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VOL. X. NO. 255.
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Essie Carter in Macon Hospital
in Serious Condition From
Horsewhipping.
REFUSES TO DIVULGE
NAMES OF FLOGGERS
Attentions of Son of Promi
nent Man to the Woman
Cause of Affair.
MACON, GA., July 22.—Essie Carter,
a young white woman, is in the Macon
hospital in a serious condition as the
result of a horse-whipping inflicted
upon her Saturday night at Dawson by
th:ee men. She was brought to Macon
cn a cot for medical and surgical atten
tion.
While refusing to give the paraes of
the men who whipped her, the young
woman fays that the man who plied the
whip is a prominent citizen of Dawson
and the father of n young man whose
attentions to her c /used the trouble.
She says she was dragged out of her
house and while two men pulled off he”
clothing and held her the third admin
istered the flogging. She is striped
anti cut on every inch of her body’ from
her waist down.
Boy’s Father Whips
Until She Faints.
"Because it will bring disgrace upon
hi? gon. i am not going to tell the name
' f the man who lacerated inc with a
buggy whip.” declares the Carter wom
an. “a. though I really think he should
ht- •xricsed. His son had been coming
to sr-o me. and I had been warned to
i< vi- Dawron, but I staved there, and
that is why I am in this condition. I
to ,; th.- young man that he should for
wo., but he said he couldn’t and per.
1 in h’s attentions.
S; turr’ay night his father, accom
i t i d by two other men, entered the
house. They seized me and dragged
nie out into the street and two of them
puiied off my skirts and underclothing
■ the father then beat me until I
"T’: man used a long buggy whip
which was concealed under his coat
when he entered the house. He is one
of the leading men of Dawson, and is
wealthy, and his son stands as well
::s he does. For that reason, because
it will shame and humiliate the son,
for whom 1 feel a sincere affection, I
am not going to give any names.
"iiawscn is my home. I have lived
thcr ■ many years, and my people live
there now. My way of living may not
P'lis.- everybody, but I am not a bad
women.”
Th<- young woman is being taken care
of hi-i-e by friends who have raised
a fund to defray the doctors’ and hos
pital expenses. The doctors say she
will i'< cover, but may be crippled for
Im-. .. f . veral tendons are affected.
lc rimer, caught in
auto wreck, home
AHEAD OF SCHEDULE
'TiK’AGO, July 22.—Ex-Senator Wil •
I'am Do> inter, ousted from his seat a
«■ day? agOi arrived in Chicago to
'•ay. William J. Cooke and the Ixtri-
T- : chauffeur, who figured with the
'■x-senator in an automobile accident
hear Claysville, Pa., Sunday, were the
nth'-r members of the party.
Lorimer went from the train to a
"tilting automobile. He would make
ho statement to the newspaper men.
1 had been planned to give Lorimer
a reception on his arrival, but the sud
■’ ’ - range in his plans prevented the
ap monstration.
DARING BRITON OFF
IN EFFORT TO SWIM
ENGLISH CHANNEL
DOVER. ENGLAND. July 22.—Jacob
Wi.iffp, the rtarlng Englishman who
has several times attempted to swim
English channel, started out on
another attempt today.
b- 4:15 o’clck this morning Wolffe
’ the French shoe, starting from
Griss Nez, which Is 23 miles from
, English shore. Conditions were
‘ rable for Wolffe, he declared.
’ ' Iff” was accompanied for seven
11 i-i-s by a flotilla of boats. They tum
back while the swimmer went on.
declared he would be able to ac
complish the feat without difficulty un
ess the weather changed.
The Atlanta Georgian
Read For Profit—GEORGIAN WANT ADS—Use For Results
|; Greatest Battleship •
I • And Largest Liner •
• Here are the figures showing •
• how the projected Terror will com- •
• pare with the Imperator, the new •
• German liner, now the largest •
• ship afloat:
Imperator. Terror. •
• Length (feet). .. £OO 1,000 •
• Beam (feet) .... 93 130 •
• Tonnage. .. .. ..50,000 60,000 ®
• Speed (knots). ..22 1-2 30 o
• In contrast with the Terror’s •
• length, the height of the world’s •
• tallest building Is:
• Woolworth Bldg. (N. Y.)..750 feet •
Modern Fashions for
Women Blamed by
j udge as Crime Cause
Clothing Designed to Display
Feminine Charms Open Invi
tation for Insult, He Says.
' MILWAUKEE, WIS., July 22.
j Women’s clothing designed to display
feminine charm are the cause of crime
and are an open Invitation for insult,
according to Judge Backus, of the Mil
waukee municipal court. The comment
was called forth by the statement that
the murderer of Julia Conners in New
York was driven insane by beautifully
made-up women.
“These dresses.” said Judge Backus,
“are an invitation to men to accost
the wearers. Girls imitate their elders
and I often sit and hear testimony in
cases where these girls are involved
and wish we could get back to the
days of hoop skirts, when such a dis
play of form was unknown. I thor
oughly believe It may be true, as the
New York youthful murderer declared,
that he was led to his crime by the
passion inspired by modern immodest
clothing.”
WORKERS WARNED
AGAINST SOCIALISM
BY BISHOP CARROLL
CHICAGO, July 22.—A warning
against socialism, addressed to Chicago
working men and members of labor
unions, has been uttered by Bishop
John P. Carroll, of Helena, Mont., who
has been in Chicago attending the
meeting of the Ancient Order of Hi
bernians. Bishop Carroll asserted that
socialism is economically unsound, that
its pretenses are false and that it Is
a real enemy of labor.
Bishop Carroll commended the An
cient Order of Hibernians for its stand
against socialism, and said that all
Catholic societies should join the cru
sade.
“The church.” he said, “would warn
the laboring man of the false pretense
of socialism. She would again restate
the old doctrine of the dependence of
men upon one another.
“Socialism is unpatriotic. It aims to
destroy all constituted civic author
ity.”
DEBS BRANDS TAFT
AND ROOSEVELT AS
TRUSTS’ CANDIDATES
MILWAUKEE. WIS., July 22.—De
claring that the plea of Theodore
Roosevelt that he is a progressive is
buncombe, Eugene V. Debs, socialist
candidate for president, in a political
address hen-, assailed the former pres
ident. He attacked President Taft also
and asserted that Taft and Roosevelt
are the candidates of the interests and
are reactionaries.
Woodrow Wilson, he said, was no
more the candidate of the working
classes than either of the others.
"None of them have ever been iden
tified with the working classes except
when votes were wanted,” said Debs.
SHOCK CURES PARALYSIS;
500 VOLTS IS REMEDY
SHAMOKIN, PA.. July 22.—Henry
Rogers one year ago suffered a stroke
of paralysis and, while the left side
was completely paralyzed, it did not in
terfere with duties as fan engineer at
the Enterprise colliery. While examin
ing a motor today he came in contact
with an exposed wire and 500 volts of
electrical current coursed through his
system, rendering him senseless.
Shortly after having been removed
to his home Rogers discovered that he
had regained complete use of the pa
ralyzed left side. Doctors state that
the electrical shock relieved a condi
tion which had congested certain nerves
and caused paralysis.
NEW YORK “JOAN OF ARC”
LEFT $3,299,538 FORTUNE
NEW YORK, July 22.—Emma Carols
Woerlshoffer, the "New York Joan of
Arc” who was killed in an auto acci
dent near Binghamton, left a fortune of
$3,299,538. according to a report by the
state tax appraiser. Os this, $750,000
is left to Bryn Mawr college. The bulk
of the estate goes to her mother. Miss
Woerlshoffer was a graduate of Bryn
Mawr college and was engaged in so
cial settlement work at the time of her
death. Her activities during the strike
of the shirtwaist makers, in 1909, re
sulted in her election as treasurer of
the Women’s Trades Union league.
ATLANTA, GA., MONDAY, JULY 22, 1912.
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PLANNED AS
GREATEST
BATTLER
Senate Votes for Building War
ship Surpassing All Others
Extant.
LENGTH TO BE 1.000 FEET;
ITS CAPACITY 60,000 TONS
Guns Will Be at Least 18-
Inch Caliber, and Steel Ar
mor Very Thick.
WASHINGTON, July 22.—Tillman's
Terror, “the most stupendous battleship
the world will ever see,” was provided
for, so far as a resolution passed by the
senate is concerned, without a negative
vote.
The biggest battleship in the world
today is the Rivadavla, built in the
United States for the great republic
of Argentina. She is 585 feet long, can
just get through the Panama canal, is
of 32,000 tone displacement and carries
twelve twelve-inch guns.
In the first place, the Terror will
beat all these specifications of the Rl
vadavla and her sister ship, the More
no, both of which are being built in this
country. As Great Britain and Japan
and Germany are building fourteen
inch guns to equal the American four
teen-lnch guns, the Terror must have
at least a seventeen-inch gun, because
the United States has a sixteen-inch
coast artillery gun which Is to be imi
tated*by all of the foreign nations.
The citadel armor of the two latest
battleships for the United States navy
will be from seventeen to eighteen
inches thick, and that, too, is to be
considered in the next British construc
tion.
Dimensions and Equipment.
The initial United States Terror must
then be something like this:
Sixty thousand tons displacement.
Length, 1,000 feet.
Beam, 130 feet.
Ten . eighteen-fnch guns, which will
carry 31 miles.
Twenty to twenty-five Inches of steel
armor for the upper works and turrets.
A beam that will necessitate an en
largement of the Panama canal.
Speed, about 30 knots.
There is no question that if the Ter
ror is authorized for construction Great
Britain, Japan and Germany will im
mediately find out how big she is to be
and will proceed to build Terror No. 2
or Terror to the second power. Then
there must be an American “superter
ror" and so on ad Infinitum.
There is no doubt that the resolution
will cause the nations generally to in
vestigate what is the greatest possible
battleship that can be built. Admiral
Togo told the American senate some
time ago that he dW not know what the
limit of construction would be, but if
battleships were to be built with refer
ence to the Panama canal the limit
nearlj’ had been reached.
One little difficulty about the Till
man battleship is that she can only be
attacking or defending at one place at
a time.
Destructive In 31 - Mile Sweep.
She could rest at any given spot in
the ocean and sweep everything within
a radius of 31 miles out of existence.
She could cover everything to an ex
tent of nearly 3,000 square miles. But
while the Terror was shelling a me
tropolis of the old world the fleets of
tlie world would be on this side of the
water doing business of their own and
landing troops. Things would be dif
ferent, of course, if the United Stated
had a whole fleet of Terrors, and this
the United States would undoubtedly
have the moment Great Britain or any
other foreign country began the build
ing of a Terror to the second power.
The naval experts here do not agree
as to the dimensions of the biggest bat.
tieship "the world will ever see” for
some time. Rear Admiral N. R. Twin
ing, chief of the bureau of ordnance,
with whom the specifications were
discussed, said he thought an eighteen
inch gun might be the limit, and other
experts say twenty inches.
The fact is, however, that at the
arsenal at Spezzla there is already an
elghteen-inch gun.
CROWDS CHEER POLICE
RESCUING 8 FROM FIRE
NEW YORK, July 22. —Hundreds of
persons, driven from their homes by
flames early today, cheered policemen
as they rescued six children and two
women from a burning tenement at 222
Freeman street, Green Point. The po
lice say the Are probably was of in
cendiary orlirbj.
Dixie Not Losing Taste for Pastry
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Little Johnny Jones says his only objection to pie as a steady
.diet is that it just will get in his ears every time he takes a bite.
Dewberry Supplants Custard in
Affections of Pay-as-You-
Enter Foodery Patrons.
The heat of the presidential year and
the general dyspeptic condition of things
has caused an alarming slump' In the
number of pies consumed in Chicago,
according to dispatches. New York on
the other hand says ’tis not so—in
Manhattan every inhabitant from the
Bronx to the Battery still consumes a
slice of apple a.nd a glass of milk at
noontime. »
Atlanta meanwhile continues along
the even tenor of its way. Precisely
the same number of pies are being
made today in the Gate City as were
made on this date last year, and vir
tually the same people are eating them,
according to unquestionable statistics.
The purchasing agent of an uptown
restaurant, when asked for a pie in
terview, talked for ten minutes on the
high cost of powdered, sugar and then
stated that the pie situation was about
the same, excepting that the old-time
fondness for custard was being super
seded by a tendency toward dewberry,
said he, “is that the requirement for
said he, "is that the requirements for
eating one of those meringue-topped
affairs are fearfully rigid. No ordinary
man can eat a slice of lemon custard
with snow white cover unless he calls
in the assistance of a Japanese jug
gler. If he attempts any one-handed
business he is likely to find that his
necktie has acquired a golden shade
interspersed by sprays of white. Ber
ries, on the other hand, will stick bj'
each other and can be handled without
prejudice to health, happiness or hand
kerchiefs and with two or one hands as
the situation demands.
“But take it from me, the Atlanta
appetite must have pie. So long as the
honey bee courts the red rose and the
legislature meets there will be that
same insistent, plaintive, irresistible
cry for one slice and glass of milk—
apple preferred.’’
PASTOR QUITS CHURCH
FOR REFUSING HIM ONE
VACATION IN 50 YEARS
PHOEBUS, VA., July 22.—Having
had no vacation in 50 years, Dr. John
M. Pilcher, pastor of the First Baptist
church here, has resigned his charge
in order to get one. He applied to his
church for a vacation, but it appears
that his request was refused, because
the treasury was not in a condition to
warrant the employment of a substi
tute during the regular pastor’s ab
sence.
And so Dr. Pilcher, who was for many
years head of the Virginia Baptist Sun
day School association, relieved the sit.
uatlon by tendering his resignation, ef
fective July 31. He announces that he
will be open to other engagements at
the close of his vacation two months
hence.
MIKAOD SINKING
MELIK
Stimulants Administered to
Sustain Life—President Taft
Sends Sympathy.
TOKIO, JAPAN, July 22^—Emperor
Mutsuhito, after rallying for 24 hours,
suffered a relapse at noon today and
this afternoon his physicians had prac
tically abandoned hope. A bulletin, is
sued at the palace, stated that stimu
lants were being administered to
strengthen the heart action.
The relapse is believed to be due to
the fact that food had been given to the
patient sooner than his condition had
warranted.
The change for the worse In the
emperor’s condition followed several
hours of steady Improvement, and came
when hope that his majesty might sur
vive had begun to be entertained.
The royal patient’s temperature at
midnight last night showed a marked
decrease while his pulse had materially
strengthened. The favorable symp
toms continued in evidence during the
early hours today, and up to the time
that the sudden relapse came the at
tending physicians were holding out
encouragement to the empress and the
crown prince for the ultimate recovery
of the patient.
Taft Telegraphs Sympathy.
The royal princes today maintained
their vigilance at the palace and mes
sages of condolence poured in on the
royal family from all quarters of the
world. The American ambassador,
Charles Page Bryan, personally pre
sented a telegram of sympathy from
President Taft. Special services by
Japanese of all religious faiths were
held throughtout the empire today for
the emperor's recovery. All plans have
been made to meet the situation that
would be caused by the emperor’s
death. The newspapers have been
warned not to print sensational rumors,
and all troops whose loyalty Is doubted
or whose discipline Is known not to
be up to the mark, have been ordered
confined to their barracks)!
The cabinet meets today and will be
practically continuously In session until
the empiror is pronounced out of dan
ger or death ends his sufferings.
ANTS STOP WORK ON
CLEVELAND SKYSCRAPER
CINCINNATI. OHIO, July 22.—Work
has been stopped on the skyscraper be.
ing erected for the Union Life Insur
ance Company while the contractors
are attempting to solve the problem of
how best to get rid of two large nests
of ants. It is feared the ants beneath
the foundation may scatter and breed
and give trouble to the tenants who will
occupy the building.
my STREETS DEM
IS ASSURED; COUNCIL
PLANS CO TO ASSEMBLY
No Indication That Legislature Will Op
pose Amendments Providing Im
provments —Details of Building De
partment Will Be Worked Out Later.
Victory for The Georgian’s campaign for better streets was
assured today when City Attorney Mayson and the council’s char
ter amendments committee prepared to go before a committee of
the legislature this afternoon and urge authority for reforms
unanimously requested by council.
There is no indication that a fight against these measures
will be made in the legislature. There is a good majority of the
council which declares that the city’s street improvement sys
tem will be put upon a far more ’efficient basis as soon as the
legislature grants the authority.
Tlie most important change, the
reorganization of the chief of con
struction department, is left to
the discretion of the mayor and
council. It may be divided into
construction and engineering de
partments or made more sys
tematic with the chief of con
struction as the one head.
Captain R. M. Clayton, the present
head, has declared that changes were
needed. The organization of the office
is now fixed by charter provision, but
the amendment requested of the gen
eral assembly will give council wide
authority to reorganize this large de
partment with a view toward greater
efficiency.
To Investigate
Before Taking Action.
As soon as this authority is obtained,
members of the council said today, a
systematic investigation would be had,
so as to determine the wisest course.
A number of other important charter
amendments affecting streets will be
urged before the legislature, as was
published in Saturday’s Georgian. All
of them become arbitrary laws as soon
as passed by the legislature, with the
exception of the amendment affecting
the chief of construction’s department.
If the legislature acts favorably on
all the changes requested by council,
and it Is expected that it undoubtedly
will, Atlanta’s street improvement sys
tem will be thoroughly revised.
The reforms brought about by The
Georgian’s campaign are:
To reorganize the chief of construc
tion’s department.
To give the council the right to as
sess for guttering as well ns curbing,
thus building to prevent washouts.
To give the council the authority to
pave any street or sidewalk at any time
without waiting for a petition from the
property owners.
To give the council the authority to
specify the sort of pavement to be put
down Instead of the property owners,
thus preventing long delays.
No More Temporary
Pavements To Be Laid.
That no more temporary pavements
shall be put down.
To give the council the authority to
assess for sewer and water connections
from the main pipes to the property
line. This will cause all connections to
be made before a street is paved and
stop the cutting of streets for the lay
ing of such pipes after they have been
paved.
Since the campaign began the coun
cil has authorized the chief of con
struction to employ additional free la
bor and to let grading work by con
tract. Captain Clayton says this will
insure a great deal more work being
done, for there have not been enough
convicts to do what was expected of
the camp,
Also the city and county officials
have agreed that there shall be more
co-operation between the city and
county construction departments. The
heads of these departments will consult
each other once a month on proposed
work, that there may be no more such
conflicts as have caused friction be
tween the two departments.
Would Ask Big
Street Bond Issue.
A number of members of the council,
with the system of making Improve
ments revised, will begin a fight for a
$2,000,000 bond issue for streets. A
committee of ten councilmen and ten
citizens has been authorized to make a
detailed report on this plan.
A plan of V. H. Krlegshaber and a
number of members of the Chamber of
Commerce is to have the property own
ers pay all cost of permanent pave
ments to bear a small interest rate,
and provide that the city use its funds
and its convicts in repairing streets.
Both of these plans will be thorough
ly considered when the system has been
revised.
LXTRA
2 CENTS EVERYWHERE !?A v R e 0
PREFERS DEATH
TO SLOW LIFE
I
I
W. H. Cotter, Clerk, Shoots
Himself Dead Rather Than
Cut Expenses.
Leaving- a note to say that he had
rather end it all than "slow down on
his manner of living-, W. H. Cotter,
aged 28, shot and killed himself early
today at his boarding house, 173
Spring street.
Cotter was a. clerk In a cotton oil
company and unmarried.
BATHER WHO CURSEED
IS TAKEN TO JAIL IN
HIS SWIMMING GARB
Wearing steel blue handcuffs and a
dark blue bathing suit, J. R. Leathers,
42 Spring street, was brought from
Piedmont park early today and placed! 1
in a cell at the police station, in spita(
of his repeated assertions that h<X
wouldn’t be locked up. When the doors
closed upon him he went to sleep, and!
was permitted to slumber until the aft
ernoon court hour.
Leathers was charged with being(
drunk and disorderly at the lake in.
Piedmont park. It was said he used!
language there more suited to a Mis-i
sisrippi steamboat than a pleasure re-*
sort frequented by women.
Leathers is a clerk for the Southern
railway.
MOTHEROF LITTLE
GIRL FIEND VICTIM
IS DYING OF GRIEF
NEW YORK, July 22. —Mrs. Ed-g
ward T. Connors, mother of little Juliai
Connors, who was stabbed to death twoj
weeks ago by Nathan Swartz, is semij
conscious, and during today in hei
home at 3872 Third avenue, Mrs. ConJ
nors keeps her eyes fixed constantly!
on the picture of her daughter.
“She is dying,” her husband said to-<
day. “Her heart is broken. The doc-(
tors have told me to take her to th<4
country. I can’t. I don’t know how*
long I can keep her here.
"To nurse her I have had to give upj
my place. What little money I had!
saved went for Julia’s funeral."
PLOT TO SLAY KING
OF ITALY REPORTED;
ARRESTS IN SECRET
ROME. July 22.—Reports were cur
rent today that a plot to assassinate
King Victor Emanuel had been dis
covered by the police. The department
of Justice refused to comment on the
reports, but it is known that a num
ber of secret arrests have been made
during the last three days.
The prisoners are said to be an
archists. Three of the best detectives
of the government service were dis
patched on secret errands to the French
and Swiss frontiers.
CORDELE WORRIES OVER
HOWTO SPEND ITS $95,000
CORDELE GA., July 22.—As to
whether the moneys to be derived from
the sale of the four issues of bonds ag
gregating $95,000. voted on June 19 for
public improvements and validated by
.Judge George, of Crisp superior court,
shall be expended by the city council
or whether by a bond commission to be
provided by legislative enactment
amending the city charter, is a ques
tion of a great deal of discussion among
Cordeleans at the present time.