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THE WEATHER.
Forecast for Atlanta and Georgia:
Showers today; generally fair to
morrow.
VOL. X. NO. 238.
WAR OPENS
TO SMASH
STEEL
TROST
Theodore Roosevelt To Be
Called as Witness to Tell
of the Deal.
MORGAN, ROCKEFELLER
AND CARNEGIE NAMED
Big Corporation Lawyers on
Hand for Great Battle—The
Taft-T. R. Break Figures.
NEW YORK, May 6.—-Prominent cor
poration lawyers and men high In the
affairs of the world of big business
gathered in the customs house today
for the opening of the government’s
suit for the dissolution of the United
States Steel Corporation, Henry T.
Brown, the examiner appointed by the
United States circuit court, had all ar
rangements made to begin taking tes
timony in the action this morning.
In all probability Theodore Roosevelt
will be a witness when the absorption
of the Tennessee Coal and Iron Com
pany comes up in the proceedings.
It is expected that the hearings here
will last two months, and more wit
nesses win be called than in either the
Standard Oil or the American Tobacco
Company cases. The Suit will even
tually be carried to the United States
supreme court, no rriltter which way
th" circuit court disposes of it.
Most Sweeping
Anti-Trust Action.
This suit is the most sweeping anti
trust action ever brought by the gov
ernment. It was filed at Trenton on
October 26 last. The government asks
not only for the dissolution of the
United States Steel Corporation, but of
its 36 subsidiary companies as well. It
is alleged that they all have combined
to “maintain or attempt to maintain a
monopoly of the steel business.”
Among the prominent defendants
who are named individually are J. P.
Morgan. John D. Rockefeller, Andrew
Carnegie, Charles M. Schwab. George
W. Perkins. E. H Gary, John D. Rocke
feller. Jr., Henry ('. Frick. Charles
Steele. James Gayley, William H.
Moore. J. H. Moore, E. C. Converse,
Percival Roberts. Jr.. Daniel G. Reid.
Norman B. Ream. P. A. B. Widener
and William P. Palmer.
Roosevelt Misled,
They Declare
The government's petition is filled
with sensational allegations. It de
nounces the steel corporation's acquisi
tion of the Tennessee Coal and Iron
Company during the panic of 1907, and
declares that former President Roose
velt was misled in that direction by E.
K. Gary and Henry C. Frick when they
told him “that but little benefit will
come to the steel corporation from the
purchase."
This feature of the case is of par
ticular interest just now, because many
believe it was the allegation about the
former president, which he later vigor
ously denounced, that caused the final
break between him and President Taft,
whom he held responsible for it. and
because in a statement issued last night
ex-President Roosevelt charges that
President Taft repeatedly and emphat
ically approved of his course in up
holding the Tennessee Coal and Iron
deal.
LAWSUITS FIRST. THEN
A DUEL FOR ZEPPELIN
BERLIN. May 6.—Count Zeppelin,
the builder and operator of airships,
has challenged Theodore Lerner, who
was secretary for the Zeppelin Arctic
expedition, to a duel, but the matter
has not yet been decided, pending the
outcome of several lawsuits between
the' principals.
SAN FRANCISCO MAY
HAVE 9-MILE BRIDGE
LOS ANGELES. May 6.—With the
passage of a bill by the United States
senate granting Allan C. Rush, a Los
Angeles engineer, a right of way across
Goat Island, the first step was made
toward the execution of the plans for
Spanning San Francisco bay with a
S26,o«ii.oo<\ suspension bridge. It is to
be the longest in the world.
The bridge as planned will be nine
and a half miles in length. It will be
suspended 150 feet above the water
level, thus admitting vessels without
interruption to traffic.
The Atlanta Georgian
Read For Profit—GEORGIAN WANT ADS—Use For Results
Veteran of 72 Walks
932 Miles to Reunion;
He's Seeking a Bride
MACON, GA., May 6.—Though scar
red by time and tried in the fires of
war, J. C. Williamson, a Confederate
veteran, of Louisville., Texas, aged 73
years, says he is not too old to marry
a Georgia girl if he can find one that
will have him.
FOr the two-fold purpose of seeking
such and attending the reunion, Mr.
Williams has walked exactly 932 miles.
He began his trip from Louisville Feb
ruary 26. He landed in Macon last
Saturday, none the worse for wear,
with a twinkle in his eye and youth
in his heart.
“I’m like the giant who. every time he
was thrown to the ground, got up with
renewed strength,” said the veteran as
he told his story. “I’ve been getting
younger ever since I was one day old.
When I went to war I was filled with
myself. When I finished some of my
self had gone, and I felt mighty sad
for a while. But I’m here now, and
I’m here principally because they say
that Georgia is the dimple of the uni
verse. I could tell when I hit the
Georgia line by the pretty women I
saw.”
When pressed for further informa
tion, both as to his journey and his
quest for a wife, he waved away his
inquisitors.
“I’ve found out that talking and good
looks don’t always win a woman. So I
am going to do something else. I’m
going to station myself right in the
principal part of town until I see the
girl I want. Then I’m going to find
out if she wants me."
The girl he wants will look like this,
says Mr. Wiliams:
She will be plump and merry; she
will have some sense, but not too much;
she will laugh most of the time, but
she will know how to cry; she will
wear white, with a rose in her hair,
but she must look well in widowss weeds,
for there is no calculating when she
will have to wear them. She mustn’t
know a thing about cooking, nor must
she have talent of any sort. Last, but
not least, she must have a dimple in
her chin.
SARTORIAL LONDON
IS CRIPPLED WHILE
ITS TAILORS STRIKE
LONDON. May 6—The strike of the
London tailors spread - rapidly today,,
and at noon it was estimated that 20.-
000 men and wd’men were out. The
leaders delared that they would make
the strike one of national scope, tying
up business in every city in the
United Kingdom, if.they could.
Fashionable West End firms are
crippled to the extent that they have
had to cancel thousands of dollars
worth of orders today. Rich American
tourists who are here for spring and
summer clothing will have to make
their purchases either in New York or
somewhere on the continent.
DALTON FOR CHATTANOOGA
AS REUNION CITY IN 1913
DALTON, GA., May 6.—Miss Euge
nia Bitting has been chosen sponsor
and Miss Will D. Watles maid by the
Frank Jackson camp No. 671, United
Sons of Confederate Veterans. The
camp also chose the following repre
sentatives for the Macon reunion this
week:
Delegates, W. M. Graves. J. P. Mc-
Knight and J. E. Russell; alternates,
C. D. McCutchen, F. T. Reynolds and
M. C. Tarver.
The camp completed its organization
by electing the following officers:
M. C. Tarver, second.lieutenant com
mander; J. C. Fincher, treasurer; Rev.
J. E. Russell, chaplain; W. M. Sapp,
historian, and H. L. Erwin, color guard.
The camp will send a good delegation
to the reunion and will vote for Chat
tanooga as the reunion city for 1913.
THOMASTON SOON TO HAVE
WATER AND SEWER SERVICE
THOMASTON, GA.. April 6 —Despite
the fact that the continued rainy
weather for the past four months has
delayed work on the $50,000 water and
sewer system here, it is rapidly near
ing completion. C. W. Murray & Co.,
who have the contract, have had a
large ditching machine in use and have
practically completed the water and
sewer mains.
The 100,000-gallon tank, which will
be more than 100 feet high, will be
erected by the R. D. Cole Company,
of Newman. The settling basin and
pumping stations are being rapidly
pushed. The city has contracted -with
the Pittsburg Meter Company for me
ters. Plumbers are now busy install
ing equipment, and it is expected that
more than fifty families will have wa
ter and sewer connections the day the
systems are completed.
The city council has fixed the water
rate at $1 per month for 4.000 gallons.
POLITICS ACTIVE IN MURRAY.
DALTON. GA. May 6—Murray
county politics has opened up in ear
nest. four new candidates entering the
field for count-} offices. The race for
tax receiver has assumed the inter
esting stage D. W. Bond, Sam Hig
don and G. L. Moore have announced.
The other county candidates are G. T.
Smith, for tax collector; J. M. Camp
bell. for ordinary; W. B. Robinson, for
superior court clerk, and R. T. Spring
field, for treasurer.
WARRANTFOR
POTTS AS HE
QUITS GOT
Will Be Arrested for Slaying
Harper as He Leaves the
Grady Hospital.
SELF-DEFENSE TO BE
ACCUSED MAN’S PLEA
Has Recovered Sufficiently to
Quit Doctor’s Care—Plans
Fight for Bail.
Kell Potts, of 21 East Fifth street,
who killed C. Richard Harper in a knife
duel in Manhattan avenue last Thurs
day, will be released from Grady hos
pital this afternoon. A warrant charg
ing him with murder will be served on
him as he leaves the ward and he will
be held at the county jail, unless bond
is granted.
Chief Beavers, of the Atlanta police,
was notified today that Potts had re
covered from his wounds sufficiently to
permit his discharge from the hospital.
The chief instructed Chief Lanford, of
the detective department, to go before
Justice R. B. Ridley and swear out a
warrant charging Potts with murder.
Potts has asserted that Harper at
tacked him first, and he will enter’a
plea of self-defense. Under the cir
cumstances it is possible that Justice
Ridley will permit him to be released
on bond.
KING SOON TOMAKE
ANDREW CARNEGIE
AN ITALIAN COUNT
ROME, May 6.—The American am
bassador has handed over to the direct-
Bap-K-Qt Italy jiUfc rep-
resenting 3,937,300 Iwfs (about yf/ir;-
000), being Andrew Carnegie’s gift for
the foundation of an Italian hero fund.
It is reported in well informed circles
here that the king has asked Mr. Car
negie to accept the title of count.
WIFE SAYS HUSBAND
DESERTED HER FOR
TOOTHLESS AFFINITY
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MILWAUKEE, May 6.—Charles
Rave, charged with abandonment by
his wife, was placed on probation for
one month by Judge Neelen. His wife
accused Rave of having an affinity who
is “cross-eyed and toothless.”
DEAD NEGRO LEFT IN
DEPOT WAITING ROOM
WEST POINT, GA.. Miy 6.—When
Lewis Norman, a young white man of
this town, entered the waiting room of
the Atlanta and West Point passenger
station Saturday night, he found a dead
negro. The body was that of an un
known! man who had been killed by
Atlanta and West Point passenger
train No. 37, just about 8 o’clock Sat
urday night. Several men were stand
ing near the negro when he was struck,
and picked his body up and carried it
in the station, where it was left alone
during the entire night.
NEW RACE OFFISH BRED
BY OPENING OF CANAL
WASHINGTON. Mav 6.—The pisca
torial experts of the Smithsonian in
stitution say that the Panama canal
will have the effect of intermixing the
fish fauna of the Atlantic and Pacific
oceans.
LINOTYPE kYnglsTn RENO
FOR DIVORCE AND OUTING
RENO. NEV.. May 6—Philip T.
Dodge, president of the Mergrnthaler
Linotype Company, is in Reno with the
avowed Intention of securing a divorce.
He says he will keep open house for the
divorce colony.
vet takestenthwife
AFTER FIVE DIVORCES
LITTLE ROCK. ARK.. May 6.—Sam •
uel J. Killow, of Imboden, has just
taken his tenth wife. She is Mrs.
Frankie Crawford. Killow is a Confed
erate veteran. Five of his wives were
divorced from him.
SECOND-RATE REMBRANDT
BRINGS EXCELLENT PRICE
PARIS. May 6.—Rembrandt's famous
picture. “Woman Plucking a Fowl.” the
most important painting In Madame
Levaigneur's collection, was sold at auc- 1
tion recently at the Hotel Hrouot furl
$95,000. The purchaser was Klelnberger. I
NO CORNERSTONE TODAY.
The cornerstone of the George W.
Adair school, in Highland avenue, will '
not be laid this afternoon, as an
nounced. The ceremonies have been
postponed until next Thursday after
noon.
ATLANTA, GA., MONDAY. MAY 6, 1912.
THOUSMIJSIN
MUM FOB
REUNION
War Times Recalled as Grizzled
Veterans Gather From All
Over Dixie.
HUNDREDS OF SOUTH'S
PRETTIEST GIRLS THERE
Tented City Rises For Heroes
of '61 —Many Gay Festiv
ities Planned.
MACON, GA.. May 6.—Special trains
and extra coaches on every regular
train from every section of the South
are pouring thousands of visitors into
Macon today for the twenty-second an-
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nual reunion of the United Confederate
Veterans and the annual gatherings of
the kindred organization*, the United
Sons of Confederate Veterans and the
Confederate Memorial association.
Grizzled old veterans who fought for
the South for four long years In the
sixties—this one minus a leg, that one
an arm. this one bent with age, that
one crippled ’from an old wound —are
here to revive and perpetuate the mem
ories of their war days. Knot* of the
old soldiers are gathered in every ho
tel lobby, on the street corners, in the
veterans’ camp, and at other public
places, retelling their experiences of
half a century ago.
Tattered old battle flags are unfurled,
and the old soldiers point with pride to
the bullet Holes in them. They tell
of how the flags were carried over the
ramparts at First and Second Manas
sas. through the ’Wilderness, at Pe
tersburg, up Lookout mountain, on
Chickamauga, through Georgia to At
lanta. in the Mississippi campaign and
the Red river country. And with tear
dimmed eyes they caress the old ban
ners as they recount the last days at
Appomattix.
South’s Prettiest
Girls All There.
But the old veterans are not the only
ones in Macon. Thousands of the pret
tiest girls of the South, named as
sponsors and maids of honor, are com
ing in for the social festivities inci
dent to reunion week. They are at
tracted by the parade, balls and other
affairs in which they will play conspic
uous parts.
In Central City park is a vivid re
minder of war days. Hundreds of tents
have been pitched here, and the old
veterans not able to get accommoda
tions in hotels boarding houses or pri
vate homes will live in camp during
the week. The camp was opened and
dedicated yesterday when the flag was
raised over the tented city. It is John
B. Gordon camp; yarned in honor of
that famous Georgfkn who so long was
commander-ln-chief of the veterans.
As the flag was hoisted, bands played,
the veterans cheered and enthusiasm
was unbounded.
United Confederate
Choirs Will Sing.
The reunion actually begins tomor
row morning at 10 o’clock, when Gen
eral John W. Maddox, commander of
the Georgia division. U. C. V., calls the
veterans to order in the auditorium at
Central City park. Just before this, as
the veterans are assembling, the nu
merous bands will play Southern airs—
Dixie, Suwanee River, old Kentucky
Home. Maryland. My Maryland, Bonnie
Blue F'lag and all the others the South
loves so well.
Dr. it. I.ln Cave, of Nashville, chap
lain general of the U. c. V.. will pro
nounce the opening invocation, followed
by song selections by the United Con
federate choirs.
Colonel Walter A. Harris. . g Macon
veteran and chairman of the reunion
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CATCH 'EM ALL
George Ware, of Ware & Harper,
stepped off a car at Auburn avenue and
Peachtree street early today Half way
to the sidewalk he was met by two
girls, both breathless and both impor
tuning that he buy something.
"What is it? What is ft?" asked Mr.
Ware, and he looked as abashed as any
man under the circumstances, could
look.
"Oh, buy a tag! Please buy one of
our tags!”
A btoad smile illuminated his face
and he slipped his hand into his pocket,
willing to help out the Sheltering Arms
and then forgetting all about the cause
of the charity in the bright faces that
importuned him. Miss Willie Cum
mings, daughter of Fire Chief Cum
mings, and. her sister-in-law. Mrs H
B. Cummings, were stationed at the
corner selling tags to the thousands of
persons who pass there daily
Mr. Wares hand came out of his
pocket. A bill was in It. He dug down
into another pocket, but instead of any
coin, all he cbuld find was another bill.
"Wait Just a minute." he said, and
away he dashed to the neatest soda
fountain The clerk handed out change
for a five, and. dropping half a dollar
into the little bucket held out to him.
Mr. Ware started to cross the street. He
had bought a tag and was secure. But
on the next corner the same process
>as repeated. This time he contented
himself with a smaller coin and adorn
ed with a tag on either lapel of his
coat, he went on unmolested.
Miss Etta Hardeman to Bear
Stars and Bars Aloft at
Macon.
Miss Etta Hardeman, of 491 North
Boulevard, will bear the Stars and Bars
of the Confederacy at the head of the
Georgia cavalry brigade at Macon in
the reunion parade next Thursday. She
was appointed by Commander E. G.
Gilmore, of Milner.
Miss Hardeman, who is an accom
plished horsewoman, is one of 25 maids
of honor appointed for the reunion. She
was chosen for the honor of bearing the
handsome new stahdard to be present
ed to the cavalry brigade by the maids
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Miss Etta Hardeman, of 491
North Boulevard, will lead the
Georgia cavalry brigade at the
great Macon reunion, bearing
aloft the Stars and Bars,
of honor as a reward for her zeal in
securing funds for the flag. She will
ride at the head of the brigade, clad in
Confederate gray, and will afterward
present the flag to General Gilmore,
who will receive it in the name of his
comrades.
Miss Hardeman is the daughter of A.
J. Hardeman, of Gainesville, Ga., who
served under Johnston and later under
I Lee. being among those who witnessed <
the end of the uneven struggle ndth the
surrender at Appomattox. Miss Susie
Woodward, of Atlanta, will be a maud
of honor in the parade.
SECOND FUNERAL
SHIP INJLffI
HALIFAX, May 6.—With her flags at
half-mast as indicative of her mournful
mission, the cable ship Minia. which
succeeded the Mackay-Bennett in the
search for bodies of the Titanic disas
ter victims off the Newfoundland
Grand Banks, arrived in port to day with
fifteen corpses on board. Seventeen
bodies in all had been picked up
Minia, but of these two were buried at
sea.
Among the bodies on board the ship
was that of Charles M. Hays, late pres
ident of the Grand Trunk railway.
The Minia landed at the same gov
ernment pier as had been used by the
Mackay-Bennett when she brought her
burden of 190 corpses into port. The
coming of the Minia. which had been
announced in advance by wireless, oc
casioned little excitement and only a
handful of persons were at the dock to
welcome her
Half a dozen hearses and ambulances
were drawn up in line at the pier when
the ship was warped in and no time
was lost in getting the bodies off the
vessel and on their way to the morgue
in Mayflower curling rink. There was
a heavy police guard about the pier.
EXTRA
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PPTUF- O" Trains, FIVE CENTS.
X i n Atlanta. TWO CENTS
GRAND JURY
TAKES UP
GRACE
CASE
Accused Woman in the Towefl
as the Famous Shooting
Is Considered.
FEW WITNESSES ARE
CALLED TO TESTIFY]
Dr. Goldsmith, on Stand, Telia
Inquisitors About Eugene’s
Wounds.
The case of Mrs. Daisy Grafft,
charged by her husband with attempt'
to murder him, was taken up today by ]
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the newly organized Fulton county ;
grand Jury and is now being considered 1
by that body. It is expected that the
testimony will occupy but a short time, i
as only the evidence of the prosecution . ’
is heard and comparatively few wit
nesses are to be examined. Mrs. Grace
will not appear before the grand jury.
R. J. Guinn was chosen foreman of A
the new Jury which began its term to
day. After a charge by Judge Ellis, i
which did not touch upon the Grace
case, the members went to their room
and immediately called in Dr. W. S.
Goldsmith, one of the surgeons at
tendant upon Eugene Grace when he
was taken to St. Josephs infirmary im- *
mediately after the shooting. Two de- '.A
tectives and several others who had
been present when Grace made his >,?
ante-mortem statement were in at
tendance at the courthouse, ready to
give their testimony.
Nine Weeks Tomorrow
Since Grace was Shot.
The accused wife has led an exciting
life since her husband accused her of
shooting him on March 5 in their home
in West Eleventh street. Mrs. Grace j
spent that night in the police station.
From the quiet little Quaker girl of a j
few years ago she had been transformed
into a prisoner accused of a heinous
crime. Since that time, nine weeks ago,
she has been the center of interest in
Georgia.
Mis. Grace obtained bond the next '
morning, but the following afternoon S
she was rearrested, on account of the
serious condition of her husband. This
time she was placed in the Tower and
remained there two weeks. And here
the accused woman had her first expe
rience as a real prisoner. At the police s
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