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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 'Tj~. — .<7ll % | Mb JI i f ■»» t Wit . I- ■ K. *■ ■' >• 'VMk j 1 I a® -Xx \WI m xNu jW \ /JO®,' v ' ' a m mey Illy /Om wk. 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. _ 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