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the weather Forecast f.r Atlanta and Georgia: Fair today and tomorrow. VOL. XI. NO. 52. innwiH tom ■ ON IN HHIKST Woodward and Chambers Both Expect to Get Votes Given Brown and Johnston. SECOND PRIMARY WILL BE HELD WEDNESDAY, OCT. 16 Battle Lines Drawn for Hottest Political Fight in the Whole History of Atlanta. With James G. Woodward, leader in thp primary by 596 votes, and Aldine Chambers deadlocked for the mayoral ty preparations for what is expected to be one of the bitterest political fights in the history of of the city be gan today. The battle will last probably two neeks, as the second primary, according to John Y Smith, chairman of the rity Democratic executive committee, will be held a week from next Wednes day - October 16. What it lacks in length will be made up by the vigor with which it will be fought. Woodward, who polled a total of 4.- !i" votes, -aid today he was confident :hat he will be the next mayor of At lanta. Chambers, with 3.677 votes to his credit, was equally certain that his will be the prize. He declared that many of the votes cast for Dr. George Brown sn<! Steve It. Johnston, whn ’together polled 1.363, would in the next race go to him. The Woodward faction made the same claim. Vote Lighter Than Was Expected. chairman Smith has called a meeting pf ti " committee for 12 o'clock today to consolidate and declare the results of tsterday's primary and fix a date for the tecond primary. He said the commit ;<-e could not call a primary earlier thin tin days after the first primary i■! later than 30 days. All the mem bers of the committee want the mayor al nomination decided at once, and Wednesday, October 16. two weeks from i'.sterday, is expected to be named as the date. The total vote. 9,404 of a registra tion <if 13,890. was lighter than was ex pect-d. for the day was perfect ana .•■•••• was even indication of intense Interest. I - n-> C, Woodward lacked only 431 1 -of receiving a majority over all rii of his opponents. He beat Al iine Chambers by 596 votes. Un cibtedly many of the friends of Dr. rgi Brown and Steve R. Johnston ■c their votes for either Woodward chambers, realizing that the contest solely between them. Turner Wins Easily Despite Attack. r- -tilt was: Woodward. 4,273; ' iinbt i-. 3,677; Brown, 693. and John iton. 670. Ihe overwhelming victory of R. C. ' met -.\as nothing short of a shock to lenient. The Georgia Railway fewer Company made no secret of vigorous fight against him. Turner ■’i-'d the company and his oppo- Iw'd Miles, with equal fervor. vot< va.-: Turner, 5,543: Miles, 3,- 118 ■ be S Robert made a remat ka howing against R. M. Clayton, chief "nstruction The vote was close, 5,064; Robert, 4,187. mn is Evans was an easy winner s B. LaSalle for re-election as warden. He got 6,721 votes, and S;, H“ got 2.249. Results in Races for City Council, ■ plurality nominates -for council. ■suits in the wards where there ■ p contests were: . ■"'l \\ ard—S. S. Shepard, 684; Coun- ia " ''arl N. Guess, 539; A g. Had . F',' . 006 Yard— J. D Sisson, 374; J. W. "•’■enth Ward—A. R. Colcord. 588; ,'' ' nan H. Andrews, 368. A ard—Councilman W. G. • i ’’ 691 • • ,osp Ph Nutting. 251. W D White) 452; J. P. '-ard— J. t. Kimbrough, 209; ’ v'y. KO; D, J. Lee, 63. ts J l-1 in ’he primary, especially ~ rs ‘ 'ween Woodward and Charn fmner and Miles, reached fe- But the bitterness in the "ntest has Just begun. Re -5 r inr ' ’he date of the second tight between Woodward Continued on Page Two, The Atlanta Georgian Read For Profit—GEORGIAN WANT ADS—Use For Results. J. P. MORGAN ADMITS GIFT 0F5151,100 TH MU. Banker Testifies to Campaign Contributions in 1904 Before Senate Probers. CHAS. EDW. RUSSELL’S STORY FALSE. HE SAYSi Gift to Taft’s Fight in 1908 Was $130,000 Less Than to the Colonel’s. WASHINGTON. Oct. 3.—J. Pierpont Morgan told the senate committee in vestigating campaign contributions to day that he contributed 1150.000 in 1904 to the Republican fund, which fur thered the election of Theodore Roose velt. This money was given in two payments, the first of SIOO,OOO in Oc tober and the second of $50,000 in No vember. The committee had already learned that SIOO,OOO had been contributed by J. P. Morgan & Co. In 1904. but the statement as tb -ihe additional $50,000 came as a surprise. Mr. Morgan also stated that he contributed $20,000 to the Republican campaign in 1908. In that year 'William H. Taft was the Re publican candidate for president. The amount given that year was $130,00“ less than that of 1904. Mr. Morgan arrived in the commit tee room promptly at 10 o’clock, ac companied by H. L. Satterlee and his daughter. At 10:06 o’clock the committee was called to order, with Mr. Morgan on the stand. On being sworn, Mr. Mor gan gave his residence as 219 Madison avenue. New York city, and his occu pation- a banker. Senator Clapp then read to him a clipping containing a statement by Charles Edward Russell, in which the writer charged that Thedore Roosevelt from the white house demanded that Morgan raise SIOO,OOO additional to the sum the banker had already contrib uted for Roosevelt's fight against Par ker. Thee lipping told of a visit made by Wayne MacVeagh to the office of Morgan in- October of 1904, at which time Morgan was called to the telephone to talk to “somebody in Washington.” The money king sat silently while Sen ator Clapp read the long newspaper clipping, at the end of which the chair man of the investigating committee asked: Brands Telephbne Story As Untruth. “Do you recall an incident of this kind ?” “None at all.” “Do you recall a visit of MacVeagh to your office?” “No, I don’t: but he may have come there. The circumstances of the tele phone is a fiction made out of whole cloth. I never had any communica tion through the mails or over the tel ephone with President Roosevelt in my life." “Did you contribute to the Republi can campaign fund of 1904?” "I did.” "How much?” After consulting his notes, the wit ness replied: "In October I gave them SIOO,OOO and added $50,000 more on November 1.” “Was this all you gave the Republi can fund?” “It was.” "Were there any other contributions made by you to the 1904 campaign?" “None that I recall.” “Who solicited the contribution of $100,000?" "I assume it was Cornelius Bliss.” “Do you recall the fact of making this contribuiton?" “No; but the records show that it was made.” “To whom was the second contribu tion of $50,000 on November 1, 1904, made?” "I do not recall." Harriman Did Not Solicit Donation. “Did Mr. Harriman solicit any con tribution from you?” "No; T knew nothing of his cam paign fund, except what I have haerd since.” “He never solicited of you?” “I don't think Mr. Harriman ever solicited any money from me." A. No: I don't remember any. Q. In 1908 did you make any contri bution to the national campaign com mittee? A. The only one 1 made was one of i $20,000 to M;. Sheldon. I think that is all. it was paid in cash and not by check. ATLANTA, GA., THURSDAY, OCTOBER 3, 1912. •••••••••••••••••••••••••a 2 3 DIE IN SUICIDE PACT? • CHICAGO, Oct. 3.—Mrs. Mat- • • tie Butler, Mrs. Anna Brown and • • six-year-old Ruth Balldig are dead • • today by gas. Police declare the • • deaths followed a suicide pact. • • The little girl was a niece of Mrs. • • Butler. • • A blanket over the head of Mrs. • • Brown led the police to believe in • • a death agreement. • ••••••••••••••••••••••••as i v '/X i A \\ * ‘ // < ■ :'■ ■’ ' • - —■> \ \ -*"1 i w r ' ' JShE* \ \ \ 3H ST «•' "*» I \ \ * * \ aIBHv I \ \ fe L I ®A\ I \ \ i J BMW m iU : gßPfiy -a ’ CT L * i r / 4B ' I r ’ißr■ * 3 r S ——— VttMl 1»y f' " UU ylw Governor Wilson. Democratic candidate for the presidency, shaking hands with his ad mirers from his anto during his recent campaign trip into New England. FRANK G. HANCOCK, NEWSPAPER MAN, IS DEAD AT ASHEVILLE Frank G. Hancock, a newspaper man widely known in the South, recently ad vertising manager of the General Electric Company, died in Asheville, N. C., yes terday after a long illness. He was the son of the late F. G. Hancock, of At lanta. Mr. Hancock traveled over much of the world while a young man, and was an In timate friend of Jack London, Rex Beach, and others whom he had known while In the Klondike. He was known as ■ bril liant writer and a man of great personal magnetism. He was but 30 years old. He is survived by his widow, his moth er. Mrs Eulalie Hancock; a brother, Leon idas Hancock, and a sister, Mrs. Julia Sawyer. The funeral will take place In Atlanta, at 86 Forrest avenue, tomorrow morning at 10:30 o'clock. Rev. C. B. Wil mer will conduct the services. Interment will be in Westview. GEORGIANS ASKED TO GIVE EARNINGS OCT. 5 TO ORPHANS HOME Work day for the orphans will be observed on Saturday, October 5, throughout the country. Special work ers will be appointed In Atlanta to so licit contributions and the orphan homes expect to obtain almost enough money from it for current expenses In 1913. The Decatur Orphans home and the Vineville home at Macon are among those which will benefit. Every person living In Georgia will be asked to give their earnings on that day to the or phans. MANY PRAY IN STREET: FIRE MENACES CHURCH NEW YORK. Oct. 3.—VThile firemen battled with a blaze that threatened to destroy St. Lucys Roman Catholic church hundreds of parishioners knelt in the street, all unheeding drenching water and flying embers, praying that the building might be saved. Father Philip Leone walked into the burning building, rescued the sacred vessels from the altar and was carried out, badly burned. CAVALRY TROOP TO CAMP AT FORSYTH NEXT WEEK FORSYTH. GA., Oct B—Troop B. Eleventh cavalry. United States army, will encamp in Forsyth on the night of Friday, October 11. This troop will give exhibition drills at the state fair, making the trip through the country from Fort Oglethorpe, Ga.. to Macon. They will arrive In Forsyth on Friday afternoon, will bivouac here for the night, and leave the next morning for the Central City. A suitable camping place already has been secured. GEORGIA TIE-UP IS BROKEN; TWO TRAINS START RUN WILSON A REAL HAND-SHAKER NOW Suffragette Sent to Prison for 5 Years Wins Hunger Strike Illness Brought On Herself Pro cures Release—Tries to Burn Royal Theater. DUBLIN. Oct. 3. Gladys Evans, the militant suffragette who was sentenced to five years penal servitude on Au gust 7 for trying to burn down the Theater Royal here during a demon stration in favor of suffrage, was to day released because of illness which she, brought u?on herself by her re fusal to eat the prison fare. The prison physicians declared it would probably prove fatal to imprison the woman further unless she dropped her hunger strike. JACK WILSON WILL BE LOWERED INTO GRAVE BY LIGHT OF TORCHES Jack Wilson will be buried at midnight tonight according to the ancient ritualistic burial service of the Scottsh Rite order, an honor accorded but one other man in the history of Georgia, Dr. K. J. Nunn, of Savannah. As knight commander of the court of honor, a thirty-second degree Mason, and one who was in line for the highest hon ors of the order, Jack Wilson was re spected and loved by all his brothers. No man who has not attained at least thirty degrees is entitled to the ancient service It will be that of a Knight of Kadosh and will begin promptly at midnight, ending by the light of torches at some hour of the morning. The burial takes place in Westview cemetery and the ritual will be read by a member of the order in St. Philips Episcopal cathedral. At 3 o'clock this afternoon the body will be taken from Patterson's chapel to the church by an escort of Knights Templars The escort will remain on guard at the bier until the Scottish Rite ceremonies begin. Special cars will be provided to night for members to go to the cemetery. GOVERNMENT PROBES MACON VICE DISTRICT MACON. GA., Oct. 3.—Coincident with the agitation for the abolition of the re stricted district In Macon, the govern ment has sent a special agent of the de partment of commerce and labor here to investigate "white slave’’ conditions of the city. He is J. T. Farmer, of Washington, and he is making a thorough probe The police committee of council Is of ficially handling the situation, having su perseded the authority of the. chief of police with its orders. This committee, as well as the entire city administration, is in favor of segregation rather than aboli tion. However, the churches are earnest ly striving to have lite disorderly houses closed ANNEX TO HOME FOR OLD WOMEN IS BEGUN; MORE MONEY NEEDED To provide accommodations for thirty or forty additional Inmates, a dining hall and a hospital ward will be added to the Home for Old Women. 61 West End avenue. Work on the foundation for the annex has been begun and the im provements, It is expected, will be com pleted by spring. It is planned to set aside a certain number of rooms in the annex for the accommodation of widows of Confederate veterans and to obtain an appropriation from the state for this purpose. A res olution providing such an appropriation failed to pass at the last session of the legislature. The board of managers of the home has funds to defray a substantial part of the cost of erecting and furnishing the addi tion, but much more is needed. Dona tions will be received by Joseph A. Mc- Cord. treasurer of the building fund. CITIZENS ON BRYANT PROTEST 4-FOOT CUT IN WIDTH OF STREET The citizens on Bryant street are protesting vigorously the act of the city in narrowing their street from 40 feet to 36 feet. A number presented a written protest at the city hall to day. They declare that Chief of Construc tion Clayton had a curbing put dowm on the 40-foot line and agreed to let it stay there. Without warning, they said, he moved it diagonally across South Boulevard in order to gain four feet. This greatly depredates the value of the property, they declare. They also said there absolutely was no reason in making the change, and that Captain Clayton would give no cause for it. THREE BURN TO DEATH IN TENEMENT BLAZE NEW YORK, Oct. 3.—Three men were burned to death, another was fa tally injured and forty other men, wom en and children were thrown into a panic by a fire early today in the five story tenement at 167 East Fourth street. Benjamin Goblitz, aged 19. was so frightened he could not open the doors of his room on the third floor and took refuge under his bed. He was found by a fireman and taken to Bellevue hos pital, where it was said he would <He. “ANIMAL KING” BOSTOCK SUFFERS BREAKDOWN LONDON, Oct. 3.—Frank Bostock, the "animal king." suffered an attack of nervous prostration, and is in a se rious condition. Mr. Bostock, who for merly conducted an animal show in New York, is the most famous animal trainer in the world Crew of Strikebreakers Leaves With Train from Augusta and Another Is Made Up Here While Union Men Look on Quietly—Detectives on Guard,but No Indications of Disorder. Many of the Imported Men Induced to Drop Out by Idle Trainmen—Mail Car Hitched on to Give Added Security—Railroad Declares Its Passengers Will Be Safe. The Georgia road tie-up was broken today with the running of a train from Augusta to Atlanta. At the same time, manned by a crew of strike-breakers brought from Philadelphia, Georgia passenger train No. 2, scheduled to leave Atlanta daily at 7:30 a. m., was made up in the yards of the Union station at 9:30 this morning ready for a run to Augusta to further break the complete tie-up that has existed on the whole Georgia system since 300 trainmen walked out on Tues day night. The train pulled ont at. 10:07 o’clock with a short crew and no passengers. There was no effort to stop its departure. To prevent, strikers from cutting the train anywhere en route, a mail coach was hitched to the rear. In case the mail was delayed the strikers would run afoul of Federal authority. According to reports, 53 strike-breakers recruited in New York and Philadelphia, arrived in Atlanta at an early hour this morning and were secreted in various down-town hotels. By 9:30 o’clock the railroad’s men had dwindled to some fifteen men cooped up in of fices of the company at the Union station waiting for No. 2 to move. A dozen of the near-strike hreakers fell into the hands of union striking conductors and trainmen congregated in the Union statioh, and after a half hour of argument decided not to go to work. The men were taken to the O. R. T. hail and w'ill be taken care of by the un ion as long as they remain neu tral. Strike-breakers Won Over To Union Side. According to a statement made by J. T. Hunt, one of their number, at least twenty of the men recruited to break the strike dropped off the train en route to Atlanta and an equal number disappeared when Atlanta was reached. He said that the majority of them had come to Atlanta under misrepre sentations. They were not informed, he maintained, that they were hired to break a strike. He said many were not skilled trainmen and had been em ployed as fast as they applied In an swer to advertisements in New York and Philadelphia newspapers. Officials of the Georgia railroad were confident this morning that No. 2 would make the run to Augusta with out Interruption and the opening of the line after the 36-hour tieup would mean that traffic would be resumed. One train a day Is the schedule that the company hopes to maintain from now on. No Disorder As Detectives Watch. While officials were busy getting the mall transferred to the coach attached to the rear, union men and union sym pathisers stood in knots in the Union station and watched the proceedings with more than interest. There was no sign of disorder, al though a half-dozen policemen and four or five detectives loitered through the crowd watching for any signs of trouble. The railroad officials announced that passengers would be accepted by the company and would be guaranteed a safe trip to Augusta. They said that no trouble was expected anywhere along the line. The strikers gave no intimation that they meant to Interfere with the op eration of the first train, and confined their efforts to winning over the strike breakers by argument. First Train Leaves Augusta AUGUSTA, GA., Oct. 3.—The first train on the Georgia railroad to leave Augusta since the beginning of the strike of conductors and trainmen de parted from the Union station this morning at 8:36 o’clock for Atlanta, just five minutes later than the regular scheduled time. In charge of the en gine was Engineer John W. Perkins, of 245 Telfair street, Augusta, with his regular negro fireman. The conductor and flagman were strikebreakers, who arrived in the city late yesterday after noon over the Atlantic Coast Line from New York. A regular Pullman con ductor had charge of the Pullman chair car. The train carried mail to various points along the road which have had no mail since the beginning of the strike. The pouches were heavy be- IXTRA 2 CENTS EVERYWHERE TECH BOY FOUND; KIBES JM SAFE' Tillman B. Gillespie, the missing Tech student of Birmingham, was located to day and Is safe and sound. A telegram from him to hi® father delivered by mistake to James Gillespie, of 1021 Empire building, bore this mes sage: "I am O. K. Just phoned mother Tillman.” The telegram was from Gadsden, Ala., and ends a long search for the youth instituted when he left the boarding house of Mrs. T. B. Brannan, at 275 Spring street. The boy’s father is J. F. Gillespie. cause of the accumulation of mall. The train went out with the Pullman next to the engine, then three passen ger coaches, a mail car and at the rear of the train was a baggage car. A large crowd gathered at the depot early this morning and ail were in tensely interested onlookers as prep arations were made for the train to gc out. Sheriff John W. Clark and a num ber of deputies were present and First Lieutenant George Britt, of the police department, had a half dozen officers on duty. However, there was not the slightest disorder. Strikebreakers Inconspicuous. The strikebreaking conductor and flagman did not make themselves very conspicuous at the depot and when the train moved out there was not even a jeer or a hiss. The train taken out to day was the last that came in from At lanta Tuesday night. The Georgia railroad strike situation is unchanged in so far as their being any prospect of an immediate adjust ment. Judge Martin A. Knapp/of the Unit ed States commerce rourt; United States Labor Commissioner Nell and State Commissioner of Commerce and Labor H. M. Stanley are expected in the city tonight or tomorrow and an attempt will be made to mediate or arbitrate. Both the management of the railroad and the officials representing the men on strike have indicated that they would be glad to hold a conlerence looking toward a settlement. The strike Is assuming serious proportions and business is at a standstill on the Geor gia railroad, while cotton In the local yards of the Georgia needs handling at once. Hits Towns Hard. With the strike liable to continue for several days, at least, matters will be come extremely serious for towns along the line of the road. Washington, Thomson, Sparta and other towns that have no railroad connection* save the Georgia will be in serious need of sup plies. Assistant Grand Chief Burgess, of the Brotherhood of Locomotive Engi neers, will arrive In the city some time today to look into the strike situation from the engineers’ point of view. A fireman’s representative has been hero for two days. The engineers have stat ed that they will be neutral in their attitude.