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THE WEATHER Forecast: Thunder showers tonight or Friday. Temperatures: 8 a. m., 74; 10 a. m„ 72; 12 m„ 72; 2 p. m„ 75. VOL. XI. NO. 4. BROTHEL HUK BYJOHND.’S SONTOTRAP GRAFTERS House Secretly Conducted Nets Evidence Against New York Police “System.” SLEUTH BURNS OPERATES 3 RESORTS FOR EVIDENCE Prosecutor Now Bending Ef forts to Substantiate Rosen thal Case Confessions. NEW YORK, Aug,,B.—lt was learned today that John D. Rockefeller, Jr., with the assistance of Janies B. Reynolds, assistant district attorney, for the past year has been operating a pretended disorderly house in the heart of the white light district for the purpose of securing evidence against police offi cials, politicians, and the procurers of young girls. Men who were dictating its management never appeared at the house, which is located in the West Forties. The orders were carried out by a manageress and her assistants. One of the men associated with Rockefeller is said to be Clifford E. Roe, of Chicago, who aided in the white slave investigation two years ago.-Later Roe went to Chicago and assisted Fed eral District Attorney Sims in a cam paign against white slave traffic there. Three Resorts Conducted by Burns. "I have collected evidence which will assist District Attorney Whitman in obtaining many indictments.” This statement was made today by Detective W. J. Burns, who has been investigating police graft in thie city. Switching from his denial of yesterday. Burns admitted today that he had run two disorderly houses and one gam bling establishment in this city in order to trap grafters. "It is a fact,” said Burns, “that I operated two disorderly houses and a gambling place in older to get evi dence. Likewise. I had detectives pos ing as waiters in a Broadway hotel who stood near police officers and overheard what they said concerning certain deals. Not only this, but T also had a telegraphone installed in a room where politicians played poker and we have all of their conversation. I have a great deal of other evidence also.” A sensation was caused by a report that Mr. Rockefeller has turned over to the district attorney’s office testi mony showing that a police Inspector and a civilian confederate of the lead ers of the “police system” collected tribute. Other evidence of police blackmail was obtained, it is alleged. District Attorney Whitman will make a Herculean effort to uproot the po lice system and drive graft out of the police force. First, however, he will not press this campaign until after he has completed the Rosenthal case. Proving Details of Rose’s Confession. When the grand jury went into ses sion today it was with the intention of devoting its entire attention to wit nesses whose testimony was expected to establish the relations alleged to ex ist between Police Lieutenant Charles A. Becker and “Bald Jack” Rose prior to the murder of Herman Rosenthal, the gambler, with whose death Becker is charged. It was the plan of District Attorney Whitman to begin today to establish the truth of charges made in Rose’s expose of the alliance existing between certain members of the police and the under world, by which police officials and politicians grew rich through graft. Detectives from the district, attor ney’s office had served summons on a number of persons mentioned by Rose in his statement, and they were in structed to appear before the grand jury. With Mr. Whitman practically direct, ing the situation, aided by two assist ants and a corps of detectives, evidence is piling up rapidly. Sullivan Now Called a Slayer. The district attorney is said to have found a reliable w itness who is willing to testify that Jacob A. Reich, better known as Jack Sullivan, the friend of Lieutenant Becker, the mtn who rode uptown with him on the morning of the Rosenthal murder, tied with the as sassins in Libby and Shapiro’s gray automobile. The district attorney ex pects the grand jury to indict Sullivan for murder in the first degree upon ,he strength of testimony which this wit ness will give. The Atlanta Georgian Read For Profit—GEORGIAN W ANT ADS—Use For Result} Grand Jury's Expense Bill—Drinks, Etc, $421--Will Be Probed Sleuth in Locker Club Inquiry Said to Have Incurred Items Getting Evidence. The bill of expenses for the March term 6f the Grand jury, which included $421.95 for drinks, cigars and other things bought in investigating locker clubs in Atlanta, may be refused pay ment by the county commissioners. The bill, totaling $539.10, was before them today for an order that it be paid, but was sent to the finance com mittee for investigation. The bill, made by the J. K. Glenn, grand jury, was formally recommended by Foreman Glenn and Judge Pendle ton. of superior court. The $421.95 for locker club investiga tions was for the expenses and salary of a detective for 43 days. Among the incidentals mentioned were cigars, drinks, theater tickets and carfare, said to have been used to obtain convicting Information against some of the club operators. MOTOR BOAT MAKES TRANS ATLANTIC TRIP: ‘ VOYAGE TOOK 24 DAYS QUEENSTOWN, Aug. 8. —Having weathered a succession of terrific gales and breasted high scms, the 35-foot motor boat Detroit, Captain Thomas Fleming Day. of New York, has ar rived here safely from New Rochelle, N. Y. The journey occupied nearly 24 days, and constituted the second leg of the contemplated trip from Detroit, Mich., to St. Petersburg. Great crowds, including officials, wel. corned the boat. Captain Day said he had proved the feasibility of a motor boat race across the Atlantic. The crew stood the trip well, though cramped space resulted in stiff limbs. The Detroit arrived with 200 gallons of gasoline left from 1,200 aboard when she started. The fluid caught fire in the engine room once and was extin guished with difficulty. The fresh wa ter turned foul and thirst was one of the crew’s trials. The Detroit will remain here for a few days. BARBECUE, “ALL FREE,” SPELLS SURE DEATH FOR BILLS IN SENATE State senators are today bemoaning the fact that the barbecue to be ten dered the legislature by the founders of the new county of Bleckley, in Coch ran. on Saturday, means certain death for a slew of senate bills now before the house. The house has granted leave of ab sence to all members desiring to at tend the barbecue. And as everything, even the train trip to Cochran, is free, the no quorum sign will go up on Sat urday morning. What the senate Will do with the bar becue invitation is a matter of conjec ture, but certain members of the upper house are willing to attend. Members of the house with pet bills now before the senate also will be putting up the same wail as soon as the facts are known. JOE HILL HALL PLANS HUNDRED SPEECHES IN WEEK ON AUTO TOUR MACON. GA., Aug. B.—Representa tive Joe Hill Hall, Bibb county candi date for governor, has arranged for an automobile speaking tour through fif teen counties next week, when he in tends to make 100 speeches. He will leave Macon Monday morning and mo tor through the counties of Bibb, Jones, Jasper, Putnam, Baldwin, Han cock, Jefferson, Washington, Emanuel, Toombs. Jeff Davis, Pulaski. Wilkin son. Dooly and Houston, speaking wherever he can obtain an audience. Mr. Hall has signified his willingness to meet Hooper Alexander on the stump and it is possible that they will have a verbal combat in Macon a few days be fore the primary. DRIP FROM ICE BOX OF OWLS CLUB SOILS COUNTY’S RECORDS \\ hen M. L. I hrower, who owns the building being used as a county court house, applies to the county commis sioners for last month’s rent the bill will not be paid. The commissioners decided today to hold up the $490 due him for July until he has fixed a small leak in the office of the county surveyor. The decision was made following complaint of Surveyor Roberts that an ice box in the Owls club above him leaks water on valuable papers in his office. The repairs will cost about $lO. W. GOULD BROKAW'S WIFE SUES HIM FOR DIVORCE HAMPSTEAD, N. Y„ Aug. B.—Mary Blair Brokaw, wife of W. Gould Bro kaw, the New York millionaire, from whom she is legally separated, filed suit for divorce here today on statu tory grounds. She named three co respondents and mentioned other un named. She charges Estelle Pern, Madame Susan Petty and Mabel Weeks of un due intimacy with Brokaw. T.R.TOWAGE HOT BATTLE FOR VOTES IN DIXIE Plans Early Whirlwind Cam- ' paign to Break the “Solid South.” JOHNSON. RUNNING MATE, TO TAKE STUMP IN EAST Strenuous One Also Will Take Care of the West—Big Fight Is On. CHICAGO, Aug. 8. —Theodore Roose, velt will invade the South and West. Hiram W. Johnson will swing through the East. Every state in the Union is to be visited, some of them by both candidates. This Is the tentative plan of cam paign of the Progressive party as out lined today by the candidates them selves, the national committee and the leaders of the movement in a series of conferences that began when the first national convention closed last night and that were continued throughout this morning. The convention adjourned last night after naming Roosevelt and Johnson, governor of California, to head the ticket, and adopting the most radical platform ever approved by a national political convention. The campaign is to start at once. The work of organization will begin as soon as the work can be undertaken. Offices will be opened in New York and Chi cago for the general direction of af fairs, and other headquarters will be established where they may seem most needed. Headquarters for South To Be Opened. At the very outset it is expected that such haedquarters will be established in one of the cities of the Southern states. For the first time in years an actual contest over the presidential election is to be waged below the Ma son and Dixon line, and a hot and strenuous campaign begun to break the “Solid South.” Plans as now outlined will catapult the colonel himself into the Southern territory at the very outset of the cam. paign. It was determined on for two reasons —first, because the Progressive leaders believe there is a chance to get a part of the Southern electoral vote, and, second, because they believe that dirctlng a fight into the very heart of the Democratic stronghold will start affairs with a rush that will give them an advantage throughout the campaign, putting the Wilson follow’ers more or less on the defensive. All this was discussed today by Colo nel Roosevelt, Governor Johnson, Jo seph M. Dixon, head of the new Pro gressive national commimttee that came into being yesterday, and the other men who will conduct the fight of the Progressive party. Campaign Needs of Sections Discussed Meetings of delegates and leaders of the various sections of the country— the South, the West, the East and the I New England states —were held today before the national committee resumed its sesslsons at 11 o’clock. The section al meetings were to determine the needs of the party there in the way of a campaign and to make a recommen dation to the committee. The final plans for the campaign will be based largely on these reports. The first meeting of the committee was held last night with both Roose velt and Johnson present. Senator Dixon was elected chairman. ex-Gov emor Franklin Fort, of New Jersey, was named vice chairman, and Oscar K. Davis, of New York, secretary. It was before the committee in the Florentine room of the Congress hotel shortly after midnight this morning that the first campaign speeches were delivered by the new candidates. The colonel’s remarks were very brief. “We do not promise more than tte can give,” he said. “We promise to give every man and woman a chance to live their lives and get the best of such a life.” Johnson spoke very briefly also. He said he had read carefully the address lof Woodrow Wilson in accepting the 1 Democratic nomination and found it lacking in the annunciation of human principles. “There is nothing to be feared from either Taft or Wilson," he said. •Johnson and Roosevelt went from Continued on Page Two. ATLANTA. GA., THURSDAY, AUGUST 8, 1912. HLEXANOEfI HIIS CLUBS ASRUIHOF GIRLS Declares Children of Fifteen Are Being Made Intoxicated. Raps Rich Men. JUDGES BELONGING TO CLUBS ARE CALLED UNFIT Dry Candidate Attacks Slaton as “Still Hunter” and Hall as “Too Economic.” Reiterating the doctrines given ut terance in his Ringgold speech, but dealing baldly with the prohibition is sue as the "one subject that over shadows them all.” Hooper Alexander, gubernatorial aspirant, today an nounced the platform upon which he proposes to wage his fourteen days campaign for the highest office in Georgia. Alexander handled the prohibition issue with no gloved hands, declaring that the question was no longer for or against prohibition, but for or against anarchy. Anarchism in its most hid eous form, he asserted, stalked in the cities of Georgia, and the challenge Is before the people whether the cities shall defy the law’ of the state. The Tippins bill, he declared, was not a prohibition bill, but an effort to aid the governor and the courts in the en forcement of the law. Judges Attacked in Defense of Tippins Bill. In his defense of the Tippins bill and its explanation Atlanta locker clubs arc attacked and supreme and superior court judges, who are members of such clubs, are pronounced unfit to sit in judgment on cases involving violations of the prohibition law. Along this line Mr. Alexander says: “They can not disguise that issue. The rich clubs are violating the law. They refuse to obey it. They are will ing, and many of them say so, to indict and prosecute the common criminals who follow their example and take shelter under it. But they demand and enjoy immunity for themselves, and it Is utterly hopeless to expect the law to be enforced against the common crimi nals, when the judges are members of lawless associations, some of them ac tually buying liquor at pleasure from these law defying concerns. "Where the judges belong to a club they have clearly disqualified them selves to pass judgment, and anarchy is in the community because the in strumentalities for vindicating the law are paralyzed. "Under the shelter of these clubs that call themselves respectable there have been formed dozens of purely lawless liquor selling speculating associations, in which debauchery has proceeded to such a stage that women—even young girls of fourteen or fifteen years of age —habitually frequent some of them, and hardened gamblers traveling here have turned away in disgust from the sight of young girls drunk." That the standpatters in Georgia pol itics fear his candidacy more than they are willing to admit, Mr. Alexander as serts in his closing paragraphs. "You don’t see their newspapers at tacking Joe Hall,” he says. "Why 9 They are not afraid of him. He is an honest man and has been a valuable man-in the legislature and would make a good governor if he wasn’t so an tagonistic to economic progress.” As a reiteration of utterances made at Ringgold, John M. Slaton is attacked for what is termed his "still-hunt” methods and the vast expenditures of money in favor of his candidacy. Urges Extension of W. & A. to the Sea. In dealing with general state issues, Mr. Alexander advocates the following: The extension of the Western and Atlantic railroad to the sea as the solution of the high freight rate problem now engrossing the people of Georgia. The publication of all campaign expenditures and the prohibition of the expenditure of more than $2,500 by a gubernatorial candidate in a single campaign. The repeal of all laws granting the condemnation of water power sites to private capital and the de velopment of water powers by the state. A permanent registration law. Frohibition of the publication of paid matter of a political nature in any newspaper unless plainly marked as paid for and by whom. The scaling of appropriation of public money. The passage of a tax levy law as ' a remedy for the present financial situation. Such a law would re quire the legislature to vote the tax when voting the appropriation. $1,000,000 Building Will Chase Rats HEALY IS READY TO BUILD K 111 ■ . ’ ’H vWaKsßmfc. fa William T. Healy. Atlanta millionaire, snapped by the cam era man as lie was superintending work at the enormous hole which is soon to be replaced by a giant skyscraper if he car ries out, his plans. Mr. Healy wouldn’t pose, and this is believed to he the first time a picture of the man known to virtually every Atlantan, by sight or reputation, has appeared in print. Will Erect Monumental Build ing With Own Cash—Tells Some Graphic Rat Stories. William T. Healy. Atlanta multi millionaire. told a Georgian reporter today that he was ready to begin work on a giant skyscraper on his lot bound ed by Forsyth, Poplar, Broad and Wal ton streets. It is to be the largest of fice building in Atlanta, covering an entire block, sixteen stories high and costing more than $1,000.(100 when finally completed. But its size and cost will not be its most individual features. The reasons it is to be built and the methods of its construction will always mark it as distinct from other structures when It is surrounded by loftier buildings. Mr. Healy, who through the years has diligently saved the income from his vast properties until it has reached a great sum, is tired—not literally, of course—of his money. The gold ac quired through economy and self-denial has failed to satisfy. He is going to spend it for a monumental building. And it is said that he will finance the building of this great structure with out borrowing a penny—a feat which has hardly been equaled before in this country. Began With One Mule. The methods of construction are en tirely original—Mr. Healy's own. He began excavations for the foundations three years ago with one negro and a mule. As the hole grew deeper people began to ask what it was for. But Mr. Healy kept his counsel and the curious wondered more and more from day to day. The original hole, on the Forsyth street, side of the lot, was made deep and round and narrow at first. It looked like a giant well. But the negro and the mule kept at work for many days until the hole finally took the shape of an execavation for a building. Then Mr. Healy announced that ho was go ing to erect an office building, some day. Then he quickened his pace. More negroes and more mules were put to work. Excavations for half of the block have been completed. Archi tects Morgan & Dillon have finished the plans. He Sees the Fine Points. Mr. Healy has outlined his ideas. He will begin work on one-half of the building at once. When the leases on the Broad street side buildings have expired he will tear them down and build another half of the skyscraper. The upper floors will he for offices and store rooms will front on all four streets. Mr. Healy has personally supervised the tearing down of all the old build ings and tin- excavations. Every day he can be found watching the work with a keen eye. His methods are odd and original: but he sees tine points that many another would miss. A negro laborer was pitching down loose bricks from one of the low build- ings which is being demolished. An other negro stood on the ground and stacked them up. “Be careful, Williford," shouted Mr. Healy. “Don’t hit those brick against one another. You’ll break them.” And Williford was more careful. A Tale of a Rat Battle. The hole is large and empty, except for plies of brick bats and old cobble stones In the quiet hours of the day tremendous rats can be seen to steal out to find food where the mules have been fed. Several days ago a number of them were noticed divided into two; droves. Opposing leaders were in the vanguard. Suddenly the leaders clashed in battle while the others stood by. One was victorious. He took pos session of the food with his band while the vanquished leader with his band withdrew. Mr. Healy told a group this story the other day. He said it was true, because his foreman had told him, and the fore man was a truthful man. “A number of rats were eating where the horses had fed," he related. "The foreman looked, up and saw a sparrow hawk on the weather vane of the city hall. Suddenly the foreman saw the hawk shoot, toward the rats like an arrow. He came from his perch, a block and a half away, as straight as a shot, and grabbed a rat from the ground without an instant’s pause. “The hawk flew up for a height of about 30 feet, but stopped suddenly in the air and screamed. The rat W’as dropped. It had bitten Its freedom from the hawk —had vanquished the mighty bird. “The rat fell heavily to the ground and rolled over. Then it crawled slow ly away. The foreman was merciful, after witnessing such a game fight, and he let it escape,” But this playground for rats will soon be no more. Mr. Healy said prac tically all the details for beginning work on the new building were com plete. It will not be long before the old buildings on Broad street will be torn down. Then one of the most mag nificent developments in Atlanta will be a reality. And it is safe to say that Mr. Healy will be present every day to watch with his keen eye the progress of the work. He is worth millions and could spend his time in Europe or touring unknown seas in a private yacht. But his de sires are different and he lives deter minedly his own way. big navigatTonliam BUILT BY U. S. GIVES WAY: LOSS IS $300,000 GALLIPOLIS. OHIO, Aug. B.—Dam age estimated at $300,000 was done when Ohio river dam No. 26. near here, gave way today. The structure, which cost more than a million dollars, had just been completed by the Federal government. It was one of the numr ous dams being constructed to aid nav igation between Pittsburg and Cairo The concrete in the foundation washed away and with it came tumb ling down a great part of the structure At least one year will be required to rebuild the dam. I'HOME.I IPITION 2 CENTS EVERYWHERE XV ° DORSEUT DAYBREAK, HEARD GRACE He Did Not Refute Statement of Time of Trag edy for Ethical Reasons. WOUNDED HUSBAND IS IN ATLANTA FOR OPERATION Demands Remove Bullet From Spine—Paralyzed Limbs Are Showing Returning Life. An amazing aftermath of the Grace case came today when Solicitor Gen eral Hugh M. Dorsey, who led the pros ecution of Mrs. Daisy E. Grace, de clared that while lying abed In his apartments across the street from the Grace home at No. 29 West Eleventh street he heard a shot fired—the shot, very probably, which wounded Eugene Grace—and that ft wu.s fired between 5 and 6 o’clock In the morning. Daisy Grace and the defense declared that Grace was not shot until after 11 o’clock on the morning of March 5. Upon this plea the whole defense was built. Solicitor Dorsey declares he would have gone upon the witness stand to give this vital evidence which might have changed the whole trend of the trial but eminent lawyers and judges advised him that since he was prose cuting Mrs. Grace such a dramatic coup, though perfectly legal, would have been unwise. Hears Crack of PLtol Distinctly. At the time that Grace was shot a his bed room on the morning of March 5 Mr. and Mrs. Dorsey were in bed in their rooms on the second floor of the Goldsmith apartment house, across the street. "I had gone to bed at the tfsual hour on the night of March 4.” said the so licitor, "but I tossed restlessly all night and I was still lying in bed w’ide awako just as the sky began to lighten and the first gray streaks of daybreak came through the half-opened -window of our apartment. My wife was sleeping soundly. "Suddenly I heard the crack of a pis tol shot and from where I lay 1 could tell that it came from the direction of the Grace house across the street. When Kiser had lived there neighbors had told of his firing shots often to scare away cats or dogs at night, and so .1 did not arise from my bed at the clear sound of the pistol, but lay stiil waiting and listening for more shots. None came. Everything was instantly quiet again and I lay on my bed sleep lessly for half an hour more, when I heard the milk man come to the house and place the bottles in the doorway. That is how I fix the time so definitely. It could not have been after 6 o’clock that morning when I heard the pistol report. It was somewhere between half past 5 and 6 o’clock. Knew He Could Have Broken Defense. “Curiously enough,” said Mr. Dor sey, "I thought no more of the shot I had heard until two days afterward when officers consulted me about the case and gave into my possession the two ‘alibi letters’ they had found in the Grace house and seized. Then it dawned suddenly upon me that the report I had heard in the early morning was the shot of the pistol that had wounded Grace. I knew in my own heart that Grace had not been shot after 10 o’clock, as the defense even was then claiming. Upon my own responsibility I felt safe and sure in ordering the re arrest of Mrs. Grace. “Then, of course, came the prepara tion for the trial. I was, through my office, chief prosecutor of Mrs. Grace. My evidence, my testimony- as to the hearing of that shot and the time 1 heard it in the morning I knew would be vital—would go far toward disprov ing if it did not absolutely disprove the whole contention of the defense and the woman's own statement tha* her husband had not been shot until after 11 o'clock. But that very fact of being prosecutor placed me in a re markable i>osition. Besides. I could not absolutely swear that it was on the morning of Marclt 5 that the shot I heard rang out. In my own heart I