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VOL. XL NO. 40.
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Former City Chamberlain Hyde,
Friend of Gaynor, Is Now
Wanted as Witness.
captain TELLS OF COST
OF OBTAINING PROMOTION
Minor Jobs Had Price, Too.
Captaincy Worth Only $lO,-
000 Now, He Says.
NEW YORK. Sept. 19.—T0 pave the
way at today’s session of the aiderman -
ic graft investigating committee for
calling Charles H. Hyde, formerly city
chamberlain and close friend of Mayor
Gaynor, as a witness was the pro
gram outlined this morning by Emory
r Buckner, counsel for the committee.
‘M, Buckner stated that Hyde s name
had been on the list of possible wit
nesses since the campaign was com
mensal, but it was not until the con
trr.v sy involving Under Sheriff A. J.
Johnson. Attorney George C. Norton,
the alleged -promotion broker” in the
poliv department, and Winfield R.
q h „ehan Commissioner Waldo’s private
L.i.to,' that Hyde’s testimony be
canv important.
The committee's ’ counsel wants to
know what information, if any. Hyde
has of the grafting in the police de
partment and the ’bureau of promo
tion” Where police officials could buv
am number of stripes that their pock
etbooks could stand.
h was believed that neither Norton
rmr Sheehan would be called. Both
men are original} from Buffalo and
ver intimate friends before coming to
this city.
Johnson was under orders to repor
to the committee today to continue his
story begun yesterday upon the wit
ness stand, when he told, how, being
led by "superheated curiosity.” he hired
private.detectives, who trailed Norton
to the apartment of Sheehan. Mr.
Buckner said he wanted further light
as to why Johnson hired detectives, and
with whom he conversed before taking
the step.
Want To Know
About Buying Captaincy.
It was Johnson, according to Police
Captain John Reith, who made the first
advances with an offer to have that of
ficial. then a lieutenant, promoted to a
captaincy if he would “come across
with SIO,OOO.
Whether or not Hyde was concerned
with Johnson in Norton’s movements is
another question upon which Buckner
wants elucidation.
This same question is ito be put to
Former Sheriff Nicholas- Hayes, who
was the first person to call Johnson s
attention to the alleged headquarters
for the collection of police graft in the
building at 115 Broadway, according to
Johnson’s testimony. Norton's office is
in the building at 115 Broadway.
Thomas Hassett, confidential secre
tary to State Engineer Bensel, who was
mentioned in Reith’s affidavit as having
"been seen” in connection with the $lO.-
000 promotion, came here from Albany
demanding that he be heard in self
explanation.
Commissioner Waldo will be called
again as soon as all the either wit
n< -i are heard in connection with the
Reith affidavit.
It was originally said that the amount
in the R'dth affidavit was $15,000, but
1' 1 is now been reduced to SIO,OOO.
Reith, who has been on the force
for many years, compiled a table of
Prii . for entrance and promotion in
department. He said It cost him
to g p t into the harbor squad and
?•>"" fur promotion to roundsman. A
'' ilncy was worth $10,000,-and other
were valued in proportion
CHARGE AGAINST MACON
POLICE CHIEF DROPPED
'!A< ON. GA.. Sept. 19. —The Macon
ants who preferred charges
-t Chief of Police Chapman, say
refused to assist them in apple
‘ ng two swindlers, announce that
will not push the charges. A.
acting a- spokesman, says he
• as oi'iab s believe the admlllls
" will "whitewash” any investl
-11 chh-f Chapman says hi wel
an Investigation
GUY WHO PUT THE KEY IN
WHISKEY GETS 30 DAYS
11 'ltl’Nt H.I.E pa Hefil 111 Mikl
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The Atlanta Georgian
Read For. Profit—GEORGIAN WANT ADS—Use For Results.
Jordan Is Heartiest
Eater Ever Held in
Boston Death House
i ——
Wife Slayer Who Goes to Chair
Tuesday Wants Cantaloupe
Every Morning.
BOSTON, Sept. 19.—Only a few feet
away from the electric chait- in which
next Tuesday the current will snuff
out his life, Chester S. Jordan awoke
this morning and gave the death watch
I a cordial "good-morning" and called for
his breakfast.
I Jordan was restless on his first night
|in the death cell. This was his second
i day. His appetite is ravenous. Today
he started in with cantaloupe. He told
the prison officials that he wanted it
every morning for breakfast. Jordan is
also very fond of rare steaks and
French fried potatoes, and these fol
lowed for his breakfast with rolls and
coffee.
The Somerville wife slayer is de
clared to be the heartiest eater ever
confined in the death house at Charles
town.
TROOPERS” CHARGE
BUDAPEST RIOTERS;
24 ARE NEAR DEATH
BUDAPEST, Sept. 19.—Twenty-four
persons will probably die as a result of
street rioting by members of the anti
government political party last night
and early today.
I The parliament building is under
heavy military guard and soldiers pa-
I trol the streets. The city is virtually
under martial law.
Although 80 men and women were
arrested for participation in the fight
ing. which followed a Socialist mass
meeting last night, all but 37 were
I liberated today with a reprimand and
warning.
A majority of the seriously crippled
were trampled by cavalry’ horses. The
mob packed the streets leading to par
liament hall so tightly that they could
not move. The troopers charged sev
eral times upon the rioters before the
edge of the crowd gave way and the
mass of people dissolved Into side
streets.
Many of the central streets around
the boulevards were so littered with
i debris today that traffic hid to be di
' verted until troops could clean them up.
AGED ALDERMEN OF
■ MACON WHO CAME
TO BLOWS ‘MAKE UP’
MACON. GA., Sept. 19.—Mayor
Moore and several aidermen today ef
fected a reconciliation between Alder
men W. W. Williams and T. O. Chest
ney. The former struck the latter ii>
the face at a committee meeting just
prior to the session of council.
Both men are over 60 years of a gr
and have been friends for more than 40
years. Aiderman Chestney laughed at
Aiderman Williams when the latter re
fused to sign a report, and Mr. Wil
liams, construing the laugh as deri
sive and taunting, struck his colleague
squarely in the face, and also sought to
hit him with a walking stick, saying:
"I’ve told you before not to laugh at me
like that.”
DEATHBY DYNAMITE
NEWEST THREAT FOR
GIRL VICE CRUSADER
CHICAGO. Sept. 19. —Detectives and
postal authorities today joined in a
search for the writer of anonymous
letters that threatened death by dyna
mite to Miss Virginia Brooks, leader
of the West Hammond anti-vice cru
sade, and to the mayor and a number
of the members of the city council.
The writer of the letter had only par
tially effaced a return address on the
envelope of the letter mailed Miss
Brooks. With this as a clew the de
tectives believe they can locate the
writer. The letter was written by some
other person than the writer of former
threatening letters to Miss Brooks.
FORT SCREVEN CHAPLAIN
TRANSFERRED TO PRISON
SAVANNAH, GA., Sept. 18.—Orders
have been received by the Rev. Father
Doran, chaplain at Fort Screven, to
proceed at once to Fort Leavenworth
Kans., where he will be assigned to the
Tenth United States infantry as chap
lain and will be in charge of the gen
eral prison at that post.
The of Father Doran will
be deeply felt at the post. He has done
much to improve their condition at
Fort Screven.
NINE SUFFER PTOMAINES
FROM DRINKING MILK
MACON, GA., Sept. 19.—Nine per
sons. including five children, ate re
covering from attacks of ptomaine
poison caused by drinking Impure milk.
The two children of N. D. Way, two of
J p Jones, the daughter of Fred El
li-. Mrs, I’ ,M M.i.-si nberg, Miss Rosa
Massenberg, the granddaughter of W.
p Fleming and Miss Lillian Coates all
I drank milk from tin mine cow, and
sevr nl of th-m were critical!) 11l until
I|. .las II Is believed that tin milk was
handled In an unclean vessel.
TAX COLLECTOR ROBBtD
GADHDEN, 11. A, Hept Pi While
lat P lidltu: a "lit alma al night pick
p<> ii<i» inh *l4 from Tan Collector
I X M C.dlaht 4 sllaip kl|lf>- or razor
a iia iul awav tin hip pot ket,
|.X nl' haX' been iiiadv,
ATLANTA, GA.. THURSDAY, SEPTEMBER 19. 1912.
NIEXI co mu
WE 10 Nl
FDRYJHKEE
DEATHS
Reparation To Be Demanded
for Lives of Two American
Citizens Found Slain.
TO BACK UP DEMAND BY
FORCE IF NECESSARY
Ambassador Wilson Ordered to
Make- Investigation and Re- 1
port to Washington.
WASHINGTON, Sept: 19—The Unit
ed States will demand reparation from
Mexico for the deaths of Joseph Meyer
and George Reterman, Americans,
found murdered near San Pedro Maren
and Cusohui ranches.
■»
As yet no. report has reached- the
state department showing that the
Americans -were killed by revolution
ists. Ambassador Henry Lane Wilson
nt Mexico City, was totlay instructed to
malje a iho ough investigation and to
report tp Washington whether they met
death while opposing rebels or whether
.they were murdered, for profit by rV
fians unaffiliatid with the rebel forces.
If the former,- the United States will
niake impiediate demand upon the Mex
ican government for. pecuniary recom
pense for the deaths of the Americans
and will back-up this demand by a
show of forces along’the' borOfcr and if
npcess ivy by jnjmedlate "withdrawal of
support with which Washington has
favored the Maderist tulmjnßt:atlon.
Proposal for Peace
Reaches Madero
~~ —,-v— ’ <-
MEXICO, CITY. Sept. 19. —Peace pro
posals made by. Colonel R. G. Robelo,
representative of. General Orozco, the
Mexican revolutionary leader, were re
ceived by- President Madero today.
They express' the Willingness of the
revolutionists of the north to proceed
in the delibe:atlons which there shall
be between representatives of the Ma
dero government, the federal army, the
revolutionary army of the north and
the revolutionary army of the south
and the various civil elements of the
republic. They pobably will be ig
nored.
The peace offi-er is accompanied by a
letter, fn which Colonel Robelo says:
"General Orozco ha? been told that
the government’ wishes to bring about
peace. The general wishes, to bring
about liberty. We are ready to meet
with thfe government, the army and the
civil elements of the republic in this
matter.
“We believe that a mixed delegation
formed of representatives of the gov
ernment. the federal army, the inde
pendent civil elements and of the revo
lutionary army nf the north and of the
south should be charged with the study
of the definite points qf an agreement.
"Upon the eommunication‘**of these
resolutions we make a supreme appeal
to your duty to the fatherland.”
HOME RULERS AND
ORANGEMEN RIOT IN
BELFAST ALL NIGHT
BELFAST, Sept. 19.—-After a night
of constant rioting, during which there
was much destruction of private prop
erty. troops finally’ dispersed the mobs
today by taking charge of the policing
of the city. About one hundred persons
were hurt.
The rioting was the fiercest which has
taken place since the first outbreak
three days ago.
The outbreak began with a fight be
tween Orangemen and a band of Home
Rulers. Unionists turned out in great
numbers. They marched through the
residential section of the town, smash
ing windows of Catholic homes and
breaking Into stores. From the resi
dential quarter the rioters marched into
the business district,’continuing their
violence.
COLUMBUS MERCHANTS
TO RETURN MACON’S CALL
MACON, GA.,*Sept. • 19. Columbus
will return Macon’s social call next
month. Lust week the .Macon trade
train visited Columbus was royal
ly received, and now the Columbus
merchant* hav* decided on a similar
trip to Macon. They w 111 come here on
a special train, several hundred strong,
during the st ile fair. J H. Hunks, of
lhe Georgia Alabama fair, has been In
I Macon arranging for the affair.
UNCLE TRUSTY!
Copyright. 1912, by International News Service.
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“ Well. Theodore, I see you are walking on roses! A little early in the game,
isn’t it ? I hope you won’t feel as if you were walking on carpet tacks before the
campaign is over! William’s gout is much better! He’s got his foot in a per
ambulator, and he’s out on the links again! I wonder what his next ailment will
be! He’s about due for hay fever now! The county fair season is approaching,
and I’ve got some tine bees that I’m going to exhibit.! 1 let them fill the hive
(■very day, and then 1 take all the honey out! Their sting is perfectly harmless!’’
KRAZf m KUERY
SOLO BL MANY
Atlanta Editor One of the First
to Answer Soda-Clerk-and-
Change Problem.
Atlantans are familiar with the gold
coinage of their country, to judge from
the flood of answers which piled in
within an hour after the Krazy Kat
Kwestion in yesterday's first edition of
The Georgian leached readers in the
street. There were many who puzzled
over the problem of the soda clerk and
said it "couldn’t be done.” but a lot of
them got the answer after a few mo
ments’ hard thinking.
The question was: How could the
soda jerker who had sold a live-cent
diink make change for a five-dollar
bill when he couldn’t make change for
a one? Why, he took the five, gave the;
customer a $2.50 gold piece, a two-dol
lar bill and 45 cents in silver.
Here are some of the first to answer
the problem correctly:
Editor of The Atlanta Journal.
Pete Kelley.
J. G. Ginn, Elberton. Ga.
D. W. Dobbins. 106 Park avenue.
I, D. W., 172 Formwait street.
Roy E. Miller. Third National bank
Paul Miller, 268 Peters street.
A. N. Kaplan.
R. 1. Zaehry. George Muse Company.
J. R. Thornton, 231 Oak street.
.M. S. Baker, 443 .Marietta street.
A S Boynton, Central club.
Catherine Flynn, 85 Ormond street.
L. E. Smith, 143 Clew street.
Francis P. McGinnis.
W. R Callaway.
RETURNING HUBBY’S KISS
WITH WHACK ISN’T CRUEL
NEW YoRK. Sept 19. According to
th>- opinion of Justice Martan, the act
of a wif who etui na her husbund's
kies li> wha'klriK him on the head wl'h
a briHiilietlek doi'w nut constitute "i lllvl
'and inhuman 11>-ntmint."
POLICE PERMIT PAIR
WHO ROBBED BANK
0F5272,000T0 ESCAPE
CHICAGO. Sept.'l9.—Patrolmen and
detectives of the city force today are
searching for two men alleged to be
members of a gang of five that robbed
the Bank of Montreal of $272,000. Thi
police activity began when Chief .Me-
Weeney was told that the two crooks
were in Chicago and that two Chicago
policemen had known it and could have
made an arrest. The two policemen
are now facing charges of incompe
tency and may be removiferf from the
force.
An informant told Captain Mahoney
that the men were in Chicago, He gave
details of the crime and the Identitv
and hiding place of the men. Captain
Mahoney could not go personally to
capture the men. It was inconvenient.
He assigned Lieutenant Burns. Burns
went alone instead of taking a wagon
load of patrolmen The robbers were
found, but were not arrested. Instead
Lieutenant Burns wins beaten and
kicked and the men vanished. The two
policemen who knew kept mum.
Later Chief McWeeney was told by
the same informant. He thinks the
robbers are still hiding in Chicago.
KNOX VISITS TOMB
OF JAPAN’S RULER;
TO LEAVESATURDAY
TOKIO, Sept 19.—After two days
speqt sight-seeing about the ancient
imperial Capitol at Kioto, where he
visited the tomb of Emperor Mutsuhito
In the Momoyama cemetery, Philander
C. Knox, special envoy from tin
United States, returned here todaj and
began to prepare for his departure Sat
urday.
Mr. Knox was much interested dur
ing his trip In the 'Abode of tht- Gods,”
a hill In the center of the Momoyama
cemetery upon which stands a grove rs
fir trees which have not been cut for
centuries Guides explained to him tin
significance of the traditionary hill and
the rite: regularly held there
Empetor Yoshlhlto today was invest
ed with the Insignia of the tinier of
the Garter by Prince Arthur of Con
naught, special env<>) of King iieuia<
The empress and niemln m of tln Im
perial family were present
COURT DEFIED 8Y
OIL WITNESSES
Standard Officials Refuse to
Answer Questions—Dissolu
tion Said To Be Farce.
NEW YORK, Sept. 19.—That the
"dissolution" of the Standard Oil Com
pany, was a farce and will be proved
such was the declaration made today
by Samuel I'ntermeyer, counsel for the
Waters-Pierce Oil Company defend
ant in a suit brought to force it to
recognize as directors three men elect
ed last February and rejected from the
board on the claim that they were rep
resentatives of the old Standard Oil
Company, who sought by such a meth
od to regain control of the company.
"We have subpenaed over thirty wit
nesses and before we have finished with
them we expect to show that the so
called dissolution of the Standard Oil
Company as ordered by the courts was
a dissolution in name only.” asserted
Mr. Untermeydr.
About tin witnesses had testified
when the hearirig was resumed today.
All of them arc, or were, former em
ployees of the Standard Oil or its sub
sidia lies.
In nearly every case they have shown
a detian< <» to the Instructions of Com
missioner Jacobs when told to answer
questions, the correct replies to which,
the attorney said, would go a long way
to prove that the dissolution was a
farce.
Change Only in Directors.
tine of the acts brought out at the
hearing so far is that when the order
for dissolution came the only real
change was the resignation of three or
four of the old directors from each
of the subsidiaries and the filling of
their plates with minor employees of
the company, recruit* tl from tin shops,
tlx sal* - * departments or the general
office. In one Instance, when the re
maining dliectors wen- in a quandary
us to the final election to the board, a
real estate man was invltod to ■'< mu
up'.tairs" at 26 llromlwai, iind i aim
down will) lib tide o( illltalol
IXTRA
2 CENTS EVERYWHERE P^ R N B C
GOV. WILSON
joim/s
ANANIAS
GLOB
Not a Particle of Truth in Op
ponent's Statements on the
Trusts, Says Colonel.
DENIES GARY AND PERKINS
MOOSE PROGRAM AUTHORS
“If Candidate Really Knew
Whereof He Spoke Words
Would Be Inexcusable.”
TRINIDAD, COLO., Sept. 19.—1 n a
sizzling speech hera today Colonel
Roosevelt hammered back at Governor
Woodrow Wilson for his attack on tilt
Progressive platform at Sioux Falls, in
which the governor charged that it
played into the hands of the steel and
harvester trusts. The ex-president
angrily asserted that the two trusts are
supporting Mr. Wilson and that the
Democratic and Republican platforms
rather than that of the Progressives
cater to the crooked corporations.
“Mr. Wilson should be above rpis
stating facts in order to bolster up his
arguments. Mr. Wilson has an entire
right to defend his own platform if he
feels bold enough to do so, and an en
tile right to assail the Progressive
platform, but he should confine himself
to telling the facts as they are,” said
Roosevelt.
"In his speech yesterday he stated
that the method now proposed by the.
Progressives to regulate the trusts was
suggested by Messrs. Gary and Perkins
before the committee of the house of
representatives to look into the steel
trust. And he suggested that it was
done to save the United States Steel
('otporation from the necessity of do
ing its business better than its com
petitors.
“Not a Particle of
Truth in Statement.’’
"Ni ither of these statements is in
accordance with the facts and five min
utes’ inquiry on Mr. Wilson's part
would have taught him that there was
not one particle of foundation for the
truth of what he was saying.
“Not once only, but again and again,
in messages to congress and in speech
after speech, when I was president. 1
advocated the methods advocated by
the Prog:esslves for handling the trust
question, which is practically to apply
the principle applied in the Interstate
commerce act.
"I wish to call attention at this time
to the fact that as far as I know the
overwhelming majority of the men who
controlled both the Steel Corporation
and the Harvester trust are supporting
either Mr. Wilson himself or Mr. Taft
They are certainly opposing, me.
"Indeed, as far as I know, the only
man connected with either organiza
tion who is supporting me Is Mr.
Pf kin- himself. Everywhere I went
in Minnesota and North Dakota I was
informed that the Harvester trust was
supporting Mr. Wilson, and the Steel
Corporation, so far as the marly unani
mous majority of its people are con
cerned. is supporting eithet Mr. Taft or
Mr. Wilson.
Taft and Wilson
Alike on Trusts.
“I haven't the slightest criticism to
make of either the Harvester trust or
the Steel
question that they are sincere in sup
porting Mr. Taft or Mr. Wilson, but I
also wish to point out that Mr. Wilson
and Mr. Taft occupy substantially the
same attitude toward the trusts and
this attitude is of such proved harm
lessness that I am not In the least sur
prised that any trust which objects to
honest and effective regulation should
support either or both of them indiffer
ently as against me.
"The only result that could possibly
follow from any action of the kind
heretofore advocated by Mr. Wilson as
regards either the Steel trust corpora
tion or the Harvester trust would be to
put them just where the Standard Oil
trust and the tobacco trust have al
ready been put by following out the
very policy he indicates.
"Such being the ease, I do not won
der that all four trusts confine their
opposition to the Progressive party and
to me and are seemingly entirely will
ing to have either Mr. Wilson or Mr
Taft come Into power.”
“If Wilson Really Knew
He Would Be Inexcusable.”
Continuing. Mr. Roosevelt said:
".Mr Wilson further said that umle.
the Progressive plan the corporation*
would control the market for labor an l
stat< s that the only chance for lubot
Is In competition. If Mr Wilson wen
a man with .< petsvnal and wui'king