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W SUM
AS CLUBS
AWAIT
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Report Due Today Sure to
Urge Wiping Out of a Num
ber of "Oases.”
PLACES THAT DEFIED CITY
WILL BE PUT UNDER BAN
'• paling the report of the police
<o - mittee of council today, when, it is
■xp” ' i'Tl. it *will be recommended to
•■"innthat a number of Atlanta's
eliteen locker clubs be closed, the
"hi" was on tight yesterday and At-
Inmans experienced the "dryest” Sun
'•iv they have known since the early
days- of prohibition.
They were prepared for it then, but
5-sterday the "lid” was pushed down
ut i xp., tedly with the cold dampness f
t • fail at mt.sphere demanding, accord
ing to certain persons, interior wetness
as an antidote.
It had been announced that Police
r f Beavers was making a igid in
vestigation of all the clubs in the city
tit.it he would recommend to the
1 " committee that all not comply
ing with the law be closed. Only two
: ", "co of the largest clubs had the
'ineritv to remain open.
Humphrey Has Report
From Chief Beavers.
Tlie odd part of the whole situation,
inugh. was that Chief Bcifvers made
!’■ 8 report to the police committee sov
f .• days ago and there was no unusual
oh-'rvation going on yesterday.
Chairman W. G. Humphrey, of the
[hi , committee. has had Chief Beav
rr report in his pocket for several
■• ■. guarding it closely. He will call
'■"nimittee th order this afternoon
o'clock to vote on the clubs. The
mittee will make its report to coun
ihi- afternoon. It will undoubtedly
t'i • • mend that a number of clubs,
H'ltln ly those which have defied
'■ by running without a permit,
d. and council will very prob
""•> adopt the report of the committee.
• members of the police committee
hive given assurance that the real -o-
I ' clubs of the city will not be dis-
' 1 1 But they are under the ini-
on that a number of clubs are
barrooms run under the guise ol
'libs for the profit of certain individ
<'hairman Humphrey said that
tn,.... | h . j K determined to dose.
I'e committee does not believe that
tiieie is any violation of the law in the
m.'. social dubs that ii:a locker fen
rhe committee ami Chief Beav
have carefully investigated the
‘ile-iship lists and the system In
' ’ ' h driiiio lie served ill ■ very "th- of
■ have no inltmlion of diseiimi
”ii between social locker dubs rim
b moniineni men amt those run by
II dtiz. ns." .-aid < 'hail man 11 uni
"Both have a right to exist
the state and city laws. Ta<
run for individual profit are the
' R that are illegal."
'he first locker dubs licensed in At
-1 were taxed by the city and run at
di.-eiotion of council, council at
to dose the t'nion Mechanics
i.oa said to be ico ganized undei
"ibc: name, and this club appealed t->
L ta|o court-- The city's authority
II overruled.
The Atlanta Georgian
t Read For Profit—GEORGIAN WANT ADS—Use For Results.
Atlanta Elite Seizes
Turkey Trot to Break
Monotony of Dances
Step. Barred By Many, Features
Affair at Ultra Fashionable
Driving Club.
Atlanta's socially elite have adopted
tile turkey trot as their own. The
dance, barred by so many fashionable
I resorts and clubs, has found true ex
pression at the exclusive and ultra
j fashionable Piedmont Driving dub.
; At the dance Saturday night, the first
big dinner-dance of the season, the tur
key trot was given its first real tryout
in Atlanta. It was danced by all, from
the stately matrons' and men of affairs
to the season’s debutantes and the boys
just out of college.
They all like it. Sticklers for the
proper declare it is wholly refined.
Just now the big question is whether
the turkey trot shall be permitted at
the debutante balls. Mothers are put
ting tljeir beads together and it may oe
that Atlanta will see the gayest social
season of its history, with the turkey
trot the real dance and the waltz and
the two-step sandwiched in merely for
variety. . «
A big dance is already planned for
Halloween night at the Brookhaven
club, when all can dance’the turkey
trot to their hearts' content. Social
leaders say they believe the dance will
be adopted by the Capital City and
the Athletic clubs by the beginning of
another season.
SON FINDS FATHER,
MISSING FOR WEEKS.
SAFE IN ALMSHOUSE
[ .1. A. Bailey, of 17 Lucy street, mys-
teriously missing for two weeks, was
found today in the county alms house,
where he had been since he strayed
from his home. Bailey is so old and
infirm that he was unable to give any
information as to his identity.
W. H. Bailey, his son, cameyto the
police several days ago and asked that
a search be made for his father. To
day Chief Rowan, of the county police,
reported that the aged man, was in the
alms house.
The old man was found in a little
stream on the lino between 9'ulton and
<'ampboll counties about ten days ago,
half-drowned and ill from exposure. Ho
could give no intelligent account of his
Identity and was placed in the Tower
for a day or two and then transferred
to the alms house. His son will take
him home and cate for him.
M’COMBS IN CHICAGO
FOR CONFERENCE ON
SITUATION IN WEST
CHICAGO. <>et. 21.—William F. Mc-
Combs, chairman of the Democratic
na tii ma I committee, arrived in Chicago
today foi a conference with the West
ern leadei s of the party.
"I am here to get the general situa
tion in this section thoroughly in hand,”
he said. "Conferences with leaders from
all parts of tbi West will be held. We
will discuss thV ituatlon thoroughly.
Excellent reports have come fl om (-V
--| cry quin t'"i The election of Governor
Wilson is mu Ni< least doubtful. I am
not ready to make any prediction of
Hie vole."
McCombs predicted th.ii Wilson
w ould carry Penns.' Ivatiia
Mine Kills 500
Servians, Is Report
BELGRADE. Oct. 21. More than 500
Servian soldiers, all members of the
Seventh regiment of infantry, are re
ported to have been killed today by Hie
explosion of a Turkish mine on the
frontier of Novabazar.
RYi HELPED
WITHHALF
MILLION
1N1904
Millionaire Tells Clapp Com
mittee of His Connection
With Parker Campaign.
-•
WAS OPPOSED TO JUDGE,
BUT GAVE TO SAVE PARTY
WASHINGTON, Oct. 21.—Thomas
, Fortune Ryan, the New York financier,
testified before the senatorial commit
tee investigating campaign contribu
tions today that he had contributed
about $500,000 to keep the Democratic
national campaign from collapsing in
1904. He said that he took this action,
although he was unalterably opposed to
the nomination of A. B. Parker and
had favored thejiomlnation of Arthur
Pue Gorman, of.Maryland.
Today "was the first time that Ryan
has ever appeared as a witness before
a senatorial Investigation. He was the
first witness called. George W.. Per
kins. former partner of J. P. Morgan
and a leading supporter of Theodore
Roosevelt, was the second witness. Mr.
Ryan's testimony being brief. Ryan
told the committee he was engaged in
agricultural pursuits in Virginia and
then volunteered a statement of his
connection with the 1904 campaign.
Opposed Nomination
Os Judge Parker.
“1 went to St. Lours,” he said, "as a
delegate from Virginia, in 1904. Judge
Parker was a candidate for the presi
dency at that time and his friends
sought to enlist me in his campaign;
but 1 opposed his nomination, giving in
favor of Senator Gorman. Judge
Parker was nominated in St. Louis, but
I took no part in aiding his nomina
tion and furnished him with no cam
paign funds.
"After the committees were organ
ized in New York I made the national
party committee a contribution of
000. Later 1 contributed to the na
tional party small sums to sloo,oo'o.
Toward the end of the campaign mem
bers of the national committee came to
me, when it was perfectly apparent
that Judge Parker could not be elected,
ami told me that the campaign would
collapse unless they had financial aid.
In the interest of the Democratic par
ty Just at the close of the campaign,
so the pat ty workers throughout the
country who were trying to keep the
party together would have the aid they
thought necessary. 1 contrlbtued about
>350,909 and jtaid the debts of lite Com
mittee so that at the nd of the <sun
palgn there wen no out standing obli
. gallons"
Gave Both to Harmon
And Underwood Funds.
Senator Clapp tsked Mr. Ryan.
"How much of your contributions
.ante from you personally'.’"
"Every dollar 1 gave was my own.
I did noi get a cent from a corpora
tion or anyone else." •
1 Ryan added that he might have con
■ tributed to congressional compaign, hut
he did not ''-member any spr Isle gifts’.
"Do you know of any contributions
Continued on Page Two.
ATLANTA, GA., MONDAY, OCTOBER 21, 1912.
Richmond Girt in Love,
Refuses to Move Here
And Leave Sweetheart
Pretty Fifteen-Year-Old Adele
Barham Runs Away When Fos
ter Parent Starts to Atlanta.
RICHMOND. VA , Oct. 21.—Pretty
fifteen-year-old Adele adopt
ed daughter of J. W. Glasco, Jr., clerk
in the stationery department of the
Southern railway, refused positively to
accompany Glasco and his wife when
they set out for Atlanta last night to
make that city their future home.
Along with other members of tins
depa it inent whose quarters were re
cently transferred ft'oin Richmond to
Atlanta, Glasco began preparations
SatuiMay for the trip to the Gate Citv
While he and his wife were busily
engaged packing their trunks, Miss
Barham disappeared from home, taking
some of her effects with her in a suit
case.
Missing her soon afterward. Glasco,
suspecting that Cupid wgs at work,
’ rushed down to the marriage clerk's
office at the city hall.
"I want to stop a wedding If a girl
attempts to get married," he told Clerk
’ Walter Christian, nearly breathless. “1
■ am a Southern railway clerk and I must
leave tomorrow night for Atlanta.”
"1 don’t quite grasp the situation,”
1 interposed Christian.
"In plain language." went on Glasco.
1 "I don’t want a license issued to Adele
■ Barham, fifteen years old, my adopted
1 daughter.”
“Oh. I see,” observed the clerk, who
explained that no license had been is
sued up to that time to the girl and
' none would be without his consent.
Giaeco then hurried to police head
quarters and asked that a search be
made for the girl. Late Saturday night
' she was located at the home of a rela
tive in South Richmond, and despite
' the entreaties of Glasco and his wife,
1 refused to accompany them to Atlanta.
Glasco explained to the reporters that
the young man in whom the girl is in
terested "wears knee pants and is the
veriest kind of a kid."
SLEEPING LAD WALKS
OFF PORCH, BREAKING
LEG; DID NOT AWAKE
ANDERSON, S. C._ Oct. 21.- C. E.
i Harper, Jr., a twelve-year-old boy,
■ walking in his sleep, fell from a set -
: ond-story porch at his home near here
• and broke his leg above the knee.
So soundly was the boy sleeping that
he was not awakened by the fall and
did not know what had happened until
I some time afterward, while the doctor
■ was setting the broken bone. The noise
of the fall awakened Harper's father,
. who carried his son to the , doctor,
where the operation of setting the leg
> was commenced. A few minutes later
; the boy awoke, asking:
, "Where am 1? What is the matter,
I daddy?"
Then he felt the pltin and commenced
• to cry.
WOMAN, 60. SUES
RAILROAD FOR LONG
TRAMP IN STORM
Asserting that site was forced to wall,
a great distance in inclement .we ithei.
because Western and Atlantic pussi-n
ger Hain No, 93 failed to stop al Bol
ton, although the conductor had iccog
ilized her ticket tor that point. Mr.-.
K Nannie Fuller, aged »»<» years, brought
suit for $l.t)00 damages against th,
railload coinpan.' in superior court to
ds.'.
She alleg'd that the station agent at
Calhoun had sold her a ticket for Bol
ton and told her lo take that train.
. The miductot look up her ticket and
refused Io stop She -aid that Ilin's.-,
resulting from th' incident, put het in
bed fol" weeks.
Children Santa Claus Is Sure to Visit Enter
Work With Enthusiasm.
| I'he "Midsitmmer Night's Dream"
dance, with 50 children in the figures.
Is expected to prove one of the most
attractive features of the Elks Kirmess
scheduled for November 7. 8 and 9.
Twice a day the ball room of (lie Elks
club in t'ain street Is thronged with
applicants for parts in the Kirmess and
rehearsals are going forward rapidly.
Professor F. M. Asgostini, who has
charge, of the rehearsals, has expressed
himself as being entirely satisfied with
the progress being made. Those inter
ested in lite gigantic affair assert that
the Kirmess will be the most success
ful of its kind ever attempted in At
lanta
Tlie Kirmess is being staged by the
Elks for the purpose of a raising a
' "<'hrt»frrras Stocking i-'tind,” and the
on GETS BUSY
DIMM
Council to Insist on Bond For
feitures if Contract Jobs
Are Delayed.
As a forerunner of the rigid Investi
gation of the city construction depart
ment by the special coiqmittee of ten of
council tomorrow afternoon, the sewer
committee of council met this after
noon to take up the matter of delayed
sewer contracts.
Tlie committee will probably lie forced
to stop the laving of lateral sewers,
though ChairmanTTldine Chambers said
he wants the work to go on if possible.
The law provides that no new sewers
shall be authorized after October 1.
While sufficient work lias already been
authorized to keep the J. B. McCrary
Company, the contractor, busy until the
first of the year, tlie company is losing
money on the contract and insists that
th' oidinances authorizing sewers not
yet begun be repealed.
City's Engineers Complained Os.
j The city could require a forfeiture <jf
the bond of the company if all work
already passed up by council is not
completed, except that there are a
number of serious complaints against
the engineering methods of the con
struction depa rtrnent.
These ehaiges have not been made
public, but will be investigated by the
special committee, which begins its ses
sions tomorrow. The committee is to
resume the investigation begun as a
resuit of The Georgian's campaign be
fore the eitv primary
The sewer committee and the bond
commission todav notified Chester A.
Dady, contractor for the Peachtree
Creek and Intrenchinent Creek sewage
disposal plants, that he must complete
his contracts within the specified time
or his bondsmen would be appealed to.
Tile cont iai ts amount to about $499,(100
and extensions of time have been
granted for both plants.
lite Peachtree plant is to be com
plet'd by January 1. while the other is
not supposed to be completed until next
- pi mg.
The cimimitlee. declaring it was gi>-
im- ID enfon e every city contract or
demand bond I'o: feitiires, notified Con
tiactm Null thill he must build u re
taining wall iilong the intrenchinent
Cicek sewer to keep the creek from
washing tile -ewer awa.i. The pr. sent
How of the creek threatens to wash
away this sewer fur a distance of about
l.">0 yards.
Pi otcAtilig ■ itizens along McLendon
avenue discovered today that the con
tract with the Southern Bltulithic Com
pun' does not specify when the work
of paving this street Is to begin. The
. contract recently signed states 'hat the
i work must bo completed within five
months f'i om tlie time it is begun, but
Un site, t is almost impassable, work
1 has not begun, and the citizens ate
clamoring for relief
lodgemen will leave no stone unturned
to give needy Atlanta children a real
Christmas.
'l'he afternoon rehearsals are given
over to the drilling of children, who
will take part in some of tlie most
brilliant numbers. Tlie grownups who
will appear in dances from tlie classic
operas are being drilled at night.
Perhaps the most striking feature of
I tile Kirmess will be the dances figured
In by members of Ihe younger society
set. At least a score of Atlanta buds
are daily rehearsing a. number of pic
turesque dances, which are under the
direction of Agostini. Among the ones
prominent in the dances are Misses
' Amelia Smith, Katie Cooper. Elizabeth
t Smith. Janie Cooper, Sophie Hopkins
• and Lydia Nash.
ESTOCK SALE
ISOSUHS MEE
Locomotive Engineer Declares
in Suit That His Salary Will
Not Pay Interest.
According to R. L. Robinson, a rail
road engineer, who appeared in supe
rior court today as a plaintiff against
sundry Atlanta loan agents, the very
latest thing in excessive interest loans
is stock selling as a dodge to evade.the
law.
Robinson mairttalned to tlie court
that lie borrowed SSB from the Guaran
tee Investment Company and was as
. sc-sed a monthly interest of $12.19, He
said that T. L. McCurry, manager of
i tlie loan company, told him that $lO.lO
of the amount went for the purchase of
■ stock in the guarantee company. He
; said that no stock certificates were is
sued him nor did he have a hand in the
: affairs of the company.
Robinson, in an effort to get an In
junction restraining various agent*
f from taking his wages at the Southern
. railroad, told the court his adventures
with several companies.
i He said that P. P. Jackson had in
duced him to sign what Is called “a
thousand-mile order,” described as an
assignment of wages and the granting
• of a power of attorney. In the "thou-
> sand-rnile order,” Robinson obtained
. $57 at twenty per cent monthly Inter-
> est. His failure to pay brought a
i threat from Jackson, which, if exe
cuted, jpeant the loss of his job,
While tied up with Jackson and the
I Guarantee Investment Company, Rob
. insort stiys tlie Atlanta Finance /Com-
■ pany loaned him $25 at a monthly in-
• terest rate of twenty per rent and took
an assignment of wages, refusing to let
■ him see the paper that he signed. He
. was led to believe that It was merely
) a promissory note In addition, he got
i S2B for S4.SO a month from W. Gar
land Cooper in the same manner.
, Asa result, four companies, all hold
ing "thousaiid-niile orders" against
him. are threatening to levy on his
wage.- as an engineer, lie told Judge
Bell that the Southern railway made it
a rule to discharge a man if an as
igument older against ills wages was
I presented Jor collection.
After hearing tile testimony, Jtslge
Bi ll grant' ll Robinson a temporary n -
siiaining order and sei the case for No
i vember I Robinson said his wages
would not pa\ the interest, much less
’ the principal, of his various loans.
JONESBORO WITHOUT LIGHTS.
J<>NESB< >RO. GA.. Oct. 21,—Jone®-
Ibo o is now without electric lights, the
I
t . I' ity electric plant having burned to the
ground. It was insured tor $3,000.
HOMt
EDITION
2 CENTS EVERYWHERE P^ R N E °
T. R.,TIRED OF
HOSPITAL,
OFF FOR
HOME
1 ■
‘lt’s Been the Longest Week
of My Life,” He Declares,
Quitting Cot.
ALTHOUGH EXHAUSTED.
HE STANDS TRIP WELL
FORT WAYNE, IND.. Oct. 21.—Fa
tigued, hut cheerful, and standing tlie
journey belter than tha physicians had
.xpected. Colonel Roosevelt reached
here today on his way to Oyster Bay.
Much of the long morning on the train
was spent in reading. The colonel had
an assortment of magazines and books
in his compartment. He read fitfully,
for snatches of half an hour, then' laid
aside the book, to take it up again
later. In tiiis way he passed the morn
ing. A part of the time the strenuous ’
former president openly and fiankly
did nothing at all but rest.
His fatigue, however, caused no alarm
to Drs. Scurry Terrell and Alexander
Lambert, who accompanied him.
"The colonel is just like any patient
who has been laid up for a week." said
Dr Lambert “It is quite natural that
he becomes tired. It means nothing z
but the natural physical condition of
one who has been yontlned to bed. Be
sides, it must be remembered that the
colonel has had cause for excitement in
political conferences during his stay in
the hospital.”
The- colonel's condition was so good
that the official bulletin issued to the
newspaper, men about noon merely said
the patient was resting well and was
very comfortable.
"I do not think it necessary to take
his temperature and pulse,” said Dr.
Lambert,
Dr. Lambert said there was every
reason to believe that the colonel would
reach Oyster Ba\ in excellent condi
tion.
A week of absolute rest there would
do "omb i s so him, the doctor added.
Crowds Quieter
At Railroad's Request,
Tile doctors were pleased when they
found (he people who gathered to watch
the crxlonel's train pass generally re
frained front shouting. After the train
had left Valparaiso tlie crowds at the
stations were smaller. The railroad of
ficials had sent out a iequest ahead of
tlie train that'no big crow ds gather and
1 that no demonstration be made.
At Warsaw, Plymouth and Winon.i
Lake crowds had gathered. They walk
ed silently around the colonel's ear.
’ The shades in his stateroom were pulled
down before every stop
"How 's the colonel'.’' was the eager
demand nt every stop. Some member
of the traveling parts had to answer
the question. When Assured that the
patient was getting along well there
were unmistakable signs that the peo
ple were pleased.
"Teddyl Teddy!" shrieked a gtotip of
ailroad mon at Plymouth.
< 'oloncl <‘ceil Lyon stepped in th*
• [back platform of the train and askfd
them not to disturb the colonel.