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THE WEATHER.
Forecast: Local showers tonight
o r tomorrow, Temperatu r es: 8
a m., 71 degrees: 10 a. m.. 75 de
grees: 12 noon. 80 degrees: 2 p. rr»„
83 degrees.
VOL. X. NO. 2-58.
MS SIMS
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111 PM
LISE
First Victim of the Season
Claimed When Boat Cap
sizes With Four Boys.
The water? of Piedmont park lake
claimed their first victim of the year
at half-past I' l o'clock this morning
■"hen James Sims, a youth of 20,
"caught a crab” that overturned the
boat in which lie rowed with three
companion 1 ', and was drowned in sight
of 300 onlookers.
A score of boaters rowing about the
lake huni'v :.o the spot, too late to
eave him and he sank in spite of the
rffors of Roy Rosche. his life-long
friend, who tried to swim with hint to
himself was only half con
scious when hr reached the land with
him on his back. The body was found
bi Georgia Tech students, who dived
and grapj ,ed for it with hooks. It was
■•(vov.-t rd an hour after the drowning,
art' ioc'or 1 ' front Grady hospital work
ed over it : •• o hours in vain attempt to
bring back life "bile many men and
w >mrn watched them.
Young Sims, who was a city sales
man for the loathe.: firm of H V. >■ nsky
£• Co. in this • tv. lived at No. 292
North TJavisSon street w ith Mr. and Mrs.
T'<—n. .is Sens, hi- and Hallman
Sims. h s brother. He had a morning
•ff tud;t>. .nd «fn< e Piedmont park lake
hed b. r'n opened to bathers and boaters
he went there to spend his half holiday
with ihr<-' friends.
Host he mot Rosche. of No. 446 North
Boulevard, and then they found Fred
W Hun', of 45 1-2 Auburn avenue, and
Al Thompson, of 18 East Harris street,
disporting tit’ntselves on the bathing
side of the dividing trestle at the north
end of the lake.
Sim- "as the only one of the four
friends 'bi- '-mild not swim, and to
gi\f him some, sport that, he could en
y.. the orbs- hurried from the water
in'meir bail.in; suits, hired one of the
blunt ste: n“ti lake boats of the keeper,
and started out on the sheet of water.
Hunt sat with Sims in the middle
of the craft, each pulling an oar.
■< h the latter at the port side.
Oar Slips and
Boat Is Capsized.
His friends t■< Itted Sims about hi?
poor oarsmanship jestingly, and point
ed out that he couldn't xpect to row
because In- was the only one of the four
who wore street clothes instead of
ba'hlng mits Sims pulled away at his
-ar 'ith all his strength, and the boat,
veering from side to side, had ca
reened to a point about sixty feet from
the further bank when Sims caught the
crab" His oar nulled out of the
v. pp.-mouthed' loc k , as it gave suddenly
b« r«]t over against Hunt, who rowed
beside him. The boat careened; the
pext s'-cond it had flopped over upon
Its starboard side and the four young
men were flung bodily into the water.
Two-score of women and fifty men
upon the bank cried out as they saw
th® vmtths struggling in the water. A
dozen boats. 200 yards away, began
pulline frantically to the rescue. Sims
cam" up from his plunge beneath the
surface and grabbed for the prow of
the overturned boat. It sank beneath
pey weight. Hunt and Thompson tried
to help him. but they swam with dif
ficulty themselves and could not carry
tht floundering youth to the otljer end
of the boat. Rosche tried. Ho suc
ceeded bu’ even the broad stern of he
craft would not hold up the drowning
hm and his hold upon it broke so that
hr'fol! back Into the water and came
up gasping with stifled lungs.
Comrade Tries
Hard to Save Him.
By this time Thompson and Hunt
nere nearly exhausted, and the near
est of the boats* was still a hundred
feet awn These two struck out sot
the shore'.' while Bosche, himself badly
tired made one more attempt to save
Sims’ life. Sims had sunk beneath the
surface. Bosche dipped, too. caught
his friend by an arm and dung the atm
around his own neck. Then, with the
half-unconscious lad clinging to him
with what he thought the death grip,
he began the struggle for the shore.
The swimmer and his friend had
struggled through twenty feet of water
toward the nearer bank when the spec
tators cried out in horror, for the
drowning Sims was seen to release his
hold about Bosche’s neck and slide from
ale back into the water. Bosche turned
about and made a clutch at his friend,
but Sims had already sunk like a stone
and Bosche, struggling desperately now
tr> keep himself afloat, turned back and
battled on toward the shore.
Several boats had reached the spot
,vhere Sims had gone down by this
time and with them hurried a half
,j . z en students of the Technology school
in bathing suits, who had rushed with
tl p pfe-saver from the swimming por
(j,,n of th< lake when they heard the
cries above. Among these were Ed-
,i- fl t. of Columbia; Y'. T.
Morgan of Macon; Robert White and
Ruben Redding, of Atlanta, and Henry
Harris. of Hampton.
They dived for the body altogether,
but could not find it. for it had sunk
tn fifteen feet of water. Then they got
ertpnling hooks and at 11:30 o’clock,
w lien the body had been lying beneath
, rt: face just an hour. Burrus caught
ft with a hook less than three feet be
neath the surface.
Firs. Schwartz and Blair. "ho had
..(Mf/hed the scene in the Grady hos
no,l ambulance, worked o'er Sims
' ■ the bank for more than an hour
.* '-am. while crowds of men ind
ncmen 'hat had come in cars and
automobiles looked on.
The Atlanta Georgian
Read For Profit —GEORGIAN WANT ADS—Use For Results
WATSON’S DEFI
TO T. B. FELDER
I am here to fight.
T will win sure. There
isn’t any doubt about the
outcome.
THE LAST WORD IN NEW _ JERSEY
tse u r' yjy
“Hr Is , V “He Is
Untruthful” __ |»Xj|p f . Untruthful”
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16 BEFORE COURT
IN CLEAN-OP
CRBSAOE
The board of health began its crusade
to clean up Atlanta "ith a vengeance
today w hen Its inspectors hailed sixteen
citizens before Recorder Broyles on va
rious charges of violating various sani
tary ordinances ranging from the regu
lation of dirt drawing to the use of im
proper garbage cans.
A half dozen Inspectors of the health
department made the charges after an
all-night, and morning sleuthing expe
dition about the entire town under or
ders of Chief Jenzen. of the sanitary
corps, and one of the first men they
accused was Aiderman J W. Maddox,
of the Fifth ward, whom the'- charged
with spilling dirt while one of his
drivers "as carting a load through the
street.
Alderman Maddox was one of the
first of the sixteen notified to appear
before the recorder, and he said today
that all rhe raids were made through
fear. ’
Two charges were made against the
alderman and a similar complaint was
made against J. W. Morrow, of the
Transfer Compan.'. The specific
charge lodge by Inspectors Maul
din and Anderson, of the sanitary
corps, is that Maddox and Morrow vio
lated -ection 2475 of the sanitary code,
which regulates the construction of
wagons used by contractors in hauling
dirt through the city streets, and stipu
lates that they shall be liable to a fine
if they permit the spilling of the dirt
on pavements In transit
Alderman Maddox was fined $5.75 in
each of the two cases, and Morrow was
also fined $5.75. Wallace Kidd, a negro,
was fined a similar amount.
Nine other men appeared in court to
answer the charge that they have -vio
lated the garbage can ordinance either
by failure to provide cans for the re
fuse oi can= of a proper size.
The citizens haled before the re
corder on this complaint are W. H Al
len. J. Freeman. J. Andrews. J. W.
Freeman D. Shurman. E. G. Akin
Charles H Meckel. Dave Daniels and
R. S. Dickerson. E. <’. Carter. D. J
Coleman and <’. B. Doi sex were up for
alleged violation of the stable ordi
nance.
Allen and Carter were eath fined
$3.75. and the others $5.75.
OHIO BANK CLOSED BY
STATE: CASHIER RESIGNS
MARIETTA. OHIO, May 28 The Com
merelal and Savings Bank of Waterford.
Washington county, today was ordered
closed temporarily, and a state bank In
spector placed in charge Harrt Crooks,
the bank s cashier, has resigned. The
capitalization "as {25,000.
ATLANTA. GA., TUESDAY. MAY 28, 1912.
WATSON HERE FOR FINISH FIGHT;
BIG CROWD CHEERS HIS ARRIVAL
ODDS FAVOR T. R„ 4 TO 3,
IN NEW JERSEY PRIMARY
TRENTON. N. J.. May 2S.- Despite
the optimistic declarations of the Taft
leaders that the president would cap
ture a majority of the New Jer
sey d-elegates in the state's first presi
dential preference primaries, opening at
1 o’cb*' k thip afternoon, Theodore
Roosevelt was favorite in the betting
today. Odds of four to three were of
fered that he would capture the state
delegation, and there was an abundance
of Roosevelt money in sight.
The administration forces declared
that the Roosevelt claim was unfound
ed, ami pointed out that there had been
a marked gain in sentiment for the
president during the last thre* days.
Though Roosevelt ,rnen admitted thi?».
the? declared that the change had not
been enough to endanger their candi
date’s < hciD-oR and that when.the polls
closed at 9:30 o’clock tonight the colo
nel would not only have a majority of
the delegates, but also an overwhelming
popular vote.
Weather Never Better.
The weather throughout the state to
day was never better for an election-
The sun was shining everywhere and
rhe air was just cool enough to make
the day ideal?
Though Senator LaFollettf had be°n
campaigning the state wnile Taft and
Roosevelt were walloping each other.
h ; s chances of sm<-c®s were regarded
as nil. It was not expected that he
would be able to capture a single dele
gate,
<>n the Demm'ratic side Governor
Woodrow Wilson was conceded the en
tire delegation of his ov.n state.
Taft Smile Back
On Election Day
GLASSBORO. N J. May 28 —Presi
dent Taft today wound up his Jer-'"
campaign with a final appeal to the
voters to support his administration
and reject the third-term ambition and
doctrines of Theodor? Roosevelt. For
the first time in the history of America
a president was seen campaigning only
a few hours before the casting of bal
lots tn determine the success or failure
of his cause.
Th? president appeared confident is
he began his final work to capture New
jersey’s 28 votes. He was anparentlv
glad that his strenuous campaign was
nearly over and his smile was again in
evidence as he addressed a large cro'vd
of factory workers here
That the confidence was due to a
conference which he had held early this
morning with ?x-Governor Franklin
Murphy was the belief of man.' who ac
companied the president on his tinal
tou: The confab set at rest rumors
that Murph' had become lukewarm In
his support of Mi Taft
The conference was held after mid-
1 night In one of the pavilions on the
[ boardwalk at Atlantic City. The two
men talked for more than an hour.
Colonel Says He
Is Fresh as Daisy
' NEW YORK, May 28.—" I’m as fresh
5 i as a daisy."
- So said Colonel Roosevelt when he
I made his appearance at the office of
' I The Outlook today for the first time in
| a week. He wajs brimming over with
’ j confidence as to the outcome of the
! Jersey primaries today.
WATERWORKS HEAD
GOES TO CONVENTION
TO GET ECONOMY TIPS
r l -———
. W Z. Smith, general manager of the
- city watenworks, will go’to the conven
; Hon of th? American Waterworks asso
| elation at Louisville next week. Sonje
! rash person asked Smith if he did not
I ! think it a little early for city officials to
, j lie taking vacations.
"Attending this convention Is cer
t tainly not a vacation." he quickly re-
I plied. . "It Is bard work and we get
many valuable ideas.
This year we are saving SIB,OOO In
the cost of meters through information
I received at a convention two years
ago. The dealers were al! bidding list
„ prices to us. 'while they were cutting
their prices to some other cities We
came back and proceeded tx> make them
cut their prices to us.”
LODGES PLAN FLAG-RAISING
AT THE FLAT ROCK SCHOOL
There’s going tn be a flag raising at rhe
Flat Thick school, near College Park. Ga.,
Thursday afternoon Hundreds of lodge
men will see the emblem unfurled and
presented to rhe institution Among the
participants will be rhe six councils of
the Junior Order of United American
Mechanics of Atlanta, the councils of Col
lege Park. Riverdale and Buckhead, At
-1 lan’a council 2. D. n f A . College Park
council P of A and several others
.1 E. Loveless. Dr Green, of College
Park: Re\ S. C Williams, of Atlanta,
1 Re\. M Hart. College Park: O. H.
Starnes. Atlanta .Judge <> H Puckett
and Miss Ethel Martin will participate in
the ceremonies
. AUTO PLUNGES INTO DITCH;
1 JOY RIDER DEAD, 5 HURT
1—
Y< R NGSTt >WN, OHIO, May 28.
i One man was fatally injured and five
= others were seriously hurt today when
t an automobile In which they were joy-
- riding plung'd into a ditch. W. H.
I Merton "ill die. The other victims are
- H 1.. Ferguson. F. S. >b lntv», Wil
i liam Jones, Raymond Roy and Edward
Engstrom All are about eighteen years
-of age
Divorce For Atlanta
Pair Every 5 Minutes*
Court's New Record
Sixty-Four Mismatpd Persons Sep
Two and One-Half Hours.
A divorce every five minutes !• the
record that has been hung up by Ful
ton superior court. Judge Pendleton
today in third division gave freedom in
the form of decrees to 64 mismated per
sons. The judge was on the bench two
hours and one-half and granted 23 first
verdicts and 9 second verdicts
Not only did the court hang up a new
record, but It put a distinct quietus on
th? theory that Atlanta was a sort of
Southern Reno—the mecca for the
marital woes of the entire South. Every
verdict was granted to either a native
Atlantan or a person who had lived
here so many years he or she had for
gotten the scene of his or her nativity.
The calendar for undefended divorce
suits will be the rule In third division
for the next two days, and not less
than Sb verdicts, first, second and al
imony judgments, will be handed down
before the ladles, who appear In the
majority of eases as plaintiffs, are sat
isfied.
TRAVELERS FIGHTING
NEW- MILEAGE LAW
IN SOUTH CAROLINA
Commercial travelers from Atlanta
making points in South Carolina are
going to protest against the present
mileage book law in that state at the
next meeting of Its legislature. Under
It, if they buy a mileage book to travel
on from this city to some point In that
state, the book is useless to them until
they are ready to return to Georgia or
some other point outside South Caro
lina. They have to invest in a second
book for travel locally while there.
The system was inaugurated bv rail
roads in that state when the legislature
demanded that mileage be accepted on
trains instead of making passengers
exchange it for tickets at stations It
became effective May 1. and commer
cial men say it now costs them more to
use mileage in the state than to pur
chase straight tickets.
60 RESCUED FROM MINE
EXPLOSION: TWO DYING
\VI LK ESBARRE. PA.. Max 28 A gas
explosion in th? Pettibone min? of the
Delaware. Lackawanna and Western rail
road. early today, injured four men 'l'wo
are dying Sixty miners were saved by
th? rescue corps before black damp could
develop,
WILBUR WRIGHT IS NEAR
DEATH: HOPE ABANDONED
DAYTON. OHIO, May 28 -Wilbur
Wright, who is suffering from typhoid
fever, still was living today, but no
hope for his recovery was held by at
tending physicians
COTTON FARMERS
VALUE MIN IT
$1,0110,1101)
Georgia—at least the cotton-produc
ing portion of the state, stepped into a
piece of real luck yesterday. Cotton
experts are busy today figuring the
money value of yesterday's rain, which
was general. Some say the timely
moisture was worth $1,000,000.
"If th? cotton raisers of Georgia had
the rain-making machinery In their
own hands, they could not have turned
on the showers at a more opportune
time,” said J. J. Brown, assistant com
missioner of agriculture.
However, a few reports indicate that
some sections suffered considerably
from hail storms Hall fell In Mil
ledgeville and vicinity and north along
the line of the Georgia railroad, In the
cotton belt.
It appears that the hall storms were
slight, however, and the rainfall com
ing after two weeks of bright, warm
weather, will put the cotton In sea
sonable shape, despite the late planting
OFFICIAL A SUICIDE,
FEARING COAL TRUST
WOULD BE INDICTED
CHICAGO. May 28 Belief that the
proseutlon of coal dealers would ruin
his business Is assigned as the reason
for the suicide of Frank E. Lukens, who
was found dead In the Rest hotel h"re.
Lukens was secretary of the Illinois-
Wisconsin Retail Coal Dealers associa
tion. Many indictments were returned
against the lumber men. and members
of the Coal Dealers association became
alarmed. So many of them resigned
from the association and Lukens, who
is 53 years of age. became discour
aged, saying the resignations had ruin
ed his business and h? was too old to
start again.
UNCONSCIOUS 24 HOURS
FROM LIGHTNING SHOCK
DALTON GA.. Maj 28. W H Bird
one of Whitfield county’s leading farm
ers, was shocked into Insensibility when
lightning struek a tree near his home
about three miles north of here. Mr.
Bird was passing neat the tree when
the bolt came. After 24 hours, he has
not regained consciousness. His condi
tion is critical
ATLANTA MINISTER TO PREACH.
POWDER SPRINGS. GA. May 28.
Next Sunday Dr J B Robins of At
lanta. will preach the commencement
-ermon at the Seventh District school
here. Monday night sixteen pupils will
receive diplomas
HOHL
IDITION
PL? 1 1 1 F• °n Trains. FIVE CENTS
1 n.ll irj.jj, Atlanta. TWO CENTS
Arrives Smiling and
Full of Fight, Deter
mined as Ever to Beat
“City Politicians,”
Who Predict All Sorts
of Disaster for the
Sage of McDuffie as
Clansßegin to Gather.
Thomas E. Watson arrived in At
lanta, smiling and full of fight, at 1:05
o'clock this afternoon.
He came byway of the Georgia rail
road and w as met. at the old Union sta
tion by a whooping, cheering, happy
throng of his admirers and well wish
ers.
Watson said he was determined to
carry out his announced program to
the ultimate letter.
He has specifically outlined his de
mands upon the convention, and he will
Insist upon them every one uncompro
misingly.
He is particularly resolved to defeat
Thomas B. Felder’s aspirations to the
national convention.
Watson and Felder will not both go
tn Baltimore—one nr the nther must
stay at hnme. Watsnn's meeting to
night will be well attended, but wheth
er it will make or break Watson Is
problematical.
Both Felder and Watson are entire
ly confident of winning: but a count
of noses this morning seemed to favor
the Atlanta man.
Greeted By Mass of Friends,
Dressed in his most statesmanlike
garb, regulation black slouch hat and
all, Thomas E. Watson, the “red-headed
person from McDuffie," stepped off tho
Georgia train at 1.05 o’clock this after
noon into the arms of a seething mass
of pro-Watson humanity, smiling and
apparently utterly unafraid.
To the first admiring friend grasping
his hand he said: "Well, here I am,
boys: If anybody thought I wouldn’t
come. lam going to beat 'em, sure!”
Then the cheering and the pushing,
and the shoving began, and Watson
moved off. the center of a howling pack
of enthusiastic partisans, toward the
Kimball house.
After registering and crowding with
great difficulty to his rooms, Nos 105
and 107, he denied himself to all visi
tors, save a few close personal friends
and advisers.
In the tremendous and happy throng
that met Watson at the depot were a
few anti-Wataon persons, but they
didn't put any wet blankets over the
Thomson man, if that is what they were
there for.
Most of that crowd was strong for
Watson, if some of it did run to whisk
ers rather extravagantly.
Mr. Watson was accompanied from
Thomson by a few carefully selected
neighborhood friends, and these friends
kept close to him, much after the fash
ion that secret servicemen trail a presla
dent of the United States.
He’s Out After Scalps.
The Thomson man has not changed
his fighting program one jot or tittle—.
not even one little jolt or swat.
He is out after scalps—Tom Felder’M
scalp in particular.
He realizes fully that he must crack a
few heads in order to put over his am
bitious program for tonight and tomor
row and he knows also that he may
get his own head cracked as he goes
along.
He has selected the head of Thomas
B. Felder as one that particularly
needs cracking; but, as Felder has ex
pressed a positive determination to
crack first, there is some doubt as to
exactly what will happen at cracking
time.
What. Watson
Asks of Convention.
Mr. Watson demands of the state
convention:
First, that he be elected one of the
delegates-at-large tn Baltimore, and
that he be made chairman of the dele
gation.
Second, that his caucus tonight shall
name the temporary and permanent
chairmen of the convention tomorrow.
Third, that he shall pass upon the
qualifications of his associate delegates
to Baltimore, and that certain specified
persons shall not be upon the delega
tion.
Fourth, that the convention shall in
struct specifically against Mr. Bryan’s
nomination for the presidency.
Fifth, the elimination of the “city
politicians” from the political situation
in Georgia, and the seating In the
convention of Wilson delegates from
counties that went for Wilson in the
late presidential primary, notwith
standing the rule of the state commit
tee under which the primary was held.
Sixth, anything else that Mr. Watson
happens to think he wants before the
convention adjourns.
Desperate efforts have been made to
keep the peace between Mr. Watson
and the "city politicians." so-called, but
utterly without avail.
When he first intimated a desire to
go to Baltimore as a delegate-at-large
Underwood leaders all over the statt
said he was entitled to go because ol