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BULL MOOSE IN GEORGIA SPLIT OVER NEGRO Yates Says Dewar Wants to Change Color Scheme of the Coloners Party in South. There is war among the Georgia Bull tMoose. There are two convention calls, two herds of moose, two color schemes to be considered. J. St. Julien Yates, president of the Georgia Roosevelt White league, a BtricMy blond organization. declares that the call issued yesterday by "that fellow Dewar’’ is calculated to round up the antl-Taft negroes for the Bull Moose,; or Mooses, as the case may be, and that Dewar is inspired not so much t>y patriotism as a desire to annex the Atlanta postmastership when the Colo nel resumes his s- the white house next March. Mr. Yates issued a card to the public today, of which the following is the most calorie portion: Sees “Heap of Trouble.” There appears to be a heap of trouble ahead of the "Bull Moose” party in Georgia. It seems to be a question of whether Colonel Roosevelt’s new National Progres sive party is to' be white or black. The color scheme has not yet been worked out. and the trouble, having been precipitated, will be finished along about convention time in Chi cago. There is every reason to believe there will he two delega tions from Georgia to the national convention to he held in Chicago on August 5. The real fight comes on July 25, and it will be over the chairman of the state committee. Yesterday, Mr. Roger Dewar, who claims to be sole living personal representative of Colonel Roosevelt h? Georgia, sent out from what he Is pleased to term the National Progressive headquarters a call for a convention to be held in Atlanta on the 25th of the month, although his call forgets to state where the meeting is to be held. Today the Roosevelt Georgia White league, as a result of a meeting held some days ago, issued a formal call for a meeting of white men to be held at the Kimball house on next Fri day night. POLICE ATTACKED BY WOMAN I. W. W. IN BIG MILL STRIKE NEW REDFORD, MASS., July 17- One thousand members of the 14,000 striking, men and women textile work ers made a hostile demonstration at the Butler mill gates today in an attempt to intimidate the non-striking opera tives. When the police came up and began to disperse the strikers a -wom an member of the Industrial Workers of the World attacked Policeman James i Sullivan so fiercely that she had to be overpowered anl placed under arrest. More than 20,000 textile mill operatives and over one million spindles are now idle throughout the state. In all 25 separate strikes are on. PATIENT IN HOSPITAL TURNING HARD AS STONE ST. PAUL., MINN., July 17.—Nine years ago this September Charles J. Murphy, of Northfield, a student, limped into St. Lukes hospital on crutches and was put to bed. He has been there ever since, slowly dying of a disease as ancle.nt as the earliest relics of Egypt, as mysterious as the pre historic period, and as certain as the pyramids. He is slowly turning to bone —the deposits in® the joints be coming solid and stiffening his entire body. When the chill mhes his heart he will die. It may ■ a year. It may not be for a nu’i» of years. But there is no escape. The technical name of the disease is osteo-arthritis. Its cause is unknown. No method of stop ping it has been revealed. HOUSEKEEPER’S SAVINGS TIED UP FOR THIRTY YEARS TRENTON, N. J., July 17.—An effort is being made by Mrs. Katharine Logue, of this city, to recover $1 100 from the es tate of the late Rev. Father Missle, of Basking Ridge. Mrs. Logue was the housekeeper for the priest and intrusted her savings to him 30 years ago. She was suddenly called to Ireland and be fore she returned the priest died - . The money passed into the hands of the executors and for years Mrs. Logue has been trying to get possession of it, hut she has no evidence that she. gave It to the priest. Monsignor John H. Fox has now taken up the woman’s case and will make an effort to get the mofley. SHOP TALK L. E. Bissel. Atlanta branch manager of the Stearns Automobile company, re turned Monday from the factory at Cleve land. where a convention i f dealers and managers wn held last week Accompanying Mr Bissel to Atlanta is Johnnv Toole, formerly of Atlanta and one of the most, popular and well-liked automobile men In the South. Mr. Toole is now in charge of the Sun Francisco branch of the Stearns and will return to the coast in a few days A. P. Morris, manager of the Askin & Marine company, Atlanta store, is in New York this week on a business and pleas ure trip. • • • A beautiful and interesting folder has just been Issued fr.r the Hotel Del Prado Chicago. Ibebe • n five attrmtivi colors and was de-:gn rf . and executed by the Wagetatfb of AUauyh I Piedmont Bathers Have New Sport RIDE "BUCKING" BARREL ZZ— r-*— khc //■ 4 * < \ wv if/ 1 m z i ■ . '<■ I y i\ / / ' V ‘ \ v ■ \ \\ ■l'?'" i \ v s s AKk \ \\/ X’ — ■ "Z' \y # Z ,K iMfc-'ut ./Za i W > wlk z -O > I my : r i * // i i ATiss Bessie TVallty. one of the fair-bathers who “rides the barrel’* at Piedmont lake. BOMB OUTRAGE AND MYSTERIOUS SLAYING PUZZLE N. Y. POLICE NEW YORK. July 17.—-A murder and a bomb outrage took place early today in »Harlem. Shortly before 2 o’clock the police found the body of a well dressed man —evidently an Italian —ly. ing upon the sidewalk at 108th street and Second avenue, with bullet holes in it. Eight of them had been fired into his back, evidently after he had fallen from a shot in the head. About the same time an explosion was heard in 109th street, where an in fernal machine had been set off on the first floor of the tenement at No. 308 East 100th street, shattering the front of the building. A short time after the shooting a wounded man walked into the East Seventy-sixth street police station. He said he had been hurt in a bomb ex plosion and asked medical aid. After being treated, he disappeared. The authorities began an investiga tion along the line that the shooting and the bomb outrage were in some way connected. SPALDING COUNTY BABIES TO OWN GRIFFIN JULY 25 GRIFFIN. GA., July 17. —The mer chants of Griffin have arranged to hold a babv show het'e July 25. There will be many prizes offered for all kinds and classes of babies under three years old. The photographers will take pictures of everv babv brought to the studios dur ing that day. The moving picture shows will admit free every mother with a rnby Manv of the merchants will give souvenirs to all babies that visit their P = ~f business. Refreshments will i 9l . f vcd during the day. It is planned t.> make this gala day for the babies of Spalding county. SHOCK SENDS BOY TO HIS DEATH IN A POOL PIHT.YDELI’HIA, July 17 -Shocked by electricity, which hurled him inlo four feet of water in a bathing pool, Abraham Slltzsky. 14 years old, wa drowned in the i Model Bath house, on Third street. The ceiling of the bath house Is low and about live feet from the floor is an electric ! switch box. protected by a glass door. Eor some ce.dson Slltzsky began plat mg I with this, and as a mistaken precaution i against being shocked he obtained a wet ' owel with .which be turned on the switch. I Saturated with water, the towel proved a I deadly conductor. CHUMS OF FATHERLAND MEET AFTER 30 YEARS BRISTOL.. FA. July t7 -Philip Winter, a merchant here, and f’hatles Berg, of Camden. N. .1 today met for the first time since thr ■ fame to America from Germany. They were schoolmates at I hut 'r.id lc r t Fi>.-‘-t of each other I ,ip.u- settling T. too n< cc.firry, until I - jar.ee revealed Winters whereabouts to i Berg. - THE ATLANT A GEORGIAN AND NEWS. WEDNESDAY, JULY 17, 1912. Girl One of Daring Swimmers Who Has Made the ‘Stunt’ Popular. Another sport has been added to the various delights in the waters of Pied mont park lake, and, according to par ticipants who have been to Coney Island and other famous resorts, there is nothing as thrilling- as Piedmont's own sport. The new game is called “riding the barrel” and one attempt at it can cause more thrills and screams of laughter than a day spent on the "shoot-the chutes,” "the Hawaiian water wheel.” "the slide for life,” or any other of the more complicated “thrillers” for which you have to pay out good money at some resorts. One particular feature, too. is the safety of the new game. Women and girls and the ever pres ent small boy go in for the fascinating game more than me do, though tiie male element at the lake is not above participating in the sport. Like Riding a Broncho. The sport was started when a large water-tight keg. about half t*he size of an ordinary flour barrel, was placed in the swimming pool. On the surface of the pool the barrel bobs serenely up and down and shows little of the tricks which It really has. The least motion will cause it to bounce off the surface of the water like a thing of life. The game is for the swimmer to mount the barrel and stay astride It. No one has yet done it. but thousands have made the attempt and had t,he fun of their lives in the game, while those on the banks, shouted encourage ment and laughed at the ludicrous poses which resulted. Riding a barrel on the water Is some what akin to the Western art of riding a bucking broncho, the only difference being that the broncho is limited in what he does, while the barrel ap parently is not. A ways the Unexpected. The pretty girl who takes a firm hold hold of the ends of the wooden keg and attempts to leap astride It can tell nothing of what will happen, except that she is going to tumble into th<* water in a few seconds and in some way. Right there Is where the wizard of the brainless things gets in Its work. According to several theories over which scientists have labored long, the barrel should sink beneath the weight of its rider. It may do that; some times it does. But the barrel Is cylin drical In shape and tapers slightly to ward Its ends. It does not do what it Is expected to do. One time it may break ali natural laws and rise higher in the water/ another time it will go to one side or the other and these move ments are executed with lightning rap idity and accompanied by a rolling movement, the result of revolving or Its own axis. Tnen again it keeps its position in the water and merely re volves on its axis Whatever happens the rider goes plunging, head or feet foremost, into the water. “There are just about l.rtoo other things this barrel can do, and it never does the same thing in succession." says MBs Bessie Walty, a pretty girl of eighteen, who leaves her home at t>4 Hill street every day and comes to the lake f a s,< iim. Miss Walty is one of the most daring of the girls who have made the sport popular. MN TO KEEP GOVERNORSHIP Friends Believe, at Least. That He Will Not Resign for Campaign. SEAGIRT, N. J., July 17.—The public of New Jersey is soon to be informed of the full intentions of Governor Woodrow Wilson concerning his Incumbency of the state’s chief executive office. A state ment is to be issued within a short time in which he will express a final intention of retaining the chair until next March or set a precedent and resign at once. It is the confident belief of all his closest friends that he will not send in his resig nation. Unless his admiring friends leave the governor more time to himself he will find It necessary to "disappear again” in order to compose the address which he is to deliver in acceptance to the official no tification made here on August 7. William F. McCombs and the members of the new national committee executive council will meet here tomorrow. The men whom Governor Wilson has picked as his close advisers in the coming cam paign were invited for today, but the de lay in the arrival of Mr. McCombs and the others from the Chicago meeting ne cessitated a. postponement. Wilson Great Leader 4 Says Underwood TRENTON, N. J.. July 17.—Repre sentative Oscar W. Underwood, of Ala bama, is greatly impressed with Gov ernor Woodrow Wilson as a result of his visit to the governor here yester day. the first time the two great Dem oi rats had ever met. Following their visit, Mr. Underwood said: “I think Governor Wilson is a great leader of men. Ido not have any doubt in my mind that he if going to be elect ed president of the United States. 1 believe that his admin: ’ration Will live up to every promise of the party. I don’t think I ev®r saw the Democratic party more united and in better condi tion to win a victory than it is today, (.in the other hand. I never saw the Re publican party more demoralized, and I think that our opponents even feel themselves that they aie on losing ground. "Fight Will Win Itself.” "I think that the governor's'plan for managing the campaign as adopted at Chicago is a very good one. Os course, I do not know enough about the de tails to give an expression of opinion as to what is the best plan or what is not. That would require a great deal of study. The fight is mighty near th condition to win itself. "The main question in the collection of campaign contributions is publicity, in my opinion. I think if the public-is taken into the confidence of the com mittee and it knows of the sources from which contributions come, there can be no eritcism, because they will be all known in advance, and the people can determine for themselves. I think that will solve the whole proposition. It is not a question as to how much each individual contributes, because what may be a large contribution from one man may be a very small one from an other, but if the public knows the source I do not see that there can be any trouble.” Underwood said he was asked what he thought of the platform of the Dem ocratic party. “I think it is a clear, forceful and strong expression of Democratic prin ciples,” he said. "I think the principal issue in the campaign is bound to be the tariff. Os course, there are other issues of more or less importance, but the leading issue before the people is the question as to whether they want to maintain the tariff, the present sys tem of tariff taxation, or whether they want to revise the tariff downward. I believe most of the evils that exist in the country today that are being com plained of grow ot.it of the protective tariff system and that the prohibitive duties must be removed before we can get any real relief, both real relief from the high cost of living and from many other evils that are complained of to day.” W'l! Offer His Services. "And now as to your personal plans in this campaign ?” "I am, of course, compelled to stay in the house until it adjourns. After that I want a couple of weeks rest; then I expect to offer my services to the Dem ocratic national committee and go where they want me to go.” Concerning his own candidacy for the Democratic nomination, Mr. Under wood said: “When we pulled down our banners there were no sore spots left. We fight for a flag. An individual is simply an insta nee.” FIRE IN EXCHANGE, PHONE GIRLS STICK TO SWITCHBOARDS A shout, followed by a flash of flame, went through the operators’ room in the Atlanta Telephone exchange early to rfciy, hut not a girl stirred. As if noth ing had happened, the operators con tinued to pull plugs. The fire started from cable friction and was over in a few moments, but the young women didn't know this. For a long time after the blaze had been ex tinguished smoke continued to pour into the exchange room, but the work of making connections never stopped. The damage will not be heavy. More than 200 phones were put out of com mission temporarily. When the smoke was thickest. Miss Myrta Gay, chief operator, ordered the girls from the switchboard so that they might ge' fresh a! They continued to run back to the board and make con nections, even then. Wagers Wheelbarrow Ride on T. R. BETTING FUED REOPENED I? Colonel Theodore Roosevelt Is elected president of the United States this year, Major John Brown Scarratt win treat Colonel Edward Constitution Bruffy to such a wheelbarrow ride around and about the streets of Atlan ta as never has been seen in these parts. Major Scarratt and Colonel Bruffy are ancient enemies in the election bet ting business. Once upon a time —this is no fairy tale—the major won a hat from the colonel. That was when Harrison was elected president—not Tippecanoe Har rison (the ideal—this thing happened when John and Ed were 21. 'and not before the Mexican war) 1 Anyway, the major is a snorting, hurrahing, boosting Roosevelt man this year; the while the colonel thinks the Rough Rider will have not even a small-caliber look in on the electoral college. . Duly Drawn and Signed. Wherefore, this agreement between the major and the colonel has been STORES ARE ASKED TO SHOW ATLANTA MADE GOODS DURING FAIR Only Atlanta-made goods will be ex hibited in the show windows of At lanta merchants, if the request of the committee in charge of the Atlanta- Made show is complied with The show will be held during the first ten days in August while the Southern merchants convention is in session and thousands of persons will be. drawn to Atlanta from all over the South. * The exhibits in the armory will con sist only of products of Atlanta's fac tories and plants, and the members of the committee believe that if local merchants fill their windows with At lanta-made goods so that visitors may see them while on the streets double attention will be called to this city as a manufacturing center. The work of installing exhibits will begin next Monday. U. S. SECRET SERVICE MEN SEARCH JUAREZ FOR J. WYLIE SMITH EL PASO, Texas, July 17.—Secret agents of the United States state de partment are today searching Ciudad Juarez, the rebel-occupied town across the Rio Grande river from El Paso, for J. Wylie Smith, American Consul T. D. Edwards be lieved that the former Atlanta loan agent disappeared across the river into El Paso ten days ago when he reached Juarez from his prison cell in Chihua hua with the retreating rebels, who had opened the penitentiary before leaving, but Mr. Edwards was informed last night that Smith has been seen in Juarez yesterday. The consul’s inform ant was not seeking a reward and claimed to know Smith; hence the con sul believes that Smith was seen in Juarez as late as yesterday, and that he is still in Juarez in hiding. The consul asked and obtained per mission of the rebel officials to take secret service operatives into Juarez to search for the man. FLORIDAN BROUGHT FOR BURIAL TO CITY HE AIMED TO VISIT The body of Joseph N. Whitner, of St. Petersburg. Fla., who had expected to visit Atlanta soon, will be brought here tomorrow for burial. A letter telling of the contemplated visit was received by Mr. Whitner’s sis ter, Miss Elizabeth Whitner, 386 White hall street, yesterday. It was followed by a telegram early today announcing his sudden death. Mr. Whitner had arranged, to bring his wife and their little child here with him They will come tomorrow with the corpse. A brother, J. H Whitner, also of At lanta, will meet the party at the Termi nal station and arrange for the funeral. COURT VALIDATES $95,000 BOND ISSUE FOR CORDELE CORDELE, GA., July 17. —Judge W. F. George, of the Cordele judicial cir cuit, has passed an order validating the $95,000 bond Issue recently voted by the city of Cordele. These bonds are for public improvements and the work will likely begin in the early fall. Os this amount $40,000 will be spent on street paving, $40,000 on extending the water works system. SIO,OOO on bonding a school house in the Third ward, and $5,000 on extending the sewerage. It is understood that another bond election will be held to issue $50,000 of bonds for buying the electric light plant owned by private \individuals. WURTS BOWIE’S BROTHER HEADS CHEROKEE LIFE ROME, GA., July 17.—Hal G. Bowie was elected president of the Cherokee Life Insurance Company at a meeting of the directors today. He succeeds the late Wurts Bowie, who died last week. He Is the ;ame age his brother was when he chartered the company two years ago. The Miles injunction suit against the Rome Insurance Company has been modified so as to allow the Cherokee company to administer business turned over to it in the merger deal. POSTCARD ASTRAY FOUR YEARS IS DELIVERED -—— - PHILADELPHIA. July 17 —A postal card which was mailed in this city four years ago has just reached its destina tion. It was sent at that time to Ed ward St. George Joyce, a stenographer in the city solicitor's office, and after the long lapse of years it turned up in the first mail and tvas delivered to Joyce at his home The card was a message of cnngratula 'inn from Joyce's sister Mrs. Mae Mc- Goldrick. upon his birthday It Is be lieved that it got lost in the mails. duly drawn, signed and solemnly er tered into: I hereby agree, if Colonel Theo dore Roosevelt is not elected next president of the United States and Woodrow Wilson or W. H. Taft is elected to buy you a new hat and a bandana handkerchief, deliver same to you in your office, decorate the hat with the bandana handkerchief, place the hat on your venerable cranium, place you on my back and tote you to a decorated wheelbar row that I will have in waiting out side in Alabama street, and roll you in the wheelbarrow from there to the state capitol, provided, how ever, if Colonel Roosevelt is elected you agree to buy me a new hat and a bandana handkerchief and roll me in a wheelbarrow (furnished by yourself) past the postofflee to the Piedmont hotel. JOHN BROWN SCARRATT. I accept the foregoing proposi tion and conditions. ED C. BRUFFY. COMMERCE CHAMBER TO HEAR BUREAU PLAN AT TAFT HALL DINNER Plans for the reorganization of the Chamber of Commerce and the forma tion of various bureaus to specialize on individual work will be laid before 300 members tomorrow night at the dinner which is to lie given in Taft hall. President Wilmer L. Moore is to make, the address outlining the new plan. At present the chamber has a •i --reau of agriculture under the direction of J. K. Giles and the formation of an industrial 4>ureau and a convention bu reau will be urged. Other bureaus will be added later, if President Moore's suggestions are approved. The annual fair which the chamber proposes to hold at Lakewood will be outlined by Aldine Chambers, who vis ited the fair grounds in Toronto, Can ada, where such a fair has been held for 28 consecutive years. Mr. Cham bers brought back with him a number of views of the fair grounds and these will be shown on stereopt icon slides. Frederic J Paxon, former president of the chamber, will make an address on municipal research. The .dinner, to be informal, will be gin promptly at 7 o’clock. CHARLES M. WHITE IS DEAD; HE HAD LIVED IN ATLANTA 20 YEARS Charles M White. 40 years old. promi nent real estate and business man. died last night at a private sanitarium. The body Is at Patterson & Son's chapel, pend ing funeral arrangements Mr. White had been a resident of At lanta more than twenty years. He was for a time a member of the firm of White & Bros., wholesale merchants, but later entered the real estate business. He was with the E. Rivers Company at the time of his fatal illness. , Four brothers and one sister survive. They are Warren B. White and J. W. White, of Atlanta; Mrs. J. C. Clay, of East Point; T. A. White, of DeKalb county, and J. M. White, of Whites Mill. Ga. SAVANNAH RANKS FOURTH AMONG AMERICAN PORTS SAVANNAH. GA., July 17.—With the exception of the port of New York, Sa vannah stands first on the Atlantic seaboard tn the list of exports, out ranking Philadelphia, Baltimore, Nor folk and Charleston. In addition to this, the port shows a gain of more than 300 per cent in imports since 1909. Figures show this port to be gaining steadily over all other ports, including that of New York. Savan nah now ranks fourth in the list of ports in the United States. New Or leans and Galveston rank second and third, respectively. NEWTON CANDIDATES A PLENTY. COVINGTON, GA , July 17—A. H Loyd has entered the race for repre sentative from Newton county, making four aspirants for the place. They are J. C. .Morgan, L. L. Flowers, E. E. Parker and A. H. Loyd. There are three announced candidates for state senate, as this is Newton’s time to elect. They are A. H. Foster, the pres ent representative from this county; J. W. King and F. D. Ballard. CARLTON’S WOMEN’S Fine Shoes! OXFORDS and STRAPS Positive $4, $5 and $6 Values For Wednesday and Thursday Selling Only at These are mainly in the zTN psf smaller sizes and are AB splendid values for those K.J "'Jr who can he fitted. Leath- ers—tan, gun metal, pat- ent, novelties, suede, silk. | I A I I* Quick response to this ad. •*- all.lv necessary • a—— I■■ ■! ■IIIIWIWOW ■' »'IU ■■ n ,'JWUHWn Carlton Shoe Co. 36 WHITEHALL HOUSE FOR NEW SEAT IN CABINET Pass Bill Dividing Department of Commerce and Labor and Creating Labor Secretary. WASHINGTON, July 17.—The house today unanimously passed the Sulzer bill creating a department of labor. This bill creates the tenth seat in the president’s cabinet. It establishes the department of labor and changes the present department of commerce and labor to the department of com merce. A secretary of labor, three as sistant secretaries, a solicitor, a chief clerk, a disbursing clerk and other minor employees are provided. The commissioner general of immigration, the commissioner of labor and several other high officials now in the depart ment of commerce and labor are shift ed over to the new department. The bill gives the department of labor the right to collect and publish all statis tics relative to labor and authorizes the secretary to call on any government de partment. for information. It also authorizes the secretary of la bor to act as a mediator in questions of industrial dispute and to appoint commissioners of conciliation in labor disputes, thereby giving the influence of the government toward industrial peace, MRS. MORROW DENIES - ON WITNESS STAND SHE KILLED HUSBAND CHICAGO, July 17.—Mrs Rene B. Morrow today faced a further ordeal in the witness chair in Judge Kersten's court, where she is on trial for the murder of her husband, Charles B. Mor row. Mrs. Morrow began her story of events that led up to the death of her husband late yesterday afternoon. It was expected that it would require the entire day to complete the cross-ex amination. "Did you kill your husband?” asked Attorney Erbstein. "I did not,” Mrs. Morrow replied. "Did you ever pull the trigger of a revolver in your life?” "Never.” This denial is the foundation of the evidence the state's attorney will at tempt to overthrow on cross-examina tion. FATHER AND UNCLE AT LAW TO DECIDE CUSTODY OF A BOY ROME, GA., July 17.—R. W. McCol lum and Will Weems married sisters. McCollum and his wife separated. Mrs. McCollum later died. A six-year-old son was left in the care of Mrs. Weems. Weems claims this was requested by Mrs. McCollum. Now McCollum claims this was prejudicial to the interests of the other members of the family and wants the custody of the boy decided before attachments become so strong that a breaking of the ties would cause hard feelings. He has brought habeas corpus proceedings and an interesting fight is to be waged in the city court for the custody of the child. CONVICT ESCAPES TWICE BY JUMPING FROM TRAIN MONTGOMERY. ALA., July 17. Henry East, serving eighteen years for burglary committed at Florence, Ala., escaped from a southbound local Louisville and Nashville train today at Cooper station while he was being car ried by a state transfer agent from the mines to the Henderson Lumber Com pany at Sanford. He jumped from a train three months ago while being taken from Birmingham to Wetumpka, hut was recaptured. Dogs have been sent in pursuit of him. FALLS IN LIME VAT. DALTON, GA July 17. —John Wil liams, a local contractor, had a narrow' escape from death here when he fell into a vat filled with slaked lime. He managed to keep his head out of the mixture, but was badly burned about the hands and back. His Injuries are not of a serious nature.