Atlanta Georgian. (Atlanta, Ga.) 1912-1939, September 26, 1912, HOME, Image 1

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the weather forecast: Rain tonight or Fri day; cooler. Temperatures: Ba. m., 72 degrees; 10 a. m„ 74 degrees; 12 noon, 79 degrees; 2 p. m., 79 degrees. VOL. XI. NO. 46. MAN FALLING 3 STORIES IS CAUGHT BY BROTHER Human Buffer Saves Life of Painter Hurtling From Scaf fold to Pavement. HERO SEES PLUNGE AND BRACES SELF FOR IMPACT / Victim Strikes the Shoulder of Rescuer and Suffers Only a Sprained Ankle. Victor Ranson’s foot slipped as he was painting; from a swinging scaffold at the third floor of Child’s hotel in Broad street early today. He shot downward toward the stone sidewalk. In a moment he would have been killed or injured badly. But Claude Ranson, hie brother, was standing on the curb. He heard no cry, but something told him to look up. He saw Victor hurtling toward the ground, ran forward five or six feet and caught the falling man on his shoulders. Both went to the side waik under the impact, but Victor es caped with a sprained ankle and Claude rubbed a bruised shoulder and went back to work. A reporter went to seek Claude Ran son a few minutes afterward. The painter, with a companion, was stand ing on a narrow swinging scaffold just under the eaves of the hotel, painting away with no bother about shaken nerves or anything else. "I Just Caught Him," says Hero. Being interrogated persistently, he admitted that his name was Claude Ranson, he was 23 years old, lived at 15 Weatherby street and intended to stick on the job until it was finished. His brother, he stated, was 25 years old and lived at 16 Oliver street. • "It wasn't nothing,’’ said Claude. "His rope must have give way or some thing He wasn’t up so high. Just the third floor. Yes, I reckon he'd have been bruised up considerable if I hadn’t caught him. "No. I didn’t hear him holelr. Don’ - , think he had time to holler. I was on the sidewalk and I looks up. I see Vic tor < oming down, turning sideways, and I take about three steps and catch him "ti my shoulder. Yes, he knocks me down and bruises me up some. Not enough to bother about, though. "Hav- you heard from Grady hos pital.’ How's he getting on? Just a sprained ankle, eh? That’s good. He might have been hurt bad if I hadn’t happened to see him.” And Claude Ranson dipped his brush in the bucket and went on painting the cornice. SEES HUSBAND,"MISSING 3 YEARS: CAPTURES HIM NEW YORK, Sept. 26.—Mrs. Samuel Schwartz, out for a walk, met her hus band, whom for three years she had believed dead. In a panic he fled. She ,; utnn him, however, and turned him °vnr i ) the police. IS IT THE QUESTION OF WHERE TO RENT THAT’S WORRYING YOU MOST? How many sleepless nights, dollars, ! ‘ i steps, not to mention the worry :, nd finable time, have you spent in hlng for desirable rooms, apart iTl'ris. houses and boarding places to y " ur liking? above paragraph is the sentiment 11 'nice of thousands in Atlanta and i r niling territory, and no doubt yours. Georgian fully realizes the prob ! what a task it is to find the place ' ”'i desire, and has never ceased efforts to solve this hard prob- Hpecial representatives are em <l to search the town thoroughly ■v so; all the desirable places at of al] descriptions for "The on’s Rent Bulletin,” for the bene -1 its patrons. This bulletin ap dally on the Want Ad pages. not do your renting and search- ' I’ nigh this bulletin that is gotten tally for you? Certainly you " from many standpoints that Kent Bulletin is helpful, worth and a great convenience. lit it as you would a business thus saving time and money; -!'• this time to your business ■ i affairs that need your at tention, oibei. when you have anything or desire to rent, that "The 'ken's Rent Bulletin" fills the bill. The Atlanta Georgian Read For Profit—GEORGIAN WANT ADS—Use For Results. STATEASKED TO EID cm STRIKE 11 AUGUSTA Aid of Labor Commissioner Stanley Sought in Effort to Settle Controversy. LAW GIVES HIM POWER TO ACT IN SUCH CASES Official Undecided as to Best Course to Pursue in the Tangled Situation. Commissioner of Labor Stanley has been approached quietly by interested parties who want him to use his influ ence In bringing about, if possible, a settlement of the street railway strike in Augusta. Under section 5 of the act of 1911 creating the office of commissioner of labor, Mr. Stanley is clothed with au thority to do this, if, in his judgment, it seems the fit and proper thing. Because of the delicacy of the mat ter, the commissioned would be slow to he were assured in advance that his move In a matter of this kind, unless efforts likely would be acceptable. He would not care to appear as a.partisan in the dispute from any conceivable standpoint. The commissioner has taken the sug gestion, coming to him as it did, under serious advisement. He has not made up his mind what he will do, but if he does undertake to interfere the impres sion is that the situation in Augusta may be adjusted speedily. Removal of Police Froni Cars Demanded AUGUSTA, GA., Sept. 26.—Following the action of the Augusta Federation of Trades last night, a committee will call on Mayor Thomas Barrett today to demand that policemen be taken off the street cars, where they have been placed to protect non-union motormen and conductors. The labor men of Augusta have threatened a sympathetic strike if their demands are not complied with. They hold that General Manager Deal, of the railway company, is entirely responsi ble for the street railway strike, and that the strikers should be allowed to fight their battles with the company without the latter being assisted by the police. The labor men say there has been no disorder on the cars so far. City offi cials declare that policemen on the cars have been the only cause of keep ing down disorder, and that the cars could not run five minutes unless under police protection. Union labor men paraded on Broad street last night 800 strong. However, there was no disorder save shouting. It is confidently expected that Mayor Barrett will refuse to take the police men off the cars, and there may be a general strike ordered within a day or two. There will be another.meeting of the union labor men tonight, when a report of a committee appointed to see Mayor Barrett will be heard. Policemen are on the cars today. MRS. HOPE IRWIN TO LIVE; INSANITY ONLY REASON FOR TRAGEDY MARIETTA, GA., Sept. 26.—Mrs. Hope Irwin, who yesterday morning was beaten into insensibility with a baseball bat by her husband Just before he committed suicide by cutting his throat with a razor, will recover, in the opinion of Dr. W. H. Pcrkinson, the attending physician. Dr. Perkinson visited the injured woman this morn ing and announced that she would sur. vlve unless unforeseen complications arise. Mrs. Irwin spent a good night and is resting easily today. She is now able to talk to the few relatives and friends who are admitted to see her. She is still unable to offer any explanation of the tragedy save a sudden insanity brought on by epilepsy from which he had suffered at times for years. GEMS VALUED AT S7BO MISSING FROM NORTH SIDE HOME Detectives are striving to solve the mystery of the disappearance of dia monds and jewels worth S7BO from the flat of J. F. Jackson, an Insurance man. Farltnger Court, East avenue. The jewels, which belong to -Mrs. .Jackson, were taken from the house while she was ill in a hospital. They had been placed in a chamois bag when Mrs. Jackson was taken Hl. ATLANTA, GA., THURSDAY, SEPTEMBER 26, 1912. Electricity Is Cure For Insomnia; Turn Switch And Sleep All You Like German Physician Says He Has Tried It With Success On Animals. BERLIN, Sept. 26. —Electric sleep, which may be turned on and off at will, is the alluring prospect offered to peo ple suffering from insomnia, by Dr. Na getechmidt. who describes his inven tion for this purpose, in a medical mag azine. He asserts he has devised a new form of electric current which, when applied to the base of the brain,,will produce a narcotic effect, able to be maintained as long as is desired. It has been tried with the greatest success, and without any injurious effects, on dog-' and rabbits. Dr. Nagelschmidt is con vinced that it can be equally applied to human beings. The application of the current als > eliminates pain from any part of the body. WANT BOATS TO RUN ON THREE GEORGIA RIVERS DURING ENTIRE YEAR MACON, GA., Sept. 26.—Sixteen cities and towns on the Octnulgee. Oconee and Altamaha livers are repre sented by delegates to a convention be ing held here today in the interests of improving the inland waterways of southeast Georgia. Congressman Brant ley is expected this afternoon. He wired last night that he was coming. The representatives here pre from Haw kinsville, Brunswick, Dublin, Lumber City, Datien, Milledgeville, Abbeville. Oconee,’ Mount Vernon, Cooktown and other places. The convention will draw up a peti tion memorializing congress to grant an increased appropriation for the im provement of these rivers. It is con tended that if the channels of the Oconee and Ocmulgee, which unite at Abbeville and form the Altamaha, are deepened, all-year navigation can be maintained. The convention was called by the Macon Chamber of Commerce, at the request of shippers along the routes ot the rivers. GEORGIA RAILROAD EMPLOYEES VOTING ON STRIKE ISSUE AUGUSTA, GA., Sept. 26.—Balloting began this afternoon among the con ductors, trainmen and yardmen of the Georgia railroad to determine whether or not there shall be a strike ordered The contluctors' committee has been holding sessions since September 10. and a number of conferences have been held with the officials of the road in regard to the adjustment of certain differences. AH negotiations have now come to an end, and a strike ballot has been ordered. Vice President Gregg, of the Order of Railway Conductors, is here The trainmen and yardmen have also been negotiating and no agreement has been reached. The trainmen are com posed of flagmen and brakemen. If the strike is ordered there will probably be 500 men out. The balloting will be completed within a day or two. NEW YORK G. O. P. STILL WRANGLING WITHOUT RESULTS SARATOGA, N. Y„ Sept. 26.—The net result of the second day’s session of the New York state Republican con vention was the renewal of the plat form fight, the rejuvenation bf the gu bernatorial boom of Senator Brackett and the declaration of Erie county del egates for William J. Daniels for gov ernor. In other respects the unbossed delegates rank practically paralleled the uncertainty and factional strife of the past few days. Job E. Hedges and James ’V. Wads worth, Jr., were still in the lead and there was no abatement of the determi nation of both men to make a strong fight on the convention floor when the delegates adjourned this afternoon. The fight on the platform was taken to mean that, the business of the con vention would be long drawn out. MONTGOMERY’S BALL FRANCHISE FOR SALE, SAYS OWNER TILLIS MONTGOMERY, ALA., Sept. 26. The Montgomery baseball franchise in the Southern league is for sale, ac cording to a statement of Owner Rich ard Tillis today, following the breaking off of negotiations for a guarantee fund by the Montgomery Business Men’s league. The league had raised the necessary guarantee to keep baseball in Mont gomery for the next three years, but Mr. Tillis and directors of the league could not agree on the contract which was to be signed by both parties. Mr. Tillis refused, during the past summer, an offer for the franchise from Little Rock. He declined to say today whether he would accept this offer if it was made again. "I gu« ss somebody will buy it,” he declared. JONES REFUSES TO EVICT HIS TENDERLOIN TENANTS Baby Athlete in Training to Dethrone Travers BOY, 2, IS A REAL GOLFER X—-s. > S /''“■''s. * LlJ >s ,• I Bk/ ® X i.l ■J’* ' Al If i W \ I % Jr \l ■K aSh ■ ■ ■■■ r I J .Monroe Ashe, two-year-old son of If. M. Ashe, Atlanta's coming candidate for the golf championship. Little Monroe Ashe Also Can Swim and Swat a Tennis Ball Like Champ. If careful training will count for anything Atlanta some day may pro duce a golfer who will bring the laurels of Jerome Travers to the East Lake club. Monroe Ashe, the two-year-old son of H. M. Ashe, is this golfer, but don't for a minute go away with the idea that he is not a golfer now. His father is aware of this last fact, and sometimes to his sorrow, for he he can't take a turn of the links when playing a handicap match w ith his ath letic baby. Little Mr. Ashe is a familiar sight on the East Lake course, and he is an ac complished player of the ancient and honorable game of a year's experience. His father's ambition to make him an athlete is responsible for the boy's abil ity to welt the gutta percha. Nor is golfing his only accomplish ment in the sport line. He can swim like a duck and bat a tennis ball with the best of his weight with a miniature racket designed for him. "It is getting to be.” said his father, "that 1 can’t go over the East Lake course without taking the boy along. At the sight of golf sticks he is like a pointer at the sight of a shotgun. He has got to go and he usually does.” SUPERIOR COURT CLEARS RECORDS OF DE LEON CASES Judge George Bell today dlsmiwsWd Ronald Ransome and H. L. Eraser as receivers for the affairs of Moist? De- Leon. Atlanta contractor, who disap peared six weeks ago, leaving his finan cial affairs J15,00<l short. The judge's action* was to rid the su perior court of the DeLeon cases. Bankruptcy proceedings recently insti tuted in Federal court will supersede superior court suits. Ransome and Era. sr r wer< named by Judge Newman in Federal court to handle Dei.eon's af fairs. U. S. DEBATES WHAT TO DO WITH MENA, NICARAGUAN REBEL WASHINGTON. Sept. 26.—State de partment officials here are worried eon. cerning the ultimate disposition of General Luis M< na. Nicaraguan rebel leader, who with 700 men surrendered to Rear Admiral Southerland at mid night on Tuesday. Acting Secretary of State Huntington Wilson is debating whether Mona shall be held by the American forces, turned over to the federate or exiled from the country. While the United States would not countenance officially the summary ex ecution of the rebel loader, it is well understood that the state department would make no protest should Presi dent Diaz follow such a course. Mena, by his barbarous attacks on women and children and non-combatants, and his shelling by his ships of unprotected households, has placed himself outside of the pale of civilization, and state department officials are of the opinion that his immediate execution would be the best thing for that country. In the same dispatch from Minister Weitzel, who confirmed Mena’s surren der. the state department learned that conditions at Granada when the Ameri can forces arrived there were of the worst possible. Women and children were dying in the streets from starva tion, while rebel soldiers brutally at tacked any one who made»an outcry. What little food, there was in the city had been captured by the rebels, who had also cut off the supply of water. DAUGHTER OF CROKER WINS DIVORCE DECREE NEW YORK. Sept. 26. -Mrs. Ethel Breen, daughter of Richard Croker, today obtained a divorce decree from John J. Breen, fortperly a riding mas ter in Central park. The final decree was obtained in supreme court when Breen failed to appear and oppose the motion. A Miss Maude Diehl, a telephone op erator, was named by Mis. Breen as co-respondent. Readily Admits He Owns Four Places and Declares Women Can Stay a» Long as They Please Without Pay ing Rent---Tells Them to Obey Chief 1 and He Will Provide Their Food. Flourishes a List of 186 Places He Asserts Are \ iolating Law, But Will Not Give Evidence’ to Chief---Reformers Warn of Moves Against- Beavers—-Appeal to Women Individually.; Charles (’. Jones, proprietor of the Rex and well-known sporting man. readily admitted this afternoon that he owned four of thel houses in our midst, asserted that 186 places were being run ill®.' gaily in the city outside of the district, and then unfolded a plan to) care for a tew score of the women affected by Chief Beavers’ determi* j nation to wipe out the tenderloin of Atlanta. Here is his remarkable statement: ”Yes, I own four houses down there, and I'm not ashamed t<>| say so. I ve always been square and above hoard. You have know® 1 me long enough to know that. When this order went out I told the inmates of my places to stay light on and they needn't pay any rent. I told them I didn’t need the money and they could stay there a month, a year, or two years, and if they needed food they could come to me and get it. I told them to obey the order of the chief implicitly, to refuse to let a man cross their door step, but they could stay in the houses and have a roof over their heads. They can’t put them out if they do not violate the laws. ’’ Jones, telling of the illegal resorts outside the “district,’’ showed a list of names. “ I said 186, not 286, as Captain Poole said,’’ he explained. "Here are the names." He drew from his pocket a dozen typewritten sheets hearing the names of women and addresses. Tin 1 latter included numbers in good blocks of some of the best known streets in town. They ranged from Peachtree and Spring streets down to the narrow thor oughfares of the slums. Has the Proof That Houses Are Illegal. The names of perhaps a hundred women were on other sheets. “The.-e are street walkers,” said Jones. “Why didn't you give the list to the police?" he was asked. “Who is chief of police?” he returned, aggri ssively. "Beavers, or me’.’ It’s his business, not mine.” "Could you prove your statement that the addresses on that list are illegal houses?’.’ "I could. The men who made the list can swear to the facts.” "Who made the lists?” “Well, that’s another question. I don't care to say.” “Would you testify to these facts if called before court or grand jury?” Shows Lists But Will Not Testify. “No, I wouldn’t. I'm not a police man.” The proprietor of the Rex, a well known figure in Atlanta for years, was visibly annoyed at having his name printed in connection with the tender loin matter. Jones refused to discuss the probable effect of the chief's order. He said he did not want to be drawn into a dis cussion, was sorry he had been dragged into the papers, and had told a police officer about the 186 places without the thought that it would he used as official information. He permitted a reporter to look over the lists, but declined to permit any memoranda made of the names or addresses. The announcement that there were 186 illegal houses was made when Po lice Captain Poole, carrying out the or ders of his chief, served Jones with no tices that three houses he was reported to own in the district must be vacated within the specified five days. Jones accepted the service calmly. He had announced that he would not attempt to block In any way the police department's work, but as he put the notices into his pocket he pulled out a bundle of papers. 186 Places Run Illegally, He Says. “1 have here,” he said, “ the names and addresses of 186 places in Atlanta run illegally. I have the names of the owners and the proprietors. I have the evidence." Captain Poole informed Chief Beav ers of the charges today. He declared that he had asked Jones for his evi dence, but that he had refused. "Jones, as a citizen of Atlanta,” de clared the chief, “should produce this evidence, and if he does I will act upon It. I will put these places out of busi ness, or do my best to, just as I will all other places run in defiance of the law. They all must go.” The chief added that he was giving uou LPITION 2 CENTS EVERYWHERE Jones’ charges serious consideration and had not decided yet whether tn make formal demand for his evidence. Police authorities are inclined to doube whether he had the power to take such action. Residents of the restricted district have already begun to leave the city and a general exodus is expected. Many of them have gone to Birmingham and others have left for cities in the state. There is little hope that many will ba induced to take advantage of the offey of the Men and Religion Forward Movement leaders. Offgr Aid to All Women Who Will Accept. Leaders in the Men and Religion Fors ward Movement and a number of min isters and social workers of Atlanta will meet at noon today to begin a can vass of the restricted district and offei» the exiled women opportunities to turrt to a better life. The workers have a> cash fund of SIO,OOO available for ear ing for the women who will accept I sbtance and say there are enough sit-: nations pledged to take care of all tha women who will accept them. The report that the financial backers of the underworld would establish A new tenderloin outside the city but within the county lines is not given! credence today. Sheriff Mangum, whij was quoted yesterday as saying he' would not interfere with such a move unless forced to do so, denied making any such statement and both the sheriff and Chief Zach Rowan, of the county police, say they will co-operate witty Chief Beavers in putting out vice. Recorder Broyles’ statement to Tht> Georgian yesterday that he would up hold the chief by giving offenders tha limit penalty of the law, was borne out in the first cases to come before hitn-j He held the lessee and manager of tha Albian hotel in Pryor street under SI,OOO bonds for the higher court. Two Stranded Show Girls Help Police Crusade. Two girls found in the St. Clair hotel in Forsyth street under questionable circumstances have told the police of numerous other cases where women, were using the "hotels” as a blind for* vice. The girls’ story shows the evil effect of some of the cheap vaudeville theaters, too. They were brought to' Atlanta by a ten-cent theatrical troupe which st landed here in two days after arrival, leaving the girls penniless. Marion M. Jackson, head of the Men and Religion Forward Movement, de clared that if houses In the city are rented for Immoral purposes in future the owners, and not merely the proprie tors, will be put in jai). The state law is plain on this subject and makes tha owner equally girtlty with the manager. "We shall not stop with fines,” said Mr. Jackson. "The law says such an owner is subject to a fine of not mote than SIOO and imprisonment not ex ceeding 30 days. Some of these rich gentlemen wilt find out what the roclf pile means if they rent houses for im moral purposes.” Assist Police in Ferreting Out Vice. Two girls, members of a stranded "theatrical” company, are aiding th< police force today in running down ths so-called hotels which are hotbeds of vice, and their information has led to a number of arrests. The girls, Frances