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BE SURE THAT YOU GET YOUR COPY OF THE SPEGAL SATURDAY MAGAZINE WITH TODAY’S GEORGIAN
THE WEATHER.
Forecast for Atlanta and Georgia:
Showers today and tomorrow.
VOL. X. NO. 237.
IHOfILEINS
IMPEBILLED
IS FEW
RISES
Downtown Section Threatened
as Water Reaches Highest
Point Yet Touched.
LOUISIANA NOW FACES
VERY GRAVE SITUATION
Baton Rouge in Serious Danger
as Dikes Go Out—Sandbags
Hold Back River.
NEW ORLEANS, May 4.—With New
Orleans itself threatened with an over
flow of the Mississippi levees that will
flood part of the down-town section,
with the dikes at Baton Rouge in dan
ger of going out and causing enormous
damage and with the water rising hour
by hour, Louisiana today faces the
most serious flood situation it has ever
known. Water- here has reached a stage
six inches above anything ever known
before. Sandbags piled on the levees
are turning the water back, but fear
that they may not be able to hold and
that the levees will be overflowed was
expressed by t!?ose in charge of the
work.
At Baton Rouge the situation is far
more serious. The levees there are no
ticeably weak after the strain of the
last few weeks, and it was expected at
midnight that they would go out somi
time today. The lower parts of the
City would be inundated at once, and it
was expected that the city water pump
ing station and the sewage pumping
stations would be among the first put
out of commission. The water was ex
pected to break through the dikes in
front of the state house, and heavy
damage to the state property was
feared.
The town of Bayou Sara is in some
places fifteen feet under water. Fran
cisvll'.e is covered with three feet of
water. The crevasse at Bayou Sara is
growing hourly, and engineers there
have given up hope of stopping it.
The situation at Torras continues
■ grave, the water flowing in torrents
through the west levee, which has been
broken down by the floods. The break
is a thousand feet long, and the floods
are still pouring out over the sugar
plantation country.
EXPLOSION FROM N. Y.
FIRE INJURES THREE
AND CAUSES A PANIC
NEW YORK, May 4 —Three men
were injured in an explosion during a
fire in the four-story apartment at
702-704-706 Eighth avenue today. Two
of the victims are Captain Coleman
and Fireman Kinnichan, of Truck 24.
who were on the third floor when the
explosion occurred and were burned se
verely. The third man, John Kenig,
was passing along Eigth avenue in an
automobile. A flying piece of glass
severed an artery in his right arm.
One hundred and fifty persons fled
- from the building in fire escapes when
the flames were discovered, and a
crowd of proportions so immense gath
ered in the street that police reserves
had to be hurried to th< scene. The
fire started in the basement and made
rapid headway. The dumbwaiter shafts
afforded a draught which caused the
blaze to spread quickly. When the ex
plosion occurred residents of nearby
apartment houses were frightened from
their homes.
SICK MAN. ATTACKED
IN BED BY MAD DOG,
CHOKES IT TO DEATH
SAVANNAH, GA.. May 4.—While
Victor Wortham, a shipping clerk in
the employ of the Southern Lumber
Company, lay ill in bed at his home a
mad dog rushed intb the room and at
tacked the patient, bitting him upon the
arm. Wortham sprang from the bed,
chased the dog about the room until
he cornered it, when he grasped it by
throat.
Then, securing his revolver, he pre
pared to shoot the animal, but Mrs.
Wortham, who had been attracted to
the room by the commotion, pleaded
with him not to fire. With the butt of
the weapon the sick man beat the dog’s
brains out. The dog, a small cur, be
longed to the Wortham family.
Wortham will be given the Pasteur
treatment in order to avoid any possi
bility of the bite being serious.
The Atlanta Georgian
Mrs* Osbourne Thinks
Her Lost Weight Is
Worth $375 a Pound
Mrs. T. L. Osbourne has filed suit in
superior court in which she intimates
that she is worth $375 a pound. She
lost 40 pounds, she asserts, as the re
sult of an elevator accident in the Kiser
building, and wants $15,000 from W. H.
and John F. Kiser.
Because of the accident, so the dam
age suit recites, Mrs. Osbourne has
been reduced in weight from 150 to 110
pounds. She alleges that in leaving
the elevator in the Kiser building a
month ago she tripped over a screw
that protruded from the floor of the cal
and fell to the floor. Her husband, T.
L. Osbourne, Is party to the suit as a
plaintiff.
City Sewer Work
Is Months Behind;
Engineer Complains
Completion of Atlanta's sewage dis
posal plants will be delayed for more
than a year as a result of the inade
quate efforts put forth by Contractor
Chester A. Dady, according to Captain
Clayton, chief of construction, and F.
A. Quillian, chairman of the bond com
mission.
Mr. Dady asked for nine months’ ex
tension of time to complete the Peach
tree creek disposal plant. Captain
Clayton says he won’t finish it within
a year, at his present rate. Dady also
has the contract to build the Intrench
ment creek disposal plant and only the
grading work has been begun there.
There is great need for all three of
these plants, for the sewage is now
dumped into the small streams around
the city. This causes very insanitary
conditions in hot weather. The Proctor
creek plant is practically complete and
will be connected in about a month.
The Peachtree creek plant was also to
have been completed this summer, but
it will be next summer before it is fin
ished. However, the sewer to the plant
will soon be finished and the sewage
that is now flowing into the streams on
the north side will be carried out to the
plant and turned into the Peachtree
creek.
A special committee, composed of Al
dine Chambers, R. M. Clayton and F. A.
Quillian, has been appointed to investi
gate the progress of Mr, Dady’s work
and make a report before any extension
of time is granted him.
Captain Clayton says that the ex
treme bad weather during the winter
and the inability of the contractors to
get crushed stone is one cause for de
lay, but not a reason for as much time
as Dady will require.
53 OF THToLYMPIC’S
CREW ARRAIGNED ON
CHARGE OF MUTINY
PORTSMOUTH. ENGLAND. May 4.
Charged with mutiny because they “re
fused- to obey the lawful orders of their
captain,’’ 53 members of the crew of
the White Star liner Olympic were ar
raigned, in court today.
Evidence was introduced to show that
the men employed to take the place of
striking oilers were competent to do
their work, but that they refused.
The men had.refused to sail on the
Olympic last month, claiming that the
life-guarding equipment was not ade
quate.
DEATH TAKES "COUPLE
WHO NEVER PARTED
NEW YORK. May 4.—ln Woodlawn
cemetery yesterday were buried Mr.
and Mrs. Albert Knoche, who during
their thirty years of married life never
had been separated more than twenty
four hours at a time, and who both
died within five hours of each other.
R. 0. COCHRAN’S AUCTION
WILL BE HELD TODAY
Announcement was made by Ralph
O. Cochran this morning that the sale
advertised to take place at Hapeville
today at 2:30 o’clock would be held un
less actually raining at that hour.
The lots are level and a good many
of them right along the macadamized
road between Virginia avenue and the
depot.
Forty-two lots and a seven-room cot
tage wH! be offered. A large crowd is
expected to attend this sale. The terms
of the sale have been made very easy.
N. Y. POLICEMAN FATALLY
SHOOTS BROTHER OFFICER
NEW YORK, May 4.—Pol’ceman M.
Dowlani, of the Far Rockaway station,
was, accidentally shot and fatally
wounded in the dormitory of the sta
tion house today. A. C. Atkins, an
other policeman, entered the apartment
where Dowland lay sleeping. In re
moving his uniform, hjs revolver swung
against an open door and was dis
charged. The bullet struck Dowland
in the mouth, inflicting a mortal in
jury.-
CRAWFORD COUNTY.
Ordinary, R. H. Culverhouse; clerk
of court, K. P Lowe; sheriff, W. H
Seagler; tax receiver, O. C. Prince, tax
collector, Jack Brown; treasurer. B. A.
Childs; surveyor, J. C. Moody; coroner,
J E. Shurley; county commissioners,
L. E. Hudson. E. W. Sandefur, W. E.
Chamoion. Sr.
Read For Profit—GEORGIAN WANT ADS —Use For Results
MMIINGAY
ATTIRE FOR
GREATEST
REUNION
Thousands From All Over the
Country to Attend Gathering
of the Boys in Gray.
FAIREST DAUGHTERS OF
SOUTH WILL TAKE PART
Sponsors, Maids of Honor, and
Matrons All Chosen—Line-
Up of the Great Parade.
MACON, GA., May 4.—The soldiers
in gray and their children and grand
children will revive the memories of
the Confederacy at the South's great
est annual gathering in Macon next
week, beginning Monday. Already
Macon is thronged by thousands of
visitors, and every train brings hordes
of others.
Advices received by local railroad
agencies indicate a. phenomenal sale of
tickets in all parts of the country, as
the cheap rates are nation-wide, and
point to the largest attendance in the
history of the reunion of the United
Confederate Veterans. No less than 27
special trains from the states of Texas
Arkansas and Oklahoma have already
started on their journey across the
South.
The United Sons of Confederate Vet
erans assemble first, commencing their
annual reunion Monday night. For the
first time the Sons will have an en
campment, more than 4,000 tents hav
ing been erected for them at Central
City park, which is also the home of
the Georgia State fair. These tents are
in the half-mile track.
Sons of Veterans
In Great Parade.
The feature address at the organi
zation meeting of the Sons of Veterans
will be by Colonel Robert Edward Lee,
Jr., of Virginia. The second day of
this convention will be devoted entire
ly to business. The third day the
Sons will meet with the veterans, their
fathers and grandfathers, and on
Thursday, the fourth day, they will par
cipate in the grand parade. The Sons
are comamnded by General Nathan
Bedford Forrest, of Memphis, Tenn.
The veterans assemble on Tuesday
morning for the organization of the
convention. They will be welcomed to
Macon by Miss Grace Lumpkin, of Co
lumbia. S. C., who is Macon’s official
sponsor. Other addresses of welcome
will be delivered by Governor Brown.
Mrs. Walter D. Lamar, Hon Roland
Ellis, and Mayor John T. Moore. The
response tyill be by Commander-in-
Chlef C. Irvine Walker, of Charleston.
S. C.
Tuesday night there will be an ad
dress by Miss Mildred Rutherford, of
Athens, and the annual oration by Col
onel Wallace W. Screws, of Montgom
ery, Ala.
The feature of the Wednesday ses
sion of the veterans will be the memo
rial service, when especial tributes will
be paid to the late General Clement
A. Evans, of Atlanta, and the late
George W. Gordon, of Memphis, both of
whom held the office of commander
in-chief.
On the morning of the third day. the
election of officers will take place.
Genera! Bennett H. Young, of Louis
ville. Ky., commanding the army of
Tennessee, is expected to be chosen
commander-in-chief, and General W.
B. Halderman. of Louisville, Ky., com
manding the Kentucky division, lieu
tenant commander. In this event, the
present commander. General C. Irvine
Walker, will be made honorary com
mander-in-chief.
Boys and Girls
Join With Veterans.
The great parade will be the prin
cipal event of Thursday. In line will
be not less than 16.000 veterans, 10,000
Sons of Veterans, one thousand mem
bers of the Georgia National Guard,
who will be in camp here during the
reunion; the cadets from several mili
tary schools, the high school boys and
girls of Macon, 40 bands, and nearly
3,000 sponsors, maids, chaperons and
matrons. For this parade over 700 au
tomobiles, 800 carriages and 900 horses
have been engaged..
At the park, in the mile track, will
be the 12.000 ten’s loaned by the gov
ernment for the accommodation of the
veterans. The veterans will he served
Continued on Page Three.
ATLANTA. GA.. SATURDAY, MAY 4,
THE GREAT REPUBLICAN MARATHON
Teddy Still Running—By T. E. POWERS.
Copyright, 1912, by International News Service.
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Professional Pickpocket Says
Since He’s Been Square the
World’s Against Him.
■'Daniel Brooks, alias Daniel Tass,
alias Daniel Edwards, alias Daniel
Kane, alias Daniel Brookins, alias Dan
iel Davis, alias 'Big Dan,’” called Re
corder Broyles from his bench.
A tell, red-headed man stepped out
of the crowd.
"Yes, sir; that's my name,” he an
swered.
Has Long Record.
Detective George Bullard exhibited to
the court a long typewritten record of
“Big Dan’s" career. With the same
alacrity with which he admitted his
.many names, the stranger said the rec
ord was correct, confessing that he is a
professional pickpocket, has traveled
extensively over the country, and has
done time in several jails and peniten
tiaries.
“Big Dan” blew into Atlanta several
days ago, and was arrested by Detec
tive Bullard as a suspicious character
At the time he was trying to dispose
of some jewelry.
The record obtained by the detec
tive showed that the man had been ar
rested in Philadelphia, twice in Cleve
land, in Buffalo, in Erie, Pa., in In
dianapolis, in New Oneans. in Youngs
town, Ohio, and Elyria. Ohio. He was
released last August from the Easton
penitentiary in Pennsylvania, where he
had served five years for picking pock
ets.
“Your honor, I can’t beat that rec
ord.” said “Big Dan" gloomily. "I have
tried hard to get honest work, but my
record always floors me. I have had
several different jobs, but have always
been discharged. As soon as the boss
finds out who I am it’s all off. I'm
fired. That’s why I've got so many
names. I want to hide my record and
go to work I'll work foqjanyone who'll
give me a job. and be on the square,
too. I assure you. judge, 1 havel t
pulled a crooked job since I got out
of the pen last August. If I had I
would have money and a lawyer.”
He admitted he Is an undesirable
citizen, and said he didn’t blame the of
fleers and the court for being suspi
cious of him.
Judge Broyles sent him to the Tower
for vagrary ■' In default of SSOO bond.
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ZFASTEST AUTO RACERS:
: IN GREAT free-for-all:
• No. Car. Driver. •
» 20 Stutz .Dave Lewis •
• 21 Stutz .. .Earl Cooper •
• 22 Fiat Barney Oldfield •
s 23 Flat ..Teddy Tetzlaff •
» 24 Fiat Caleb Bragg •
e 25 Benz David Bruce-Brown •
e 26 Simplex Bert Dingey •
• Distance, 303.12 miles—36 times •
e around the 8.417-mile course. •
• Start 1 p. m. •
150 Men Seek to Earn
$25 by Selling Their
Blood for Transfusion
NEW YORK, May 4.—More than 150
men of ail nationalities, their thread
bare clothes betraying their need, be
sieged Lebanon hospital from 5 a. m.
until 1 p. m,, seeking to earn $25 in
exchange for their blood. They came
in response to an advertisement to
day which read:
MEN WANTED—Strong, healthy
men for a blood transfusion.
Twenty-five dollars compensation.
Apply at Lebanon hospital between
10 and 11 o’clock today.
Blood transfusion is the last hope of
saving the life of Mrs Y Herrmann. 32
years old. Last Wednesday Mrs. Herr
mann fell from the fourth story of the
apartment in which she Ilves to the
yard below and fractured her skull. She
lost a great quantity of blood, and her
physician has to have recourse to blood
transfusion to save her. .
JOHN SHARP WILLIAMS
HAS A HEART OF GOLD
WASHINGTON, May 4.—Some one
sent Senator John Sharp Williams a
few hundred dollars (Confederate
money) which had been lying in a Mis
sissippi attic since that little confer
ence between Lee and Grant at Ap
pomatpx.
Witn his pockets full of this money,
Williams was hastening by th® nearest
and most direct route to attend the
session of a committee on irrigasfon
which meets daily near Fifteenth street,
when a. man who had "the sad look"
stopped him and asked for enough to
buy a lunch.
SPEED KINGS OFF
INBIGAUTDRAGE
Over 100.000 Persons Witness
Spectacular Start of Drivers
at Santa Monica.
SANTA MONICA, CAL.. May 4
This city is sped mad today. From
early morning automobiles streamed to
the beach town from ail over southern
California, carrying eager spectators to
see the country’s famous drivers send
their cars over the 101 miles, the 151
miles and the 303 miles to be covered
in the light car race, the medium car
race and the free-for-all. It is the
blue ribbon event of the Western motor
world. These three events comprise
the annua! Santa Monica road race.
Points of vantage and preferred
parking places were pre-emptied early
and before Starter Fred Wagner was
ready to give the word for the small
and medium cars to be on their way
at 10:30 a. m , it was estimated that
100,000 were at the course.
In the medium and- light car races,
run off simultaneously, sixteen entries
were gotten away at fifteen-second in
tervals. To Ear! Devore, driving a
Buick, fell in the honor of starting as
No. 1.
The Big Race.
The grand climax of the day’s rac
ing came in the free-for-all, starting at
1 o’clock. The race carries the Dick
Ferris trophy and a cash prize of $3,000.
Because of his phenomenal workout
of the elght-mile course in five’minutes
and forty-seven seconds, David Bruce-
Brown in his Benz was favorite. Ralph
DePalma, driving a Mercer, was held
favorite in the medium car race.
All of the eight entrants in the light
car event were thought to have a
chance to win.
Harvey Herrick, who is at present
piloting The Examiner Case pathfinder
across the ’ continent, won last year's
free-for-all race, establishing a world’s
record, with an average speed of 74.93
miles an hour.
EXTRA
PT? TCF. • On Trains, FIVE CENTS.
J. At i anUi TWO CENTS.
20,D00M
39G. HATS IN
SUFFRAGE
ME
Cheap Headgear Is the Em
blem of Democracy in Great
Demonstration.
CHINESE WOMEN RIDE
HORSES IN PROCESSION
1.000 Men Take Part—Roose
velt Shied at Leading Them.
World Represented. .<■
NEW YORK. May 4.—Twenty thoua
sand women, wearing 39-cent hats as a
sign of their democracy, prepared to
day to march through the streets of
New York as a demonstration for
“votes for women.” The parade was
scheduled to start at 4 p. m.
The procession will be the most re
markable demonstration of its kind
ever held in America. Nearly 1.000
men, husbands and sons of the women
paraders. volunteered to appear in the
male section of the procession.
Mrs. Harriet Stanton Blatch was ona
of the notable exceptions in reapect to
hats. She wore a Vassar college cap.
Colonel Theodore Roosevelt was in-,
vited to lead the men in the parade,
but he declined, saying that he was
otherwise engaged. The Colonel is tn
Maryland on a campaign trip.
Chinese Women
As Suffragettes.
The demonstration takes a strong in
ternational tinge from the fact that
women of several nations volunteered
to take part. Among the foreign na
tions represented are England, China,
France, Germany and Finland. The
Finish women showed their spirit of in
dependence by refusing to march un
der the Russian flag.
The smallest suffragettes are Marie
Soitz. Madeline Ball, Marie Moore,
Gertrude Melch, Helen Singleton and
Helen Falconer. These little girls,
ranging in age from 7 to 10, are mem
bers of “The Rose Maid” company. >
Mrs. Loo Lin, "the boss of China
town,” represented China. Not only
did she volunteer to appear, but she
consented to ride a horse "astride.” Mrs, ■ '
Wllston-Fhurchill. wife of the novelist,
arrived here at the head of a delega- ,
tlon of New Hampshire suffragettes,
all bursting with enthusiasm. MIS 3
Fola LaFoilette, an actress, and daugh
ter of Senator LaFollette, of Wiscon
sin. consented to lead a detachment of
Wisconsin suffragettes. Mme. Greg- j
ory headed a delegation of European ■
women. She had also written a num
ber of suffragette songs.
A late recruit to the parade waa
Miss White, of Syracuse. N. Y., daugh
ter of Mrs. Leonard White, and a
niece of former Lieutenant Governor
Horace ’White.
There were suffragettes of every de
scription and color, from equal right
ers of the Carrie Nation type and
those who ran long on lingerie and
French heels. Likewise were there
suffragettes of every shade, from ala
baster whiteness to deepest black, in- I
eluding the various gradations of tan, ;
brown, yellow, mottled and African
smoke.
Mottled Sisters, Too.
The mottled suffrage sisters were s
freckled, of course, but the tan, brown s
and pure African belong to a squad I
of negresses. organized and led by Mrs. 7
Albert Plimpton, while the yellow !
shades adorned marchers from the far 1
off land of China.
These parti-colored advocates of |
equal suffrage, however, paled to insig- g
nlflcence beside the doughty Miss Tin- 7
ker and her cavalcade of equestriennes, 8
all of whom were mounted upon beau- J
tifully caparisoned horses thoughtfully 4
provided with hinders. This cavalry |
squad was comprised of the flower of
New York suffrage, and in its ranks
were Miss Inez Mulholland. Miss Mabel
Lee. the Chinese suffragist; Mrs. Paid- >
ing Famum, the sculptress; Mrs. Wil- '
Ham Bracher. and Mrs. Richard S.
Chisholm. Theirs was the only head
dress not of the 39-cent denomination. ,
It was composed of three-cornered ’
black straw, with a tri-cofored cockade
in purple, green and white, and. cost
almost 59 cents. Ss