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the weather Local rains tonight or Sunday. Temperatures: 8 a. m., 74 degrees: 10 a m.. 77 degrees; 12 noon, 80 de grees; 2 p. m„ 82 degrees. \ ()L. XL NO. 36. SMBKEBOJHO ITimEO; ‘ILOGKING REEOHM’ Councilman Smith and Others Declare the Commission Has Exceeded Its Authority. DENOUNCE ATTEMPT T€ CRIPPLE REGULATIONS Investigation of Effort to Make Mild Rules Less “Stringent” Will Be Demanded. Declaring that the city smoke com mission had exceeded its authority in amending the smoke ordinance, Coun cilman Charles W. Smith, father of the n) . isuir. said today that he would vig oppose the changes made. He declared he would immediately begin a personal investigation into the action nf the commission. "We adopted one of the mildest or dinances in the United States,” contin ued Mr. Smith. "It is far more liberal than the laws of any of the larger cities. Al! of its effectiveness is about to be destroyed by the action of the smoke commission. ■Smoke must go In Atlanta. We are face to face with the issue. We must not we!<‘h."* Commission Exceeded Its Authority, Say All. \ erman James R. Nutting said that th* < omni’-sion was wrong in trying to frame the smotT' regulations for At rq. He said if the present ordinance unsatisfactory it was the duty of the ( omtnission to recommend changes to council and not try to arbitrarily change the law. W D. Ellis, Jr., assistant city attor ney. said today that the commission *is obviously beyond its authority in attempting to change council’s ordi nance He said the duty of all boards and commissions was’confined to rec ommendations to council and to an ad ministration of the law rather than the flaming of legislation. R. M. Harwell, chairman of the smoke commission, insisted at the meeting yesterday that the commission had no right to change the smoke or dinance. But the others present were all against him. By adopting the report of the rules committee, the commission changed practically the whole effect of the smoke ordinance. The changes are nominally rules for Inspector McMi chael to work by. Elsas Warns Them To Be Conservative. "ne rules holds that tIP» omitting of black smoke from stacks between the hours of 5:30 and 7 o'clock in the morn ing. the firing-up time, shall not be an offense, unless it is emitted for more than ;,u minutes of the hour. lite ordinance now' provides that b a k smoke shall not he emitted from m . stack for more than twelve min -1,1 the hour. The limit in most cities is, less than five minutes. lite new rules of the commission are 1 at during other hours of the day the |'| -hall be twelve minutes for stacks ' 1 ''-s than three feet in diameter. '"trt cn minutes for stacks of 'less an seven feet in diameter and six teen minutes for stacks of more than s, 'en feet in diameter. 'immissloner Oscar Elsas, a promi ,! ‘i i manufacturer, said that unless the ls mnission proceeded in a conserva ntanner it might arouse the anl " ’ty of the manufacturers and kill ■e movement to abate the smoke nui sance. 1 oinmissioner Schoen said that it not intended that th- ordinance °uld impose any hardship on the manufacturers. He advocated giving b f manufacturers six months notice stop th, excess of smoke. The oth s voting for the amendments were 1 ’’"miissionera Corley and Essig. May- Minn and Commissioner Renfroe v 1 r< absent. Could Stop It In 30 Days, Says Expert. 'nspector Flagg. of the I nited States Uoirnment, who came to Atlanta Io erm the Chamber of Commerce of mike conditions here, said that the ke niusance in Atlanta could b< ’ "dnated in 30 days. He said the I' nicipal method of stopping the smok< by a proper construction of fur ' and boilers. It would take set ■ *months to adjust some plants "mt a serious liarship, he explained. '"i the I'ei'ornmendatiun of Inspector Michael, the commission adopted a -oiution iei'otninemling to council a -illation of all boilers in the city ami 1 ' er<atjon of boiler Inspector. The Atlanta Georgian Read For Profit—GEORGIAN WANT ADS~Use For Results. • e : jane Addams to : Stump Country : For Bull Moose • • NEVA YORK, Sept. 14. Miss * • Jane Addams, of Hull House. Chi- • • cago. will take the stump for the • • Bull Mo< se party, it was an- • • nounced today, beginning Septem- • • her 25, and will begin her work • • with a big mass meeting in New • • York. • • "Much of Miss Addams" speak- • • ing will be done in the middle • • TV est and West, where an active * • suffrage campaign is on.” said • • Miss Frances Keller at the na- • • tional headquarters. Miss Keller • • will direct the tour of Miss Ad- • • dams, which, from tile number of • • speeches to be made and the • • jumps, wil] be almost as strenu- * • ous as those of Colonel Roose- • • velt. 9 STORM SWEEPS SEA OVER BULKHEADS OF HARBOR AT MOBILE MOBILE, ALA., Sept. 14. -This city is threatened w ith a flood as the result i of a heavy storm w hich is sweeping the sea over the harbor bulkheads. The wind attained a velocity of 75 miles an hour. Rain has been falling in torrents for hours. Early today a number of cellars were flooded and merchants be gan moving their slock to high places. The storm has extended along the coast as far east as Elorida. Ship ping along the eastern rim of the Gulf of Mexico was driven into harbors, but fears are felt for vessels which were overtaken too far away to make port. At Pensacola, Fla., the wind attained a velocity of 76 miles an hour. One steamer and one bark were grounded and barges and timber driven ashore. Considerable damage was also caused to small craft and little damage to buildings. ATLANTA DESERTER,IN MACON. SURRENDERS BECAUSE HE’S HUNGRY MACON. GA.. Sept. 14—A ragged, emaciated young man walked up to a Macon policeman this afternoon, de clared he was I. C. Farmington. a de serter f> dm the United States army at Fort McPherson. Atlanta, and asked to be locked up. He said he had lived in the woods ever since his desertion last week, and that he was well-nigh starved. The officials in Atlanta have been notified. When Farmington was placed in the barracks he begged for some thing to eat and said that hunger alone impelled him to surrender. PLAYMATES' FIRST AID SAVES BOY FROM BLEEDING TO DEATH Prompt action by his playmates in binding his arm with handkerchiefs probably saved Welborn Cody, thirteen years of age. of 254 Spring street, from bleeding to death today when he fell on a broken bottle and cut an artery in his right arm while playing football In a vacant lot in West Peachtree street. Young Cody is a son of Captain W. B. Cody, of firn company No. 4. The handkerchief bandage stayed the How of blood, which had gushed’ from the boy's arm in a stream, until he could he rushed to Grady hospital in an ambulance. It is announced at the hos pital that his condition is not serious. TAFT TO SPEND HIS 55TH BIRTHDAY AT AUNT DELIA'S HOME BEVERLY MASS.. Sept 14.—Presi dent Taft had as his opponent on the Myopia links today Secretary of the Navy George Von L. Meyer, who re sides at Hamilton. After a round of the course the president began making arrangements for making the trip to Milbury. w here he w ill spend the even ing and tomorrow, his fifty-fifth birth day as guest of "Aunt" Delia Torrey. Tlitre will be a family gathering at Milbury. Mrs Taft. Miss Helen. Rob ert A. Taft and Major Thomas Rhoades will go over with the president. SANITATION PLANKS FEATURE PLATFORM OF DR. GEO. BROWN Di. George Brown, candidate for mayor, issued his platform today. Sanitation measures constitute its principal planks,. Dr. Brown wants a municipal bureau to solve the servant problem and eradicate the danger of disease from filth in the homes of ne gro servants and urges the erection of two public bath houses. The candidate also coitu s out against tlte suggested raise in the city tax rate and favors marked increases in pay for city employees. ALLEN AND EDWARDS NOW CAUGHT IN DES MOINES. IA. Dl’j< MOINES. IOWA, Sept. 14 Two men, sill'd to be Sidna Allen and Wes ley Edwards, <>f the Allen gang noto rious in the Carroll county Virginia. ! < ourt homo tragedy. w eu- arrest’ d heli I todu! Date, lives from Roanoke, Va., | made tin captlift' ATLANTA. GA.. SATURDAY. SEPTEMBER 14. 1912. NEGRO LODGE NEARRIOT; POLICE ENO SESSIONS Weapons Drawn at Colored Odd Fellows Meet in an All- Night Election Row. FORCED TO ADJOURN WITHOUT NAMING CHIEF Fight Is Precipitated by an Attack on the Character of Atlanta Candidate. After a week of peaceful and orderly, meetings, the national convention of i negro Odd Fellows, in session at the Auditorium, was adjourned by orders . of the police at an early hour today’ as i the climax of an all-night session at ' which a struggle for the chair was i marked by drawn weapons. The dis- , order arose over the election of officers, and when the police interfered the con. ; vention was adjourned* for 60 days without an election having been 1 reached. The factional dispute threat ens to bring on a split in the organi zation which may have serious effect upon its future. Yesterday was the last day of the convention, and the delegates contin ued their work far into the night. It was late in the day when the election of a grand master, head of the was reached, and the delegates bal loted and argued until far after mid night. There had been circulated an attack on the character of Benjamin J. Davis, an Atlanta editor, who was a candidate for grand master, and the delegates divided into his supporters and those of E. H. Morris, of Chicago, present of the order and candi date fcr re-election. Morris was presiding, but shortly aft er midnight left the chair and took the floor in his own behalf, turning over the gavel to Henry Lincoln Johnson, registrar of deeds at Washington, and a prominent negro politician. Johnson is deputy grand master of the order and next in line to Morris. Police Forced To Intervene. It was close to 4 o'clock, and the bat tle had been waging for hours, when Morris, finding his contentions over ridden by Johnson, in the chair, at tempted to resume the gavel and pre side over the convention. Johnson re fused to yield his place and the whole convention was thrown into disorder. The yelling and hissing caused such a scene that Policemen King and Smith, detailed to duty at the Auditorium, ran to the rostrum, ordered Johnson to yield the chair to Morris and forced the latter to declare the convention ad journed. One knife was drawn by a delegate, said to be an assistant sec retary from North Carolina, hut the policemen took this away from him and also took the heavy gavel from John son. No arrests were made. The ad journment was taken for 60 days, In which time a campaign for votes will be waged by the rival candidates and another convention called in the At lanta Auditorium, provided the negroes can get that building again. Morris at first attempted to have the convention adjourned sine die. it is re ported, which would have left him at the head of the order, but Johnson, who was presiding at the time, put over a motion for a 60-da.y adjournment in stead. Johnson declared today that Morris, while on the floor, endeavored to have I the votes east in away most favorable to him. and delegates from Georgia and Mississippi led a vigorous protest against this. RICHMOND BOOSTERS NOT TO PASS AROUND JUG IN “DRY”STATES RICHMOND, VA.. Sept. 14.—N0 liq-| uor will be distributed by the Richmond I boosters when they make a tour of the Carolinas next week in a special car. I.ast year the boosters left a trail of wet goods along the route when they invaded these two states, and they were | planning to repeat the trick w hen word reached here that the cold shoulder would be passed out to them In large packages In certain parts of North Car olina, and perhaps in South Carolina, too, if they attempted to put addition al temptation in the way of folks along the route. It Is *st ima I• d that the Richmond mail order busnii tn wet goods, from North Carolina alone brings more than iu ludlivn a seat into circulation here. Hillman, Refreshing ‘Africa’ With ‘Dew,’ Flees Sleuths MOONSHINER’S OUTFIT SEIZED S' \ F ' Moon- \ ; ’ .. .... ‘ shine \ j Outfit, \ > ncluding \ a deadly \ Looking \ jy *<? 1 ' the De- \ f J " Tabi " -W t tec fives \ ‘ St I WAo \ 1 Made the | fj Seizure. ' ■ \ 188 I 1 gif Im V .tmTW* 1 - 1 ' J 1 A k’S''.:', •- ‘ ♦ •■•• Is V ’ A L Hw 11 a us- 1 jm “a IHHKiBir - Sj™’ J~ i •* y <-?? —rrn--^ r L ? W ®. W Oust\ \\ * S \ / TROLLEY GO. TILS OPPMEEST. So Says General Anderson, Replying to Complaints of Delay in Improvement. That the Georgia Railway and Power Company is delaying the completion of the work on Peachtree street at the Baker and West Peachtree streets junction was the assertion made today by General Clifford 1.. Anderson at a scheduled meeting of the county com mission committee on public works. General Anderson was the only member present. v Complaints over the delay in finishing the repaving of the street were made to him and the official put the re sponsibility of the loss of time on the street car company. "The county forces completed the re grading pact of the work several weeks ago.” said General Anderson. "All was ready for repaving the street, except for the lowering of the street ear tracks. The company is attending to that now, and our next question to consider i.s what the sire, t shall be paved with. Unless the city makes some preparation for paving material, the county forces will have to lay some temporary substance there. CANAL TO BE OPENED OFFICIALLY JAN. 1. 1915 WASHINGTON. Sept 14 A repo t from the Panama canal commission sat s that while tile official dat< for the opening of the canal has been set for .Januarv 1. 191.', tin- present Indication are that the canal will be practically completed in the fall of 19111 and It i the Inteiitmti of the United Stu - to allow vessels to pa-s through tin , anal ait boon as it is completed. Mountaineer. Fearing Arrest. Fails to Call at Police Station for Quaint Rig. An old rickety, covered wagon— somewhat resembling the prairie schooner and a scrawny, long-tailed, long-maned horse, both typical of the north Georgia mountains, are held in the stable yard of the police station awaiting their owner to call and claim them. But the chances are that they'll wait a long time. The owner -an unidentified moun taineer hailing from somewhere in the illicit still wilds of north Georgia no doubt wants the horse and wagon more than do the police, and is anxious, very anxious, to get It again. Rut. at the same time, he is figuring that the po lice want him even more than he wants his horse and wagon, and hence the conclusion that it's an easy 100 to 1 shot he’ll never call. He is faced by two alternatives, neither of which is calculated to tickle him. He is privileged to call and get his horse and wagon, but if he does, he will be arrested for selling moon shine liquor to thirsty denizens of De ratin' street, and will face a term In lhe chaingang. If he doesn't claim his >w n, the horse and wagon will be sold by Police Chief Beavers at public out ■ry at the regular "ole boss sale." Either way, the mountaineer loses. It’s simply up to him to pick the easiest place to fall. Fleas at Sight of Sleuths. Weighing the problem carefully, he’ll no doubt decide that liberty, the fresh, •lisp mountain air and his customary billy life amid the rugged wilds of his little mountain cabin are worth more to him than his faithful old steed and i’’iually faithful old wagon and a term at hard labor in stripes. The wagon was confiscated by De tectives George Bullard and John Black in Rhodes wagon yard in De ■ aiur street. That tiie owner is missing instead of being eaged behind prison bars Is dui to the fact that he lied at -■igbt of the ottl. .1 'll. slipped out ”f the wagon vard in the> entile.l Willi ll -O 111 ’I « eV' II Ull I tig thi ’llli’ .r- Continued on Page Two. MOIIE FOB FREE TEXT BOOKS SEEN I Associated Charities Equips 170 Tots for School- City Confronted by Problem. The unusually large number of re quests for books and clothing for school children made at the Associated Chari ties this week may result in an agita tion for free text-books to be furnished by the city. More than 170 children we e fur nished with books by the charities of fice and a like number was given , clothes. This is by far the largest number of white children who have been aided in this amnner in Atlanta, and is an indication to social workers that the city authorities will eventually have to cope with the problem officialy. tin this score Joseph Logan, secre taty of the Associated Charities, has this to say: "While the increase in children de pendent upon the public for education has been rapid, it has only kept pace with the growth of the city. Atlanta will see more of it in the future. "Whether it will be practical for the city to attempt to furnish school books free to all pupils I can not say. but I believe that th.- cit\ should undertake to equip those pupils whose parents aie unable to pi ovide even suitable clothes for their children to wear to school " NEGRO PICKPOCKET HELD FOR ROBBING LODGE MEN ( John (’ox. ;i n«'t!ro, IF. inu at 127 B'adh‘\ HiHt'i. todax was bound over ! to th< stat* < <»urts b\ A* ting Recorder <ir» » j r in bond of on the <*hnit;e of , iohblllg tA'" "f Hu (I' legaU s to th«* ne ) gro (hid F’elluws convention <’o\ |m I the second I»h k|»o< het caught o|HUdllng f -i inong the negro \ islit.r H« was hientith-d us havinu robbed , one negto on a trolley cat and anotln • •'< I’■'in • lh l.« on park )vb( flit) ditei - noun. IDITIOH 2 CENTS EVERYWHERE P^ R 1 C ■'s GLORY HSHIDE OUTSHINES RECORD All Japan to Pay Tribute to the Aged General, War Hero, and His Wife. YOUNG EMPEROR WEEPS FOR OLD SOLDIER FRIEND Other Tragedies Are Expected Among the Commander’s Intimate Friends. TOKIO. Sept. 14.—Full national hon. ors will be paid to the late General Nogi and his wife, who committed sui cide last night because of grief over the death of Emperor Mutsuhito. Plans for the funeral were held In abeyance today while the final rites were being performed over the bodv of the late mikado, but it is understood that the funeral of Count Nogi and Hie loyal wife who committed hara-kiri with him will be a double ceremony, in which the countess will receive prac tically the same honors as her hus band. This is a most unusual proceed ing In Japan, but both the genera! and his wife have endeared themselves to the great Japanese masses by obeying the precepts of Samuri, and undoubt edly will be honored together In death. The bodies of the two/suicides lay in lhe magnificent family home at Akasa ka. About the house was stationed a detachment of the new emperor’s fa vorite regiment, which he had sent ns a Signal mark of respect as soon as he learned of the tragedy. Emperor Yoshlhlto wept upon learn- Ing of the double death, for he was a warm admirer of the old soldier. Fear Other / Suicides Will Follow. So widespread was the esteem in which General Nogi was held hv the populace and the army that it was feared a number of other suicides would result from his act. By his own hand the warrior wiped out the most commanding military ge nius in the empire, and in any even tuality his loss would be felt keenly bv his country. Should the thread of grief extend still further In official ranks In the army and navy, Japan would seriously feel the-result. This vieyv of the situation was pre sented SO Strongly today that many men of prominence and influence in public life openly expressed the belief that the time had come for Japan to break away from the tradition which glorifies sut cide. There was a prevalent opinion that an Imperial edict against-suicide as ar "honorable death" will result from the double tragedy. When it was recalled that the late Emperor Mutsuhlto was opposed to hara-kiri and the present mikado. Yoshlhlto, has voiced his in tention of following in his father's footsteps, it’was regarded as certain that an imperial ban would be placed upon, suicide and every attempt be made to obliterate the tradition which encouraged it. The edict, however, will not be issued for several months. Russian War Soldiers Stricken With Grief. General Nogi was so generally be loved that his death and that of his wife have intensified the grief which was felt for the late emperor. The most pathetic exhibition was given by soldi’ is who had fought under Nogi in the war with Russia. It was reported today that several soldiers who were with Nogi in the campaign around Port Arthur had committed suicide in honor of the memory of their chief. Despite knowledge of the Japanese customs, the sudden and unexpected death of Nogi was a distinct shock to the representatives of European and American governments. Representa tives of countries where suicide is re garded with horror were amazed at the manner in which news of the Nogis' self-wrought death was received. As a result of the suicide, a change had to be made in the plans qf some of the foreign representatives. General Nogi was to have accouipanied Prince Athuor of Connaught, especial envoy of Great Britain, to Kamakura today. Note to Emperor Wish Long Reign. The note left by Nogi for Emperor Yoshlhlto was read by the mikado to day. Although written on the eve of death, the tone of the letter was calm, .md then, was nothing of fear Indicated In any way. Nogi expressed hope that Yoshlhlto would have a long prosper ous reign, that his country would enjoy ’peace and that there would be no un wonted mourning either for himself or his wife, I I'iiUand’i C, Knox, special envoy ■