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VOL. X. NO. 268.
Mitt
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11 1051
French Navy Suffers Another
of Long Series of Marine
Tragedies.
CHERBOURG. FRANCE, June B.
One of the worst disasters in the long
series of accidents that has marked
the use of the submarines in the French
navy occurred near here today when
the submarine Vendimaire was struck
by the battleship St. Louis and sank
in 180 feet of water. There were three
officers and 24 enlisted men aboard the
tiny craft when she was sent to the
bottom and there is no hope that any
of them are alive.
At the time the disaster occurred a
squad of battleships was engaged in
maneuvers with the submarine fleet.
According to the commander of the St.
Louis, a large gash was cut in the
shell of the submarine and she sank
immediately after she was struck. As
soon as he reported the nature of the
accident a dispatch was sent to the
ministry of marine at Paris stating that
there was no possibility of saving any
of those on board tile vessel. Within
an hour after the accident had been
flashed here by wireless, powerful ma
* chinery and dredges were hurried from
the harbor and divers were sent out
«n the fastest torpedo boat in the
harbor. The divers, however, were
able to descend only a short distance
and reported to Admiral Fournier that
the only way As bringing up the vessel
would be to drag for her with grap
pling hooks. -
Plates Smashed,,
Experts Assert.
Tie ripkiliy with which the vessel
sank mt i ated that her plates were
sm tslted and the submarine experts
here declared that even if the crew
su’. coded in closing her water-tight
compartment they would be unable to
survive for any length of time.
The Vendimaire's equipment was
held insufficient to safeguard the
crew’s lives for more than a few hours.
During the last few years more than
a half dozen French submarines have
either foundered through structural
defects or been sunk in collisions. Two
years ago the French submarine Plu
jvius collided with a channel steamer
off Calais and went to the bottom.
Twenty-six lives were lost in that ac
cident. The Pluvius was of the same
type as the Vendimaire.
When tiie accident occurred experi
ments were being made in approaching
battleships with submarines.
The St. Louis, warned that the Ven
dimaire would try to "sink” her, had
orders to keep a sharp lookout and
dodge her if possible. So that under
the belief that the under..ater craft
his boat ahead. Suddenly the sub
stern, the captain of the St. Louis sent
has boat ahead. Suddenly the sub
marine was seen to rise to the sur
face.
She was seen too late. The bow of
the St. Louis was only a short dis
tance from the submarine when she
was sighted. The engines were re
versed on the battleship, but the crash
was inevitable.
When ii came, the submarine sank
it once.
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REV. POPHAM
QUITS GIH
FOR NEST
IN PINES
■ Atlanta Still Has That Moot
$11.41 Which Pastor-Poet
Put Up as Bonds.
Many unceasing ties of friendship
Bind our hearts together
Where we may eat the turkey—
Ail but the bone and feather.
William Lee Popham.
Back to that dear old Central Lecture
circuit, where there are none of those
meddlesome Atlanta police to hurl
rocks into the epitome of romantic hon
eymoon; back where the dogwood blos
soms lure to live-long lyrics and there
are no more $11.41 surety bonds to
give—back there has gone the evan
gelist-poet laureate of Kentucky, love
singer of the ages, William Lee Pop
ham, with his pretty bride, Maude Mill
er Estes that was.
The young Narcissus arose in his
room at the Terminal hotel this morn
ing at 5 o'clock, dashed off the gemlet
quoted above the thirteen other verses,
packed his two trunks and the treasure
chest containing his own masterpieces,
and demanded that the hotel manage
ment pay him $25 for the slights it put
upon his respectability when it caused
his arrest as an eloper two days ago.
The hotel refused. The management
admitted Poet Popham was probably
the truly wedded husband of Miss Es
tes, as he claimed, but it said that it
couldn't pay him the $25.
Makes Final Plea For $11.41.
Whereupon Mr. Popham went over to
the mayor's office to make a last plea
that the mayor refund him that $11.41
the city retained because he did not
appear at the police court at the spe
cific time to prove that he had really
married Miss Estes nearly a month be
fore he first appeared in Atlanta.
At the mayor’s office they told the
poet-evangelist that they would be glad
to do anything in their power to clear
up the alleged stain upon his escutch
eon, but they said they couldn't pay
him hack the money because that was
up to the recorder.
Thence straightway to Acting Re
corder Preston went Popham and re
iterated his appeal. ‘‘That's all up to
the mayor,” said the recorder. "That
money of yours was turned over by the
police a day ago, so it’s all out of my
hands now.”
"Then I want to be tried on the
charge your police made against me,”
said Popham. "I want you to send
down to McDonough and get the ordi
nary there to come up here and prove
we were married there on May 11 and
that no one had a right to cast asper
sions upon our respectability by ar
resting me at the hotel."
’Mid the Sighing Pines.
But the recorder told Mr. Popham
that it was now too late for a trial,
because the charges had been quashed.
He was sorry, he said, but the matter
wasn't up to him at all.
Down in southern Georgia, where the
pines sigh langourous lullabys of love
and the nightingales sing—oh. so soul
fully. there’s the little town of Arabi
nestling on the dunes. And Poet Lau
reate Popham checked his baggage to
Arabi, for Arabi possesses not only all
the scenario that poets love, but it is
Continued on Page Two.
ATLANTA. GA., SATURDAY. JUNE 8. 1912.
UNCLE TRUSTY!
Copyright, 1912, National News Association.
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. “William, while you and Theodore are rehearsing your tactics for the coming convention, I’ll cool off a little! It’s going to
be a mighty hot summer! Everything is so kindly and pleasant, too! So much good feeling and delicacy being shown on both
sides! It reminds me of a tight between two rival tribes of headhunters in the Cannibal Islands! Elihu, when you’re ail through
talking piffle, perhaps you’ll be good enough to go and fetch me a Turkish towel!”
REBELS FIRE ON
■ms.
HAVANA, June B.—Reports reached
here today that Cuban rebels have fired
on the eamps of American marines at
Guantanamo city and Cobre mines.
The rebels caused no damage or cas
ualties and were driven back by the
outposts, but more trouble is feared, as
they know that the American marines
have been forbidden to make any de
cisive move.
The attacking negroes are believed to
be the same band that sacked and
burned the town of Sanpie, near Guan
tanamo.
Cubans and Rebels
Fight Near Havana
HAVANA, June B.—A pitched battle
was fought early today between Cu
bans and negro rebels at Regia, across
the harbor, a mile from this city.
More than 100 shots were fired be
fore the negroes were driven off by
the whites, who climbed to the roots
and fired at the blacks in the streets.
Two hundred negroes were captured,
but others have been reported to have
been carried away.
The daring of the negroes in begin
ning depredations so near Havana is
believed to presage an outbreak in this
city.
The Cuban Veterans’ association to
day voted to class as traitors all mem
bers who join the uprising. The vet
erans have been the most hitter politi
cal opponents of President Gomez.
17th Infantry Is
Ready to Entrain
Officers and men of the Seventeenth
infantry at Fort McPherson are con
tinuing preparations for service in
Cuba, constantly expecting an official
order to entrain for Savannah. Officers
both at headquarters and on the reser
vation beli< ve the expedition to Cuba
is certain.
The railroads will be asked to sup
ply three special trains. Several Pull
mans, a number of tourist sleepers or
day coaches and several stock cars for
the horses will be required. Either the
Central or the Southern will handle
the trains. Both are known to be as
sembling cars.
The regiment will not march through
Atlanta on the way to the trains, for
it has its own spur track on the reser
vation and the trains will be made up
there. The Eleventh cavalry, from Fort
Oglethorpe, will entertain at its reserva
tion near Chattanooga.
HUSBAND, LEFTWITH
NINE CHILDREN ON HIS
HANDS, GETS DIVORCE
MACON, GA., June B.—Charles A.
Annis, formerly of Forsyth, the father
of nine children, ranging in ages from
three to tv nty years, has been granted
a divorce i\- t he Bibb superior court be
cause his wife’s "love and tender re
gard has grown cold and turned to
hate." These were his own words on
the stand. He was also given the cus
tody of the children. He says that,
after 22 years of married life, his wife
suddenly took an aversion to him, and
left him with the children on his hands.
Mrs. Annis did not contest the suit.
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JUNE 8. 191?
All Atlanta Awakes
A-Shivering: Drop of
15 Degrees Last Night
Mercury at 57 Early Today, and
Sunday Will Be Bright
and Cool. <
That chilly feeling that Atlantans
had early today and the awakening de
sire for last winter’s suit of clothes was
real and tangible, according to official
weather records, for between 3 o'clock
yesterday afternoon and 6 o'clock to
day the mercury fell 15 degrees. It
was just 57 degrees above zero at 6
' o’clock this morning, and that was
quite a drop from the balmy tempera
ture of 72 degrees that existed yester
day afternoon.
The sudden change in the weather is
described as a "Cool Wave" and not,
as some suppose, as a “Cold Wave.
The latter is peculiarly a mid-winter
term and weather officials do not like
to apply it to weather in the summer
time, no matter how low the mercury
. may drop.
F‘s tomorrow the skies will be clear
i and the weather will be cool, not as
I chilly as today, but delightfully cool
and lacking all the usual uneomfort
■ able humidity that has brought beady
-1 drops to the brow of loafer as well as
i toiler.
"DOC" COOK SAILS HOME.
LONDON, June B.—Dr. Cook set sail
for America today on the Kaiser Wil
helm.
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$1,0011,11110 FAIR
PROJECT BEGUN
A definite- move is under way to es
tablish oil the city’s property at Lake
wood a great annual exposition. A
committee, consisting of representatives
from the city, county and Chamber rd
Commerce has agreed upon a plan
whereby the park will be deeded over
to an exposition company and a mil
lion dollars worth of improvements
made, partly by the company and part
ly by the county.
This company will be capitalized al
$250,000, and will issue bonds to the
extent of $500,000, It is proposed the
county do $250,000 worth of improve
ments with its convicts. This compa
ny would have in charge the annual
fair.
A second company then would be or
ganized to formulate plans for an enor.
mous festival to be held in 1914, com
memorative of Atlanta's rise from the
ashes of war left by Sherman.
Toronto Fair as Model.
When this company begins work, it is
proposed the annual fair at Toronto will
serve as a model. Much information
from Toronto officials was placed be
fore the committee, which served t<
strengthen the members in their deter
mination to put the matter through.
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TOFIGHT
BOSSES
Friends Admit Now That He
Will Take Field Following
Steam Roller Work. *
INDIANA CONTEST, OLD
STATE FEUD, ON TODAY
Rumor of Planned T. R. Dem
onstration Brings Out Spe
cial Police Guard.
CHICAGO, June B.—The Republican
national committee went into session
at 10:12 a. m.
Its first official business was the seat
ing of the Taft delegates from the Third
Arkansas district. ,
< HICAGO, June B.—With a special
detail of plain clothes police especially
gathered to prevent impolite Roosevelt
politicians from throwing stones in its
way, the steam roller was ready today
for its second trip. The police were
called to prevent any personally con
ducted demonstration against the en
gineers, firemen and laborers about the
( roller succeeding. The precautions
were taken when it was known that
1 William Flynn, of Pittsburg, would be
1 here today.
The roller is being made ready for a
_ long trifi. It is to go the entire dis
tance. This became known when ef
forts to compromise the Indiana situa
tion were brought to a sudden and
jarring termination. The Roosevelt
people say they turned down an offer
ifrom the Taft crowd. The Taft people
assert that they don’t need to com
promise and made no offer, but that
they did refuse to listen to a Roosevelt
proposition over a contest that involves
Sub-committee Chairman Harry New,
_ former Vice President Fairbanks, for
mer Senator Beveridge and a number
of congressmen and former congress-
A men and lesser politicians.
s Beveridge was hastily summoned last
>f night to come to Chicago. He will be
n one of a number of Roosevelt men who
r will attend a general council of war
that will plan the specific moves to be
made just before Colonel Roosevelt
s himself appears on the scene.
For Roosevelt is coming. Even the
Roosevelt men here admit that today.
( The admission came after a long dis
tance telephone conversation with Oys
e ter Bay.
e The colonel will be on hand by the
. middle of next week. By that time the
intention of the steam roller engineers
to continue their "joy ride" liver the
11 Taft delegates will be fully demon
strated, the Roosevelt leaders say, and
- any action that the colonel may take
will be a protest against the "machine
_ methods employed against him."
e No Love Lqpt
Between Managers.
In the meantime there will be plenty
s of protesting by the rest of the con
-11 tingent. One thing is admitted freely
n on all sides. The breach between the
two ./actions is widening every hour
o tliafefthe pre-convention fight continues.
’- Posteibility that it may be healed has
been dismissed even in the fusillade of