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Report of Titanic Probers Fixes
No Blame -- Duff ’Gordon
Bribery Story Unfounded.
LONDON, July 30. —Excessive speed
is held responsible for the Titanic dis
aster in the report of the British com
mission of inquiry which was presented
in Scotich Drill hall today.
J. Bruce Ismay, managing director
of the White Star Line, is absolved
from blame for jumping into a life
boat and saving his life, while hundreds
of other pasengers went to their doom.
There is no censure of the conduct of
Captain Smith, of the lost liner, in the
report. In driving his ship at high
speed through the Ice region he was
merely following the general custom
of shipmasters, the report states.
Practically the only adverse criticism
in the report is visited upon Captain
Lord, of the Leyland liner Californian,
who might have saved many, if not all,
of the lives that were lost, the commis
sion finds.
Lord Mersey presided when the com
mission was called to order and person
ally read the conclusions of the body.
Ship Properly Officered.
"The loss of the Titanic was due to
a collision with an iceberg, brought
about by the excessive speed at which
the ship was navigated,” the report
says, "but the ship was efficiently offi
cered and was supplied with the proper
chart*."
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SEARCHING SIDELIGHTS
ON GEORGIA POLITICS
By JAMES B. NEVIN.
Speaker John N. Holder says he has
been put In an entirely false light with
respect to his attitude on the proposed
county of Barrow constitutional amend
ment, by enthusiastic but misinformed
friends of that now practically defunct
proposition.
The speaker says he is opposed to the
creation of the county of Barrow, be
cause he was elected to the house specifi
callj' instructed against the measure, and
has never intimated that he would favor
it, save in certain remote circumstances
which never have arisen.
The proposed new county would take a
section of territory from the county of
Jackson, Mr. Holder's home county, and
he naturally would oppose that, unless
there were some compelling reason for
the separation.
There has been strong opposition to the
new county upon the part of the people
of Jackson, but certain friends of Barrow
thought they had this objection overcome,
and to those friends Mr. Holder admits
saying that he would not oppose the
measure in the legislature, if the objec
tion of his home people should be re
moved—that If the Barrowites could show
undisputed sentiment in favor of the new
county among the people of Jackson.
The speaker says the Jackson county
objection was not only overcome, but is
quite as rampant as ever—hence his at
titude of opposition to Barrow county.
The speaker says he has nothing but
the kindest and friendliest of feeling for
the people who wish to create Barrow
county, and that he does not charge that
he has been willfully placed in a false
light, but he feels that In opposing Bar
row county, he is representing the real
Interests and desires of his immediate
constituents, which he considers a para
mount duty upon his part.
A Georgia legislator wishes to limit
debate to ten minutes on each propo
sition brought up. If only he had
thought of that bright Idea earlier in
the session!
“The club”—whatever that is—as The
Savannah Press calls it, has nominated
J. Randolph Anderson for the state sen
ate, and the Honorable J. Randy has ac
cepted, and settles it in Savannah—he
will be the next state senator from that
vicinity.
“The club”—don’t be peevish, that’s
the only description one can get from
The Press —also has indorsed Joseph Mc-
Carthy and Pleasant Stovall for the
house, and if they want the jobs, they
can have them, for whatever “the club”
says goes, in Savannah.
“The club” has a few alternates up its
ample sleeve, and it may become neces
sary to trot one of them out, provided
there is a break in the ’’indorsements’’
somewhere, by reason of non-acceptance:
but the chances are the alternates will
have to remain in the background for the
present—being young and good-natured,
and fairly well disciplined, anyway, they
will not mind that '
Oh, yes—“the club” has indorsed Alex
Lawrence, too!
(N. B. —It’s Alex’s club!)
“A lot of Macon people got a free
ride to Atlanta to boost the capital
removal scheme,” notes The Savannah
Press. Move to amend by striking
the last four words.
Alexander A. Lawrence, “the walking
delegate from Chatham,” is the real guar
dian of the capitol.
While others rave and Imagine vain
things, Mr. Lawrence prowls around and
about the old building looking for things
that need fixing up and renovating.
Just why the capitol is so very em-
THE ATLANTA GKUKGIAN AND NEWS. TUESDAY, JULY 30, 191 z.
phatically on the mind of the gentleman
from Chatham, nobody knows, but it is,
nevertheless.
Every once in a while, Lawrence finds
a corner that needs repainting, some
brick work that needs pointing up, or
something—and whenever he does, he is
as happy as a ten-year-old kid going to
his first circus.
Recently, he browbeat the house into
providing a new floor for the library, and
yesterday he introduced a resolution
looking to the removal from the basement
of a lot of old books and things that have
littered up the place just about as long
as he proposes to stand for!
By and by, he hopes to get a new dome
to replace the old tin thing that now
adorns the capitol, which is a black as
the ace of spades, anyway.
This, however, Is Mr. Lawrence's final
pipe dream!
The local flower markets are said to
be distressing!)' shy of flowers. Per
haps some citizens have been antici
pating the death of the Tippins bill.
Mr. Jones, of Meriwether, is tired hav
ing folks kick the state’s financial status
around.
In delivering an oration before the
house Wednesday, advocating the $50,000
appropriation to the state normal school
In Athens, the gentleman from Meri
wether took a fall out of the "calamity
howlers,” as he called them, and said ftie
statement or the intimation that the state
of Georgia is "broke,” or anywhere near
the verge of bankruptcy is “false.”
"Georgia is not spending more than her
income,” said Mr. Jones. "She has not
spent more than her Income for several
years. The reports of the treasurer
show that I am right, and the comp
troller general’s reports show that the
other official is right.”
"Every time an appropriation that a
few big talkers in the house oppose gets
up. we hear a great howl that the state
is bankrupt and that she is living beyond
her means!”
"The statement is false, and I am sick
and tired having this state published
abroad as a pauper and a bankrupt, to
her financial disadvantage in the great
money centers, when there is no truth in
the statement. The truth Is. a number
of members of this house have political
ambitions to serve that they are willing
to serve by misrepresentation. They are
willing to advertise Georgia as bankrupt,
if it will push their little booms atong.
“The state is solvent—the margin of
solvency is wide, at least ample. Why
seek to make it appear otherwise?”
Mr. Jones served recently as chairman
of the appropriations committee of the
house, and is entirely familiar with the
state's financial affairs.
His vigorous challenge to those who
pictured Georgia as about bankrupt cre
ated something of a sensation in the
house Monday.
MORMON JAILED FOR
SHOTS FROM CHURCH
IN HARALSON COUNTY
BUCHANAN. GA.. July 30.—Charged
with having fired two shots from the
Mormon church, four miles north of
Buchanan, in an effort to kill Wofford
Sanders, son of a wealthy Haralson
county farmer, W. F. C. Brannon, a
well-to-do farmer of that section, ha*
been arrested and brought to jail here.
The shooting took place at night
while Sanders, with his sister and sev
eral other young people, were return
ing home from ati ice cream supper.
One shot wounded Sanders’ mule and
another barely grazed his sister’s head.
Sheriff Parker, who was summoned,
arrested Brannon and four companions
in a thicket near the church.
The shooting is said to be the resuit
of feeling in this section against the
Mormon church. Several months ago
the Mormon house of worship was
burned. Recently a new concrete struc
ture replaced it. Brannon, a leader of
the Mormon clan, is said to have kept
nightly guard over the new church.
YOUNG~ATLANTAN IS
DROWNED IN ETOWAH
RIVER AT KINGSTON
Frank Woodruff,, of Atlanta, was
drowned yesterday as he waded out to
a fish trap in the Etowah river, two
miles from Kingston, Ga. The body
had not been recovered this morning.
Woodruff, a son of W. W. Woodruff,
well known formerly as an expert box
er, disappeared under the water While
a friend waded ahead of him. When
his companion looked araund he was
gone and a hurried trip back to the
camp where they were stopping with a
party of friends confirmed his fears.
The widow of the victim and his
mother were prostrated by the tragedy.
Mr. Woodruff’s father left for Kingston
today.
FIRS T BALE OF 1912
COTTON RECEIVED AT
SAVANNAH EXCHANGE
SAVANNAH. GA., July 30.—The first
new bale of cotton for the season
raised in Georgia was received here to
day by the Heyward-Williams Com
pany and was immediately sold at pub
lic auction before the entrance to the
cotton exchange. The bale was grown
and ginned by A. P. Petway. operating
the Petway seed farm at Eastman.
This bale is four days behind the first
arrival for the season of 1911, but five
days earlier than the *hrst bale of 1910.
The earliest bale yet received came in
m July 18. 1908.
COLUMBUS PLANS DRUM CORPS.
COLUMBUS. GA., July 30.—Steps
are to be taken in Columbus looking
toward the organization of a drum and
bugle corps such as Atlanta and Macon
have.
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FEAR FOR LIVES
IN SHIPS’CRASH
Vessels Collide at Night, and
Passengers Are Thrown Into
Sea During Rescue.
BOSTON, July 30. —The steamship
City of Rockland, on her way to Bos
ton from Bath, Maine, with 350 passen
gers, was struck and seriously dam
aged early today by the collier William
Chisholm In a head-on collision during
a dense fog off Tatchers Island. It is
feared that Ilves may have been lost in
the confusion of the rescue work.
Passengers of the City of Rockland,
amid great excitement and danger, were
put into the steamer’s lifeboats and
were finally transferred to the steamer
City of Belfast on her way to Boston
from Rockland.
According to passengers, three or
four of the lifeboats of the City of
Rockland filled with water, throwing as
many as 75 passengers into the sea
All of them were saved from drowning,
it was claimed bj' the ship’s officers.
Several were hurt.
The collision happened about 12:10
o’clock this morning and all the pas
sengers were in their berths at the
time. The noise of the collision awak
ened them and sent them scurrying to
the deck, most of them scantily clad.
In Water Half Hour.
The City of Belfast with her own
and the passengers of the Rockland on
board arrived at the Eastern Steamship
Company’s dock here at 8:40 o’clock
this morning. Theodore Weddelton, of
Everett, said the first boat launched
had sunk, and that the captain’s gig
was also capsized. He said he was in
the water half an hour before he was
rescued tjy the crew on the coal barge,
being towed by the Chisholm.
The sinking of the lifeboats was de
clared by passengers to have been due
to bad seamanship. One lifeboat filled
with passengers sank because a plug in
the bottom was gone. One passenger
declared the men passengers and the
crew did their work like heroes.
As soon as the passengers had run
to the decks the order of "women and
children first” was given. This was
strictly obeyed, so that the first to get
into the lifeboats were the women and
children.
MISS LEAH, SWIMMER,
HURTJVIAKING DIVE
Miss Nora Leah, the professional swim
mer and diver of New York, Is in the
Grady hospftal today as the result of in
juries received yesterday afternoon In ex
ecuting a standing-sitting dive from the
springboard at the Piedmont park lake.
She is expected to be out in a few days.
Miss Leah jumped high into the air
from the springhoard, and the board
struck her as she descended, wrenching
her spinal column and throwing her into
the water. She made her way back to
land with difficulty and was carried to
the hospital In a waiting automobile.
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Appreciating the recent
remarkable growth of At
lanta Phone 'traffic, many
firms have asked for peg
counts. In this way they
learned exactly how many
calls were being received in
a day.
in almost every instance,
this has led to ordering ad
ditional trunk lines and ex
tra stations. We will glad
ly furnish these tests that
tell their own story of the
growing appreciation of our
“Rapid Fire Service.’’
Atlanta Telephone
and Telegraph Co.
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The Latch-String Is Out
In Atlanta
Atlanta wants to show you, if you will only
come, the way she keeps on growing, and she’s
a-growing some.
She’s going to put on record, in AUGUST’S
FIRST TEN DAYS, a stunt that will surprise
you and fill you with amaze.
She’ll have an EXPOSITION of things she
makes to sell, and though she makes Five Hun
dred, there’s some YOU’D make as well.
It’s all in getting started, in knowing how to
go; then, when you’ve learned the secret, just
grow and grow and—GROW.
Atlanta’s invitation is cordial, wide and free.
She says to all of Dixie: “Come, neighbors, come
and see! I’ve got a lot to show you, my busy wheels
a-whir, my skilled and deft mechanics, my facto
ries’ hum and stir. I want to give you, neighbors,
an insight into facts; to show how dreams of
progress come true in useful acts.
“My goods, no doubt, you’re selling. Now,
surely, if you knew just HOW I MAKE these pro
ducts, you’d sell them better—true!
“You’ll take a greater interest in stuffs you’ve
SEEN produced, and maybe GET IDEAS THAT
WILL GO HOME TO ROOST.
“If I can help, I’ll do it. No strings are tied
to this I simply make an offer, ’twill pay you
NOT TO MISS.”
Vacation in Atlanta? You sure can make it
pav. Three thousand folks are coming. Won’t
YOU decide today?
Atlanta Manufacturers Exposition
THE FIRST TEN DAYS OF AUGUST
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