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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 ■H 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” jMHHR • s' ■ j ' m gar ag'Bfcaxh- ■■™ih 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