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POLICE MAKE FIFTY RAIDS
THE WEATHER
Clearing today: probably fair to
morrow. Temperatures: 8 a. m., 70
degree*; 10 a. m., 72 degrees: 12 noon,
74 degrees: 2 p. m„ 81 degrees.
VOL. XL NO. 44.
GOV. WILSON
SWATS BOSS
SMITH AT
POLLS
Candidate Casts Vote Against
the Man He Opposes for
Senatorship.
PREDICTS GREAT CRISIS
IN FINANCES OF NATION
Tells Students Big Business
Expansion Is Coming. With
Country Not Ready.
PRINCETON, X. 1., Sept. 24.—Gov
e nor Wilson carried to rhe polls today
■ is fight against James Smith, Jr., who
is trying to be returned to the United
States senate. He cast ballot Xo. 9 in
tlte Sixth precinct of Princeton for Wil
liam Hughes. Smith's most formidable
opponent, and before voting at the pri
maries he arraigned Smith as the agent
of cot upt corporations.
In a speech before several hundred
Princeton students the governor de
clared that Smith was a non-partisan
boss, working only for the interests of
his client., and that he was supported
nhenev Gove not Wilson had fought
him by Republican newspapers.
Governor Wilson came to Princeton
f ont Princeton Junction by automobile
and vas escorted to the polling place
h\ 40<t students, headed by a bass drum
and a snare drum, singing a jolly, rol
. king melody' tn "Whoop her up for
Woodrow Wilson."
V the polling place they demanded a
st ■ >h. Governor Wilson told the boys
'c would not be permitted to speak
■chin 100 feet of .a polling place. They'
i t unaptly led him to the steps of the
Stcond Presbyterian church. There be
' in relation to business enterprises:
■l'o’cege men have a particular duty
to terform. They must think straight
In the present crisis, for it is a crisis.
The boss merely as a political organizer
Is not dange'ous. He is not to be
feared, but the man we call boss is the
agent of those who wish to control pol
''!(■.« foi their own interests.
Predicts Crisis
From Expansion.
The reason all this concerns college
m»n particularly is this;
I want you fellows to realize that
" f-n you ate studying politics, and
now particularly, when you are study
big public finance you are studying the
>r<w critical things that concern this
nation. The Democrats are going to
"in In the first place” (wildly cheered),
and when they do they are going to do
’lungs that will take the shackles off
,|(i ' business of the country. Then what
"i” happen? The banking and cut
err . system of this countty is not
r-rdy for the expansion of business and
* ne business begins to expand rapidly
1 r may find ourselves in the grip of
one of the most tremendous crises we
”r eve' had unless in the meantime
■ ‘ct our cut ency system, and
A ' is a job chiefly of education, be
''susf most of the things connected
"'th the currency system are not gen
(“ra :■ understood
7ne country is jealous of the bank-
I think jealous of some bankers
’it-h just cause—and it won't trust
’he”- o take their advice. Xobody be-
■ in economists. Outside of the
“fonomists and bankers there is no-
who has given it sufficient study
n “vpound it as it really is.
I nerefore. the more college men
■ about this subject the more they
''iderstand the remedies and preach
’ '•ni the better for this country—and
hail better get on the job right
There is going to be business
.nsiort and this expansion is going
’ - dangerous.
have been saying that I am not in
d in the personal side of the
"vetsy. | anl no t interested in
a ’ my- opponents say about me. 1
■' ea rap wfcgt they say about
he question is with regard to
tfe are going to do and how we
?”ing to do it,”
w ants guardian for
HUSBAND: ALSO DIVORCE
'•' ,l is. Sept. 24.—Mrs Ella Ro
"enty yearg old. has filed a di
*lJ,f against Walbridge
that her husband is only
far* old. he court to*
b, t . guardian to art as Romer s
tend in answering the petition.
The Atlanta Georgian
Read For Profit—GEORGIAN WANT ADS~Use For Results.
tILLSCHEIP
THEATERS
'SYSTEM’S'
FEEDERS
Path Leads to Resort. Says
Leader in Men and Religion
Movement.
MANAGER WHO EMPLOYED
YOUNG GIRLS GOES FREE
Mother of Two Reed Sisters
Comes to Aid of Accused
Showman.
"These cheap theatrical companies
are just one of the recognized feeders
for the 'system.' The advertisements
'for chorus girls, like some of the ad
vertisements for stenographers and
other girl workers, are often designed
simply to get the girls. The paths all
lead to the same end—the resort.”
That is the opinion of Marion M.
Jackson, whose work in the present
campaign of the .Men and Religion For
ward Movement is attracting so much
attention. Mr. Jackson was discussing
the ease of Vessie Bostwick, Estelle
Reed and "Buster" Reed, three girls
found in the employment of the Em
pire Comedy Company. a five,cent
show In a Whitehall street motion pic
ture theater. While he had made no
investigation of these particular cases,
Mr. Jackson did not hesitate to declare
the theatrical company dodges a part
of the "game."
"The records of the federal prison
in the suburbs of Atlanta will show one
case in point." continued Mr. Jackson.
"There is a man serving a term there
now' for working this theatrical agency
game. He lured an Atlanta girl to
Tampa, Fla., under pretext of giving
her employment as a chorus girl. She
landed where most ot them land, but it
happened that a man with a heart met
her and saved her. She was brought
home and the "theatrical agent' con
victed of 'white slavery.' "
Recorder Forced to
Dismiss Manager.
Recorder Broyles heard the case
against W. F. Swaringen. manager of
the Empire Comedy Company, and dis.
missed it. as Swaringen was merely
charged with conducting an agency
w ithout a license. The manager showed
that he was operating a company and
not conducting an agency', and upon
statements that the two Reed girls
were not under sixteen years old the
recorder was forced to dismiss the case
and set the manager and girls free.
The Reed girls were summoned as
witnesses to the charge that Swarin
gen was employing girls under sixteen.
Officer B B. Posey, of the children’s
court, swore that the girls' mother had
asked him to look after her daughters,
and bad shown him records to prove
that the girls were but fourteen and
fifteen years old. Notwithstanding this,
Mrs. Reed stated before the recorder
that the girls were aged sixteen and
seventeen. respectively, and denied
that she had ever talked with officer
PosAy.
The Bostwick girl, who is only four
teen yea: s old. was not given actual
employment, although she had been
promised a place in the chorus by
Swaringen.
The Georgians story yesterday of
the cheap theatrical companies and the
ends, to w hich many of them lead at
tracted wide attention. Several per
sons stated that they bad seen young
gills from these places driving away in
cabs and automobiles with young men
after the shows.
"The life of the girls in the chorus of
these cheap vaudeville and moving pic
ture houses leads to a life of shame in a
short time, anil 1 would have the people
of Atlanta put a stop to such house for
that reason, but I also see that where
ten or twelve of these girls are being
ruined in the ihmius. their appearance
on the stage js leading hundreds of
younger children to the same paths.
The morphine habit that society ac
knowledges is sapping the life out of
men and women is no worse, to my
mind, than the five and ten-cent thea
ter habit which our boys and girls have
contracted,” said Miss Ma ga’-et Laing,
probation officer of the children's court,
today
"The trouble, of course, starts at
home. The sordid home life of these
little child workers makes them desire
io get sway from home for their pleas
ures. Their parent.- never tak® them
anywhere, but they do allow them to go
to places like these for amusement.
Deaf Mute, Mistaking
Neighbor's Door for
Own, Shot as Burglar
Unable to Hear Challenge, He
Continued Working at Lock.
Dies of Wound.
CHICAGO, Sept, 24.—The body of
" illiarn Gray, a deaf mule shot be
cause lu could not lit ar a challenge
when he was mistaken tor a burglar,
was sent to Lowell, Ind., today. Gray'
died on a Monon train, on which he
was sent to Chicago iti a vain effort to
save his life.
Gray started for his home in Lowell
after a day out of town. Hi® home is
located between those of Mrs. Breese
ebb and Grove Lloyd. By mistake
he went to the door of the Webb home,
which is much like, his own. Mrs. Webb
heard some one trying to unlock the
door. She screamed. Her screams
roused Lloyd, who went to a window
in hi.s own house, saw the man tam
pering with the lock, thought he was a
burglar, and shouted.
Gray could not hear, and continued
to work at the lock. Then Lloyd fired
to frighten Gray. The bullet struck the
sidewalk and glanced entering into
Gray's skull.
PRISONER IN DASH
FOR FREEDOM AS
HE JS SENTENCED
John Jones, a mulatto, known to the
local police as a "bad man." threw the
criminal division of superior court into
an uproar today by a daring attempt
to escape from the bailiffs.
While Judge Ellis was pronouncing
sentence upon Jones, the negro, who
had been standing before the bench,
made a dash for the door. Before
Deputy Sheriff Plennle Miner could
reach him. the prisoner was half-way
through the court room, fighting his
way through the throng of loungers.
When the deputy reached him. the
negro showed fight, and for several sec
onds a free-for-all battle ensued, in
which bailiffs and spectators took part.
Jones was placed on trial early this
morning, charged with having robbed
the residence of A. A. Manning, getting
447 in cash and a revolver. The jury
brought In a verdict of guilty, and
Judge Ellis sentenced the prisoner to
seven years in the penitentiary.
SOUTHERN PASSENGER
TRAIN NO. 13 HR BY
FREIGHT; 8 INJURED
COHUTTA, GA., Sept. 24. Engineer
Joseph Lawler was badly hurt, a negro
cook in the dining car was scalded and
six passengers were bruised, when a
Southern railway southbound freight
train collided with fast passenger train
No. 13. northbound from Atlanta, in the
yards here at 9:30 o’clock this morning.
None of the injured is expected to die.
Engineer Lawler was at the throttle of
the freight engine.
The passenger train, which left Atlanta
at 5:30 o'clock, was standing in the Co
hutta yards, having orders to meet the
freight at this point. The freight was
running a little behind time and, in an
effot t not to delay the passenger it <-ame
into the yards under x a good head of
steam. Engineer Lawler did not see the
passenger until he rounded a curve a
short distance away. He was unable to
slow down in time to avoid a crash.
The freight engine and several cars
were derailed and the road was blocked
for several hours. It was necessary to
send the passenger train back to Dalton
and detour it over the Western and At
lantic railroad to Chattanooga
WOMAN SAYS STATE
OWES HER FORTUNE
ON A 100-YEAR NOTE
In New Albany. Ind, is a young
woman. Mrs. Fred Zuber by name, who
believes she has a small-sized fortune
awaiting her in the coffers of the state
of Georgia. Officials at the state treas
ury are of an entirely different opin
ion.
Mis. Zuber has written H. L. Cul
berson, treasurer of Fulton county-, set
ting forth her claim. She says that she
is an heir of one Baker, a German,
long since dead, who lent the state of
Georgia a large sum of money on a 100-
year note. She wants to know when
this note is due.
State Treasurer Speer said today that
he had no knowledge of the existence
of this note, nor did any state official
remember anything about it.
HIGH COURT REFERS
SUIT TO FORCE STATE
TO LICENSE MEDICS’
Officers of the Southern College of
Medicine and Surgery of Atlanta, seek
ing redress from the courts for the re
fusal of the state board of medical
examiners to license their graduates,
were referred back to the Cobb county
court by the state supreme court to
day.
The high tribunal dismissed the bill
of exceptions lodged at the capitq] on
the grounds that action had not been
completed In the lower court. Officers
of the college had brought «uit to force
C. T. Nolan, secretary of the state
board, to recognize their graduates.
Judge Morris, of the Blue Ridge cir
cuit. overruled certain answers, hut no
dscislon was rendered in his court.
ATLANTA, GA., TUESDAY. SEPTEMBER 24. 1912.
HL IWIIIS
non
itlhtj
SfIOKEN
September Alone to See $2.-
000.000 in Permits—Year’s
Total Will Be $9,000,000.
HEALY AND HURT READY
TO BEGIN SKY-SCRAPERS
First Work on $2,000,000
Structures to Call for Expen
diture of $1,400,000.
City Building Inspector Hayes said
today that he was ready to issue build
ing permits for the South's two great
est office buildings—the William T.
Healy building and the Joel Hurt build
ing
These buildings, w hen 'complete, will
cost about $2,000,000 each. The sec
tions to be constructed at once will
cost $700.000 each, according to the per
mits of the building inspector.
The $1,400,000 in permits makes Sep
tember the record building month in
Atlanta's history. The total is already
$1,845,889, and Inspector Hayes esti
mated that the total will reach $2,000,-
000.
This month's record also insured 1912
as the city's record building yeai. In
cluding the two new buildings, the total
already is $6,542,550. Inspector Hayes
estimated that the total for the year
will be fully $9,000,000.
Atlanta Far Ahead
Os All Southern Cities.
The nearest approach to September’s
figures is the record of April, 1912.
I hat month $1,135,396 in permits was
recorded. April, 1910. is next, with sl.-
111.17.. The $9,000,000 record of 1912 is
approached by $7,405,950 in 1910, $6,-
215,900 in 1911, and $5,551,951 in 1909.
Atlanta already is far ahead of all
other Southern cities for this year, and
when the -reports for September are
compiled her lead will be greater still.
The Healy building, when complete
as a $2,4)00,000 structure, will cover the
entire block bounded by Forsyth. Pop
lar. Broad and Walton streets. Mr.
Healy is building only one-half of it
now. the Forsyth street side. The oth
er half will be built later, replacing the
old buildings on Broad street.
The building is to be sixteen stories
high, with a basement. It will be faced
with stone and terracotta. The two
parts will be separated by a corridor,
for light and air.
In the building of this giant struc
ture, "Bill” Healy will continue hi.s un
usual methods. Millionaire that he is.
he prefers to do the actual superin
tending of the work himself, rather
than spend his time in pleasure or fol
lowing some other work.
sace Between Healy
And Hurt on in Earnest.
Only contracts for individual parts of
the work will be lei. Mr. Healy will
be found daily "on the job" until the
building is complete, Just as he has
been since he started the excavation
with one negro and a mule three years
ago.
Mr. Hurt's building will cover the tri
angle bounded by Edgewood avenue
Exchange place and Ivy street. The
part he has begun work on will fit in
the point of the triangle between Ex
change place and Edgewood avenue.
The larger part of the structure is not
to be erected until the first part Is
completed.
lhe building Is to be seventeen sto
ries high, with a baseinent. It will be
faced with cut stone, tetra cotta and
brick. The first floor will be used for
a bank, with offices on all floors above.
I'he contract for the construction of
the building has been let to the Realty
Construction Company, of Birmingham.
They are really off in the most won
derful race known in Atlanta building
history. The contest between "Bill"
Healy and Joel Hurt in building sky
scrapers )« no joke, but a serious prop
osition.
Mr Hurt applied for a building per
mit first. Mr. Healy persuaded him and
the building inspector to hold it up un
til he (Mr. Healyt was ready to apply
for his. that they might both start even
This is the real start now. It the
biggest port even of many seasons.
Wagers are being staked on which win
be finished first.
Quit Tools to Preach Simple Life Doctrine
7-YEAR PILGRIMAGE ENDS
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Wesley XtAvbertt. who has returned to Atlanta after a
seven-year tour of the world, preaching a simple life doctrine.
Atlantan. “Wandering Mes
senger of God,’’ Carries His
Creed to Earth’s Corners.
Wesley Newbern, who calls himself a
wandering messenger of the word of
God. is bat k in Atlanta, the home of
his youth. After seven years on the
highways and byways of the earth, he
has come home to preach his simple
apostolic creed in the streets of At
lanta to all who may choose to listen.
With his head bared to the drizzle,
clad in khaki and his foot shod only
In sandals, Newbern, looking for all the
world like a figure stepped from a can
vas of Tissot. came into the < its hv the
overland route from Richmond to tell
what he term" this "Babylonian Jun
gle" his doctrine of the simple life.
Newbern’s clear eye, his steady nerve
and his calm demeanor, strikingly no
ticeable at the first glance, he attrib
utes to his rigorous •manner of living,
to the direct manner in which he has
dealt with things of the world. The
things of the spirit have been his. he
says, since that day, seven years ago,
when he was called front his bench in
Randall Bros ' plant, to give the world
his message.
Turns From the World.
l ike the mendicant friars of the mid
dle ages, he assumed poverty as a vir
tue. plain living as a pleasure, and the
highways and city street- as the track
to follow to reach the hearts of men.
From all the vagaries of the complex
modern world he has turned instinc
tlvelx, because, as he says, he is whole
of body as well a- soul. Thi per
haps more inteie ting than other things
Continued on Page Two.
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750 MARINES ARE
ORDERD BY TAFT
TO SAN DOMINGO
OX BOARD THE PRESIDENT'S
I TRAIN, PHILADELPHIA. Sept. 24.
i President Tafl this afternoon ordered
. 750 American marines sent to Santo
’j Domingo to guard the customs houses
. and foreign property. This action was
~ taken following a conference with As
! slstant Secretary of the Navy Beek
man Winthrop, who reported that the
Revolutionary situation in Santo Do
| mingo is very serious..
I The marines will sail from Philadel
phia on Thursday on the transport
Prairie.
Upon their arrival to Santo Domingo
they will be scattered throughout the
island wherever danger threatens.
Accompanying the marines will be
William Doyle, chief of the Latin di
vision of the state department, and
General Frank Mclntyre, chief of the
bureau of insular affairs.
The marines will be under command
of Colonel F. .1. Moses. Not all of the
troops will me recruited from the
la-ague Island navy yards, but detach
ments will be rushed here from New
York, Annapolis and Norfolk.
’ I’he gunboat Wheeling is under or
! ders to cruise in Dominican waters in
the event she is needed there.
SECOND WARD IN MOVE
FOR PRYOR ST. PAVING
. The citizens of the Second ward will
hold a mass meeting tonight in the
Pryor Street school to launch a move
ment to get Pryor street paved as far
oti: as Stewart avenue. The street has
already been gtaded all the distance,
and the ilizen will urge th° city and
* ounty officials to co-operate in put
ting down a good pavement on the
street.
T
11OMT
EDITION
2 CENTS EVERYWHERE p^ R N fc c
BESffIIM
oisimci
WIPED
OUT
Chief of Police Serves Notices ■
on Fifty Resort Keepers
to Vacate.
FIVE DAYS ALLOWED
TO CLOSE UP HOUSES
Crusade Begun Only to Enforce
Law. Says Beavers. As
suming Responsibility.
Atlanta's tenderloin is being
wiped out today by the police.
Chief Beavers, suddenly and
without the slightest previous in
timation as to his plans, began a
war of extermination at noon. In
company with Captain Lamar
Poole and Policemen McWilliams
and Paul West, the chief drove
awa,v from the police station in
his automobile, and. starting with
Decatur street, began serving no
tices on the occupants of all illegal
and questionable houses that they
must “close up" within five days.
Similar notices are being served
on the owners and agents of the
houses.
If the houses are not vacated at the
expiration of the five days, immediate
prosecution of the owners, or agents,
and the women will be commenced in
police court.
"Every house in the tenderloin dis
trict and every questionable place tn
the city must be closed at once." is
Chief Beavers’ mandate.
Lid Goes Down
Tight on City.
This means that the lid goes down
on Atlanta today tighter and with
more vigor than has ever been known
before in the city's history. In fact, it
is the first time that any city in the
entire South has so strongly felt the
hand of reform.
lhe action of Chief Reavers earrt<
with the suddenness of a thunder clap,
and its effect was cyclonic. As the
quartet of officers served notice aftel
notice, they left consternation and con.
fusion In their wake. It all came s<i
unexpectedly that the residents of the
tenderloin were dumbfounded. Ex
citement reigned in every house. The
women knew they had but two alter
natives—obey the notice and get out,
or face the penalty of law In the
courts. They could hardly comprehend
the sweeping effect of the crusade.
At 3 o clock this afternoon format
notice had been served on every ques
tionable house in the city, including
the houses on Mechanic street. Decatur
street and Marietta street and those
scattered in other sections. The total
notices served numbered about 50.
As to the cause of the wholesale
extermination. Chief Beavers. when
seen by a Georgian reporter, smiled and
said:
Simply Enforcing
Law, Says Chief.
"I'm enforcing the law; that’s all.
The law plainly says that such places
shall not exist, and 1 intend to wipe
them out. Every Illegal house in this
city must be vacated and closed within
five days. There are no conditions. If
any such house is found in operation
at the end of five days, the owners and
occupants will be arrested, taken before
Recorder Broyles and vigorously pros
ecuted. There's no middle ground in
this affair —it's either get out or face
the music.”
The chief declared his action wa«
not ordered by the grand Jury or am
other body' or official, but that it is
based purely on his own personal de
cision to enforce the law on illegal re
sorts.
The law stipulates that no illega
bouses shall he conducted In Atlanta
and not only holds the inmates liable
but also the owners and agents t
specifies that such places shall N
closed by order of the chief of police.
Notwithstanding the unmistakabh