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the weather. Forecast for Atlanta and Georgia: Generally fair today and tomorrow. VOL. X. NO. 255. ■SOI MEH STOIPffI COWHIDE MH 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. mu’ 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 PIE STILL THE "STAND-BY” 111 u A WBljfc. wry/ sjwjijiijjte ink j / LV- ... \ /. ■<*- > - ,-Sk Al v. wßhi ■Ki./n W g/ Tj/ ■•-ji. iA * ' ‘IO / ziLUfT’J 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.