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VOL. X. NO. 254.
1 MARINES
ORDERED TO
SAILFDfI
CUBA
U. S. Jackies to Enlarge Force
Now at the Guantanamo
Naval Station.
HAVANA IS EXCITED OVER
TALK OF INTERVENTION
President Gomez Denies Revolt
Has Gotten Beyond Control
of His Government.
WASHINGTON. May 23.—Five hun
dred marines were ordered to sail from
the League Island navy yard. Philadel- 1
phia. on the Prairie today, to join th’
force now at the United States nava
station at Guantanamo, Cuba. The :
force is under the command of Colom . |
Lincoln Karmany.
It was officially announced by the ’
government that Estenoz and Yvonet.
two chief leaders of the rebellious ne
groes. had asked for a conference with j
the government and that it had been i
refused. President Gomez says he will t
accept nothing but unconditional sur- '
render from the negroes. Senor Lare- i
do. secretary of state, declared today
that .the revolt would be crushed out
before night.
The order was issued by Secretary
of the Navy Meyer, acting on a request
from the state department. Rush ,or
der? a |«o were issued today to naval
stations along the Atlantic coast to hold ,
*•' all marines in readiness for immediate
movement
Gunboats Ordered
Cleared for Action.
Wireless orders were sent from Key
West to the gunbots Nashville and Pa
ducah. noiv at Guantanamo, to clear for
action and place themselves in position
to pro.iec American interests at that
point. Today’s movement of marines
followed close!} on the receipt of dis
turbing dispatches from Guantanamo,
which stated Miat 3.000 aimed negroes
B , : . mr Ulic? toward the United States
resjrvation. pillaging and burning ns
they go. A number of important Amer
ican interests in the neighborhood of
Guantanamo and Santiago already have
made representation to the department
that their p.opcrty is bring seized and
th. lives of their employees endangered
and have requested that the government
of the United States provide adequate
protection for them.
In view of these appeals, th* state
department today transmitted to Pres
ident Gomez, through Minister Reau
lit. the statement t.iat the I nited
States, while undesirous of interfering
in Cuban affairs, must demand that the
naval station at Guantanamo, together;
with the lives and property of Ameri
can citizens throughout the island, be
adequately protected.
Situation Serious
Officers Admit.
The Cuban gunboat Cuba, with 600
troops on board, is expected to arrive
at Guantanamo today. Jhe govern- I
ment. apparently unable to estimate the
strength of the insurrectionary senti
ment, has sent out forces by train to
Oriente provinces. The Cuban mili
tary authorities admit the situation is
extremely dangerous, but think they I
can control it.
The state department's action in ask
ing that marines be dispatched to
Guantanamo today is believed here to
be but the first move in a concerted
program of intervention in Cuba—an
■ intervention which practically would
mean annexation—as it was stated at
the close of the second military occu
pation of the island three years ago
that "if American troops ever have to
return to Cuba they would stay there.”
Washington Reports
Inflame Cubans
HAVANA. May 23.—Reports from
Washington that the United States is
again considering intervention in Cuba
because of conditions which have fol
lowed the negro uprising caused in
tense feeling throughout this city to
day President Gomez, in a public
statement, denied that the situation
has gotten beyond the Cuban govern
ment. He declared that he expected
to have the revolt in Oriente and Las
villa provinces under control within a
short time.
Rurales have been sent against the
armed negro hands and fighting is im
minent at several places in the inte
rim. Il is reported that a number of
whites have joined th< negroes and are
fighting under the banner of the in
surgents.
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The Atlanta Georgian 4 =
Read For Profit—GEORGIAN WANT ADS—Use For Results
Drinking Water Trust
Arrives in Atlanta;
Three Firms Merge
Even drinking water has come under
the rule of combination, and compe
tition is no more. The Atlanta Mineral
Water Supply Company has taken over
the old competing concerns—the Bow -
den company and the Benscot com
pany—an has an exclusive agency for
Tate Springs water, and now all lithia
sells at the same price and comes from
the same wagon. You can pay your
money and take your choice.
Atlanta drinks 1,000 gallons of lithia
water every day in the warm months
and pays an average price of fifteen
cents a gallon for the privilege. For
years the Bowden and the Benscot
companies have been rivals for Atlanta
business. The Benscot springs are
north of Austell. Ga.. while the Bow
den springs are a few miles south.
This season the stockholders of the
two companies got together and de
cided to make one wagon io do the
work of two. They consolidated, and
Guy Holcomb, who managed the Bow
den company, is now president of the
new concern. x
But the price of lithia water hasn’t
been boosted It remains at 75 cents
per three-gallon ease, and you have
your choice of brands.
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Shirtwaist Man Back
On Atlanta Streets;
Bit Late This Year
The shirtwaist man appeared in spots
on Atlanta streets today, and because
of his late advent created no ripple as
he might have done earlier in the sea
son.
When the custom first became estab
lished It was good form to wear only
a white shirt —this to please the ladies,
of course. It was soon discovered,
however, that a white shirt remained so
about five minutes, if the wearer hap
pened to be within a mile's radius of
the Peachtree viaduct. JEor that reason
it was decided that something a little
less attractive to Atlanta's choice col
lection of sooty soot would be worn in
the future.
Ereed from the hot embarrassment
of a coat, the shirtwaist man looked
very happy this morning, even though
a little lumpy in spots.
DR. WILEY PLEDGES BABY
TO WED PURE FOOD GIRL
WASHINGTON. May 23.-Dr. Har
vey W. Wiley has announced the for
mal engagement of his son, one week
old, to the daughter of Ft M. Allen,
pure food commisrione. of Kentucky
The bride-to-be is two years old.
LEE M’GLUNG
IN ATLANTA
HITS HEW
COINS
U. S. Treasurer Says One-Half
and 3-Cent Pieces Would
Be a Nuisance.
Lee McClung, treasurer of the United
Slaves, doesn't think the proposed half,
cent and three-cent coins will fill a
Jong-felt wani. or make file high price
of living any less altitudinous. He ,ari
so himself toduy. as he drove in with;
Robert F. Maddox from the former
mayor’s country home, on the way to a
luncheon given at lhe Capital City club
by Mr. Maddox to a number of visiting
bankers.
"The three-cent piece would be very
convenient in Cleveland, Ohio, where
they have three-ednt car fares," he de
clared. "and the half-cent coins might
every now and then be handy in a bar
gain sale, but the trouble they’d cause
would overbalance their convenience.
Think of the poor bookkeepers who
would have to struggle with adding up
half cents, and dividing odd amounts
by odd amounts Pounds, shillings and
pence wouldn’t be a circumstance.
The Parable of
The Dying Scotchman.
Once there was a Scotchman dying
in a London hospital, ami the attendant
desired to soothe bis last moments.
” ‘Can I do anything to make you
happy, Sandy?’ be asked.
" ‘lf 1 could but hear the bonnie bag
pipes skirl once again.’ said Sandy,
hopeful!}.
“So the doctor brought in a bag
piper and he made the rafters ring.
When he had skirled his last note the
doctor bent over Sandy and found the
crisis had passed The Scotchman was
growing well. But all the English pa
tients wa re dead
"That sums up tiie proposed new
i eoins. They might make happy the
few. hut they’d be a nuisance to the
The Geo'gja B inkers association
Continued On Page Two.
ATLANTA. GA., THURSDAY. MAY 23, 1912.
Dr. Hopkins to W ill Wealth to Namesake
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? with their million-dollar babies. It was not known until today that John Randolph Hopkins,
second (in the royal looking crib), was a miWion-dollar tot. as well as his tiny sister, Josephine
Dawreii"e Hopkins. Dr. -I. R. Hopkins, rieii Atlantan, plans to leave his wealth to his namesake.
BRINWSI.II.
IS W PICKING’
Governor Thinks Conservative
Democrat Can Beat Him on
Third-Term Sentiment.
Governor Joseph M. Brown thinks
Theodore Roosevelt’s nomination to the
presidency of the United States by the
Republican part} would be a most hap.
py circumstance for the Democrats.
The governor believes that a level
headed, reasonably conservative Demo
cratic nominee would "beat Mr. Roose
velt to a frazzle" in November.
“Unless I mistake the American peo
ple, the time has not yet come when 1
they are willing to throw to the winds |
their convictions with respect to the I
grave perils of a third tertn in the pres- I
idency for any man," declared the gov
ernor today. "1 still think that the
American people will hesitate before |
giving to Roosevelt what Washington |
refused and Grant was denied.
“Mr. Roosevelt spoke truly when from I
the white house in 1908 he proclaimed I
a dignified refusal to consider a third j
term for himself, and said that, al- !
though he had been elected only once. ■
yet the people in tiieir anti-third term ;
ideals respected the substance and not '
the form of things, and that he de- |
clined to be a party to the upsetting of
this wholesome precedent.
"Mr. Roosevelt's nomination by the j
R; publicans Would make Democratic |
success, if sensibi} nursued, an assured
thing in November," concluded the gov- I
ernor.
| Rich Atlantan Plans to Leave
His Fortune to Youngster
Named for Him.
Atlanta is to have a million-dollar
baby.
The suit brought against Russell Hop
kins, of Atlanta and New York, by the
grandmother of Mrs Hopkins, may bring
about a change in family arrangements
and send little Josephine Lawrence Hop
kins, the ‘’million-dollar baby." back to
■ her father and mother. And now that
trouble has arisen between the younger
that John Randolph Hupkins. 2d. who is
generation and the elrher. it is promised
just a year old. will be another “million
dollar baby," and a rival of his sister, for
Dr. J. R. Hopkins, of Atlanta, the baby's
grandfather, says his 'll will provide
for his young namesake
Dr. Hopkins refused to take seriously
the charges made by Mrs. T,awrence yes
! terday against bijj son. Russell, former I
! Atlantan and consul representing Panama
I here, who eloped several years ago with
; beautiful Vera Segrist. He«l up the Hudson
i with her on his yacht and married her
despite the objections of “old Mrs. Law
j rence" and his w ; fe, grandparents of the
| bride. Dr Hopkins believes that Mrs.
Lawrence has been deceived by attorneys
lor others into making charges against
I her granddaughter’s husband, and is con
| lident that everything will he straight
ened out.
Russell and Wife
Both Jim Dandies.
"Russell is all right." he said He was
: talking to a reporter on the shady ve
; randa of bis home at Peachtree and
i h’aker streets. “Russell may be a high
| roller, hut that's his business, and I’ve
I never heard anybody sax he was any
j thing but a good fellow and straight as a
; die. His wife is all right, too. Russell's
i a jim-dandy, and his wife's a jim-dandy. |
I They don’t have to wheedle money out j
iof Mrs. Lawrence or anybody else as
Continued on Page Two.
1 TWO BIG FORTUNES
WERE COMBINED BY
HOPKINS MARRIAGE i
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The wedding of Russell Hop- j
kins and Vera Seagrist com
bined two great fortunes. The
wealth of its members is esti
mated at : ,
Mrs. Josephine Law-
rence $1,000,000
Dr. J. R. Hopkins . 2,500,000
I Mrs. Russell Hopkins 1,500,000
Josephine L. Hopkins
(will get) 1,000.000
John R. Hopkins II
(will get) 1,000,000
By the time the two children
are of age. the rather large for
tune already in store for them
will be materially increased.
The estate of Dr. Hopkins, the
grandfather, is splendidly in
vested, and that on the moth
i er's side is in a capably adtnin
i istered trust.
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BIG PRISON I IRE
LOOKS LIKE PLOT
Factory Burns at Chicago. Im
periling Hundreds in Cells.
Guards Prevent Escapes.
CHICAGO, May 23.—An. investigation
of a tire which burned the broom fac
tory at the Bridewell apd threatened
the lives of hundreds of prisoners early
today has been begun by the county
authorities.
It has been rumored that the fire
was incendiary and was part of a plot
for a wholesale delivery of prisoners.
The burned factory was 30 feet from
two cell houses in which 1.000 prison
ers were confined. Dense volumes of
smoke poured through the barred win
dows of the cell house.
It is the belief of the authorities that
the fire may have been started in order
to force a transfer of prisoners to an
other cel! building and that in the con
fusion a break for liberty would be
made. The prisoners at the Bridewell
do not wear stripes.
The prisoneres were ordered by the
guards to lie flat on the floor. Careful
watch was kept to begin the transfer if
it became actually necessary, but the
fire was extinguished before the lives
of the prisoners were actually endan
gered.
STORE BURNS NEAH MARIETTA.
, MARIETTA. GA.. May 23. - The store
i house and dwelling of W. Z. Daniell,
ion the Atlanta road about two miles
from Marietta, were entirely destroyed
by fin . Tit l loss is about $1,500, with
I S6OO insurance.
Trains. FIVE CENTS.
* IXI4 ;rj - In Atlanta. TWO CENTS.
RICH CLUB
MEN IN NET
INAUTO
WAR
i Walter Candler and Stewart
Witham Are Among the Nine
Men Accused.
VIGOROUS FIGHT ON
LAW VIOLATORS BEGUN
Banker’s Son in Mix-Up With
Police—Mother Comes to
His Rescue.
Two of Atlanta's wealthiest young
clubmen. Walter Candler, son of Asa
G. Candler, and Stewart Witham, son
of W. S. Witham, the banker, with
seven other autolsts and chauffeurs,
will appear before Recorder Broyles
this afternoon to answer to charges of
violating the city automobile ordi
nances.
These eases mark the opening of a
vigorous crusade started by Chief
i Beavers against violators of the auto
laws.
Young Candler is accused of exceed
ing the speed limit as he was driving
out Edgewood avenue on his way to
his home in Inman Park. Policemen
McDaniel. Williams and Robertson,
who have been specially detailed by
Chief Beavers to curb speeding auto
ists. made the case. They say Can
dler whizzed through the street at a
i lively clip. He was served with a copy
j of charges, citing him to appear in po
lice court this afternoon.
;Many Complaints
Made to Chief.
AH of the remaining cases, with the
exception of that against young With
am, were made by these same officers
and charge speeding.
The offending autolsts are S. E. Bas
sett. 546 Peachtree street: Herbert
Slitzcr, 46 Ponce DeLeon avenue; F.
L. Marco, Majestic hotel; E. .1. Akridge,
•I. G. Burkhardt. 358 Washington street;
O. L. Chafin. 137 Mills street, and John
Griffin, 16 Savannah street.
Chief Beavers said today that he
has received many complaints of late
regarding violations of the auto lavs,
particularly as to speeding and allow
ing muffler cut-outs to remain open.
"These laws must be enforced, and
It seems that the only way to do this
is to make cases." said the chief. "Time
and time again we have w'arned auto
ist.s that these law. must be observed,
but 'these warnings have been futile.
We don’t want to be hard on autoisls.
but the safety of pedestrians and of the
autoists themselves demands that the
utmost < are be used in the driving of
cars through our crowded .streets."
Interest centers in the trial of young
i Witham, who is accused of interfering
with Policeman Welehel in Peachtree
street, In front of the Aragon hotel,
when the officer attempted to make a
ease against Witham s negro chauffeur
for running the auto with the muffler
cut-out open. Mrs. W. S. Witham,
mother of the young man. said today
that a number of prominent business
and professional men witnessed the ar
rest and would come to the defense of
her son.
Officer Welche! says Witham openly
defied him and told him he dare not
make a case against the negro chauf
feur. According to the officer, he in
formed young Witham he had better
1 not interfere, else a ease might be
made against him, and that the young
■ 'man exclaimed:
"You don’t know who you are talk-
• ing to; do you? I'm the son of W. S.
Witham, the banker."
The officer says the young man. after
i defying him. leaped out of his car on
the opposite side, and walked into the
, Aragon hotel. Welehel followed and
arrested him in the hotel, sending him
to the police station in the patrol, be.
eral friends of Witham telephoned to
the station in advance of the patrol.
-1 and after the case against Witham had
■ been docketed, Captain Mayo released
him on a Copy of charges.
Negro Escapes
’ During Excitement.
When Welehel went back to make a
case against the negro chauffeur, he
found him gone. The negro had driven
1 away in the excitement of Witham's
arrest. No case has been made against
' the negro so far, but Chief Beavers said
1 this would be done before court con
venes.
Young Witham was highly indignant
over his arrest. He denied that his
chauffeur was violating the muffler cut-
■ | out ordinance, and said he told the of
, ticer the muffler cut-out was not open.
; He said the officer appeared much of
fended because he spoke up and threat.
i ened to arrest him. They then had •
few words and the arrest followed.