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THE WEATHER. > Fair tonight and tomorrow. Tem peratures: 8 a. m.. 76 degrees; 10 a. m., 78 degrees; 12 noon, 83 de grees; 2 p. m., 83 degrees. 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. J' 11 1 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. mi// ■ fW Lt i T L M WJWX //Jff A! y y jj Az Z4k **• /1 4 Mj.tLZjLSl*' 'Will fa 111 I I « —ABM 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 BOY MILLION-DOLLAR BABY f MILLION-DOLLAR BABIES AND PARENTS A L ySB i l . \ \\ //fl tw■ ? wl \ X ® v\ /w 2T; Tr i \\ A A win Al* w\\\ Bif/i I/« ' ‘ I \ WWW ilg’l i fjfX «. .\ \ ■ wL\\\ . H\ rt * Aa-W A \\ 7w Jr K lOewf ''M;y'' ■\\ \ fv- >' ■ ' A J • LAV( Tv rAu I \ JI - z -s* ; i / A'"-. / J - <<4 F'A i Mr. and Mrs. Russell Hopkins, whose romantic marriage stirred two cities .are shown here ? 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 • 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. i —— 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.