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100 GEORGIA TAFT MEN INJURED IN WRECK
THE WEATHER
Forecast for Atlanta and Georgia:
Local thunder showerg today and to
morrow.
VOL. X. NO. 275.
Il SHACKLES
phisoieh
FLEES ITO
SEWER
Negro. Double Shackled. Drops
Into Manhole and Begins
Subterranean Journey.
GUARDS FEAR TO FOLLOW
INTO GAS-FILLED TUNNEL
Prisoner May Escape if He
Succeeds in Reaching Sewer
Outlet Miles Away.
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Somewhere in the depths of the long
sewer that runs from South Boulevard
aryl Carroll street, several miles under
ground to an East Atlanta creek, there
is hiding a negro criminal, John Wal
lace. who dropped into the sewer this
morning in a desperate effort to escape
from the chaingang guards.
Armed guards have been stationed at
every manhole along the sewer's length
to recapture the negro when he at
tempts to make his way again to the
surface, but the prison authorities can
not get men to enter the sewer to pur
sue tl\e . negrp, tor none believes that
“he would survive the deadly sewer gas,
even if he did not stumble and suffo
cate in the foul darkness and filth of
the great tunnel.
Wallaec made his sensational escape
at the corner of South Boulevard and
Carroll street at 9 o'clock. Surely he
had never heard of the similar escapes
into the e’wers of Parts so graphically
related in Hugo's "Les Miserables." But
hi - dash for liberty resembled perfectly
the weird flights of the French crimi
nals into the underground sewers of
the foreign city.
Cautiously Waits
Chance to Escape.
Double-shackled, because he was
bound over for trial for assault with
intent to rob, Wallace was working
with the road gang this morning when
the chance he had long been looking for
ante. He was working on the road at
one little distance from,, the other
prisoners. He noticed the open man
ole of the sewer. Slowly and cau
tiously he worked his way toward the
manhole, keeping a wary eye upon the
guard, who never suspected the pris
oner.
Suddenly when the guard turned his
back for a moment Wallace dropped
the pick he had been plying and de
spite the double shackles which fettered
him. he flung his body headforemost
into the dark, loathsome depths of the
sewer. When he struck the bottom he
stumbled to his feet in the slime and
water and groped his way far enough
from the entrance so that none of the
guards could see him. Then, it is be
lieved. he rested only long enough to
recover, a little .strength before begin
ning the horrible journey through the
pitch dark depths of the loathsome
sewer to the outlet at the creek, more
than two miles away.
The negro's escape was noticed by
the guards almost instantly and a
search of the sewer at the manhole re
vealed the manner of his disappear
ance. Aid was summoned from the
stockade and guards were sent quickly
to man the manholes of the sewer
throughout its entire length. They had
ordets to shoot the negro on sight if he
showed signs of the slightest resistence
to recapture. But none of the guards
frit brave enough to take up pte pur
suit in the sewer depths, for the stock
ade officials said that any man who
entered could not live to grope his way
Ihh yard:.- through the filth and the
deadly sewer gas.
■ The negro Wallace is 3(1 years old
and has a bad record. He was serving
St! days in the stockade before going on
trial in the state courts for the assault
and attempted robbery.
GEORGIA AND FLORIDA RY.
SURVEYING INTO AUGUSTA
AUGUSTA. GA., June 17. —-it is an
nounced by General Manager Denham
nf the Georgia and Florida railway that
civil engineers are now surveying a
proposed line from Augusta to St.
Claire. Ga.. and it i$ possible that the
Georgia and Florida will build into
\ugusta within the next year. The
oad no”' operates into the city over
• jie Augusta Southern from Keysville,
o mile- away. The Georgia and Flo>-
ia iperatee from Keysville to Madison,
FU.; ov»r its own Uno*.
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“Theodore, now is your chanceto wakh (he big hit of your life! ‘Roosevelt’s Ride to Chicago' will pht 'Sheridan's Ride.’
‘J’ani Revere's'TSvie' and ‘Tamo' Shanter's Ride' way in the shade' I never realised before what a hot town Chicago is! Th?
way that committee' Is .stsippiijg your delegates and throwing them, out reminds me of a sailors' dance hall in the old days! But
cheer up—you ma.y hand-totije tt, William yet! As the poet says:
■; h .’“. ‘This world is so full of a number of things
That I'm sure we should all he as happy as kings!' ’’
BEACH CASE PUTS
LIO ON IN BEN
Policemen to Inspect Social
Clubs Every 60 Minutes to
End Gambling.
AIKEN. S. C.. June 17.—Aiken is
swept today by b tremendous reform
wave, in which even the rich social
colony Is joining, to show the world
that the town repudiates and resents
the "Beauty Beach Scandal.” The city
council has decided to instruct the
Aiken policemen to put a quick and
effective check upon all the amuse
ments in which Beach and his set in
dulged. For the next two weeks city
policemen will investigate every social
club once every SO minutes, day and
night, and even the appearance of dis
sipation will be sternly suppressed.
Already the gambling halls have been
closed and the owners whose machines
have not been conficated have shipped
the paraphernalia. The officials of
Aiken declare openly that the places
frequented by "The Beach crowd" will
be put out of business if they have to
close them at the points of guns and
the assertion is as openly made that
Beach must take such a dose of Aiken
medicine that no recurrence of such a
scandal will ever imperil the reputation
of the town.
Even the Society
Folk Are Affected.
Scores of the best known members of
the social colony have joined the resi
dents In this crusade and not least re
markable is the fact that the move
ment has even swept Into the revival
stage. Society folk who have been
conspicuous by their absence from
Aiken churches for years have flocked
to the “protracted meetings,” where
the ministers are denouncing the Beach
case and calling upon their congrega
tions to stamp out scandal from Aiken
forever.
Some of the more fervid of this "so
ciety clique” have gone to the point of
speaking out against the Beach case in
open meeting and have thus gone on
tecord as aiding the residents morally
in their repudiation crusade. Undoubt
edly this stand accounts in large part
for the tremendous impetus of the re
vival movement now in progress in
Aiken. Evangelists are speaking at
three meetings a day in most nf the
< hutches and the edifices have proved
too small to hold the throngs.
HERE’S THE “TEDDY” SONG
THE Roosevelt campaign song has mad? its appearance/
The staff of workers in charge of the headquarters
marched into the Congress hotel singing it on their arrival
in Chicago. The song is a parody of the famous war chant
of the Champ Clark boosters. “You gotta quit kickin’ my
dawg around..’’ Tt is sung to the tune of “Casey Jones."
Here it ’is :
“TEDDY'S BULLDOG."
Teddy's.-gotta dawg, but he ain’t no hound:
He's a square-jawed bull, and his face is round.
His legs is short, and he’s close to the ground.
And you bet they ain’t kickin’ Teddy's dawg around.
CHORI’S.
Square-jawed hull, and his face is round:
Square-jawed bull, and he ain’t no hound:
Short-legged bull, close to the ground.
And you bet they ain’t kickin Teddy’s bull around.
The Democratic dawg, the unlucky hound
That the boys have all bet*n kickin' around.
Is the same old dawg, that's been stickin’ ’roun'
Since old Abe Lincoln came to Washington town.
And now he comes back, the measley hound.
With his face and h-is tail still hangin’ down,
The hungry, sly old lop-eared hound ;
\o wonder the bovs have been kickin' him 'round.
MEXICAN CITY HARD
HIT BY CLOUDBURST;
BODIES WASH AWAY
GUANAJUATO. MEXICO, June 17.
This city was flooded to a depth of
several feet by a cloudburst, and the
loss of life and property was large, but
its amount can not yet be estimated, as
many bodies were carried several miles
down the valley and probably will not
be recovered for several days. The
Porfirio Diaz drainage tunnel saved the
town from a greater disaster.
The fall of rain was greater than in
1905. when over 200 lives were lost and
damage estimated at $250,000 done to
property. The city is in a narrow
gorge, with many American mining
properties in the surrounding hill“.
The Guanajuato river runs through
the center of the town and is joined
by the Santa Anna river. At the junc
tion point the water reached Its great
est depth. After the. flood in 1905. a
tunnel over a mile ihng was cut through
the mountain to prevent a recurrence
of the disaster. The tunnel proved to
be too small to carry al! the water, and
the lower part of the town suffered.
ATLANTA. GA.. MONDAY. JUNE 17. 1912.
SALOONIST INVOKES
PROHIBITION LAW TO
ESCAPE LIQUOR DEBT
MACON, GA., June 17. The prohibition
law ha? been Invoked in the courts by a
Macon man to prevent the collection of
an account. A Louiavitle liquor house
re<eritly sued Pan O'Connell, a saloon
keeper. fnr an unpaid whisky bill,
amounting to S2OO. He has tiled a de
murrer. admitting that he bought the
liquor, but contending that as the sale of
intoxicants ia prohibited in this state the
contract is Illegal and can not be enforced
against him. O’Connell claims that the
liquor was sold to him in Macon by a
local agent
EAGLES OF FIVE STATES
TO CONVENE AT AUGUSTA
AUGUSTA. GA.. June 17.—The an
nual district convention of the Frater
nal Order of Eagles will meet here to
morrow afternoon and a small army of
delegates is expected. Savannah will
send 3h ft . Macon 100. Atlanta 100. and
large delegations will come from other
cities. Dodger in Georgia, Florida, Al
abama and North and South Carolina
will be represented- ♦
POLICE TO URGE
3 SUB-STATIONS
Chief Beavers Declares They
Are the Greatest Need of the
Department.
Three police sub-stations for Atlanta
are expected to materialize following
the visit of Chief Beavers to the con
vention of the International Associa
tion of Police Chiefs in Toronto in July.
Chief Beavers declares that sub-sta
tions are the present greatest need of
the police department, and one of the
main objects of his trip is to make a
careful study of the system of sub-sta
tions in operation in the big cities of
the North and East. On his return
the chief will be fully equipped with all
essential information and will present
the matter to the police commission
for definite action. The commissioners
are known to favor sub-stations, as a
means of increasing the efficiency of
the police service, and there is no doub’
they will ask the city council to au
thorize three stations.
Chief Beavers has had the plan of
sub-stations under advisement for some
time and says their need is imperative
to insure better and more up-to-date
police service. He will make a thor
ough inspection of the sub-stations in
New York. Toronto and other cities
with the view of combining the best
features of the vailous systems.
Under the plan of Chief Beavers, one
of the sub-stations will be situated in
lower Marietta street, one in Peters
street and one on the north side. The
central station in Decatur street will
remain as headquarters for both po
licemen and detectives, prisoners being
transferred there from the sub-stations
in time for their trial in police court.
In cases of emergency calls, officers
could reach the scene of trouble much
quicker from a nearby sub-station than
fiom the central station.
Officers now frequently have to make
dashes to Fort McPherson, the farther
most corners of the Ninth w-ard. and
other long distances
B. Y. P. U. MEETS TOMORROW.
AUGUSTA. GA.. June 17—The an
nual convention of the Baptist Young
People’s union of Georgia is to be held
here this week. The first session opens
with the Curtis Baptist « hurch tomor
row night,
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IN WRECK II CHICfiGD:
NONE SEOmSLI HLIHT
Roosevelt Tells Taft Men Root Will Be
Opposed for Chairmanship; Shrewd
Move May Block Vote of Contested
Delegates on Roll Call.
CHICAGO, June 17.—More than one hundred Taft dele
gates and boomers from Georgia were bruised in a wreck within
the city limits today when their train ran into a string of empty
coaches near the Union station on the Pennsylvania. Several
were badly cut by flying glass.
A number of Indiana delegates on the incoming train were
also hurt. None had to be taken to the hospital.
Among the Georgians injured were: A. W. Bryant, Valdos
ta, Ga.; W B. Morton, Athens; W. James, A. M. Flunker
Argyle, Ga.; A. S. Simmons, Macon; M. M. McClellan, Atlanta.
CHICAGO. June 17. With Victor Rosewater, of Nebraska
chairman of the Republican national committee, sitting as um
pire, the first battle between the Roosevelt and Taft forces in
the Republican national convention will come tomorrow within
fifteen minutes after the national convention is called to order
at noon. The fight will come when the first state in the first
roll call over the first action of the convention is under way.
It will be inaugurated by the Roosevelt men.
“'"Chairman Rosewater will call
the gathering to order. There
will he a two-minute prayer by
the chaplain of the day. Then,
as representative of the national
committee. Chairman Rosewater
will recommend on behalf of the
committee that Senator Elihu
Root, of New York, be made
temporary chairman.
A Roosevelt delegate will move that
the name of Senator William E. Borah,
of Idaho, be substituted for that of
Elihu Root. Then Chairman Rose
water will direct Secretary William
Hayward, of the committee, to call the
roll. Alabama Is the first state on the
list The Ninth district delegates were
seated for Taft by the national com
mittee. Roosevelt supporters will chal
lenge the vote of the Ninth district men
and the fight over the seating of the
delegates by the committee steam roller
will be under way.
Taft Men Informed
of Plan of aßttle.
This move has been definitely de
cided on by the Roosevelt leaders after
a conference In which the colonel him
self took part. It has been discussed
with Mr. Rosewater bv the Rough
Rider candidate. Rosewater informed
the colonel that under parliamentary
procedure there was no way in which
he could recognize any of the delegates
no! seated by the committee and that
as chairman he would be bound by the
temporary roll as made up by the com
mittee Rosewater himself voted
against seating the Taft men from the
Ninth Alabama district. As chairman,
and therefore official spokesman of the
national committee, he was bound by
their decisions.
The Taft m°n were Informed nf the
colonel's fighting plan. Today repre
sentatives of the Taft and Roosevelt
forces are preparing briefs on the
points of parliamentary law involved,
and armed with these and acting as
umpire in the case. Chairman Rose
water will decide for or against the
challenge when the quetion is present
ed. Whatever his decision, an imme
diate appeal to the convention its&lf
will be made.
Congressman Martin Edgar Olm
stead, of Pennsylvania, is preparing
the brief on the Taft forces. E. H.
Damson, of Ohio, Is preparing the brief
for Roosevelt. It is worthy of notice
that the man who is preparing the first
formal fight against Preskient Taft
comes from the president's own state.
To Block Vote of
Contested Delegates.
The plan of the Roosevelt men to
force the fight at the very beginning
has two purposes. The first is to force
the consideration of the entire contest
list by the convention at the same
time. If this is successfully accom
plished the states from which contested
delegates were seated will not be al
lowed to vote, and as the Roosevelt
men figure, they would have delegates
enough to control the convention and
seat thefr own men. Under ordinary
1 procedure contests are taken up state
EXTRA
2 CENTS EVERYWHERE E NO
by state on the report of the creden
tials committee, which is not received
until the second day of the convention
On a vote state bv state the delegates
seated on the temporary roll in all the
states except that which is being voted
on are allowed to cast their ballots.
This gives a decided advantage to the
side whose contested delegates have
been seated.
The Roosevelt forces objected to this
very procedure In certain state con
ventions. notably that
serting that It virtually gave the con
tested men who were seated the right
to vote on their own contests. It has
formed the basis for one of their
charges of thievery.
Will Give Line On
Relative Strength.
The second advantage this move will
give she Roosevelt men will be the ear
ly line on the exact strength of the op
posing forces.
According to the Taft men. the
Roosevelt faction plans a bolt. If the
first fight goes 'against them, they will
start the fight at once to nominate
Roosevelt for president. Some Roose
velt delegate, probably Herbert S. Had
ley. governor of Missouri, and the only
Roosevelt chief who won a real victory
in the fight before the national commit,
tee, will move that the convention pro
ceed at once with nomination. This, as
the Taft men view the case, will be
equivalent'to an attempt to organize a
Roosevelt convention in the Coliseum
at the same time that the regular con
vention is under Way. Should It be
done, and the Taft men say flatly that it
will, while the Roosevelt men utter no
denial, confusion that will reach the
proportion of a riot will prevail.
The chair will rap for order. The
nomination motion will be declared out
of order. If the Roosevelt men try to
force a vote and go ahead with the
nomination—and they will, if the mo
tion Is made at all—the sergeant-at
arms will be ordered to put out of the
hall the delegates who join in the at
tempt to bring the motion before the
house.
It will be a strenuous time for the
1.200 assistant sergeants-at-arms who
are acting under the orders of Colonel
William F, Stone. Incidentally, the
Roosevelt people will be In a stronger
position if forced from the hall than
they would be if. led by the colonel or
any of his supporters, they carried out
the first plans laid out by the leaders
here of marching quietly from the hall
and trudging to the nearby First regi
ment armory.
Hadley To Be
T. R.’s Floor Leader.
It will also bring the bolt. If there Is
a bolt, at the very beginning of the
contest, instead of at the close, as the
Taft men had expected, after the
Roosevelt men had submitted to the
reading of the temporary roll and the
participation of the Roosevelt delegates
in the preliminary work of the conven.
tion.
Herbert S. Hadley has been chosen aS
the Roosevelt floor leader. His win
ning fight before the Republican na
tional committee greatly pletaed
Colonel Roosevelt. He is said to ha*»