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HEIR BN
TQASIOR
WIDOW
It's a Boy. and Will Bear the
Name of His Dead Father.
John Jacob Astor.
MAY BRING CONTEST
OF $150,000,000 WILL
New Arrival and Mother Are in
Excellent Health Parent
Died on Titanic.
NEW YORK, Aug. 14. A $3,000,000
baby was born at the Astor mansion.
S4O T-'iftti avenue, today at 8:15-a. m.
It is a boy and will bear the name of
its father, John Jacob Astor, who went
down with the Titanic in the greatest
marine disaster of modern times
The birth of the child was announced
by Dr. Edwin B. Cragin in the follow
ing statement:
"A child was born to Mrs. John Ja
cob Astor at 8:15 o’clock this morning.
It is a boy and its name is John Jacob
Astor. The mother is in good condi
tion.”
Dr. Cragln later announced that John
Jacob Astor the fifth weighed 7 3-4
pounds.
Ry the will of the late Colonel John
Jacob Astor this posthumous heir was
left .33.1100.000.
There had been rumors circulated
J if the posthumous heir were a boy
n - ontc- ’ w ould be instituted by Colo
nel Aster's widow, Mrs. Madeline Force
A-lor. to secure greater wealth for her
s- •n This matter will he determined
Preparations for the arrival of the
millionaire baby were made early yes
terday afternoon when Mr. and Mrs.
Force. parents o( Mrs. Astor. were
summoned to the fifth avenue man
sion. but the accouchement was delayed
for many hours.
Baby Is in
Excellent Health.
Dr. Cragin hjcs been in constant at
tendance upon Mrs. Astor since the
week before last. -
In making official announcement of
the birth Dr Cragin said that the
baby, as well as Mrs. Astor, was in
excellent condition.
At the same time Dr Cragin said
thpt he did not look for any complica
tions. but that he expected the voting
moth' and her baby to continue doing
well.
There had been considerable fear
among the relatives of Mrs. Astor as Io
the outcome of the accouchement be
cause of her physical sufferings and
mental stress resulting from the disas
ter to tile Titanic, on which she was a
passenger with her husband.
Unusual interest from the social,
financial and legal viewpoints attaches
to the status of the new child. There
Is a possibility that the birth of the boy
ma> mean a legal contest for the re
distribution of the 5C0,000,000 Astor es
tate. Under the terms of the Astor
will, the sum of $3,000,000 was set aside
for each child born, other than the
children, Vim-ent and Muriel, of whom
Mrs. Ava Willing Astor was the moth
er. The legal question involved is
whether or not the language of this
provision of the will is to be construed
as a provision for the new heir—that Is
to say. a specific provision. Lawyers
differ as to the answer to the question.
Wardrobe Worth
More Than $2,000.
The new baby had a stock of baby
clothes ready for him that would de
light a whole congress of mothers. The
little wardrobe represented an outlay
of more than $2,000 for the essentials
alone and much of the embroidery on
the dainty little garments was the
handiwork of the young mother.
Much of the flimsy, fluffy raiment
«as imported from a Paris dealer, and
the best experts in New York worked
for months upon some of the dainty
things in which baby Astor will cod'his
winning way into the world of fashiofi
and finance.
The baby is the fifth of the name.
John Jacob Astor, the first, was born
in 1763, the second in 1 788. the third
In 1822 Colonel John Jacob Astor,
father of the present owner of the
name. «a« the fourth to bear lhe name
of the blunder of the family fortune.
The Atlanta Georgian
Read For Profit—GEORGIAN WANT ADS—Use For Results
Sightless Newsdealer W ould See Through Eyes of Convicted Murderer
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STEEL SILL VETO
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Measure Taken Up Almost Im
mediately After Being Re
ceived From President.
WASHINGTON. Aug. 14.—The house
this afternoon passed the steel bill over
the president's veto by a vote of 173
to 83.
WASHINGTON, Aug 14.—Unde
terred by the action of the Democratic
and insurgent Republican coalition in
the house, which passed the wool bill
over his veto yesterday. President Taft
today sent a message to congress in
which he vetoed the steel bill, passed by
the house and senate, and sent to him
for hl? signature.
Earlier in the day there had been ru
mors that the president was so bitter
over the failure of “standpat” Repub
licans to attend yesterday’s session
and support his stand that he would
allow the steel bill to become a law,
and only the president’s message end
ed these rumors..
The president based his veto of the
steel bill--the metal schedule of the
tariff—on the ground that it was
framed “without consulting the reports
of the tariff board, and provided only
for revenue and not for the protection
of American industries.”
Explains His Objections.
In a lengthy message the president
enumerated his objections under the
principle heads:
First, he took exceptions to the act of
congress in overlooking the publica
tions of the tariff board, and chided the
house for paying no attention to the
findings of tiiis body.
Second, he objected to the schedule
because it provides a tariff for revenue
only and not for protection.
Third, because of its tremendous im
mediate . ffect on millions of working
men and their families and hundreds
of millions of dollars worth of goods,
without first providing for a careful and
disinterested inquiry into the condi
tions of the whole industry.
In summing up his reason for with
holding his approval of the measure,
the. president said:
Tariff Board Ignored.
•From the outset of my administra
tion 1 have advised a revision of the
tariff based on a non-partisan study of
tlie facts. I have provided the means
for securing such information in the
appointment of a tariff board. Their
thorough work, already completed on
several schedules, has justified my con
fidence in this method. The principle is
indorsed by chambers of commerce and
boards of trade in almost every city of
importance in the country.
“The proposed bill has not been
framed on the basis of any such study
of tlie industry. Avowedly its rates
are fixed with no consideration of any
thing but revenue. The principle of
protection is disregarded entirely, and
therefore it is not too much to say that
tlie effect of these sweeping changes on
the welfare of those engaged in the
various industries has been disre
garded."
Up for Passage
Over Taft’s Veto
WASHINGTON. Aug. 14.—Immedi
ately after President Taft sent a mes
sage to congress today vetoing the
steel bill the Democratic members of
the house forced consideration of the
measure with the intention of passing
it oveY the president's veto.
Speaker Clark ruled that considera
tion of the veto took preference over
tlie regular business. Representative
Mann, the minority leader, appealed
from the chair's decision
Representative Unde wood moved to
lay the appeal on the table.
The Underwood motion was carried.
241 to 10. The Republicans were caught
napping and were unable so rally any
support. Mann himself voted for the
Underwood action.
ATLANTA, GA., WEDNE SDAY, AUGUST 14,1912.
Woman Kept Waiting
Three Hours for Cab
Now Sues for SB,OOO
Seriously 111, She Says, Whe '
She Sent in Call for Vehicle
From Home.
Mrs. Annie L. Chambers, of 272
Formwait street, says it is worth SB,OOO
to wait three and a half hours for a
cab. In two suits filed bj herself and
her husband O. G. Chambers, she asks
that amount of the Atlanta Baggage
and Cab Company for the company's
delay in sending a call for her on
, July 16.
Mrs. Chambers says she was serious
: ly ill and called for the vehicle to carry
her one and a half blocks from No. 100
Crumley street to 272 Formwait street.
She asserts that she called the cab at
' 5 o’clock in the afternoon, and it did
1 not arrive until 8:30. The suit was filed
! in city court today.
GOVERNOR WILL SIGN
BILL ORDERING SUIT
FOR TALLULAH FALLS
Governor Joseph M. Brown intimated
, clearly- today that he would sign the
legislative resolution authorizing state’s
suit for the recovery of the Tallulah
Falls property.
The chief executive said the original
. Shaw resolution requesting the govern
, or to bring a suit had been changed in
the house so that it would have the es
. feet of a law. A suit is ordered by- the
. legislative action.
In case the governor approves the
measure Attorney General Felder will
be ordered to institute suit at once.
The attorney general has said that his
, method of procedure would he an in
junction to restrain the Georgia Rail
, way and Power Company from further
work at Tallulah until the land titles
are cleared.
PEDDLER IS ONE WHO
HAWKS GOODS, RULES
THE SUPREME COURT
According to the state supreme court a
peddler, in -4he meaning of the Georgia
law licensing vending, is the person who
actually goes out in the highways and by
ways and hawks his goods. A person who
may hire the peddler is not a peddler
at all.
The court's definition came as the re
. suit of an appeal from the judgment of
the superior court of Tattnall county
made by S. P. Smith, the sheriff, and other
county officers, who had been enjoined
from licensing .1. K. Whidden
Whidden. it seems, had peddled fnr a
Confederate veteran, who, under the law.
is not required to pay a license.
> The high court held that Whidden was
the. peddler because he did the hawking,
( and, therefore, the clause exempting Con*
federate veterans did not apply to him.
ATLANTANS QUITTING
THE CIGARETTE HABIT;
SMOKE MORE CIGARS
The sale of cigarettes in Atlanta has
decreased 25 per cent since January.
, according to statistics gathered at a
well known Whitehall street stand.
This applies to all (lasses of ciga
rettes. A partial explanation of this is
found in the fact that there has been
an increase in tlie cigar trade.
“I know of no reason why this should
be," said the proprietor, "unless smok
ers gradually are turning away from
cigarettes to cigars. It's a fact, how
ever, that fewer people are smoking
cigarettes in Atlanta."
U. S. VICE CONSUL TO
COLOMBIA KILLED BY
ASSASSIN; PROBE ON
WASHINGTON, Aug. 14. Win. B.
Mac Master, American vice and deputy
consul at Cartagena. Colombia, has
. been assassinated. This news reached
the state department today.
Mac Master. who was an American
born In Colombia, was shot in tlie
, back while hunting, apparently by one
of his guides.
Other attempts to murder him have
been foiled, several of the conspirators
having been jailed tor participation in
the plot.
' The state department has ordered an
investigation.
Sw' ■ M. WIIIP ■■ >■
ROBERT L. CLAY AND HIS EYES
M CONTBAGT
LHIS HELD MUD
Supreme Court Draws Distinc
tion Between Georgia's Bill
and That of Alabama.
Drawing a wide distinction between
the Alabama law recently held uncon
stitutional by the United States su
preme court and the Georgia law, the
state supreme court today declared
constitutional Georgia's labor contract
statute, sometimes called the peonage
law.
The court's decision was made in the
case of Tim Wilson, a Leesburg negro
convicted of misdemeanor for violation
of tlie contract law. The case was cer
tified to the supreme court by the court
of appeals.
While general phases of the Georgia
statutes have been submitted to court
test before, today's decision is the first
handed down by tlie high court on the
constitutionality question since the
United States court knocked out the
Alabama statutes in the famous Bailey
peonage cases, as a violation of the
thirteenth amendment to the Federal
constitution.
First Ruling on Entire Law.
The Georgia contract labor law
passed in the interests of planters in
1905 makes it a misdemeanor for a la
borer to refuse to carry out a contract
to perform work for whidh money or
goods of value has been advanced. Un
der the Georgia construction, it must
be shown that the laborer deliberately
intended to defraud his employer by
accepting contract wages.
Georgia Law Not Affected.
Justice Atkinson in writing an opin
ion in whiqli all justices concurred
carefully drew a distinction between
the Alabama law and the Georgia law.
intimating that the Federal < ourt de
rision did not affect th* soundness of
t he <leorgia law.
Xecording to the Bailey decision, the
Alabama law made the refusal Io work
out a labor contract priina facie evi
dence of criminal intent and allowed
the employer making a contract .with a
labor* to receive one-half nf the fine
imposed in Hip • \«*nt of a conviction for
misflomeanoi as provide d bv the law.
In <li.-eu> ing the working of tiie
GRAND JURY ILL
PROBE LYNCHING
Law-Abiding Citizens of Mus
cogee County Demand Im
mediate Investigation.
COLUMBUS. GA., Aug 14—Law
abiding citizens of Columbus and Mus
cogee county today are making de
mands for an Immediate and thorough
investigation by the grand jury of th<
lynching here late yesterday afternoon,
when a sixteen-year-old negro youth
was taken from officers in the court
house, hurried to tlie outskirts of the
city and there shot to death. The
grand jury meets tomorrow, when the
probe is expected to begin.
The negro. Tom Cotton, alias T. Z.
McElhenny, had just been convicted
and sentenced to three years in the
penitentiary for killing Cedron Land, a
white boy, six miles north of the city,
on Sunday, June 30.
Yesterday the court room was
crowded with relatives and friends
o( the Land family when the negro was
arraigned for trial in superior court.
All went well until after the jury had
returned a verdict of guilty. Judge
Price Gilbert had pronounced the three
years sentence, court had been ad
journed and officers had started to re
turn the prisoner to jail.
• As Bailiffs R. L. Willis and J. T.
Darby started out of the court room,
relatives and friends of the Land fam
ily crowded around the officers, with
drawn revolvers, and demanded the
custody of the prisoner. The officers
refused. Then the mob forcibly look
the negro from them.
Reaching the street with the pris
oner, eighteen members of the mob
held up a passing street car, put the
negro aboard and forced tlie motorman
to speed to the outskirts of tlie city. At
Wynton switch the negro was taken
frpm the ear to a nearby field, where
lie was riddled with bullets. His body
was left lying in a ditch.
A coroner’s jury was impaneled last
night and returned a verdict of "death
by gunshot wounds at the hands of un
known parties."
Georgia law Justice Atkinson says:
"In order to constitute a criminal in
tent, which is the basis of the law, sat
isfactory pfoof of the contract must be
shown, tiie procuring of money thereon,
or oilier things of value, the failure to
perform the serviei s contracted for, or
failure to return tile nnmey advanced
* * * without good and sufficient
i a use."
BILLY SMITH WILL
MANAGE LOCAL
CLUB AGAIN
Deal Is Closed in Mobile
Whereby Popular Baseball
Chief Comes Back.
CHATTANOOGA. TENN. Aug. 14.
William Andrew Smith will manage
the Atlanta baseball club next year.
The contract has not been signed as
yet and will not be until the close of
the present season. Rut a verbal
agreement has been entered Into and
Rill Smith will be in Atlanta September
17 to take over the club and to resume
the position from which he was de
posed after winning the pennant for
Atlanta in 1909.
Since that time the Cracker club has
had a succession of unsuccessful man
agers and apparently driven to desper
ation. the Atlanta Baseball association
has closed with the man who was un
ceremoniously canned just three years
ago.
Let Out by Andrews.
The news leaked out here when Man
ager Smith notified PresMent O. K. An
drews. of the local club, that he would
not serve as Chattanooga’s manager
again this year. This he did by wire
from Mobile.
Up to this time it was supposed that
| Smith would return here next year.
I Though he has been particularly un
successful in Chattanooga, it was
deemed best to offer him the manage
ment a third year. When this deter
mination was made known to Smith, he
withheld his decision. At that time it
was not known what Smith had in
mind, but it later leaked out that he
was dickering with Atlanta. The deal
was finally closed In Mobile, and from
there Smith notified President Andrews
that he would return to Atlanta
Jordan May Succeed Him.
It Is virtually certain that the man
agement of the Chattanooga team next
year will go to “Kid" Elberfeld or to
Otto Jordan.
Bill Smith went to Atlanta as a
manager in 1906. Previous to that time
he had managed a pennant winner in
Macon, and he has had a long and suc
cessful career as manager and player
in various minor leagues. His first
year wit.lt Atlanta he had no luck, bu*
In 1907 he gave the Cracker club the
first pennant It had had in twenty
years.
With a pitching staff made up of
Russell Ford, “Hoot-Mon" McKenzie,
the late Rube Zoller, Hoy Castleton and
Bob Spade, with a pair of catchers of
the caliber of Sid Smith and Ed
Sweeney, with Jim Fox, Otto Jordan,
Lou Castro and Bill Dyer In the in
field, and with Dode Paskert, George
Winters and Jesse Becker in the out
field. he had an aggregation that won
the pennant after one of the most ex
citing races of baseball's history.
Team Riddled by Sales.
The following year the Crackers took
a slump, owing to thq fact . that the
team was riddled by drafts and sales,
but in 1909 Smith again got together a
pennant-winning team. The Crackers,
after a poor start and a bad slump that
lasted all through May. took the lead
late in June and did not give it up.
The team that year consisted of Rohn
and Henn, at first; Jordan, at second;
Scotty Walker, at third; Newton, short
stop. Lee. Bayless, Wintersand Moran,
outfielders; Smith and McMurray,
catchers; Rogers, Fisher. Bartley, Max
well, Atkins. Johns and Viebahn. pitch-
The one-sidedness of the race made
the season a poor one financially and,
as Smith could not get along with the
baseball association over certain mat
ters of handling the team, he was
canned at the end of the season. Since
then he has managed the Buffalo and
Chattanooga teams with varied success.
HOHL
IDITION
2 CENTS EVERYWHERE
SLAYER’S
EYES FOR
BLIND
IYIAN
Cornea of Wife Murderers
Orbs May Give Paper
Seller Sight.
SPECIALISTS CONSULTED
AND OPERATION PLANNED
Newsman Suggests Removal
of Clay’s Eyes, and Is Con
fident He Will See.
Seeing through th* s eyes of a
murderer for the rest of his life
is the hope of John Cashin, a
peaceful, blind paper seller of At
lanta. At his earnest behest ex
pert plans are note being made
to remove the orbs of a man that
the law says shall not live in or
der so restore Cashin's power to
see the things of the world in
which he has lived for j’ears in
total, hopeless darkness.
John Cashin would literally apply the
ancient Mosaic doctrine of an eye for
an eye. The law has said that as Rob.
ert L Clay killed his wife, Robert L,
Clay must die. Twelve jurors have de
cided that earthly use for Robert L.
Clay has passed. His physical being
must pay the cost.
But. John ■ Cashin can see hope
through the eyes of the slayer. Though
Clay’s body die. Cashin would have his
eyes see, but see from the brain and for
the soul of one who has never offended
man-made laws and who is therefore
entitled to live.
Clay Hopes for Life;
Blind Man for Sight. 1
Clay waits in the Tower In hope
that a new chance for life will be given
him by the highest court of his state,
but as he waits on the judges so Cash
in waits on him. For in his death, the
man who sells papers in darkness at
Whitehall and Alabama streets, hopes
for vision of sunshine, of the power to
see his fellow man, of the right to
mingle as a member not as a depend
ent of society.
He has planned and specialists of
Atlanta have admitted that there is so
much feasibility in his scheme that
they are actually investigating the pos
sibility of transplanting the cornea of
the murderer's eyes that see into the
head of the citizen who is sightless that
ne may see when the law has been sat
isfied with the wife slayer's life.
The plan originated in the brain of
Cashin. His earnest, repeated, request,
was the cause of specialists consider
ing even for a moment an operation
said to be unknown to ocular science.
Consults Eminent
Specialists on Plan.
Cashin has the. papers that he sells
read him each day. One day early
this summer the news was read him
that a jury had imposed the death pen
alty on Clay. The judge had ordered
his execution in July. He immediately
became obsessed with the idea "this
man must die, why should not I use
his eyes?”
The idea grew with the days. Cashin
finally decided to consult a physician.
He had once been examined by Dr. J.
N. Ellis. He called on him again.
His plan, as bizarre as Poe ever im
agined, was submitted to the physician
as a matter of fact business. Dr. Ellis
at first gave the man no hope. But
Cashin was insistent. His own mind
told him that the operation was pos
sible. He pleaded with the physician.
He finally succeeded.
It was decided that if his optic
nerves are still serviceable after his
years of blindness there is the possi
bility that the ey.es of a man that has
read the death sentence might make
him see.
To Ask Dr. Calhoun
To Make Examination.
Dr. Phinizy Calhoun, noted oculist,
Will be consulted and asked to examine
Cashin. He will decide whether hit
optic nerves will admit of possibility
of the transplanting of the eyes
■ Here is the plan:
As soon as Clay has paid the pen
alty of bls crime, his eyes will be re
moved before the body is taken from
the death chamber. They will be
placed in a warm saline solution anc
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