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POLICE MAKE FIFTY RAIDS THE WEATHER Clearing today: probably fair to morrow. Temperatures: 3 a. m., 70 degrees; 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, N. J., Sept. 24.—Gov i ernor Wilson carried to the polls today I his fight against James Smith, Jr., who is trying to be returned to the United | States senate. He cast ballot No. 9 in the Sixth precinct of Princeton for Wil liam Hughes, Smith's most formidable opponent, and before voting at the pri i maries he arraigned Smith as the agent of corrupt 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 whenever Governor Wilson had fought him by Republican newspapers. Governor Wilson came to Princeton from Princeton Junction by automobile and was escorted to the polling place by 400 students, headed by a bass drum and a snare drum, singing a jolly, rol licking melody to "Whoop her up for Woodrow Wilson.” At the polling place they demanded a speech. Governor Wilson told the boys he would not be permitted to speak within 100 feet of a polling place. They promptly led him to the steps of the Second Presbyterian church. There he said in relation to business enterprises. "College men have a particular lu y ' to perform. They must think straight in the present crisis, for it is a crisis. The boss merely as a political organize; 1. not dangerous. He is. not to be feared, but the man we call boss is the agent of those who wd»h to control pol - files for their own interests Predicts Crisis From Expansion. "The reason all this concerns college men particularly is this: ■q want you fellows to realize that when vou are studying politics, and now particularly, when you are study- I ing public finance you are studying the most critical things that concern this nation. The Democrats are going to win in the first place” (wildly cheered), "and when they do they are going to do things that will take the shackles off the business of the country. Then what will happen? The banking and cur rency system of this country is not ready for the expansion of business and If the business begins to expand rapidly we may find ourselves in the grip of one of the most tremendous crises we have, ever had unless in the meantime we correct our currency system, and that is a job chiefly of education, be cause most of the things connected with the currency system are not gen erally understood. The country is jealous of the bank ers— I think jealous of some bankers with just cause—and it won't trust them or take their advice. Nobody be lieves in economists. Outside of the economists and bankers there is no li lv who has given it sufficient study to expound it as it really is. Therefore, the more college men know about this subject the more they understand the remedies and preach ,r, m the better for this country—and !■ had better get on the job right There is going to be business expansion and this expansion is going to be dangerous. I have been saying that I am not in i'rested in the personal side of the ' ’Mroversy. I am not interested in 't my opponents say about me. I , 1 n t care a rap w’i<t they say about The question is with regard to >t we are going to do and how we ar - going to do it." wants guardian for HUSBAND; ALSO DIVORCE S T. LOUIS, Sept. 24.—Mrs. Ella Ro twenty years old. has filed a di- ! " suit against Walbridge Romer alleging that her husband is only cteen years old. asked the court to m a guardian to act as Romer's 1 ' t hnd in answering the petition. The Atlanta Georgian Read For Profit—GEORGIAN WANT ADS—Use For Results. < MLLStHEIP THEJIEAS 'SYSTEM'S' FEEOEPS 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 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 case 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 tn the euburbs 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 of 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 XV. F. Swaringen. manager of the Empire Comedy Company, and dis. missed it, as Swaringen was merely charged with conducting an agency without 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 had 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 Posey. The Bostwick girl, who is only four teen years old, was not given actual employment, although she had been promised a place in the chorus by Swaringen. The Georgian's story yesterday of the cheap theatrical companies and the ends to which many of them lead at tracted wide attention. Several per sons stated that they had seen young girls 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, and I 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 chorus, their appearance on the stage is leading hundreds of younger children to the same paths. The morphine habit that society ac knowledges is sapping the life out of men an<l women is no worse, to my mind, than the five and ren-cent thea ter habit which out boys and girls have contracted,” said Miss Margaret 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 to get away from home for their pleas ures. Their parents never take them anywhere, but they do allow them to go to places like these for amusement. ATLANTA, GA., WEDNESDAY, SEPTEMBER 25, 1912. 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 William Gray, a deaf mute, shot be cause he could not henr a challenge when he was mistak n for a burglar, was sent to Lowell, Ind., today. Gray died on a Monon train, on which he was sent to Chicago in a vain effort to save his life. Gray started for his homo in Lowell after a day out of town. Hi« home is located between those of Mrs. Breese Webb 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 his 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 IS 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. XX hile 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 Plennie Miner could reach him. the prisoner was half-way through th, 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, charger] with having robbed the residence of A. A. Manning, getting $47 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 HIT BY FREIGHT; 8 INJURED COIII'TTA, 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 was at the throttle of the freight engine. . The passenger train, which left Atlanta h w'.'' oc ' wk ' "as standing In the Co hutta yards, having orders to meet the a ’ POlnt ' The freight was running a little behind time and. In an m s ( ° rt .r ot t 0 <ielav ,he P assen ger it came into the yards under 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 ears were derailed and the road was blocked for several hours. It was necessary to send the passenger train hack 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. Mrs. 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 capitol on the grounds that action had not been completed in the lower court. Officers of the college had brought suit 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, but no .'riislon was rindcred In Ids court. ALL BUILDING RECORDS IN ATLANTA BROKEN September Alone to See $2.- 000.000 in Permits—Year’s Total Will Be $9,000,000. HEALY AMD 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, when 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 hjstory. The total is already $1,845,389, and Inspector Hayes esti mated that the total will reach $2,000,- I 000. This month's record also insured 1912 as the city's record building year. In cluding the two new buildings, the total already is $6,542,550. Inspector Haves estimated that the total for the year will be fully $9,000,000. Atlanta Far Ahead Os All Southern Cities. I he nearest approach to September's figures is the record of April, 1912. I hat month $1,135,396 in permits was iecorded. April, 1910, Is next, with sl,- 111,17 i. 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 ail other Southern cities for this year, and when the reports for September are ' ompiied her lead will be greater still. The Healy building, when complete as a $2,000,000 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 terra cotta. 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 his un usual methods. Millionaire that he is, lie prefers to do the actual superin tending of the work himself, rather than spend his time in pleasure or fol lowing some other work. Race Between Healy And Hurt on in Earnest. Only com tacts for individual parts of the work will be let. Mr. Healy will be found dally “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. The building Is to be seventeen sto res high, with a basement. It will be faced with cut stone, terracotta and brick. The first floor will be used for a bank, with offices on all floors above. The contract for the construction of the building has been let to the Realt.x Construction Company, of Birmingham. I hej 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 is 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. Healy) was ready to apply for hfs, that they might both start even This is the real start now. it's the biggest sport even of many seasons. Wagers ate being staked on which will be finished first. Quit Tools to Preach Simple Life Doctrine 7-YEAR PILGRIMAGE ENDS ■ gMamO. fit t ■ /MrraMr &' < Ah.■■ mH I W . j MPh H ■ 1 mH lISS 9Mm > % Wosloy Newbern, who has returned to Atlanta after a seven-year tour of the xvorhl, 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 back in Atlanta, the home of Ills youth. After seven years on the j highways and byways of the earth. li<- lias come home to preach his simple! apostolic creed in tile streets of At-| innta to all who may choose to listen. 1 XVitli 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. Clime into the city by the overland route from Richmond to tell what he term< tills “Babylonian jun gle" his doctrine of the simple life, Newbern's clear eye. his steady nerve and his < alm demeanor, strikingly no ticeable at the first gem-c, he attrib utes to his rigorous manner of living, to the direct manner In which he has dealt with things of the world. Tho things of the spirit have been his. he says since that day. seven years ago, when lie was called from his bench In Randall Bros' plant, to give tile world hfs Turns From the World. I.ike the mendicant friars of the tnid xlle ages, lie assumed poverty as a vir tue, plain fix ing as a pleasure, and the highways and city street- as the track to'follow to reach the hearts of men. From all tlie vagaries of the complex modern world he has turned Instinc tively, because, as he says, he is whole of body as well as soul. This, per haps more interesting tli in other things Continued on Page Two. 750 MARINES ARE ORDERD BY TAFT TO SAN DOMINGO ON BOARD THE PRESIDENT'S I TRAIN, PHILADELPHIA, Sept. 24. ; President Taft tills afternoon ordered , 750 American marines sent to Santo Domingo to guard the customs houses and foreign property. Tills action was ; taken following a conference w ith As sistant Secretary of the Navy Beek- I man Winthrop, who reported that the I revolutionary situation in Santo Do | mingo is very serious. I The marines will sail from Philadel phia on Thursday on tile transport Prairie. I’pon their arrival 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 umbu‘ command of Colonel F. J. Moses. Not all of the troops will be recruited from the League Island navy yards, but detach ments will be rushed here from New York, Annapolis and Norfolk. The gunboat Wheeling is under or ders to cruise in Dominican waters in the event site is needed there. SECOND WARD IN MOVE FOR PRYOR ST. PAVING The citizens of the Second ward will hold a ma-s meeting tonight in the Pryor Street school to launch a move ment to get Pryor street paved as far out as Slewart avenue. The street has already been graded all the distance, and the citizens will urge the city and county officials to co-operate in put ting down a good pavement on the fleet. ixm 2 CENTS EVERYWHERE RESTRICTED DISIRICI WIPED OUT Chief of Police Serves Notices on Fifty Resort Keepers to Vacate. 1 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 Latnar Poole and Policemen McWilliams and Paul West, the chief drove away 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 they must “close up" within five davs. 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 in the city must be closed at once," is Chief Beavers’ mandate. Lid Goes Doxvn 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 Sottlh has so strongly felt the hand of reform. Ihe action of Chief Beavers came with the suddenness of a thunder clap, and its effect was cyclonic. As the quartet of officers served notice after notice, they left consternation and con fusion in their wake, it all came so 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 tn the courts. They could hardly comprehend the sweeping effect of the crusade. At 3 o’clock this afternoon formal 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 sa Id: Simply Enforcing Law, Says Chief. “I'm enforcing the law; that's all. The law plainly says that such places shall not exist, and I 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 was I not ordered by the grand jury or anv 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 lllega’. houses shall be conducted In Atlanta, and not only holds the Inmates liable, but also the owners and agents. It specifies that such places shall • s closed by order of the chief of police Notwithstanding the unmistakable