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VOL. X. NO. 277.
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HUSBAND
Mrs. D. B. English, After
Reaching Safety, Re-enters
Building to Get Picture.
WAYCROSS, GA.. June 19.—1 f Mrs.
D. B. English had not returned to her
bedroom to save a photograph of her
husband who had died in that room five
years ago, she would not have been
burned to death in the $30,000 fire
which destroyed the English building
at 9 o’clock last night and cost the
lives of another woman and her nine
year-old son.
one of Mrs. English’s children, who
narrowly escaped her fate, said today
i hat her mother had reached the street
safel) at the Tebeau corner of the
flaming building when she remember
ed the photograph of her dead hus
band which she had treasured above
all her other posessions. In spite of
the pleadings of her daughters, she
wrenched away from them, ran back
toward the bed rodm and had just
reached the entrance when she was
buried beneath a falling wall. Her
body, burned beyond recognition, was
found with those of the other victims
in the ruins at daylight today.
DEAD AND INJURED
IN CONFLAGRATION.
The dead are:
MRS. D. B. ENGLISH. widow of Dan
Broadway English.
JIRS. JOHN D. GAMBLE, wife of a
linotype operator.
PAL’L GAMBLE, nine-year-old son
of Mrs. John D. Gamble
H C. Lee and Alvin Johnson, who
were badly hurt by jumping from the
second floor, are in a serious condition.
A fourth body, that of a missing
white man, is believed to be under the
debris.
Only SB,OOO insurance was carried
on the burned buildings.
All day long today, while the firemen
searched among the ruins of the Eng
lish building and the garage, where the
blaze was started by a workman's
lighted match thrown into gasoline, lit
tle Margaret English, whose mother
was burned to death, clung about the
spot weeping hysterically and begging
to enter th*e charred debris. She had
seen her mother's body taken from the
wreckage of the boarding house up.,n
the second floor, but the seven-year
old child could not believe she was
'dead.
LITTLE CHILD SOUGHT
TO SAVE HER MOTHER.
Before the body was recovered the
child sought frantically to break away
from those who detained her to run
back into the flaming building and
V bring out her mother. It is feared that
the child will not survive the horror of
the tragedy.
The positions in which the charred
bodies of the victims were found today
indicated that they were near a rear
exit when the roof collapsed from one
of several terrific srasoline explosions.
Investigation today proves that a
workman, smoking in the garage on
the first floor of the building, against
all rules, tossed the match he lit into a
corner of the room where several gal
lons of kerosene were stored. Flames
falrlv burst from the building. In less
than a minute the garage was a raging
furnace and tongues of fire shot up
, ward and encompassed the whole porch
of the boarding house on the second
floor, where several men, women and
children were sitting.
V searching investigation of the fire,
It was announced today, will be made
by city officials, to fix the responsibil
ity for the holocaust.
The firemen reached the scene to find
that the blaze had already doomed the
house, though less than half of the oc
cupants had escaped. At the same mo
ment the electric light connections were
hunted out and all the rescue work was
done in darkness, except where the fire
men carried lanterns into the smoke
filled rooms of the building. So swift
was the progress of the flames that
John Gamble and his little son escaped
from the porch by the narrowest mar
gin. while Mrs. Gamble, fully dressed
■ It ,t room within, v.as burned to death
before she could rind an. exit.
The Atlanta Georgian
FELDER SAYS
HE’LL SHOW
UP GOV.
BLEASE
Atlanta Lawyer Accepts Sum
mons of South Carolina In
vestiagting Committee.
Thomas B. Felder, of Atlanta, will
respond to a summons to meet an in
vestigating committee from the legis
lature of South Carolina tn Augusta.
Ga., nn Monday, July 8. for the pur
pose of giving to that committee such
testimony as he may have concerning
the charge of dispensary graft lodged
against Governor Cole L. Blease, of
South Carolina, by Mayor Grace, of
Charleston.
Discussing the matter today. Mr.
Felder said;
“I shall answer? the summons of the
investigating committee without doubt.
I will be on hand when it arrives in
Augusta, and will take pleasure in tell
ing it all I know about the matters
it brings to my attention. I shall lay
.before it such things as I have knowl
edge of. These things may not make
nice or dainty reading: they may be
veTy damaging to some people, but that
will not be my fault. I shall be glad to
meet the committee in Augusta, for
there I shall have an opportunity, in
calmness and without interference, to
say what 1 know.”
The meeting’ between Mr. Felder and
the investigating committee, set for
July 8 in Augusta, was the outcome]
of several days’ correspondence by I
letter and wire. Mr. Felder first named i
Atlanta as a fit and proper place of ;
meeting, but when the committee said
that Augusta would be more conven
ient to it. the Atlanta man promptly
accepted.
Mr. Felder's sole objection to going
to Columbia is said to have been fear
of interference upon the hearing, per
haps violent, by friends and partisans
of Governor Blease.
Probing Dispensary
Graft at Charleston
CHARLESTON, S. C„ June 19. The
legislative committee investigating the
old South Carolina dispensary system
today opened its hearing here on
charges made by Mayor Grace of much
graft in the county constabulary sys
tem, tracing this graft to Governor
Blease's door. J. J. Miller spent the
morning testifying before the commis
sion on how the graft system has
worked. The testimony of Miller was
"red hot," laying bare a graft system
long suspected and of common report.
The committee may spend two days in- |
vestigating graft conditions here, eon- !
•tinuing the investigation started at Co- ]
lumbia yesterday, when Mayor Grace I
appeared before the probers.
Charleston Mayor
Tells of Grafting
COLUMBIA. S. C.. June 29.—The leg
islative dispensary committee yester
day heard testimony of Mayor Grace
of Charleston, who told at length of
political and personal affiliations with
Governor Blease. He said Blease had
put liquor constables in Charleston
county, though several times publicly
and privately he had said he would not
do this.
Grace said the opinion is general in
Charleston that constables received
bribes to protect certain liquor con
cerns and produced an affidavit of J.
J. Miller, who said that he had seen
money paid Ben Stothart. chief of con
stabulary. to secure Stothart’s protec
tion. Grace made a suggestion to the
committee that it go to Charleston,
where, he said, ho could produce more
witnesses ami affidavits to show that
Blease gets graft from constables.
•Stothart’s counsel urged (he same, so
•the commute left early this morning
for Charleston.
Read For Profit—GEORGIAN WANT ADS—Use For Results
ATLANTA. /lA.. WEDNESDAY, JUNE 19. 1912.
I While Orphans Pray
I For Fire Deliverance
Their Chapel Burns
Hephzibah Home at Macon Suffers
Loss of SII,OOO by Second
Blaze.
MACON, GA.. June 19.—While 56 or
phan girls, assembled in the chapel of
the Hephzibah orphanage last night,
rendered prayers of thanks for their
safe deliverance from a fire during the
afternoon, tongues of flames made their
appearance through the ceiling and
drove the frightened children pell-mell
to their cottages.
The chapel and main home were
burned down by the second fire, at a
loss of SII,OOO, despite the heroic ef
forts of a bucket brigade of 40 chil
dren. The orphanage was beyond the
city limits and out of reach of the fire
department.
VOLUNTEERS, RIVALS
OF SALVATION ARMY,
WOULD COME HERE
Mayor Winn is considering carefully
today the application of the Volun
teers of America for permission to give
services on the streets, with a banjo
corps and drums. The mayor is per
fectly willing to permit the Volunteers
to compete with the Salvation Army in
street services and music, but desires
to know something more about them
before issuing a permit.
Major F. C. Fegley made the appli
cation. He is an officer of the Volun
teers. which does most of its work
among prisoners In state and Federal
prisons, and also is chaplain of Hope
Plantation, a part of the Louisiana
state prison system.
The Volunteers have opened head
quarters in New Orleans. Birmingham
and Chattanooga.
RIGHT TO GIVE ONE CAB
LINE PRIVILEGES AT R. R.
STATION IS QUESTIONED
The right of the Atlanta Terminal Com
! pany to give the Atlanta Baggage and Cab
I Company exclusive parking privileges on
| the Termina Istation plaza is being ques
tioned today before the state railroad com
mission.
Members of the traveling public, in
eluding committees from the United Com
mercial Travelers and the Traveling Mens
Protective association, told the commis
sioners that travelers were being dis
commoded by the monopoly of the sta
tion plaza said to have been obtained by
the Atlanta Baggage and Cab Company.
The Terminal Company readily admit
ted to the commission that a contract giv
ing the Atlanta Baggage and Cab Com
pany exclusive parking privileges was in
effect, but denied that vehicles owned by
other companies and persons were kept
from driving on the plaza.
SUFFRAGETTES MOB
LLOYD GEORGE, BUT
POLICE RESCUE HIM
LONDON. June 19. —Suffragettes made
a savage attack upon Chancellor David
Lloyd-George today as he wflte leaving
Qaxton hall, where he had opened the
Welsh national bazaar. Detectives after
a tierce struggle rescued the chancellor
just in time to save him from being bad
ly beaten by the women
j ILLNESS FORCES FRAZIER
OUT OF GOVERNOR'S RACE
CHATTANOOGA. TENN., June 19.
I Following a sinking spell about 11
I o’clock last night. ex-Senator James
I B. Frazier rallied after midnight and
today his physicians report that his
Condition Is more favorable than at any
time since his illness began. How
ever. his family is alarmed and fears
are entertained that he may not re
cover. Because of his illness. Senator
Frazier's friends have withdrawn his
name as a candidate tor the Demo
cratic nomination for governor.
CHARTER GIVEN A T. & A.
LINE: CAPITAL SIOO,OOO
The Americus. Tifton and Atlantic rail
road. a projected line to operate from
Americus to a point on the Florida line In
Charlton county, a distance of 200 miles,
was chartered by the secretary of state
today. The railroad was capitalized at
SIOO,OOO.
According to the terms of the charter
the line will pass through Oakfield. Doles.
Ashburn, Tifton, Nashville and Milltown
The Incorporators are: G. K. Eltis and
W. M Crook. Americus; D. J DuPree,
Oakfield: C. 1. Champion. Doles: J. s.
Shinglerand .1.1., Bvans, Ashburn: U. 11.
Tift, J. W. Greer and .1. W. Myers. Tif
ton; I U Lovett, Nashville, and J. V.
Talley, Milltown.
T. R.’S MEN ATTACK ROLLER;
TAFT REFUSES TO QUIT
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GIRLS CHICKENS
Court Puts $5.75 Crusher on
Flirting Youths Who Annoyed
Telephone Operators.
Recorder Broyles today put a $5.75
ban on calling telephone girls "chick
ens. ’’
Accused of applying that term to two
pretty "hello girls” in front of the
Southern Bell exchange, at Pryor and
Mitchell streets O E. Lancaster. 22
Kei-guson street, and Hurhy Gufllti. 85
Harold avenue, were before the re
corder today and were each fined $5.75.
"Hello, chicken, where are you go
ing? I'm going tn tell your mama on
you." Is the wav the alleged mashers
are said to have addressed the girls
just after a young man employee of the
telephone company had bought them
ice cream soda in a nearby fount. The
girls didn't relish the familiaritj and
protested.
The superintendents of the Marcus
Ixieb Company on th. opposite corner,
where large numbers of girls are em
ployed. told the court that, the young
men also had been throwing kisses ai
the girls in the upper windows of the
establishment. He said the windows
and walls of the building "were be
spattered with kisses that hud gone
wild and missed the mark.’
DALTON MATRON DIES.
DALTON, GA. .lune 19. The body
of Mrs. Walter Davis was brought here
for interment today, her death having
occurred at Resaca. She was one of
the most prominent of Dalton's young
matrons.
DINER FINDS GEM
IN A GRAPEFRUIT
Expert Tells Guest at Piedmont
Hotel Stone Is Diamond and
Worth SSOO.
When .1. Clarence Sanehen, of Au
gusta, Ga., began eating a grapefruit
in the dining room of the Piedmont
hotel he found a diamond of purest ray
Inside.
At first he thought it was a small
stone that had got in the spoon by some
mistake. Upon removing it from his
mouth, however, he saw that It was
a glistening jewel. A jeweler whom
he consulted pronounced it a pure
white diamond worth probably SSOO.
Mr. Sanehen Is connected with the
Irish-American bank, of Augusta. He
is on a vacation trip with his bride.
Both of the,m ordered grapefruit for
breakfast. He had scarcely eaten three
spoonsful! when lie found the gem.
Teeth Come Down on Gem.
How the diamond could possibly have
found its way Io a lodging place In the
grapefruit is a matter of wonder to
Mr. Sanehen and to all to whom he
related the story. The stone was not
loose in the half of the fruit.
"The diamond evidently was imbed
ed in the meat of the fruit," said Mr.
Sanehen, "because I didn't discover it
until my teeth came down on it. The
stone looked as if It had been a part
of a ring set.”
Leaving the city shortly after noon.
Mr. Sanehen didn't hate time to seek
out a possible owner for the gem. He
said, however, he would hold the stone,
and If anybody could establish posi
tive ownership he could be found at the
Hotel Martinique In New York.
I
Hadley Again Leads Roosevelt Forces
in Fight to Replace Contested Dele
gates Seated by Steam Roller With
“Legally” Elected Delegates—Col-
onel’s Name Cheered.
<'< >l.l SEI' M. CHICAGO. June 19. With the lightiug spirit
uppermost, the Republican national convention this afternoon
fought over again the question of alleged frauds in making up
the temporary roll. It reached its climax when Henry J. Allen,
of Kansas, brought out a near-threat of a bolt. While he was
speaking a delegate arose and demanded whether Allen would
support the nominee of the convention. With the delegates
shouting at him Allen declared he wanted to support the candi
date. but that he would do so only on one condition.
"He must be named without
fraud." said Allen
Ft was several minutes, before
order was restored.
During the speech of James A.
Hemenway for Taft, the confu
sion became so marked that
Chairman Root had to stop the
convention proceedings to restore
order.
The Roosevelt forces, captained by
Governor Hadley of Missouri, led the
fighting in the second round of the
battle to wrest fr<><>> President Taft
the Republican presidential nomination.
Chairman Root rapped for order at
11:14 o'clock, and it was fourteen min
utes more before the convention had
come to order.
As was agreed when adjournment
came last night. Governor Hadley’s mo
. tion to substitute the 78 contested Taft
■ delegates with Roosevelt men was tak
en up immediately after the invoca
tion. By agreement a limit of three
hours was placed on the debate. Gov
ernor Hadly opened for the Roosevelt
forces, while ex-Congressman Watson,
of Indiana, bad charge of the Taft ar
gument. Both men yielded the floor to
others. Men from the various states
entering into the contest appeared for
both sides. There was great confusion
at times during the speeches, and
speakers wpre frequently greeted with
hisses and cat calls or applause. Ref
erence to Roosevelt, without his name,
in Hadley’s speech, was loudy cheer-
That this Is a day of great import
ance to the fortunes of the Roosevelt
faction was indicated by the dogged
ness with which they entered the fight
from the first and kept at It. That
Colonel Roosevelt himself might come
to the convention hall before the day
ended and take personal charge of the
fight was indicated by the announce
ment that this morning he had secured
ten seats for the convention platform
for today's session.
Hall in Confusion
After Gavel Fell.
At 11:28 o'clock the convention was
declared in order by Chairman Root.
I'or thirteen minutes after Chairman
Root's gavel fell the house was In con
fusion.
During the wait Watson, of Indiana,
strolled about the platform.
finally, at 11:28. the convention was
declared in order by Chairman Root.
Rev. Dr. .Joseph Stoltz, chaplain of the
day, then pronounced the invocation.
The prayer was as follows:
• "Oh, Lord, who are the loving father
of all mankind, the great ruler of all
the nations, eternal God, in Thy name
blessing has been bestowed upon this
land of milk and honey and by Thy
providence wc live in the land of the
free and the home of the brave. We
praise Thee for millions who find bless
ings on our borders. We express grati
tude to Thee because our justice has
become the common law of the land.
Help us to be worthy of Ths blessings
"Make us of those who think not of
themselves, but of uprighteousness and
truth'. Bestow upon us wisdom and
judgment. the delegates be tilled
with Thy spirit so that they may know
that truth and justice save a nation."
HOML
EDITION
2 CENTS EVERYWHERE £ A O V RE NO
There was a good deal of confusion
in the galleries when the prayer was
going on. The crowd was slow and
hard to handle. The assistant ser
geants-at-arms seemed incapable of
handling the situation. The same
trouble was evident on the floor of the
hall. Everything moved slowly and
apparently without system.
Fight on Delegates
Starts at Once.
Immediately after the prayer ''hair
man Root stated the first thing io be
taken up was the motion of Governor
Hadley, on the change in the tempo
rary roll. He stated that Governor
■Hadley and Delegate Watson had
agreed on three hours for debate, the
time to be evenly divided.
The rule was adopted by unanimous
consent.
John Maynard Harlan, of Illinoi,*.
announced for the chair that those
recognized by the chair would be ex
pected to take their places on the pisi
form while speaking.
Governor Hadley opened the debate
on his motion.
He was given an ovation as he
Stepped to the front of the platform.
Hadley began his argument on the
motion to substitute the 78 Roosevelt
delegates for those now on the roll aft
er Chairman Root had held the motion
was presentable. Governor Hadley
said :
“1 am going to take a few moments of
your time to explain the situation now
before us.
“We made a motion that some 70
delegates placed on the roll by the na
tional committee be stricken off and
that the rightfully elected delegates
should be substituted. The chair ruled
this motion out of order, although with
out a point having been made. He
heard argument on the ruling already
made. I took an appeal, which the
chair refused to recognize and submit
to the convention. We had two
courses. We could meet arbitrarily the
arbitrary action of this ruling. We
preferred to wait until a temporary
chairman was elected.
“Then we renewed the motion that
the chairman hps considered proper.”
Hadley then named in a general way
the cases that were referred to. H<
said he vvouljl not present the individual
cases, as others would do that.
Roosevelt Quotation
Brings Loud Cheers
Hadley then quoted from a speech
of Roosevelt saying that the substitu
tion of the nates by the national com
mittee was a plan to substitute the will
of the bosses for the will of the people
of the United States. He was cheered
roundly.
He paid a glowing tribute to Roose
velt. He did not mention the ex-presi
dent by name, but said:
"He can lead more people to the polls
than any other man in the United
States "
Hadley then read a statement from
fourteen members of the Republican
national committee, many of whom are
not supporters of Roosevelt sot the
presidency. The statemnt said a nutn
bei of delegates had been ,w longfully
seated and gave a list of men who were
said to be the rightfully elected dele
gates. This list, Hadley said, was the
one contained in his motion. As In
proceeded Hadley paid a neat tribute to