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the weather forecast for Atlanta and Georgia: Showers today; fair tomorrow. VOL. XL NO. 48. SLEUTHS TO HP TAB ON TEBEMN FUGITIVES Women Not Leaving City Will Be Trailed Relentlessly by Detectives. TONIGHT MARKS REAL CLOSING UP OF DISTRICT Event Likely To Re Somber Rather Than Hilarious—Vice Sermons Sunday. ■jVnmen of the Tenderloin who leave th district which once sheltered them and seek to open new places in other portions of the city will be driven out 'gain by the police. Wherever they go tiva will be trailed by relentless •■shadows” of the detective force. They will be watched at every movement. chief Reavers today declared his in tention of preventing the opening of any new resorts, even if it becomes nec essary to keep a special guard sta tioned m front of every suspected riuso. lin Poole was sent to the Man ha’bir: avenue district today to take a census of the underworld. Under or of the chief, he recorded the names nd ■ description of every woman re maining in the district. The record vi I bi kept, and police and detectives givi-n copies, in order that they may a just what women have been or- Cereii from the district. The orders re miring all inmates to leave the Tender by Monday, October 7, also. were on the women. Not Likely To Be Celebration Tonight. night will mark the closing of the nd. i ioin. but it is likelv to be more ning of mourning than a night of < l.ration. The publicity given to the <: k t by the chiefs order and its de vei pments has served to keep away th visitors, who fear a police raid or t ie visits of reporters, and it is not he ld d that the last night will be made a c arrival. In nearly every church in Atlanta to i..w the ministers will pay atribub i (def Beavers and his courage in -mg the houses. Many of them will pnadi special sermons on vice. This type of vice must go.” said • f Beavers today. “The women will not be permitted to ply their trade on ’h. streets or in residence districts or >tels. We shall keep close tab on ■m. Thev shall never be free from police surveillance. If we have cause :■ aspect that any of them have rent 's : H.ms or homes, we shall make them keep the laws, if we have to station special guards before their places to <i" it. “There is a city ordinance against women of this stamp appearing on the streets at night. This will vigorously be enforced in future. Any of these women on the proscribed list-seen out at night will he arrested and locked up. I Tiny will be watched in the daytime, and if they are disorderly they will be arrested. Chief Newport Lanford, of the de uetive department, today ordered his ni' ii to keep close watch on all women suspected as being of loose character, and especially to inspect the cheap Iging houses and guard against vice I in such places. DR CALEB RIDLEY TO DISCUSS WAR ON VICE IN SUNDAY SERMON A s. ries of character studies will be sivr-r as Sunday night sermons by Rev. ' '"b A. Ridley, pastor of the Central baptist church. Tomorrow night he will lake up “Saul, the Politician.” He also 11 discuss the action of Police Chief '■'avers ,n ordering the segregated dis ’ a t . msed up, and will speak, too, on 'Tim Policeman's Pistol.” A triple chorus of 100 voices will sing al these services, and it is believed that ev.-rv seat wi]) |, e taken. Organ music a d start at 7:30 o'clock, BRIDE. SHOT BY HUBBY, BEGS FOR FORMER SUITOR ST LOUIS. Sept. 28.—Mrs. Bernice Mohana's first appeal after she was t and wounded seriously by her hus -1 nd of a few months, was that a for sweetheart be brought to her side. 1 don't see him I know I’ll die." she 1 d her sister, Mrs. Catherine Collins. That she had been forced to marry '1 'hana at the point of a revolver was J ■ statement made by Mrs. Mohana at < 'ity hospital “Ho always carried ’’ ' yolvei. and he told me he would kill T'.jf 1 did not marry him,” she said. 1 lived in terror of him and intend to 8t 1 a divorce if I recover.” The Atlanta Georgian Read For Profit—GEORGIAN WANT ADS—Use For Results. Bishop of Fort Wayne And Eight Others Get Death Threat in Note i Pastor of Indiana Church In Collapse as Result of Assas sination Letters. SOUTH BEND, IND.. Sept. 28. Death to Archbishop H. J. Alerding, of the Fort AA ayne see, and to eight oth er persons was the threat contained in a letter received by the committee in chaige of St. Bova's church, pas tor, Rev. Charles Stuer, is in a nefvous collapse as the result of other threats received by the church members in the past twenty months. The letter reads: The death list for this week is as follows: Bishop of Fort AA’ayne, Matilda Derue. Alfonse Derue, Alfonse De crocker, Camiel Hanseeuw, Camiel DeMueriere, Mary Hanseeul, Ca miel Nieuland, Johnyßultinck. Your years are counted and just a few more and it will be done with you all. AA'e intend to get you unexpectedly. AVe will disappear in Julius Bennett's automobile. There are five men picked out to do the murdering. The letter is written in Flemish. All named in the fnissive, except Arch bishop Alerding, are Belgian residents of Mishawftka, a town near here. ATLANTAN? ONCE POOR STUDENT, AIDS NEEDY TECH PUPIL That the appeal of Professor G. Hol man Gardner, of Georgia Tech, for one or more Atlanta men to come forward and help send a poor boy through that institution was not in vain was shown this morning. A former student of Professor Gard ner saw his appeal in The Georgian and today volunteered to pay half of the young man's expenses. The man who did this was. only a few years ago. a poor country boy himself, trudging five miles daily to attend Donald Fra ser institute when Professor Gardner was head of that school. He worked his way through school and took highest honors. Today he is one of Atlanta’s most successful busi ness men. Professor Gardner now wants anoth er Atlantan to pay the other half of the student's expenses. It will take $lO a month for nine months. ORPHANS APPEAL TO WORKERS FOR FUNDS; STATE HOME IN NEED AA'hile most of the orphans homes in this section will ask that their friends observe next Saturday as "work day” for them, the Georgia Industrial Home, of Macon, has chosen today as the time when the 140 little children there ask that men and women of the state give them the wages of their one day’s la bor. The Georgia Industrial Home is overflowing with the 140 children with in its walls, and it has seven applica tions for admission of other children. In addition to this, the management says the treasury fund's are low and the grocery bills are in arrears. An appeal for money has been made to all friends of the orphans, whether they be connected with a church or not. HAVE YOU A BACK DRAUGHT IN YOUR EAR? DON’T SMOKE SOUTH NORAVALK, CONN., Sept. 28. Ernest Kei n. an inveterate smoker of Silvermine, near here, has had to give up all varieties of smoking because he has a back draught through his right ear. This peculiar circumstance is the re sult of having one of his back teeth pulled the other day. The root was so deep that it opened an aperture Into a canal leading to Mr. Kern’s ear, which absolutely precludes his drawing on a cigar or pipe. All the breath he gets seems to go the way of the least resistance, and all drinks with straws in them are barred on Mr. Kern's diet list. ROOSEVELT iFaSKED TO HEAR SERMON ON BIBLE AT TABERNACLE "Is the Bible divinely inspired?” will be the question asked by Dr. Robert Stuart MacArthur in his sermon to morrow morning at the Sunday school session of the Baptist Tabernacle. Ho will answer the question with several similar queries often made. Colonel Theodore Roosevelt, an old friend of Dr. MacArthur, has been in vited to attend the morning service at the Tabernacle, but it is not known whether he will he able to accept. Dr. MacArthur has accepted an invitation to introduce Colonel Roosevelt to his Auditorium audience tonight. THOUSANDS FLEEING ISLAND SHAKEN BY VOLCANIC ERUPTION PALERMO, ITALY, Sept. 29.--An earthquaf< shock was felt today on the island of Stromboli. where Mount Strom boli, the volcano, Is in eruption Several shiploads of refugees left the island, while many others from the in terior joined the fugitives upon the coast The activity of the volcano Increased to day and the smoke and flames can be seen for many miles Part of the island is covered to the depth of eight feet with ashes. Many vineyards have been burned. ATLANTA, GA.. SATURDAY. SEPTEMBER 28. 1912. WIN OH LOSE. IIVILSONIO CONTINUE FHTK "However, I Feel That I Have Arrived in American Poli tics,” He Asserts. i BATTLING FOR PRINCIPLE; RESULTS ARE SECONDARY Governor Highly Pleased Over Generous Receptions Met in New England. Ta'EAA YORK, Sept. 28.—"1 feel that I have arrived in American politics.” This was the humorous utterance to. day of Governor Woodrow Wilson, the Democratic nominee for the presiden cy, during short talks he gave reporters who awoke him at his hotel. After he had talked to the reporters he went back to bed, tired but with his long New England campaign and expecting to be up late tonight at the dinner to be given to National Chairman Mc- Combs. He expected during the after noon to confer with several national leaders, but no definite plan for these talks was made. Discussing his New England inva sion, the governor said: “I feel immensely gratified and en couraged by my receptions in New England. I was especially impressed i with the fact that everywhere great | crowds with whom I came in contact land the people whom I met personally I seemed to take it sot granted that the I Democratic ticket would be elected, i That struck me as being remarkable i significant. The size And enthusiasm of I the crowds that wanted to hear me I speak and see me also impressed me | and it was gratifying to find it so in | teresting. i "There can be no doubt that they are thinking seriously; that they are anx i ions to find out what I had to say." "Os course, you feel that the Demo cratic ticket will win," it was sug- I gested. Fighting For Principle, Says Wilson. I have not allowed myself to form any conclusion on the subject,” was the prompt answer. “It will be the same tn me whether I win or lose—l shall keep on fighting for a principle However, I feel that I have arrived in American politics. When I was can didate for governor of New Jersey I thought 1 had arrived when a stranger in a campaign crowd slapped me on the back and exclaimed: 'How are you I Doc "I felt sure of it the other day when a man in overalls called out to me when I stood on the rear platform of the private car: 'You're all right Woody!' ’ Now I know it, for somebody in the* audience at Bridgeport cried out in the middle of my speech. 'Say, you're all right. Kid!’” The governor and his party enter tained three women on his private car "Federal,” from Bridgeport to Stamford last night. They were Mrs. Homer S. Cummings, wife of the national com mitteeman of Connecticut, and two of her friends. The ladies were scorted through the car on a sightseeing expe dition by the governor himself, who remarked that “ all the car needs is the tender feminine touch to make it per fect." “Looks to me as if it needed the touch of a feminine broom,” retorted Mrs. Cummings. Enthusiastic J Committees. Local committees from all over the towns in which the governor spoke had been overseeing the car, boarding it miles In advance of their own towns to I assure their candidate that he would got a fitting reception, and scattering cigar ashes and cigarette butts and burned matches all over the plush car pet. The governor will rest in Seagirt to morrow. He goes to Atlantic City on Monday to attend a convention, and on Tuesday he will attend the Now Jer sey Democratic convention at Trenton. Then he will leave in the morning and board his private car for Denver, Colo., x»n his second Western tour. STRANGLES GARGLING HER THROAT: PARALYZED. DIES I HANNIBAL, MO.. Sept. 28- Mrs. Ed- ■ ward Turner, who arrived here from ■ Parsons, Kans., with her husband Mon- I day. died suddenly from strangulation. | She was gargling her throat with pe | roxide when she strangled ami almost ; immediately was paralyzed. She lived I but two hours. Mrs. Turner was in good health, ex | cept for a slight throat affection. Brass Band and Cheering Moosers To Greet T. R. Here ROOSEVELT IN GEORGIA TODAY V ■ a, A \ / ? ' \ '' Z W D ik i ■ I I \ \ J / y * COLONEL THEODORE ROOSEVELT. Colonel Arrives at the Treminal at 7:30 P. M. —Auditorium Speech Free to AIL Theodore Roosevelt invades Georgia today and local Bull Moosers are an ticipating in tonight's meeting at the Auditorium-Armory the greatest polit ical gathering Georgia ever has known. The enormous building, with a packed seating capacity of 8,000, is not ex pected to hold the crowd. Bull Moosers from all over Georgia will be on hand in force. Besides the faithful, there will be hundreds of Democrats, Taftites, Tom Watsonites, mugwumps, mollycoddles, undesirable citizens and suffragists clamoring for admission. All are invited to come, if they can get in. n ’he Bull Moosers are extend ing the welcoming hand to everybody. So long as the light holds out to burn, the vilest sinner may retur. Unregen erates, weaklings, the lame, the halt and the mind are included. Then the Colonel Does the Rest. The idea is to get them in reach of the colonel's voice, then he is confident ly expected to do the rest. Colonel Roosevelt arrives in Atlanta this evening at 7: 30'o'clock. He speaks at the Auditorium-Armory at 8 o'clock. There will be only one other address, the brief introductory speech’of Dr. Robert Stuart MacArthur. It Is planned to meet the colonel at the Terminal station with a barss hand and a crowd of enthusiastic admirers, to form a sort of escort of honor to the A uditorlum-Armory. At the speaking tonight, red ban danna handkerchiefs, the mbletn of the Progressive party, will be distributed among the audience, as well as a lot ot especially prepared hymn books. This book contains tlie campaign song of the Bull Moosers, "Meet Me at Armaged don.” Only Few Seats Reserved, There will be no reserved seats at the speaking, with the exception of the seats on the stage, a section for wom en, another smaller section for a bevy of ('ox college girls and a section for negroes. Admission to these seats will be by card. The doors will open at 7 o’clock and the speaking will begin at 8 o’clock. Those who desire seats will do well to go early. The former president enters Georgia at Columbus about noon today. He will deliver a short address there, from the rear platform of bis train, and will be hurried to Macon, where at 3 o'clock in the afternoon he delivers another ad d less. Erom Macon he comes straight to Atlanta. After the speaking, the colonel will be taken at once to the Georgian Ter race, where he will retire early. Tomorrow he hopes to visit his moth er’s old home in Roswell, Cobb county. Crowds Greet T. R. In Montgomery MONTGOMERY. AHA. Sept. 28- Great crowds greeted Theodore Roose velt when he arrived in Montgomery today. Til y cheered the colonel at his hotel and crowded into the hostel y while he was at hi- breakfast The jam was so great outside that it threat ened to push through the glass doors of the dining room. The colonel was phased with the in terest shown. He left Montgomery at 9:30 o'clock for Opelika. Ala., his last stop in the state-. He will go from there to Macon, ( lit. 1 DEAD, 1W MWECK Repairer Crushed When Engine Hits Coaches Under Which He Is Working. Odus Palmer, a car repairer, 231 Mc- Daniel street, is dead at the Atlanta hospital, and William O. Shell is lying seriously injured at his home, 331 Windsor street, as the result of a col lision in the shop yards of the South ern railway, near the McDaniel street crossing, at 8:30 o'clock this morning. An engine, in charge of T. T. Stevens, jumped a switch and crashed into a string of passenger coaches on a sid ing for repairs Palmer was under the head coach. His right leg was severed above the knee, and he was injured in ternally. He died on the operating ta ble 30 minutes later. Shell, who was on top of the coach, was hurled to the ground, but escaped with bruises. He was removed to his home. Engineer Stevens said his locomotive, which was trailing a string of box cars, nosed into the siding before he was aware the coaches were in his path. Several other car repairers escaped s< rious injury by noticing the approach of the switch engine in lime to flee. SILK HOSE AS SYMBOL OF TARIFF AND PROSPERITY NEW YORK. Sept. 28.—The wom an's department, National Republican league, has asked all members to wear silk stockings. The Idea is to show that high tariff and prosperity are as one silk-encased foot to another. DM 2 CENTS EVERYWHERE p ** R N ß a MIIIWEN IILLWIII JIUGUSTA ; 17 HELD Citizens Shot Down Crossing “Dead Line”—-Courtmartial for Men Who Fired. * I GOVERNOR PUTS CITY UNDER MARTIAL LAW Labor Men’s Mass Meeting Requests Chief Executive to Withdraw Troops. AUGUSTA, GA.. Sept. 28.—"Dwo meti are dead today and another is in a hos pital, badly wounded, while two cap-< tains and fifteen state militiamen ara under military arrest for court-martial trial as the result of shootings in the vicinity of the Augusta-Aiken Railway and Electric Corporation’s Fifteenth street power plant early last night. The men were shot because they crossed a military dead line. The city is under martial law, with Adjutant General William G. Obear, of the Georgia National who ar rived this morning from Atlanta, in command. Colonel O’Leary, of the First Georgia Infantry, arrived today from Savannah to assist in handling the situation. The order for martial law was issued by Goverhor Joseph M. Brown last night. In addition to the four companies of Augusta troops that have been under arms since early yesterday morning, a company arrived this morning from Waynesboro. Troops today are sta tioned at the power plant and at the militia armory. Alfred Dorn, the first man killed, wa s.iot through the heart as h- was driv ing a buggy out Fifteenth street on his way home from business early last night. B. F. Baker, who was with Dorn in the buggy was shot through a shoulder, arm and hip. He is seriously wounded, but is expected to recover. Bullets Kill i Autoist; Tear Up Car. Robert Christie, the other man killed, died Ina hospital at 3:15 o'clock this morning, after suffering about eight hours. He was shot as he was driving out Fifteenth street In his automobile. Charles Wilson and wife narrowly escaped being shot, as they were driv ing through the street in their auto. Several bullets tore holes In their car. Will Caln, attempting to ride through the street on a motorcycle, was shot at, one bullet tearing a hole in the handle bars of his wheel. He was not in jured. Captain Jowltt, in charge of the pick et line, and Captain Henderson, officer of the day, are the officers under ar rest. Major Abraham Levy, command* Ing the Augusta battalion, ordered their arrest after the shootings were report ed to him. At a big labor mass meeting night a resolution was adopted asking Governor Brown to withdraw the troops, claiming that "irresponsible mi litia’’ had shot down "citizens of Au gusta while peacefully traveling the streets.” Governor Brown, however, considered the situation one demanding more stringent control and Increased, instead of withdrawing, the military. The resolution was telegraphed to the governor. Fifteenth street is a well traveled thoroughfare. The picket lines were es tablished on the street about 100 yards from each end of the power plant. Troops were sent there from the armory late in the afternoon, after a report be came current that street railway strik ers and sympathizers planned to dyna mite the plant. It was not generally known that the soldiers were on duty in that section. Challenge By Troops Not Understood. Dorn and Baker, the first of those shot, were challenged by the first sen try they approached. Dorn, it is claim ed, did not understand the order, and failed to stop. A sentry then fired in the air. This frightened Dorn's horse, which started to run aVay, and the guards opened fire with fatal effect. When Christie approached he was challenged, but did not atop immediate ly. The first shot fired at him struck his steering hand and the car rolled on with the occupant unable to check it. He received several other wounds. As Wilson's car approached the dead line and he was fired on, it is said he drew his pistol, but was prevented by his wife from firing on the soldiers. The news of the shootings spread rapidly through the city, and great