wednesday morning, wilt b« taken
Thursday morning to Luxomnl, Ga-
for funeral and Interment. In addition
to hla father and mother, Mr. Garner
leaves four brothers and two slaters,
J T. and D. A. Garner, of Atlanta; Dr.
j" S and Gaston Gamer, of Rome; Mrs.
G C. Crowder, of Albany, and Miss
Minnie Gamer, of Atlanta.
Mrs. Edwardy Files Suit For
Lands of Jackson Hill
Baptist Church.
A suit Involving tho matter of own
ership of the property located at the
corner of Eost-av<v and Jackson-st.,
partially occupied by the Jackson Hill
Baptist church, la being heard before
Judge Ellla Wednesday. The suit was
instituted by Marie Edwardy, a daugh
ter of William M. Edwardy, deceased,
thru her mother, Mrs. Beatrice Ed
wardy, to recover title to this proper
ty. —
Title to the property la traced back
for more than 40 years, showing that
at that time the consideration for this
and much other was only a little more
than 8700. In the administration of
the estates of her father and grandfa
ther It la alleged that the entire Inter
est was transferred to other hands by
her mother, when she had the right to
dispose of nothing more than a life In
terest.
In addition to the board of deacons
of the Jackson Hill church, E. O. Will
ingham, J. R. Richards and twelve oth
ers are made defendants to the suit.
The rase waa argued several months
ngo, but Judge Elite ordered another
hearing. The property Involved rep
resents a present value of almost 8
quarter of a million dollars. Judge R
O. Lovett and T. W. Rucker represent
the petitioner, while members of the
firms of Anderson. Felder, Rountree A
Wilson, Candlent, Thomsen .A Hlrsch
and F. A. Qultllan represent the nu
merous defendants.
Railroad Officials Hare,
r. C. Thorn, traveling passenger
agent of the Great Northern, with head
quarters in St. Louis, and G. C. Max
well, of Birmingham, traveling freight __
agent of the Burlington, are Waiting the manded by Colonel Moten, will camp
local colony of railroad officials. the Island.
SOLDIERS WILL VISIT
FERNANDINA THURSDAY
Director Says Ten Thousand
Were Practically Robbed by
Sugar Combination.
New York, July 19.—Searching ques
tions put to Washington . B. Thomas, -
chairman of thu board of directors of
the American Sugar-Refining Company
and long known ns the head of the su
gar truBt, today revealed the -fact that
10,000 women had been practically rob
bed of their hunl-earncd- savings by
being Induced to Invest In stock un
loaded by tho trust. Mr. Thomas waa
placed on tho grill by Congressman Ja
coby, of Arkansas, when the trust mag
nate waa recalled to the stand before
the house committed Investigating the
monopoly.
Moat of the women victims were na
tives of New England. They were aold
the shares when prices were high and
Just before the prosecution commenced
by the Federal government sent the se-
Continued on Last Page.
Six Members Join in Introduc
ing Measure to Help Geor
gia Children.
REQUIRES 60 DAYS A YEAR
Parents Held Responsible For
Keeping Children From Se
curing Education.
To Improve.the educational standard
of Georgia. Representative* McKireath
and Westmoreland, o'f Fulton; Alex
ander, of DeKalb, and Blackshear, Gar-
Itngton and Pierce, of Richmond, Intro
duced an educational bill In the house
on Wednesday. »
It provides that all parents or guar
dians of children of school ago shall
enroll and require the attendance of
these children In some public private
or other school for a period of not less
than 80 days of each school year. It
excepts Such children as are.' not In
physical or mental condition to attend
school, those who .have completed the
fourth grade of school work An pre
scribed by the state board of education,
those who live three mllw or more
from the nearest school house, or those
who may be excused for good dause by
county or municipal school boards. In
struction elsewhere than at sohool dur.
Ing the required period shall bo equiv
alent to school attendance,
It la provided that school boards shall
report to tha grand Jury auch parents
or guardians as are not complying with
this requirement, and that the grand
Jury shall make proper Investigation
Continued on Last Pegs.
Payton Bill Provides For Peo
ple’s Vote on All Proposed
Legislation.
WILL INCLUDE THE RECALL
If It Becomes Law It Will Ob
viate Frequent Appeals
to Assembly.
By MAJOR PRANK A. DUNN.
8t. Simons Island, Ga„ July 19.—The
chief features of the encampment of
the Fifth regiment now are the target
practice at the range and the fishing
parties which go out every day. At
night dancing at the hotel pavilion
takes up the time of the soldiers. In
addition to the regular drills Instruction
In riot duty began today. Thursday
the regiment will make a trip to Fer
nand Ina, Fla Camp will be broken
Saturday.
Next week the Fourth battalion, com.
posed of companies from Athens, C*>-
ibmhus. Albany and Americus,
Refusing to allow the Ragsdale reso
lution to be referred to a committee
the house Wednesday morning forced
It to lie on the table at least one day.
The resolution request* Governor Hoke
Smith to resign the executive chair and
take hl« seat In the United States sen-
ate at once.
Mr. Ragsdale, of Paulding, and Mr.
Scott, of Charlton, authors of the reso
lution. were anxious to hare It com
mitted to a Joint session of Judiciary
committee* Nos. 1 and 8, and Mr.
Ragsdale made a motion to this effect.
His motion needed the unanimous con
sent, and this was Impossible.
The r»*olutlnn will probably come
before the house at Thursday's session
and will probably be killed Immediate
ly. as the house has already shown a
large majority In sympathy with Mr.
Smith.
' WILSON M. 8HROP8HIRE.
He stopped his wagon in the mud in tront of a now clapboard tavam
70 year* ago and ths young landlord told him of hla lova for pretty Martha
Baavars and how she had Jilted him.
Romance has always.played the lead, i vllle, and over a friendly pipe hi* re-
Ing role In the naming of Atlanta, even | vealed the name of the new town for
before the contraction of the name of | the first time to Judge Rhropshlre, who
the Arcadian princess who loved the | stopped at hla cabin for reat on hla
golden apples was bestowed upon the; way from Rome to Madison,
little railroad village of Marthaavllle.: In 1842, according to the story told
back In the early fifties. The story of i a Georgian reporter In a darkened room
how Atlanta, esme by the gentle and | In lra-at., Madison was tho terminus
feminine name of Marthdsvllhi—a tale of the Georgia railroad. For the cot-
never before given authentic publics- ton planters who were Just beginning
Uon—Is fraught with the lights and
shadows of love and disappointment.
Wilson M. Shropshire, aged 83, of
Rome, who la visiting his son, Edward
F. Shropshire, at (5 lra-at., ia author
ity for the story of how Frank Lump
kin. a V'oung north Oeorglan, came to
the site of Atlanta In t*42, erected
to Invade north Oeorgla It was a long
trip from Rome to Madison. In Ihe
early fall the rood* were worn by a
stream of laboring wagons bound to
Madison with their creaking loads of
cotton. Judge Shropshire, with three
wagons, was one of the first on the
road In the fall of 1842. He passed
rough clapboard shack to found a new i thru what Is now Atlanta and found
town and forget. If he could, his love 1 nothing but a rutty red clay road,
for Martha Beavers, of Summerville. . Returning from-Madison with hla
But he couldn't forget- her. so he I team after a short-trip to Augusta,
named hla projected luunlst Marthas-1 Continued on Last Pag*.
Initiative and referendum for tha
state of Georgia and for ay counties
and municipalities in the state aro pro
vided for In a bill Introduced on Wed
nesday In the house by Representative
Payton, of Worth. It provides for sub
mitting to the people at the polls a
constitutional amendment authorising
the addition of these modern additions
to Democratic government, and pro
vide* that when the voters have In-'
doraed It at the ballot box It becomes
operative without being again referred
to tho legislature for the enactfnent
of tho necessary laws to make It ef
fective. The bill as presented does not
contain the recall feature, but Hr. Pay-
ton aays that will be Incorporated In an
amendment when the bill comes from
the general Judiciary committee No. 1,
to which It waa referred.
Thla bill provides that 8 per cent of
the qualified votera of the state can
Institute any general i state legislation
by petitioning under the initiative pro
vision. These measures shall take pre
cedence over all others Special elec
tions shall be called to Indorse or dis
approve them, when the specified per
centage of votere sign the petition. For
any measure that may thus be present
ed the general assembly may substi
tute a bill It considers better adapted
to the question, but both the petition
measure and the assembly'* substitute
must ba submitted to tho people and
the voters be permitted to express
their choice of the two or their oppo
sition to both.
Any general legislation pasaed by tha
assembly may be submitted to the peo.
pie on petition of 10 per cent of tho
qualified voters of the county or mu
nicipality affected. Petition for refer
endum must" be made within 80 days
* the adjournment of the leglalatlve ,
slon at which passed. Votera are
given the privilege of petitioning for
referendum on any one or more clause*
of any measure. The full text of anf
bill asked to be referred to the peopla
must be published In the official papeis
once a month for three months be
fore the election. Twelve coplee of
any local meaagre to be referred must
be filed with the clerk of the superior
court of the county and publication
made twice a month for two months
preceding the election.
The privilege of Instituting any con
stitutional amendment legislation by
the Initiative provision requires twice
the- number of signatures as for or
dinary measures and the petition must
be filed'twelve months before the elec
tion at which It Is to be voted on. For
such amendments to pass they must
have 80 per cent of the total vote.
Veto power of governor or mayor*
shall not extend to measures referred
to the people. So legislative tet shall
become operative until 81) days after
adjournment of the legislative session
at which pasaed, except emergency
measures that occasion demands be put
Into Immediate operation.
• Mr, Payton’* recall feature will glv*
the privilege of voting to remove any
state, county or municipal officer elect
ed by the people on petition of 16 per
cent of the qualified voters of the stats,
county or municipality.