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RODSEVELTHIIPPY
AS HE REACHES
OYSTER BAY
Colonel Waves His Hat to Wel
coming Neighbors—“ Glad to
Get Home.” He Says.
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entire day to tin celebration of th' safe
arrival of thir distinguished neighbor.
Wearied But Happy
On Reaching Home.
Wearied by 24 hours of traveling, but
showing his famous smile in happiness
over his return to his home. Colonel
Theodor. Roosevelt reached New York
at 8:08 o'clock today over th. Pennsyl
vania railroad, and the last lap of the
journey to Oyster Bay was immediately
begun.
The train bearing the colonel's pri
vate car, Ideal, was exactly on time
when it pulled into the Pennsylvania,
station.
When the train arrived here, Dr.
Alexander Lambert, the Roosevelt fam
ily physician, who accompanied the ex
president from Chicago, issued the fol
lowing bulletin:
"Colonel Roosevelt is very cheerful
this morning. He is in good condition,
and expressed himself as being delight
ed at the prospect of arriving home this
morning."
The colonel’s private car and that
bearing the newspaper correspondents
were switched over to the Long Island
railroad tracks at the Pennsylvania
station and tun as a special to Oystei
Bay. The colonel was thus saved the
fatigue and annoyance of changing
trains.
Colonel Roosevelt was the most
cheerful man on the train.
"By George,” he said, "it sepms good
to think that I am going to be home.
They were mighty good to me in Mercy
hospital In Chicago, but there is no
place like home."
The colonel's condition was highly
pleasing to his two physicians. Dr.
Lambert and Dr. Scurry L. Terrell.
Colonel Actually
Improves on Trip.
Dr. Lambert declared that the colo
nel had actually improved during the
trip from the West.
"Colonel Roosevelt’s condition is very
encouraging,” he said. "It should en
courage his many friends. He ate
heartily a real breakfast this morning.
It was a fine breakfast —chicken, eggs,
toast and coffee, and plenty of each.
"The colonel slept very well last night
considering the long journey and th<
jolting of the train. He hasn't shown
the least signs of severe fatigue. He
fell asleep about 111 p. m. and slept
through the night, with the exception of
four shocks when he awoke because of
the jolting of the car.”
It appears that there was something
the matter with the air brake of tiie
colonel’s private ear. It was a bit too
tight in operation, and whenever it was
ornployed. it clamped the wheels hard,
and brought his ear to a mote sudden
etop than was the case with the other
cats on the train, the Western express
of the Pennsylvania railroad These
jolts occurred at Altoona at 12:30 a. tn.,
at Harrisburg, and then between Har
risburg and North Philadelphia. But
the colonel quickly fell asleep after each
awakening.
When the train arrived at North
Philadelphia, at 5:56 a. m„ the first per
son to approach the colonel's ear was
Dr. J. William White, surgeon at the
naval hospital of the Pennsylvania uni
versity and head of the department of
medicine at that institution. Dr. White
Is one of the most eminent men in his
profession In the United States and is a
close personal freind of Colonel Roose
velt
News Photographers
Awaken Whole Train.
Dr White was shown into the colo
nel's car, but the colonel was not yet
awake. However, he was awakened
shortly afterward when a battalion of
photographers who had gathered at the
North Philadelphia station shot off
their flashlights. The flashlights also
awoke every one else on the train, and
for a few minutes there was a good
deal of excitement Some people thought
there had been another attack on the
former president.
Window curtains in the cars ahead
of the colonel's shot up and heads ap
peared a' the windows. The conductor
of the train rushed to the platform, and
the porters in the special ear also hur
riedly left their Stations to si e w hat had
happened. The excitement quickly end
ed, however, when the cause of the
noises was learned.
Dr. White was shown into the colo
nel’s compartment as soon as he had
awakened, and the greeting between
the two friends was a warm om Dr.
White conferred with Dr Lambert and
Dr. Terrell, and afterward Dr White
made this statement.
"The colonel is in good condition, and
there is now apparently no chance
whatever for adverse developments."
Dr. White explained that the bullet
was between the third ami fourth ribs,
resting on tin latter. He aid that an
operation to extract the ball would be
neither difficult nor delicate, but that
no operation was considered necessary
unless the bullet began to trouble the
patient.
Ihe wound bled slightly 'his morn
ing. but Dr. Lambert stated this was
merely the necessary drainage of the
wound.
Wound Is In
Healthy Condition.
k 1: sho'.w that the wound is in a
V healthy condition," said Dr. Lambert
Clubwomen From All Over State Here for Convention
GREET APOSTLE OF PEACE
Baroness Von Suttner Arrives
Today—Great Gathering at
Auditorium Tonight.
Baroness Von Suttne , noted world
worker in the cause of peace and win
ner ot the Nobel prize, arrives In At
lanta today to te|] the club women of
Georgia something of her interesting
struggl. for good will between all na
tions.
Tim baronet-s was due in town from
Chicago shortly befo:e me n and was to
bi' met by Mrs. John M. Slaton, wife of
tip- next governor. She will speak to
night at the Auditorium and a brilliant
gathering is expected to hear her.
Th< executive board t.f the State
Fed. atlon of Women’s Clubs meets to
day at th. Georgian Terrace and has
announced plans for the delegates an i
he visitors. The first tcgular»session
will be held tomorrow morning.
Delegates by the score begun to ar
rive early today from all parts of the
stat, and the < .invention promised to be
the biggest ever held by Georgia club
women.
OLD SOLDIER TAKEN ILL
ON SOUTHERN TRAIN DIES
c H Dougherty, who became ill on I
a Southern railroad train coming into
Atlanta last Friday, and w ho wa- taken
to Grady hospital from the Terminal
station, died at. Grady hospital
without ev t having revealed the
location of his relatives and friends.
Dr. Sumim-ralJ, superintendent, found
a card in the dead man's nocket show
ing that lie had been an inmate of the
home for disabled volunteer soldiers at |
Johnson City. Tenn., .md a receipt for!
poll ..ix paid in Jacksonville, Fla. Both |
pla< e- w ere telegraphed, but no satis- |
factory answer was received from i
either.
The body was taken to Bloomfield's I
chapel and will be held there until
something is learned of the dead man's
past.
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"It is necessary, and we would lie vvor
tied if the wound did not bleed. It
was freshly dressed after the colonel
awoke this morning, and it was seen to
be in excellent condition. It is healing
remarkably well."
The colonel ate his breakfast in lii
dressing gown. He did not get into his
clothes until after his special train had
left the Pennsylvania station here.
The colonel's private car. aside from
the compartments for the family, was a
miniature hospital, equipped with al
most everything that might be found in
a larger hospital. There wis an opei -
ating table and every necessary instru
ment. and the two physicians were pre
pared to operate at a moment's notice
if any untoward symptoms had devel
oped in the patient.
Mark Lyon, the engineer, hud re
ceived instructions to stop the train as
quickly as possible upon signal from
the surgeons. The car would then have
been backed into the nearest siding, and
the colonel immediately put on the op
erating table. The othei surgeons left
in Chicago were prepared to take ah
othei special train and go to wherever
the colonel should have been. But
these were merely precautionary meas
ures.
Prepares For
Reply to Bryan.
As soon as he had finished his bleak
fast Colonel Roosevelt sent for the
newspapers and after glancing through
them summoned his two stenographers,
Elbert E. Martin and John McGrath.
He asked them t > go t trough sueh of
his records as they had in reference to
THE ATLANTA GEORGIAN AND NEWS. TUESDAY, OCTOBER 22, 1912.
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a criticism by William Jennings Bryan
of Colonel Roosevelt’s trust speech.
Phe colonel declared he had been mis
quoted by Colonel Bryan.
ifr. Lamb *it gave tile colonel per
mission today to make a 30-minute
speech at Madison Square Garden on
the night of Octobet Ju, and the colonel
; took that permission us unction to his
soul. He said today he would incorpo
rate a reply to Biyan in this Madison
Squa I e Ga den spo ‘ch.
OLD PEOPLE MAKE UP
• TOWN'S POPULATION
LONG BRANCH. N. .1 . Oct. 22.—A
count of noses shows that in this town
there is> a man aged lull, six other pa
triarchs whose sees total 551 years and
hundreds whose birthdays number be
tween 60 and SO.
FLEES FROM HOSPITAL
GARBED IN BLANKET
CHICAGO. Oct. 22. Wearing only a
bed blanket. John Barry, a patient at a
sanitarium at lol!' Prairie avenue, es
caped from the institution by leaping out
of a tirst-tloor window. After a two
hours' fruitless search the management
appealed to the police of the South Clark
street station for assistance in finding
Ba rry
MORE CARS FOR WAYCROSS.
WAYCROSS, GA., Oct. 22.—Addi
tional cars for the street railway are
expected h r< this week to be used on
the Winona Park line, which is being
constructed. The material ft ; the Gil
christ Park line is at riving and work
w ill be rushed on it when tin park e.\-
> tension is finished.
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tin 1 big convention.
RACE TRACK CLOSED
BY MILITIA TO STOP
INDIANA GAMBLERS
CHICAGO, Oct. 22.—Two companies
.of militia were on their way to Porter.
Ind., today to close the new .Mineral
: Springs race track. One company was
' dispatched from South Bend and an
cthf ,• from Rensselaer. The troops
w< ’ e to take possession of the grounds
and bar all persons from the inclosure.
The action was taken on orders by
Governor .Marshall following the failure
of the county officers and track owners
to conduct the track without gambling.
.Mark Thistle v. aite. the governor's pri
vatA secretary, issued a statement in
which he said the track would be kept
el. s il until all the gamblers had been
driven out of the state. The track has
run five days of a scheduled fifteen
da.-. meeting.
SHE STICKS TO HUSBAND
UNDER BIGAMY SENTENCE
LYNCHBURG V.\„ Oct. 22. Elsie May
i Law. second wife of !•’. H. Nunley, con
| victed of bigamy here two weeks ago,
l is remaining loyal to her illegally wedded
i husband, who is still in jail awaiting
-transportation to the road force for three
j years for marrying her. She has visited
the jail dailj since his conviction, and
keeps him well supplied with clothing and
other necessities.
Meanwhile. Nunley's first and legal wife,
i whom he married at Cordova. Ala., in
1 is busy with an attorney, getting the
| proper legal data to procure a divorce.
She came here from Columbus, Ga., to
testify against him.
It develops that Nunley worked in a
cotton mill in Augusta, Ga., as well as in
Columbus, before coming to Lynchburg
' last year.
; ADMITS HE IS BIGAMIST
AS JUSTICE TIES KNOT
NEW ORLEANS. Oct. 22.—" This is
bigamy; I can't do it," Folsom Wentz
said at 2 a. m. as a justice was marrying
him. "I have a wife in Shreveport."
Mrs Alma Tarkington, the prospective
bride, forgave Wentz, lie will ask for a
divorce.
TO HAVE $1,250,000 CAPITAL.
GREENVILLE, S. Oct. 22.—0 n
November 4 tile Westervelt mills stock
holders will vote upon increasing the
capital stock from $1,000,000 to $1,250,-
000. This company recently completed
its new plant of .58,800 spindles and
1.300 looms, operated electrically.
VAUGHN'S TRIAL POSTPONED.
GREENVILLE, S. C., Oct. 22. —The
trial of T. U. Vaughn, who was ar
raigned here yesterd.ix charged with
immoral conduct while superintendent
of tin odd Fellows Orphan home in the
city, was postponed until tomorrow.
GLOOM THICK AS
COUNCIL BANS 4
LOCKER CLUBS
Aldine Chambers Aids McClel
land Lead Fight to Keep
Buffets Open.
Glooms stalked around four of At
lanta's locker clubs today, for with i
Mayor Winn's approval of the city I
council’s action the clubs will be closed,
and there is no doubt that Mayor Winn
will approve the action of council.
They are the Georgia Athletic, the
Southern, the Knights of the Mystic
Ark and the Bees clubs. The members
and officers of the Press club and the
Central club are still uncomfortable, for
the police committee of the council has
delayed action on these for two weeks
for further investigation.
Nine of the locker clubs were grant
ed permits at the meeting of the coun
cil yesterday afternoon. The Piedmont
Driving club, the Atlanta Athletic, the
M. & M., the Elks, the Standard, the
Georgian Terrace, the Eagles, the
Moose and the Beavers clubs did not
file their petitions in time. But W. G.
Humphrey, chairman of the police com
mittee, informed the council that the
committee had investigated these clubs,
and he intimated that they would all be
approved at the next meeting of coun
cil.
Chambers For Clubs.
In enforcing the new charter amend
ment, Chairman Humphrey and his
committee won out in the council yes
terday, despite a bitter fight for the
clubs led by Aiderman John E. McClel
land and Councilmen Aldine Chambers
and Claude C. Mason. All declared that
the police committee had to fight a
strong combination, for it was the first
time that Councilman Chambers and
Aiderman McClelland have been on the
same side of any question this year.
From the discussions of the various
officials, a spectator would have im
agined that the council was struggling
with a deep and weighty problem. But
It was very simple. Before the council
secured additional authority from the
legislature a number of clubs were able
to run despite the objection of the
council. When the authority was se
cured the committee proceeded to try
to close a number of clubs which they
branded as masquerading barrooms. All
the opposition was merely an effort to
keep these clubs from being closed.
“The only objection to the report of
the police committee is that the mem
bers and officers of some of these clubs
have political influence, and they are
exercising it," declared Aiderman James
E. Warren.
"Not a Club Meeting Law.”
“You admit that there is not a locker
club in the city complying with the
state law.” said Councilman Chambers
to Aiderman Warren. “I want to know
how you reconcile your action in grant
ing permits to some of them with your
oath of office.”
"If I could get enough of you politi
cians to agree with me I would move to
close them all," replied Mr. Warren. "I
can’t do that, so I am trying to do the
best I can.”
Aiderman McClelland then wanted to
close them all. But he was persuaded
not to make such a motion. ,
Councilman Mason insisted that the
police committee make public the evi
dence upon which it closed these clubs.
He said the sessions of the committee
were executive, but that the council
men ought to know why the clubs were
being closed. The committee declined
to give this information. The vote on
the Georgia Athletic club was 14 to 14.
Mayor Pro Tern Candler cast the decid
ing vote to close the club.
GEORGIA RY. ANSWERS
MAGID’S TRUST CHARGES
The Georgia Railway & Power Com
pany has filed an answer and demur
rer to the suit entered by Louis B.
Magid, of the Atlanta Hydro-Electric
Company, in the Federal court several
months ago. Magid asked for $1,200,-
000 tn fines from the railway com- 1
pany under the provision of the. She
rman act relating to the dissolution of
trusts.
Magid, in his suit, declared that the
company is a trust and is operating il
legally. The demurrer of the company
says that Magid failed to show any re
straint of trade, nor did it show any
cause for action between citizens of
different states.
MILITARY STAFF TO DINE
GOVERNOR ON SATURDAY
Governor Brpwn's personal and ad
ministrative military staff will tender
the executive, as commander-ln-chief
of the Georgia state troops, a banquet
at the Piedmont Driving club on the
evening of Saturday, October 26.
The entire staff, in full dress uniform,
will be present. Governor Brown will
address the gathering upon the relation
of the military to the civil authorities.
SLAYER GETS TWENTY YEARS.
GADSDEN, ALA.. Oct. 22.—Lester
Moore, a white man, after pleading
guilty before Judge J. A. Bilbro to a
charge of assault and attempt to mur
der, was sentenced to serve twenty
years in the penitentiary. Moore
stabbed Jolly Brown while in a state of
intoxication. He said his only reason
for attacking the man was that he
wanted to kill some one.
HANNA AUXILIARY BISHOP.
ROCHESTER. N. Y„ Oct. 22.—Rev.
Dr. Edward J. Hanna a nrofessor at
St. Bernards Theological seminary here,
today received notice of his appoint
ment as auxiliary bishop of San Fran
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SEARCHING SIDELIGHTS
ON GEORGIA POLITICS
By JAMES B. NEVIN.
The general opinion of the newspaper
men who visit the state capitol seeking
whatever news daily they may devour
is that the Honor-
Sr.
able Murphey
Candler is some
railroad commis
sioner, all right!
The chairman
of the commission
is a human en
cyclopedia of rail
road wisdom, and
whal he doesn’t
know about what
is going on rail
roadwise in these
United States is
not going on—
that’s all.
In digging and
delving around
hither and yon,
Mr. Candler turns
up some significant facts now and then,
and frequently he finds out things not
particularly pleasing to some people.
Not that he is naturally of a mean dis
position, or anything of that sort, but
that in the Candler philosophy, two
and two do not, never did, and never
will, make anything more nor less than
four.
And so the chairman has discovered
that Georgia collects a smaller tax per
mile from the railroads of the state
than any other state in the Union col
lects, with the exception of sou
zona, New Mexico, Texas and South
Dakota.
"Georgia only gets $194 per mile,”
said the commissioner today, “and that
is mighty little, compared with some of
the states. Massachusetts, for instance,
collects $2,300 per mile.
"I am not giving these figures with
any particular object in mind, you un
derstand. It merely happens that they
show an interesting state of things.
When the cost of rahroad construction
and equipment per mile is taken into
consideration, it can not be said that
Georgia grinds the railroads to pieces
in the matter of taxation, anyway!”
Commissioner Candler is one of the
most regular officials in the capitol, in
the matter of attending strictly to his
job. One rarely enters the office of the
chairman of the commission that he
isn’t there, generally up to his neck in
work.
The various state house officials are
busy nowadays publishing their sworn
statements of expense Incurred in the
last election, and their statements make
interesting reading, particularly be
cause everybody is able to swear this
time that it cost him nothing whatever
to get himself elected!
The law requires that a statement of
expense shall be published, in both the
general and the primary elections, but
It Is tn the primaries, of course, that
the coin flies in Georgia.
The general election is not at all ex
citing—the nominating election gener
ally is exciting a-plenty and some ex
pensive!
John M. Slaton does not know yet
that he has been elected —that is, he
doesn't know it officially—and so he
will not have to file an expense account
at this time.
Editor Brown, of The Newnan Herald
and Advertiser, still is gasping for
breath, things came so swift last week,
and he tried so hard to keep up with
everything going on!
He devotes over a column —mostly
DESERTER, WHO BEAT
POST GUARD, IS TAKEN
BY CIVIL OFFICERS
Frank Jones, private In the coast ar
tillery and military prisoner, who, with
Private Crady. of the Twenty-second in
fantry, escaped from the reservation at
Fort McPherson last May. has been cap
tured by civil authorities in Columbus,
Ga. Crady was killed by a guard.
Jones was held at Fort McPherson,
awaiting trial for desertion. In charge
of the guard, the pair were working on
a roadway near the fort, when Jones
beat the guard on the head with a rock.
Crady received the bullet intended for
Jones.
MRS. BRUMBY’S FUNERAL
HELD AT MARIETTA TODAY
MARIETTA, GA.. Oct. 22.—Mrs. J.
R. Brumby, of this city, died at her
winter home at Duneden, Fla., last Fri
day night after a short illness. Her
body was brought to Marietta and the
funeral was held late yesterday
afternoon from the Episcopal church,
of which she was a member. Mrs.
Brumby was about 65 years old and
was the wife of J. R. Brumby, presi
dent of the Marietta Chair, Company.
Besides her husband, she is survived
by three daughters—Miss Isabel
Brumby and Mrs. I . D. Hoppe, of Ma
rietta, and Mrs. Leach, of Florida — and
by three sons—R. M., B. G. and J. R.
Brumby, Jr., all of Marietta.
VETERANS OF KEY TO MEET.
SAVANNAH, GA., Oct. 22.—" The
Old-Timers." an association composed
of telegraph operators with 25 years or
more service, will be the guests of Sa
vannah on October 25. They will come
up from Jacksonville, where the annual
meeting will be held on October 24, and
remain over until the following after
noon, when they will take a steamer for
New York.
GIVES BARBECUE TONIGHT
The Georgia Athletic Club will entertain its members at
a regular monthly barbecue tonight at its club rooms, 10
S. Forsyth. The management makes it a positive RULE that
no ladies are allowed.
Good speaking, fancy pool playing, boxing matches and
other athletic features promised all the members who will at
tend.
filled with adjectives—in the current
issue of his paper, discussing the bis
news editorially, and he finds that with
the Fite case, the shooting of T. R a •
the election of Woodward in Atlant
there was more jammed into one li tt u
week than a country editor should be
required to keep track of!
Editor Brown makes an even bre-k
in his comment, however. He approve,
the Fite finding, disapproves the T r
shooting, and neither points with
nor views with alarm in the Woodwari
matter. “
Governor Brown is getting more or
less sore on one feature of his guber
natorial job—sore physically on ] e «
than mentally—and that is the law ,-1
quiring that he sign in person all th ;
commissions that go out from hi- a,
partment.
Recently he has been busy signing ur
some 2,000 certificates of authority to
county commissioners throughout the
state, and there is another little batcr
of 1,500 justice of the peace warrant,
awaiting his attention as soon as be
can get to them.
Having to sign one’s name 3,500 times
hand running is going some in the
name signing business, and the govern
or has rather a large and imposing
signature, at that!
It takes him quite an appreciable
fraction of a second to fashion in ap
proved form the big "J” with which he
starts his signature on its way to sat
isfactory existence.
Besides these commissions and things
that are forever demanding of the gov
ernor a part of his time and energy,
there are hundreds at letters that he
feels it a duty to look over carefully
before personally attaching his signa,
ture thereto.
Frequently he goes home in the aft
ernoon wishing with all his heart that
his hand were a rubber stamp, and that
the law permitted him to give official
sanction to legal documents merely by
using it as rubber stamps usually are
handled.
Hardly a day passes that one does
not hear in Atlanta of a boom having
been started for this, that or the other
patriotic and liberty loving Georgian
possessed of a rampant desire here and
there to be postmaster of his home
town, in the event of Wilson’s election
to the presidency—and no would-be
postmaster in Georgia can see anything
but Wilson rainbows in the skies polit
ical, no matter the direction in which
at the moment he may be squinting
Already there are under-the-cover
movements on for the postmastershipe
of Atlanta, Savannah, Rome, Augusta
and Valdosta— and doubtless there, are
other booms, in cold storage as yet, that
will appear in time.
It isn’t fair to name names yet. of
course, for there is no use running the
risk this early in the game ot getting
Democratic wires crossed in Georgia;
but it may be accepted as a fact that
nevertheless, the would-be Democratie
postmasters of Georgia already are sit
ting up and taking notice—some ot
them very carefully and discriminat
ingly.
Chairman William J. Hartls, of the
state Democratic executive committee,
received a wire from a county chairman
today reading as follows:
“Every man in this county Is ter
Wilson except two, and even Old
Satan could not change them”
Mr. Harris is wondering if the infer
ence here is that Satan is a Democrat.
ATLANTA BANKERS SEE
DISASTER IN TAFT PLAN
President Taft’s effort to estabhrtt
co-operative credit in the United States
for the benefit of the fanner has at
tracted attention among Atlanta bank
ers, Inasmuch as the plan which, he ad
vocated, in the opinion of an expert
may bring on a national calamity If
speculation is not guarded against by
wisely considered legislation and strict
government supervision.
A warning to this effect has been
sounded by Ambassador Myron T. Her
rick to the state department and has
come within the notice of local bank*
ers.
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