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THE WEATHER
Forecast for Atlanta and Georgia:
Generally fair today and tomorrow.
VOL. XI. NO. 25.
LJBOF HOSTS
OfINISHFOH
OH CUBE
510 TOIL
Thousands Desert City for Cool
I-
Grant Park and Splendid
Festival Program.
MUSIC. DANCING, SPORTS
TO ENTERTAIN SIG CROWD
f
Prominent Union Leaders Will
Address Workers Basket
Dinner a Feature.
I’,a<. tj'i ■ fi: 03*ai‘e banked today. The
tall stacks a.c smoksless since Satur
day night. Shop doo s are closed and
rotton mill spindles have ceased their
whirring f ,l a day. The men and wom
en—-and the child workers, too —are
celebrating the one day in the year
they call th dr own.
W’isel . the Lab" da\ committee
abamh ned the palaue this yea.. on
many September Mondays the worker*
have arisen early, donned holiday uni
forms and marched in the hot sun be
hind brass bands, while wives and chil
dren have sweltered on the sidewalks
waiting for the parade to pass.
Put this year the unions decided on a
“safe and san?” celebration at Grant
park, where the atmosphere is several
degrees cooler and a great deal fresher
than in Whitehall street. The working
folk are ‘here by thousands today, fill
ing the pavilion, dotting the wooded
hillßides with splashes of gay color,
keeping the popeo n men busy. 1 he.'
crowded the trpi'ey cars before the sun
had a chance to get in its work and the
park was well filled before half Atlanta
had finished its breakfast.
Music of Three Bands
Enlivens the Throngs.
Three bands, all union musicians, of
course, began theb program early in
the day. The big concrete pavilion was
given over to dancing. Farther down
the park another band played every
thing from grand opera to ragtime,
with a big audience sitting on the
grassy hillside. lite zoo folk held a
regula ■ reception front the start and
before the monkey cages the children
formed such a crush that it required
several cops to keep the smaller ones
from being smothered, <>ld Maud, the
elephant. entertained a constantly
griming circle of wide-eyed youngsters
and the pa-rots and cockatoos were
taught enough new words, to double
their already extensive vocabulary.
The I abor day exercises began yes
terday with a ■ special sermon at the
Har is Street Presnyterian church, de
livered by Rev. Jere A. Moore. A host
of union men gathered at the city ball
Just before the service and their march
in th® church was a Labor day parade
w ithout the float® and bands. The line
was headed b» President S. R Marks.,
<>f the State Federation. and Carl Kar
-t"n. president of the Atlanta body.
n Moore took for lite theme of his
sermon "One Day’s Rest in Seven.” and
discus'-ed the principles for which union
labor is working. "More than 3.000.00tf
people in the United States are denied
a day’s rest once a week," he said.
"The' are enslaved by employers
seized b< a passion so greed and gain.
Pleads for One
Day of Rest in Week. •
■ln Atlanta today more than a thou
sand str-et car conductors and motor
men must work seven days in a week.
About 300 policemen are required to be
on duty seven days in a week. Hun
dreds of clerks have no Sunday rest,
being required to work in drug stores,
tobacco stores, candy stores, and at
soda fountains, all of which are open
on Sunday in direct violation of the
laws of the state of Georgia, except the
drug stores selling what is necessary
to be sold on the Sabbath.
The city grants her firemen one day
out of six. and that is right; but why
not give the policeman one day ir:
seven?
"Is not the Geo'gia Railway and
Electric Company prosperous enough,
and considerate enough, to give its em
ployees the privilege of resting one day
in seven?
"Should not the railroads heed the
law of the state and stop all unneces
sary moving of freight trains.'''
Final plans for the Grant park cele
oation were made at a rfieeting of
ommittees yesterday afternoon at the
Labor temple. W. C Puckett, Carl
Karston, R- L. Corley and Dennis Lind
say made up the committee on program
and amusemegt. L. P Marquardt. Je
rome Jones. William VanHouten, W. c.
Puckett and J. M. Bridwell formed the
music committee, and reported that
three bands and two orchestras had
been engaged. N. H. Kirkpatrick, L.
Continued an Pago Twa.
The Atlanta Georgian
Read For Profit—GEORGIAN WANT ADS —Use For Results.
GATGHESGIRL
ELOPER, BUT
LETS HER
MARRY -
I Angry Brother Trails Runaways
From Their Quiet Country
Home to Atlanta.
FINDS THEM HERE AND
I, SENDS CALL FOR POLICE
I Sister's Tears Cause Him to
Relent, and Then He Goes
to the Wedding.
1 ; Moved by his sister's tears, a stern
{ brother, who hurried from North
! Carolina to prevent a runaway mar
j
' . riage anil summoned the police of At
lanta to aid him, is hurrying back home
j today w ith the news that Miss Abbie
Allman, if Franklin. North Carolina,.
. pretty and eighteen, is the wife of D.
G. Jacobs. 23 years old —-and that he
I is glad of it.
Allman, the brother, came to cir
cumvent <’upid but remained to aid
: him.
Miss Allman's father is a prominent
■ farmer in Franklin, and Jacobs is a
] neighbor. The pair had been sweet
.j hearts since early childhood and had
. t been secretly engaged for six months.
, Three weeks ago Jacobs decided to.
; come to Atlanta and planned to be
■ ‘ married <>n his 23d birthday—yester-
i day.
Brother Puts
Police on Trail.
! Last week lie’ wrote Miss Allman to
join him and the girl, giving a plausi-
; ble explanation, left home and arrived
'tin Atlanta Friday with her parents
| unaware of the fact that she was on
; | her way to become a bride.
1 I They did not remain in ignorance
j long, how ever, for by accident the girl
had left .the letter from her sweet
heart in her room and it was discover
ed. The police here were notified to
be on the lookout for the pair and the
brother started In pursuit at once.
] Miss Allman was found on Courtland
' street by Chief of Detectives Lanford
and the girl's brother, and as the three
were talking Jacobs came In. Allman
insisted that both be taken- into cus
tody as a lesson. The girl wept and
pleaded with her brother, declared she
loved Jacobs and would stand by him.
and finally won her brother over.
Chief Lanford
To Cupid’s Aid.
Cupid got another lift when Chief
Lanford, who had been a disinterested
■ sort of spectator, proposed that his
pa-tor marry the pair at once. Accord-
~ ingly, the party jumped into an auto
mobile and were whisked to the
Woodward Avenue Baptist church,
1 where the pastor. Dr. H. P. Fitch, mar
ried them at the close of the morning
services.
Vt hat had threatened to be a mighty
sad birthday was turned into as happy
a wedding day as could be wished for,
and Allman, thoroughly converted, went
back to Franklin to tell the news to
the folks. The young couple w ill spend
their honeymoon in Atlanta
NEGRO GAMBLER SHOT AS
HE ATTACKS POLICEMAN
Green Dowdy, a negro burglar for
whom detectives had been searching for
some time, is in the police station today
i as the result of a raid on a negro crap
, game yesterday afternoon Jack Hayes,
, anoth|g' negro, was shot by Detective
. Gillespie when he attacked the officer
with a hickory stick.
When Chief Beavers and Detectives
George Bullard. Harper, Gillespie and
. .McGill went to the Fort street house
they found Dowdy gambling away the
I proceeds of a Saturday night burglary,
which he has admitted. He also Is
wanted for another burglary some time
. ago.
POLICEMAN IS FATALLY
STRICKEN NEAR STATION
. Suddenly paralyzed within a short dis
tance of police station, just after he had
“• gone off duty. Policeman M. B Wiley
1 today is reported at Grady hospital as be
ing In a dying condition. It Is believed
, he can survive but a short time.
After being relieved from duty on the
morning watch yesterday. Officer Wiley
' walked out of police station apparently
well and all right, and started toward his
t home He had gone but a few’ steps, how-
I ever, when he was stricken, falling to
. the pavement. He was burried to Grady
i 1 hospital, where everything possible, is be
ing done for him.
ATLANTA. GA., MONDAY. SEPTEMBER 2. 1912.
Owners of Offending Flues To Be Warned, Then Prosecuted For Violations
CITY BEGINS DETERMINED WAR ON SMOKE
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Patil McMichael, city smoke inspector, on right, testing the density of smoke tn downtown section. His tests are matin on
top of the Grant building. The inspector determines the density by comparing the colors on the slide shown in the picture with
the color ol smoke emitted from the nearby chimney. The ordinance makes it unlawful for any smokestack to emit black
smoke for more than twelve minutes to the hour.
World’s Greatest Long
Distance Runner Held
Prisoner at Ellis Isle
Officials Trying to Determine
Whether Athlete is a “De
sirable Immigrant.”
NEW YORK. Sept. 2.—Hans Koleh
mainen, of Finland, the greatest long
distance runner in the world, who
wrested more than one victory from
Americans in the international Olympic
games at Stockholm in July, is being
held today at the floorway of the Unit
ed States until the authorities can de
termine to their own satisfaction
whether tlie great athlete is a "de
sirable immigrant."
Kolehmainen. who Arrived here yes
terday from Glasgow upon the Anchor
liner California, was detained at Ellis
Island facing possible deportation.
The athlete was accompanied by his
brother. William. They came here not
as athletes, but as workmen bent upon
making the land of the Stars and
Stripes their future home. The twain
came as third-class passengers and
were dressed in typical immigrant fash
ion with loose fitting clothing, ungain
ly shoes, tweed caps an<j red bandanna
handkerchiefs knotted about their
necks. Hans speaks no English and
was the most amazed man on the
North American continent today be
cause his entrance into the land of
promise had been barred. His bi other.
William, tried to explain to him that
the authorities must surely be making
a. mistake, but the wonder in Hans'
big ox-llke eyes only deepened. Wil
liam speaks a few words of English.
The two brothers kept to themselves
on the voyage over and refused to min
gle with the other emigrants.
Prominent athletes, upon hearing of
the Kolehmainelts' plight, immediately
took steps to help them
FORMER FRIENDS ARE
FOES IN SUIT OVER $75
J. L. Chestnut and David Reid Mill
er, friends until May 12, figured as
prosecutor and defendant in a suit for
375 filed with superior court today.
t’hestnut charges that Miller took $75
off his person last May, saying that he
intended Keeping it to prevent it being
lost, and that Millet has lefused to
return the money.
Atlanta's fight to abate the smoke
nuisance was begun in earnest today
when Paul McMichael, city smoke in
spector. announced he was ready to
( inform the violators of the new r4ty
> smoke ordinance what they must do
to keep within the law.
, Inspector McMichael declared that
practically every factory, office build
ing and railroad, not operated by elec
tric power was violating the ordinance.
The ordinance, more liberal in its re
quirements than the smoke laws of
most cities, provides that it shall be
unlawful for any smokestack to emit
’ black smoke for more than twelve
’ minutes to the hour.
> The accompanying picture shows In-
> Spector McMichael making observa-
RESULTS OF MORNING GAMES
1 , -
SOUTHERN LEAGUE.
(Morning Games.)
At Birmingham: R. H. E.
i Birmingham . . . 000 102 00* 3 5 1
New Orleans. . . 010 <IOO <loo 1 5 3
Foxen and Dilger; Dygert, Wagner
" and Angemier. I’mplres, Kellum and
1 Breitens'ein. •
i
I At Chattanooga: R. H. E
> '' hattanooga. . . .021 01 o 0— 4 7 2
. Nashville ..... 210 002 0— 5 8 2
1 Coveleskie and Giddo; Case anti El-
liott. I’mplres, Rudderham and Fitz-
• simmons. Game called end of seventh.
t
SOUTH ATLANTIC LEAGUE.
I
(Morning Games.)
At Savannah: R. H. E.
Savannah .... 001 031 l l>4*— 8 13 2
f Albany 010 000 JOO— 2 9 1
, Schultz and Gribel; Pruitt anti Kim-
ball. I 'rnpire, < 'la rk.
; At Columbia: R. H. |<
Columbia ... '<«« 400 31* 8 12 1
Macon ....... 000 <ml 100 2 71
Dashner ami Menefee; Martin and
. Matthews. I 'rnpire, Kelly.
At Columbus: K. H. E.
Columbus .... <llO <>oo 000 -1 5 I
f Jacksonville . . 200 000 003 5 11 a
Morrow and Krebs. Wilder and
Smith. I'mpiies, Pendet and Bart
INTERNATIONAL LEAGUE.
(Morning Games.;
’ At Buffalo: R. H F„
Montreal 201 OHO 3 7 2
Buffalo 000 000— 0 3 0
< Mattein and Burns: Jameson and
• Schang. Umpires. Matthews ami Mtn
ray. Game called in sixth Inning; rain.
' At Rochester: R. H. E.
• Toronto 000 05<i anti |<> 2
; Rochester .... 000 <'l<t - I 7 2
> Rudolph and Graham; Quinn and
Blair. Umpires, Mullin and Kelly.
tions of smoke conditions from the top
of the Grant building. The chart be
fore him shows the different degrees of
i sniolbe density. By observations with
this chart he figures the exact smoke
' density from the .individual stacks in
the city.
The smoke commission meets to
morrow to determine a definite plan
for co-operation with the factories,
railroads and office buildings in abat
ing the smoke nuisance. Contrary to
1 the popular impression, there Le no sat
■ isfactory automatic smoke consumer.
The smoke must he consumed in the
furnaces before it really becomes
smoke. To make the furnaces in At
lanta consume it the furnaces must be
remedied.
AMERICAN LEAGUE.
Morning Games.
At Cleveland: R. H. E.
St. Louis 140 000 000— 5 12 1
Cleveland. . . . 202 000 000— 4 71
Adams ami Alexander. Kahler,
Mitehell and O'Neill. Umpires, O’Lough
lin and Westervelt.
At Washington: R. H. E.
Philadelphia . . . 010 101 000— 3 9 I
Washington . . . 000 002 000— 2 6 3
Plank am! Egan; Hughes, Musser and
Henry. Umpires, Dineen and O'Brien.
At < 'lii< agij R. H. E.
Detroit 002 1)42 220—12 17 1
Chicago ... 200 000 002— 4 10 5
Imbue and Stanage; Benz and Kuhn.
Umpires, Evans and Egan.
AMERICAN ASSOCIATION.
(Morning Games.)
At tndianapolis: R. H. E.
Columbus .... 000 000 1)00 0 1 2
Indianapolis . 000 000 30*—- 3 8 I
<‘ook and Smith. Hixon and McCar
thy. I’mplres, Hayes and Anderson.
At St. Paul R. H. E.
Minneapolis . . 000'100 000 1 5 4
St. Paul 000 050 10* 6 4 0
Patterson and Owens; Dauss and
Marshall. Umpire. Connally.
CAROLINA LEAGUE.
(Morning Games.)
Score . R. H.E.
Spartanburg 3 12 3
ireenville 5 u 1
Stowers and Coveney; Gilroy and
Colby. Umpire, Cooper.
Score: R. H. E.
| Charlotte 8 9 3
l Amlerson 7 8 5
l ligli and ,'.l;ilemo on: Flltery and
' Mill.oian. Umpires, Chestnut and
I Bt ungs.
Harry Davis Resigns
As Manager of Naps;
Birmingham in Charge
CLEVELAND, OHIO, Sept. 2.—Har
ry Davis, manager of the Cleveland
Naps, tendered his resignation to
> Owner Somers today, anti Joe Bfrming.
ham was placed in charge temporarily.
Davis has not proved successful with
i the Naps this season and local papers
i have been demanding his release. Davis
took charge of the local team this
' spring, after having captained the Ath
letics to an American league pennant
and a world's series championship over
the Giants last fall.
uptonsinclair’sued
FOR $50,000 BY WIDOW
OF VICTIM OF AUTO
NEW YORK, Sept 2.—Justice Aspinall,
in the supreme court in Brooklyn, signed
an order permitting Mrs. Mary Martin to
serve a summons and complaint upon
Upton Sinclair by publication. Th*, ac
tion brought by Mrs. Martin is for $50,000
damages for the loss of the life of her
husband It is against Sinclair and
Edgar Selwyn. the actor-manager jointly.
The papers have been served upon Mr.
Selwyn
An attorney from Clarence J. Shearn's
office told the court that it had been im
possible to serve the novelist at his home.
No. 47 Clermont avenue, Brooklyn, and
that he had sailed for Europe.
The action is due to the killing of Mr.
Martin. Septmnber 23, 1911. by the auto
in which Sinclair and Selwyn were riding
Mrs. Martin lives at No. 554 Pacific street,
Brooklyn.
MAGNET DRAWS SCREW
FROM A BOY'S WINDPIPE
CI.X’CINN'ATI, Sept 2. Sherrick Bobb,
six years old. swallowed a screw one
inch long three years ago. Ii slid into
his windplpf*. and gradually worked down
to a oostiton where it was impossible to
reach it. causing the youngster intense
pain. j
’rhe baffled tarnil.\ phssician tailed in
Dr. .John Ranly. an eye specialist. He
suggested the use of a magnet This
was agreed to. and tn less than five tnin
utes the screw was removed. The lad
is recovering
NATIONAL LEAGUE.
i Morning Game.)
At Philadelphia : R. H E.
i Brooklyn . . . oo| uno ot»| (»2 4 12 4
I’hilath Iphia . u’iu |h< u|n uu j g |
Yingling ;.no Mille. Alexandtr anti
I Kiliiier. Umpires, Kltm and Orth.
HOML
tPITION
2 CENTS EVERYWHERE P^ RE C
GOV. Ul
CALLS LA'S
PLHFOBM
FSIDED
Proposes Social Reforms, and
Speaks of Great Trusts at
the Same Time. /
r
FLAWS POINTED OUT IN
MINIMUM WAGE PLANj
Only Remedy Offered to Put)
Protective Tariff Money Into
Toilers’ Pockets Defecttua. -
BUFFALO, Bwpt, «,
non turned hl» big gim» an (Xretd!
Ronsevelt tedAy tn g, upeech wMah he
deltvered to an errthuMawttc d».y
throng of many tJxnmanda at Branns
park. The Democratic candidate for ttis I
presidency wae cheered from tho mo
ment he arrived and the hearty greet
ing he received reached Its clhtnax a«
the park. Analysing the fcrogrewtve
platform of Colonel Roosevelt, Ae gov.
ernor eaidt
There is a very eirtgnfar feature
about the ptatform of the new party.
It has two aides and ten .tones. It
epeaks warm sympathy with practical
ly every project of soclaJ hetterment
to whldh men and women of broad
sympathies are now turning with gen
erous purpose and on that aide 1t is
refreshing to read. It may be intrr
proted tn the light of some Interesting <
things Mr. Roosevatt has recently said. 1
“Mr. Roosevelt declares hfs devoted
adherence to the principle of protec- ’
tion. Only those dtitiss which are
manifestly t oo high, even to serve the
Interests of those who are directly pro.
tected, ought. In his view, to ho low
ered. He <leclarea-that ha is not trou
bled by the fact that a very large
amount of money 1s taken out of the
pocket of the general taxpayer anad put
Into the pocket of paurtlcular classes of
protected manufacturers, but that his
concern U that so little of thia money
gets into the pockets of the employees.
I have searched his program thorough
ly for an Indication of what he expects
to do 1n order to see to It that a larger
proportion of this 'prltte* money gets
Into the pay envelopes aantf T have fountf
only one suggestion.
About the Minimum I >
Wage Proposition. ’ f
'■There Is a plank In the platform!
which epeaks of estabMwhlng a nrfnj-•
mum wage for women and I
I suppose that we may assume that
the principle 1» not tn the long run j
meant to be confined In Its appflSkas.j
tion to women only. Perhaps wt eraj
justified in awrumtog that the third!
party looks forward to the general es»)
tabHshment by law of a minimum
wage.
•Tt Is very likely. I take for-granted/
that If a minimum wage were estab
lished by law the great majority of
employers would take occasion to bring
their wage scales as nearly as might bo I
down to the level of that minimum, and
ft would be very awkward for the
workingman to resist that process suo
cesefully, because It would be danger
ous to strike against the authority of
the Federal government.
"Moreover, most of bls employers—
at any rate, practically all of the most
powerful of hfs employers—would be
wards and proteges of that very gov
ernment which Is the master of us ail,
for no part of this program can be dis
cussed intelligently without tremen
berlng that monopoly, as handled by
it, is not to be prevented, but accepted.
It Is to be accepted and regulated. All
attempt to resist it is to be given up.
It is to be accepted as inevitable. The
government is to set up a commission
whose duty it will be not to check or
defeat it, but merely to regulate it.
under rules which it is in itself to frame
and develop, that the chief employers
will have this tremendous authority
behind them; what they do they will
have the license of the Federal govern
ment to do, including the right to pay
the wages approved by the government.
Attitude of Industries
Toward Organized Labor.
"And it is worth the while of the
wmking men of the eountrj to recall
what the attitude toward organized
labor has been of those masters of con
solidated industries, whom the Federal
government is to take under its patron
age as well as under its control. They
have always been the stout opponents
of organized labor and they have tried
to undermine it in a great tnanj ways.
Some of the ways they have adopted
have worn the guise of philanthropy
and good will, and have no doubt been
used, for all 1 know, in perfect good
faith. Some of them have set up sys
tems of profit-sharing, of compensa
tion tor injuries, bonuses and even peu-
