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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. a 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*. The Atlanta Georgian Read For Profit —GEORGIAN WANT ADS—Use For Results UNCLE TRUSTY! Copyright, 1912, National News Association. s. Iff 'I_LL / i Hw -\ ‘ _- 1 ) n ■ NATIONAL COMH,-r-r tE I ffifc .Y’ |||ljSf i x \\\ B /x Y \ U- ; \\ // • k\ x 'a? Jilt New! f / V X “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, 100 6EORGU IF WEN 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*»