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THE WEATHER
Forecast for Atlanta and Goorgia<
Generally fair today and tomorrow)
light variable winds.
VOL. XI. NO. 27.
HI STIFLES
BIT AGAIN;
IDRELIEF
SIGHTED
Highest Temperature of 1912
Reached Yesterday—lt May
Be Exceeded Today.
SUFFERING IN HOMES OF
POOR INCREASES DAILY
Science Explains Atlanta Is
Paying Penalty for Cool
July and August.
Atlanta awoke tn another torrid
twelve hours today, after another night
of tosring wakefulness. The few
r’i■jA- which floated across the skies
yesterday passed on without giving a
. r rain.
The weather bureau says no relief is
in <ig 'l. There is no promise df rain
’fo ■ several d:;ys. no expectation of a
<l.ll temperature..
1.1. Lg..es <,>■: of the summer
i e. . itr'tv afternoon when
■ i jiy to $3.3 degrees
itu: Atlanta has
re n igh- • • .itures. It swel
re-ei under 97 i • grars once as late as
September 18. It is not the mere tem
yr,itu i which has brought so much
discomfort.
It is the unusual duration of the
heated and because Atlantans
had grown accustomed to the cooln< ss
of the earlier summer and were unp
pared for such a September as this.
Oh For the Rains
Os Yestermonth.
Atlanta is paying the debt which sci
ence says nature always exacts. This
section had rain in plenty througnout
'he spring and early summer. The
afternoon which did not bring a shower
or a thunder storm was a red-letter
day in the calendar. The rainfall
which usually aswenrs for an entire
: ear had been registered several weeks
ago.
And then the rain stopped falling. It
appeared that old Dame Nature, hav
ing spent her fortune extravagantly,
went broke and began a season of
economy. Atlanta would give a small
fortune for some of that rain it cursed
so vigorously a month ago.
Today started its mad career in much
the same manner as for the past week.
The mercury stood at 87 at 10 o'clock
'•nd was climbing slowly but surely
toward the nineties. It was evident
early in the day that Atlanta was in
for another round of lassitude and
perspiration.
Mill District
Children Suffer.
Torrid days ana breezeless nights
‘trike harder on the little Children of
'he mill districts these days than on
any other part of Atlanta's cosmopoli
tan population.
I' Is mostly the little ones that suf
f‘ —the babies who must he left all
day to the care of an older sister or
brother, and whose tiny bodies have not
yet grown strong enough to withstand
the continued battering of Ihe great
enemy of the poor—summer’s high
temp rature.
Hr re and there through the narrow',
dust-covered streets of the mill sec
tions, children play as usual. They
I vo not yet learned to sacrifice fun
f” health. "Pop-the-w hip," a favor
•t° since many of the present gray
iicads were children, still holds its own
in spjtc pf the oppressive warmth;
s "mt little fellow more enterprising
'han the rest, manages to contrive a
'agon out of odds and ends of boaru
and two pairs of wheels from 010
•eelbarrovvs. and't ides dow n the long
I' 1= with his favorite friends. Her>.
and there some little tot. watching fur
'ivelt for a policeman, dips nearly to
the waist in a horse trough and laughs
over the momentary coolness.
1 ondition- in some districts are dis
"e.-sing. Fathers and mothers and
> liildrcn who are old enough to pass
dr the legal age, must work all day
11 'he miii s w here, the temperature has
he kept high up in order that cotton
"duets may be perfectly woven and
the splndiep mav do their best
* ork
# 1' night their homes are almost suf-
"ing. according to many of them.
' do not mind talking simply and
' of the conditions under which
have to live.
f “ houses are small w ith slant roofs
,l? re is no chance for the dwellers
f °P on flat roofs and get a little
1 breeze, as do New Yorkers in the
v-to district, but porches are
c d from the time darkne-s fulls
a nref light nf day pouring into
. ■ remind* them of another
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■Human Torch Sets Fire
To 4 Stores Trying to
Escape From Flames
i Bicyclist Fractures Skull in Dodg
ing Burning Macon Electrician.
Both Likely to Die.
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MACON. GA.. Sept. .4 —A human
firebrand set fire accidentally to four
stores last night, and will himself prob
ably die today from injuries received
when he caught on fire from the burst
ing of a gas blowpipe. He is Israel
Lessay, an electrician.
Lessey was in his shop on Cotton
avenue, when his clothes ignited, and
in his efforts to put out the flames he
broke through two plate glass windows
and left a trail of fire wherever he went.
He finally tan into a drug store and
fell unconscious. Hospital physicians
say his death is only a question of
| hours.
; A negro bicyclist, trying to get out
of the way of the burning man, ran
into a telepiume pole and fractured his
skull. He is likely to die. Two fire
men were badly cut by glass in fighting
the fire in one of the stores.
This happened about 10:30 o'clock,
just as a nearby theater crowd was
dispersing, ami a street panic almost
ensued, tine of the stores damaged by
fire was the Woman's Exchange.
SHERIFF SEARCHES
CONGREGATION FOR
TOTERS OF PISTOLS
ROME, GA.. Sept. 4.—The singing
and praying of a congregation of ne
groes did not awe Sheriff Dunehoo
when he entered a church tn search
of a whisky seller.
As soon as the sheriff entered the
| church he saw a negro w ith a gun
I sticking out of his h'.p nocket. He
i promptly arrested him. While a dep
i uty held the prisoner, the sheriff
searched every worshiper in the
■ church to see if any one else there
j carried a gun. The prisoner was has
tened away, when the search was com
pleted. ami the services continued.
STEPHEN NOLAN'S BATH
COST 75 CENTS PLUS sl7
MACON, GA.. Sept 4 —lt cost Steph
en Nolan, a well-known Macon man.
the sum of 817.75 to lake a bath. He
paid the Turkish bath proprietor 75
cents anti then he jumped into a tub
When he emerged he found tltat his
coat had vanished. Il contained tin
817. < ’oincidently a negro boothla l It
1 4 |«n disappeared, and lie has not beer.
taken yet.
ATLANTA. GA., WEDNESDAY, SEPTEMBER 1. 1912.
Grudge Goodsinsky, one of the scout, showing little Ruby
Tarpley some of the sights of the camp.
8 DM IN MT
FIDE JT RESORT
Ocean Park, Famous Califor
nia Beach. Destroyed. With
Loss of $2,500,000.
OCEAN PARK. CAL., Sept. 4.—-Fire
which swept Ocean Park, threatened to
destroy Venice, caused the death of
one man and is believed to have killed
seven others, and entailed a property
loss estimated at *2,500,000, was put
under control today. The fire swept
the famous beach pleasure resorts, de
stroying the Frazier pier. It was burn,
ing its way furiously toward Venice,
another of the Los Angeles beach re
sorts. when a shift in the wind saved
the place.
Today firemen with lines of hose ex
tending to the ocean were pumping
water on the smouldering ruins. It
was estimated that it would take at
least all tonight to extinguish the'
flames. One hundred and fifty police
and militiamen stood on sentry duty
about the burned district, watching
lest the fire break out again. A gen
tle breeze toward the ocean lessened
the danger of a further outburst of the
flames.
In the parks along the beach and in
the automobile driveways household
goods and stocks from stores were
piled high. Special guards watched for
vandals.
Scores Leap Into Ocean.
Scores of persons had perilous es
capes from the flames, many leaping
from the burning Frazier pier into the
ocean, while others leaped from the
upper stories of buildings which were
burning beneath them.
Six square blocks were burned over,
and the ocean front from the Frazier
pier to the end of Dragons Gorge, 1,300
feet, was swept clean.
The known dead is J. F. Locke, cash
ier of the Casino restaurant. He was
drowned after leaping off the Frazier
pier after the flames had ignited his
clothing.
Others reported dead were three
Japanese, who are believed tn have
been burned to death in (heir sleeping
quarters over the restaurant in which
the fire started. The other four, also
Japanese, it was reported, w. it caught
at the . i,ci .if the pier and forced into
the ocean by the flames.
MACON MAN HAS WIFE
AND DAUGHTER JAILED
ON INSANITY CHARGES
MACON. GA., Sept. 4.—After living
in a locked room for three months, and
existing on food prepared by neighbors
and given through an opening in a win
dow, Mrs. T. B. Wells, and her 22-year
old daughter, Miss Myra ,Wells, have
been arrested on charges of lunacy
brought by the husband and father.
For three months the two women
have refused, to recognize Mr. Wells,
declaring that he was a stranger and
, an impostor, and they even refused
i to accept food from him. Deputy sher
iffs had to break open a door and over
power the women, the elder of whom
tried to fire a pistol. Mrs. Wells and
her daughter are well know n residents
of the city, and have lived for years in
Vineville.
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PROPERTY OWNERS OF
MACON’S FASHIONABLE
HINES TERRACE IN ROW
MACON. GA., Sept. 4. —Over a mat
ter of six inches the residents of Hines
terrace are divided and arrayed against
each other. Thirty property owners on
the east side want curbing laid at a
certain height. Thirty property owners
on the west side want the cu rbing, but
say It must be six inches lower than
the east aiders want.
Two petitions have been filed with
city council, and no matter what action
that body takes the affair is going to
the courts for settlement. The west
side residents and the east side resi
dents have each organized and named
committees and employed attorneys.
Hines terrace is one of the most fash
ionable thoroughfares of Macon.
PAPERHANGERS STRIKE
IN MACON FOR RAISE
MACON. GA., Sept. 4,—The paper
hanger of Macon are on a strike. They
are only twelve in number, but they
control the [iaper trade of the city, and
until I he differences between them and
, their employers are adjusted there will
he very little wall paper pasted u [> in
Macon. The paper hangers want a
higln r wage scale and their employ
ers refuse, to grant it. Every paper
I lutngef in Hie eity belongs Io the union.
laud the union has called the strike.
: Keep Alert Guard at Night, as
Scout Master Learns to
His Pain.
A lot of city youngsters are back
in town today with a knowledge of
how to cook and "keep house" that
may solve the cost of living problem
in many Atlanta households.
They are members of Boy Scout
troop N<x 2, who camped out at Lake
wood for three days, preparing their
own food, making their own beds and
doing all the "fixing up" and at the
same time keeping strict military dis
cipline under Scout Master Frank P.
Margolin.
They demonstrated their alertness
one dark night in very striking man
ner. Lou Joel was on guard and the
scout master decided to see If he was
keeping his eyes open. He crawled up
on him through the woods and was sud
denly ordered to halt. He crawled on.
The order to halt came twice more and
then the scout master felt the thud of
a Roy Scout club across his head and
. he has the bump today.
Mr Margolin said today that Ijike-
I wood was hardly far enough from the
[ • i.v for the most effective results, and
that next year a spot further from the
city would be chosen for a three weeks’
stay. The troop will hike to Marietta
Thanksgiving day, having learned how
to walk on tramps taken from Lake
wood.
CANOE PADDLED BY PAIR
ACROSS ROUGH CHANNEL
DOVER, ENGLAND, Sept. 4—A
leeord tor hazardous canoeing was
made today when two well known Do
ver oarsmen, Burgeat and Walter, pad
died a canoe across the English chan
nel to the French coast. The. passage
was very rough and the high wind
threatened every minute to swamp the
frail craft. A high wind prevailed.
When a mile off the French coast a
wave struck the canoe, overturning it.
i Fortunately, a fishing boat was near by
and picked up the canoeists.
ITALIANS SNEAK UP ON
AND SEIZE TURKISH SHIP
CONSTANTINOPLE. Sept. 4.--An
Italian cruiser entered the harbor of
Makri, Asia Minor, today and seized
a Turkish ship lying at anchor there.
Because of the excellence of the har
bor at Makri, the Italians are keeping
it constantly under guard. Makri lies
I ui the Vilayet of Smyrna upon a gulf
I of the same name.
Zckfi Carnes, tbo cook
Convicts in Alabama
Prison Organize to
Reform Themselves
Adopt ‘ Covenant and Agree
ment" to Obey Penitentiary
Rules and Elevate Associates.
MONTGOMERY. ALA., Rept. 4 —De
claring that they wish to reform and
redeem themselves from the "low state
of degradation" to which they have
fallen, convicts at the state prison at
Wetumpka have organized themselves
into "The Alabama State Prison Re
form League." Rules have been drawn
up and officers elected. ,
A copy of the "covenant and agree
ment” has been received from the
league by President James G. Oakley,
of the state convict board.
The rules adopted by the organiza
tion are:
1. To obey cheerfully the rules and
regulations of state officials under
whose care and charge we have been
placed.
2. To never abuse the confidence and
trust placed in us by any of the prison
authorities.
3. To start a reformation of our
present and future lives
4. To use our uttermost efforts by
words and examples to influence our
fellow- prisoners to a higher order of
man in every respect.
5. To honor and discharge the du
ties of religious nature Imposed uopn
□ s by the president of this order.
6. To attend al! meetings religiously
when in our power to do so.
7. To cultivate and cherish a love
for all mankind, especially those of our
order.
The following W'ere selected as offi
cers of the league:
President, Simon P Bryant, sent up
from Geneva county; vice president.
William Hereford, sent up from Hunts,
cllle; chaplain, John Standford, sent
up from Mobile; secretary, T. L. Palm
er, sent up from Anniston, and assist
ant secretary, Henry M. Dell, also from
Anniston.
COUNTY SEAT FIGHT IN
MURRAY GROWS WARM
DALTON. GA.. Sept. 4.—The three
cornered fight over what town shall be
the county seat of Murray grows
warmer daily, Eton, Chatsworth and
Spring Place being the contestants.
The Eton people, who have set the
pace by offering a free site for the pub
lic buildings and *IO,OOO in cash, met
an obstacle when they applied to the
county paper for advertising space. It
was refused them. Then they came to
this city and placed their advertising
In The Citizen, paying for 1,500 sub
scriptions In .Murray county. The pa
per will be sent Into practically evwry
home in the county for this month.
IXTR'.
2 CENTS EVERYWHERE P^^ E °
U.MIS
CUT HEM
IIHiLFIII
VEHMDNT
Progressives and Democrats
Make Republicans Show 43
Per Cent Loss.
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DEMOCRACY REGISTERS*
INCREASE OF 27 PER CENT
Taft Leaders in Consternation
Over Poor Showing in the
“Barometer” State. /
WHITE RTVTCTt JTTNr'TTOW. VT„
Sept. 4.—Vermont’* failure to elect n,
governor In a atate election fvr th*
first time tn a preeldenttal year, end
'the resultant throwing of the election
Into the legislature, which will be
atrongty Republican, today threw the
Taft leaders throughout the stat* into
consternation as the latent, returns show
a loss of 43 per cent tn the party vote
since the G. O. P. elected Prouty In
1908.
The Democrats, on the other hand,
were Jubilant over their gain of 37 per
cent over the party vote for governor
In the last presidential year. The Demo
crats made the beat showing In 25
years. Their candidate. Howe, will run
only some 6.000 votes behind Fletcher,
Republican, when ah the returns are tn.
Fleteher'a failure to oecure a majority,
although credited with a plurality, au
gurs a big Wilson vote In November,
he Democrats claimed today.
Progressives Claim
Moral Victory.
The Progressives hold that their can
didate for governor achieved a "moral
victory."
The latest returns show: Fletcher,
Republican. 26.200; Howe. Democrat,
20,100; Metzger. Progressive, 15,708.
Fletcher's plurality, 6.100.
Representatives chosen, according tn
the latest returns, are 176 Republicans,
46 Democrats and 24 Progressives.
The senate will show 26 Republicans
and four fusions of Democrats and Pm.
gressfves.
Returns from the cttles show:
City. Fletcher. Howe. Metzger.
Barre 307 426 449
Burlington ... 1,058 1,360 476
Montpelier ... 302 571 132
Rutland 686 873 596
St. Albans ... 294 417 162
Vergennes ... 166 120 33
Break LaFollette’s
Power in Wisconsin
MILWAUKEE, ms., Sept. 4.—Judge
John C. Karel, former Wisconsin foot
ball star, is today Democratic nominee
for the governorship of Wisconsin.
Anti-Da FoUorie Republicans aided in
his nomination, defeating Adolph J.
Schmitz. Republicans were so active
on both sides of the Democratic quar
rel that it is doubtful whether there
will be a Republican ticket in the field
this fall. The state law requires that
a party at a primary must poll at least
ten per cent of its vote at the proceed
ing election to hold its organ laa Won-
Returns today indicate that the Repub
licans may have failed to do this.
Less than fifty per cent of the total
vote was polled throughout the state.
The fight centered on La Follette, the
antis flocking to the Democrats in or
der to break the hold of his faction in
state affaiis.
Moose Sweep
California
SAN FRANCISCO, Sept 4.—Returns
today from all parts of the state Indi
cate that the Roosevelt Progressives were
successful in yesterday’s primary elec
tion The Roosevelt men, as a result of
the balloting, will control the state con
vention—to be made up of legislative
nominees that will name the Republican
presidential electors.
This means that Republican electors
pledged to support Theodore Roosevelt for
president and Hiram Johnson for vice
president will go on the official ballot
The Taft managers will be forced to get
their electors on the ballot by petition.
The Taft nominees for congress seem
to have been successful in at least four
of the eleven districts-—possibly five
This was the struggle on which most
of the interest centered, though the Taft
m“n were never sanguine, even of win
ning in San Francisco. Ln this city th«