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VOL, XI. NO. 40.
HOKESMITH
SHOWSUP
FAKEPLEA
BY TRUST
Senator Shows That Harvester
Company of America Is Only
Blind for Combine.
REPORT MADE MERELY
. FOR CAMPAIGN EFFECT
Perkins Perfected Gigantic Mo
nopoly and Roosevelt Would
Not Interfere With It.
Tli; published story that the Inter
r .oual Harvester Company of Amer
! . .Mti cleared only $150,000 in the past
-,. . idently sent out as a campaign
rtci a prove that the trusts are on
i,ie \' , of starvation, was exposed as
an vc ion today by Senator Hoke
Sr t j. ho is in his Atlanta offices
i i:.ring to leave in a few days for the
nu.i'e West, where he will make a
vwibtr of speeches for Woodrow Wil-
~ Smith allows that the company
(i is merely a “dummy," and that
r, al profits, and plenty of them,
v re taken by the parent organization,
a International Harvester Company.
t d in New Jersey, the real
trt.
Mr. Smith said:
Th' •••tor., sent out from Chicago
t.,a th< International Harvester Com
pany of America has only made $150.-
<:i», i'lii'lii; the past year in a business
of 4-: >0,000,000 is really amusing when
iiie facts are understood.
Perkins Engineered
ccbcine for Morgan.
"T e International Harvester Cotn
!. ny of America is not the trust. The
sy.ek of the International Harvester
(‘oinpany of America is owned by the
: Th' trust is the International
.-ter Company, organized in Au-
■ t. 11:02, George W. Perkins engineer-
scheme as the representative
• I. Pierpont Morgan & Co.
ii International Harvester Com
ay absorbed during August, 1902, the
s " t of many companies engaged in
k’ng those implements used on the
hi. und during that month it became
holder of properties which did 80
• nt of the total commerce, in har
ing machinery. Its implements ex
l o not only to harvesting machin
ro i r, but to hoes, rakes, dairy
i emtrits and other things used on
’ farm.
"The new company gave J. Pierpont
M' Tin & Co. $5,000,000 for services
of. McCormick, son-in-law of John
T * kefeller, was one of the heavy
• i - Itholders.
"Tins trust was shown by a report
‘ by B. D, Townsend, special as
ii; to the attorney general, to have
• ■ ■ » d its monopoly until at the
' of his report it controlled 90 per
of the business of the United
Succeeded in
' Cre. ting Monopoly.
in ids report to the attorney general
-iiitni that the organizers managed
" tor tile purpose for which is was
•' —that is to say, to create a mo
nopoiy—and he closed his report by
e g that he found it maintained a
■ stent campaign to destroy compe
lnn not only in harvesting iinple
!,i ‘nt but other farming implements as
■■i. and that it is obvious its purpose
“ to mpnopolize trade in everything
the farmer buys.
Among the companies absorbed by
International Harvester Company,
trust, was a company known as the
•jkee Company. The Milwaukee
■many was a corporation with a cap
toek of $1,000,000. One of the Me
• 'nicks obtained an option on this
k and transferred it to the Inter
'■•uional Harvester Company. The Xn
yfnational Harvester Company had
n the name of the Milwaukee Com
' i hanged to the International Har
: Company of America.
I he International Harvester Com
f '-ny, being palpably a trust and de
'■ling to escape from the responsibili
"f interstate commerce and also
"ii liability shown in the various
s where it might do business and
"mount of its piofits and its vari
holdings in various states requir
"k such disclosure for taxation and
"'I purposes, made a contract with
International Harvester Company
America, the stock of which, as I
lot" stated, the International Har
, J "r Company owned, by which the
rnational Harvester Company of
1 erica takes al] the products be-
■ Ting to the International Harvester
mpany, the trust, and pays for them
"Uta prices with big profits to the
national Harvester Company, the
"■-t and then the International Har-
Continued on Page Two.
The Atlanta Georgian
Read For Profit—GEORGIAN WANT ADS—Use For Resets.
Date With Girl Broken
Because of Street Car
Mishap; Asks $5,000
Plaintiff Blames Trolley Company
for Failure to Keep Appoint
ment With Sweetheart
Grady Nunnally, of Woodward ave
nue. a plaintiff in superior court, thinks
that an appointment with a certain
i young woman, which he says he was
j unable to keep because of the Georgia
I Railway and Power Company, was
| worth $5,000. He has made the fraction
j company defendant in a damage sui'
i for that amount.- <
Nunnally told the court today that he
i got on a car at Woodward avenue and
, Hill street bast spring bound to keep
Jan appointment with a girl. He sat by
ian open window. While rounding a
i curve the car lurched and he was
■ thrown from the window, sustaining
| minor injuries. He was taken to the
Grady hosplt?.', but was discharged the
| next day.
JORDAN IS HEARTIEST
EATER EVER HELD IN
’ BOSTON DEATH HOUSE
BOSTON, Sept. 19. —Only a few feet
away from the electric chair in which
next Tuesday the current will snuff
out his life, Chester S. Jordan awoke
this morning and gave the death watch
a cordial “good-morning" and called for
his breakfast.
Jordan was restless on his first nlgHt
in the death cell. This was his second
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.
ARKANSAS GOVERNOR
IS HANGED IN EFFIGY;
OFFER $5,000 REWARD
LITTLE ROCK, ARK.. Sept. 19.
Business men on their way to their of
fices today discovered a straw effigy of
Governor Donaghey dangling from a
telegraph pole. On it were placards
bearing the words:
"Deceiver!” “Nigger Lover” and
"General Crook.”
It was an hour after it was discov
ered before the figure was cut down.
The governor laughed when told of the
episode.
"No dog will howl,” he said, 'until its
tail is stepped on."
The governor made many enemies in
his recent campaign. A reward of
$5,000 has been offered for the discov
ery of the persons who strung up the
effigy. The reward was offered by the
governor’s friends. _
RELATIVES OF WIFE
AIDED IN INTRIGUE.
DEFENSE OF SNEAD
FORT WORTH, TEXAS, Sept. 19.-
That relatives of Mis. John B. Snead,
whose husband shot and killed Captain
Al G. Boyce, Jr., last Saturday, were
helping her to carry on an intrigue with
the slain man will be one of the lines of
j defense when Snead is brought to trial,
I was a statement made here today by a
lawyer Interested in the case. It is said
that a letter from a Louisiana /own
I where Mrs. Snead has relatives, had
been found in Boyce’s possession. •
Snead will probably get a prelimi
nary hearing Monday. His attorneys
I have made no effort to have him re
leased on bail, preferring to wait until
■ the excitement dies down.
ELOPEMENT FOILED,
GIRL TRIES SUICIDE;
JAILED FOR LUNACY
MACON GA., Sept. 19.—When he"
mother frustrated her elopement with
| Marvin Brown, a traveling man from
!St Louis, pretty sixteen-ye»r-old Miss
i Nora E. Fuller this morning tried to
■drink the contents of a bottle of car
bolic acid.
In her haste she spilled the acid over
her face and hands and was burned
severely. Then her mother had her ar
rested on a writ of lunacy and the
young lady is now in jail.
FORT SCREVEN CHAPLAIN
transferred to prison
SAVANNAH, f’.A„ Sept. 19—Order’
'have been received by the Rev. Father
!Doran, chaplain at Fort Screven, to
[proceed at once to Fort Leavenworth,
I Kans., where he will be assigned to the
[ Tenth United States infantry as chap-
I lain and will be in charge of the gen
ie ral prison at that post.
I The departure of Father Doran will
Ibe deeply felt at the post He has done
much to improve the soldiers’ condition
I at Fort Screven.
! PROMINENT TENNESSEE
LAWYER DIES SUDDENLY
CHATTANOOGA. TENN.. Sept. 19.
I Robert Pritchard, of the law firm of
j Pritchard & Geyer, one of the best
i known lawyers In Tennessee, dropped
dead here today’ shortly before noon of
heart failure. He was standing in the
court house when he suddenly dropped
to the floor and expired before any one
reached
ATLANTA, GA., FRIDAY, SEPTEMBER 20, 1912.
II COBB TOO
BUSYTDSEE
WOOOROW
WILSON
Plan to Have Georgia Peach
and Presidential Candidate
Meet Miscarries.
PLAYING BALL. SO CAN'T
SPARE TIME. SAYS STAR
Governor Greeted by Chicago
ans for Ninety Minutes on
His Trip East.
DETROIT. Sept. 19.—Tyrus Ray
mond <’obb, the Georgia Peach, lacon
ically killed ’he plan to have the great
est baseball player in the world today
meet Woodrow Wilson, the leading
candidate for president of the United
States.
“I am too busy,” said Ty.
Publicity men with the Democratic
nominee had announced that the De
troit star and the former college presi
dent would shake hands before thou
sands of admirers of both this after
noon. The photographers were all
ready, the reporters had sent out their
advance stories, the moving picture
men had been summoned, and the votes
of the baseball fans of the United
States were practically cinched for the
Democratic standard bearer, until—
"l am very sorry.” said Mr. Cobb
“but I am earning a living playing ball.
I will be working this afternoon in
right field for Mr. Jennings, and I sim
ply won’t have the time to meet Gov
ernor Wilson, much as I admire him.
“I sure would like to shake hands
with the star of the Democratic league,
but I don’t see how I can be in the
line that will greet the former man
ager of Princeton and copping the high
ones out in right at the same time.”
Chicago Throngs
Cheer Gov. Wilson
CHICAGO, Sept. 19. —Governor
Woodrow Wilson, of New Jersey, Dem
ocratic candidate for president, spent
•90 minutes in Chicago .today. He was
cheered by thousands as he rode from
the station to the Karpen building,
where he was greeted by other thou
sands who crowded into Democratic
headquarters for a handshaking bee. At
10:30 o’clock Governor Wilson .left for
Detroit. He refused to comment on
Colonel Roosevelt’s charge this morn
ing that the heads of the trusts were
for Wilson. Asked about a reply’ to the
colonel, Wilson said:
“I shall not comment on that. You
know I never comment on what other
men say. I comment only on sub
jects."
Thousands of persons along the line
of march cheered Wilson as he passed.
At the Karpen building ten thousand
had assembled to greet the Democratic
candidate.
The governor was met at the station
by Joseph B. Dqvies, Western cam
paign manager; Elmer Hurst, of the
Business Men’s Wilson club, and other
party leaders.
“JEDGE BRILES” BACK
ON JOB MONDAY; HAD
FINE CAROLINA TRIP
Atlanta’s evil-doers are sad—there’s
reason, too.
Recorder Nash Broyles, the terror of
the law-breaker, is back in the city
and will be on the job in police court
Monday morning, after a vacation of 30
days. He has just returned from High
lands, N. C., where he has been enjoy
ing a rest with his family.
He returns with a new, fresh, crisp
supply of energy and reports a fine trip
MINISTER QUITS PULPIT
TO BE A STREET CLEANER
SCHENECTADY, N. Y„ Sept. 19
Rev. Robert A. Bakeman, until yes
terday pastor of the United People’s
church, prepared to go to work in the
street-cleaning gang under Superin
tendent John Hicker today. From now
on, he said, he will earn his living as
a day laborer. He quit the church with
a farewell sermon yesterday, because,
he said, a minister's life is made arti
ficial by his calling.
“The minister’s life is unreal," de
clared Bakeman today. "He has a code
of morals all his own and must suit his
utterances to the whims of his congre
gation-"
Fair Femininity Whets Appetites at D. A. R. Luncheons
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Colonel W. L. Peel, hanker, being waited on by Miss. Tommy Perdue, on*' of the pretty “buds”
at the old Capital ( ity club, where Habersham chapter D. A, R. is running a restaurant.
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Smiles ajid Society Gossip With Your
Tea at Old Capital City Club.
Georgia chicken pie is something to
rave over; candied yams and ha in with
the right sauce are a luncheon fit for a
prince; poets have sung the delights of
Creole coffee; but when these are serv
ed by Atlanta debutantes in pannier
gowns and picture hats not even Swin
burne, Tom Moore and George M. Co
han collaborating adequately could de
scribe the joy of dining
But you can experience, it tor your
self if you’ll drop in at the battered
old building which once housed the
Capital City club and find an empty
chair. The Habersham chapter, Daugh
ters of the American Revolution, is
conducting daily luncheons there, and
the array of waitresses who have vol
unteered for service would make the
best beauty chorus Which ever left
Broadway look like the annual picnic of
the old ladies’ home. Believe one who
has been there, it is peaches for ever?.'
course.
To one whose retiring disposition has
led him consistently to seek Greek cases
and free lunch counters rather than
brave the glances of a restaurant wait
ress, this ordering luncheon from a so
ciety bud is a trilie embarrassing. How
would you like to tell Andrew Carnegie
to fry an egg on the sunny side and
rush those pancakes? Well!
Soft Voice Lulls You.
You hang your hat on the dining
room rack—really, you ought to have
canned that dingy straw and plunged
on a new necktie -and tuck your feet
under a damask cloth, carefully re
moving a sharp-pointed palm from
your left eye and murmuring an apolo
gy for those tears. Then you realize
that a vision in pink fol-de-rol over
sea-green swish-swash is leaning over
your shoulder and a willow plume is
tickling your ear with excruciating de
liciousness.
“Your'ordei. please?’ says a voice It
is a soft voice, a Southern voice, a
voice that reminds you of rippling
brooks and silver bells and home and
mother and the first sweetheart you
ever had when you were drawing four
fifty a week and digging up two-fifty
for buggy rides. It gives you a deli
cious little thrill, like picking up that
fourth ace after the eleventh raise.
"JSr-er, what have you got?” you ask,
reckless of rhetoric, but determined to
hear more of that voice. And the vi
sion answers, sweetly, patiently, as
though she didn't mind sparing the
time. Not like those girls uptown who
can pack a whole bill of fare into one
word of sixty-seven syllables without
coming up for breath.
“Er-er, bring me anything you like.”
you say. Then you plunge fatuously
into an original remark.
"You choose a luncheon tor me. 1
know it w’ill be just right.”
Who Could Eat, Though?
And of course it is. but you don’t
really know whether you're eating an
gels food or deviled ham. How can you
think of coarse, material things with
two dozen other visions circling about
the room ami threatening to spill the
gravy down nine hundred dollars worth
of garden party gowns?
Everybody who is really anybody is
there, ot course. You hear a guest
swapping gossip of the inner circles
with a waitress, and another waitress
serving a young man with creamed po
tatoes and rib roast and threatening
not to give him a single dance tonight
if he doesn't order ice cream and cake
noir, and everything on the card. All
the old gentlemen are lunching there,
of course. They smile at the debu
tantes and pay them sugary compli
ments, and say they wish they (mean
ing themselves) were young again.
Then the familiar old room brings mem
ories of club days, ami they reach for
a push button with thoughts of a creme
de menthe. But the button is gone, and
iced tea is the only cold item on the
menu.
Girls From All the Town.
Mrs. John A. Perdue, regent of the
chapter, is proprietor-in-chief of the
*'afi de Debutante. Her three daugh
ters ate among her aids, and there are
girls from the Peachtrees, the south
side, West End and Inman Park. There
are girls from Druid Hills and Mariet
ta. from Decatur and Peachtree road.
There are girls in pink and girls in
blue, in shimmery gowns and filmy
waists. .And they are all kept busy as
bees, running from table to kitchen and
back again, and even if they can’t bal
ance eleven orders on one arm, they
can make extra trips.
The Daughters will serve luncheon at
the old club every day for several
weeks, but you can be among those
present at every meal without fear of
monotony. They promise to change the
corps of waitresses every day, which
offers novelty. But if they keep up the
standard set for the grand opening, they
will prove Atlanta winner of the
Peaches' Prize for Personal Pulchri
tude. and this tip is the only one you'll
need
SMOKE BOARD TO
FRAME DEFENSE
Chairman Declares Commis
sion Is Necessary in Order to
Enforce the Law.
For the purpose of urging council not
to abolish the gas and smoke commis
sion, J. M. VanHarlingen, chairman of
the smoke committee of the Chamber
of Commerce, has called a meeting ot
his committee for 4 o’clock this after
noon
“We want the smoke evil abated in
Atlanta,” said Mr. VanHarlingen today,
but we realize that we have to go slow
In the matter; we can't afford to an
tagonize the powerful manufacturers
here, for if we do we’ll soon find that
the smoke ordinance will be abolished.
"See those stacks,” said he, pointing
from his office In the Candler building
to several stacks that were belching
forth volumes of unconsumed carbon.
"We could have the owners of those
plants fined for that today, but we
realize that we've got to educate those
men up to our standards before we try
to make them observe the law.
By means of the smoke commission
of council that can be done and we
W'ant to keep that commission in active
work; it can guide prosecution and
prevent persecution of manufacturers.
"We have some statfstlcs which we
art- going to arrange this afternoon so
that we can show the council that the
smoke committee of the chamber has
accomplishod .something."
CITY NOT TO SUPPLY
WATER OUTSIDE TILL
IT GETS A NEW PUMP
Because the city's capacity to pump
water is nearly taxed, the waler board
yesterday afternoon considered unfa
vorably the petition of property own
ers on Paces Ferry road to connect a
3,000-foot pipe with the eftv main.
The board has adopted a Yule that it
will not allow’ any more connections
to furnish water to customers out of
the city until the council provides funds
for a new 20,000-gallon capacity pump
for the river station. The board wants
$5,000 immediately to cover the cost of
specifications and advertisements for a
new pump
[D®
2 CENTS EVERYWHERE P^ R ;°
MBS. GRACE
SUES FOR
OIVDUCE:
GRACE
GLAD
“I Hope She Gets Her Freedom
and Drops My Name/’
Says Wounded Man.
WIFE CHARGES CRUELTY:
SAYS HE BROKE HER NOSE
Subpena To Be Served on
Husband by Mail—He Hopes
to Get Well.
Mrs. Daisy Opie Grace, the woman
who occupied the limelight in Atlanta
for six months and who was acquitted
of attempting to kill her husband, filed
suit for divorce today in Philadelphia,
, alleging cruel and barbarous treatment.
She alleges that her husband beat her.
Mrs. Grace anticipated her husband s
previously announced intention of fil
ing a suit for divorce in the Georgia
qourts soon as he had lived In Geor
gia for a. year. Eugene Grace, in his
bed at a local sanitarium today, de
clared that he would not interfere with
his wife’s suit, and said it would re
lieve him of the trouble.
Grace was lying in a large, ajry room
at the Piedmont sanitarium, where for
the past two weeks he has been taking
electric massage treatment in the hope
that life may be restored to his para
lyzed limbs.
“I'll certainly noi put anything in the
way of that woman getting a di
vorce. Her suit for one will save me
the trouble and worry of doing so. In
case she hadn’t filed suit I was
going to do it In November when ! have
lived here continuously for a year and
am legally able to do so.
"I hope she has the decency to peti
tion that one of her former names be
restored to her,” he added. “I gave
her a good name and she didn’t keep it
that way; now I hope she’ll not use it.
I any longer.”
Declares Grace
Broke Her Nose.
In her libel Mrs. Grace, who is living
at the home of her mother, Mrs. Martha
Ulrich, at 900 South Sixtieth street,
Philadelphia, gives no particulars re
garding the alleged cruel treatment,
but it is said that while she and
were living at her home at Fortieth
and Spruce streets, before they moved
to his hom? at Newnan, he beat her
severely, causing a fracture of hernos<.
The words of the libel on the subject
merely follow the statute in declaring
that “said respondent offered such in
dignities to the person of the libellant
as to render her condition intolerable
and life burdensome, thereby compell
ing her to withdraw from his home and
family and that the respondent, by
cruel and barbarous treatment, en
dangered her life."
It Is set forth that the couple were
married at New Orleans on May 10,
1911, and lived thereaftei at various
places, including their home in Georgia,
where the shooting took place. As
Grace is still an invalid, it will be
necessary to serve the subpena on him
by registered mail. The return day ot
the writ which was allowed by Judge
Audenried is the first Monday In Oc
tober.
Testimony in the divorce proceedings
will be taken by a master to be ap
pointed by the courts, unless Grace de
mands a jur> trial. Counsel for Mrs.
Grace is ready to file a bill of particu
lais. stating specific instances ot al
leged cruelty, if Grace a>ks for it.
It is declared that the suit was
brought to anticipate a similar action
which Grace contemplated. Under the
laws of Georgia the libellant in a di
vorce case must be a resident ot the
state for at least one year before be
ginning suit. Grace will not have been
a resident for that period until Novem
ber 1.
Giace believes that he is going to get
better. A recent X-ray picture shows
that the bullet lies in the dorsal verte
brae. where, after the final operation,
Dr. Baxter S. Moore told him that it
was. His present paralyzed condition,
Giace attributes to the presence of a
clot of blood pressing afrainst his
spinal eord and he believes that his
system will g’.adully absorb the clot
and allow him to gain some control
over the lower part of his body.
As the days drift by his lower limbs