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VOL. XI. NO. 67.
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AS CLUBS
HI
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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
\ntb-ip;iting the report of the police
committee of council today, when, it is
♦ xpectid. it will be recommended to
< "nnci! that a number of Atlanta's
flehteen locker clubs be closed, the
“id" was on tight yesterday and At-
Inmans <xnerienced the “dryest” Sun-
Cay tluw have known since the early
'i-v -of prohibition.
They were prepared for it then, but
yesterday the "lid" was pushed down
nr < xtrctedly with the cold dampness of
tiw i l l atmosphere demanding, accord
ing to certain persons, interior wetness
an antidote.
t had been announced that Police
Chief Beavers was making a rigid in
vestigation of all the clubs in the city
and that he would recommend to the
.police committee that all not comply
ing with the law be closed. Only two
three of the largest clubs had the
verity to remain open.
Humphrey Has Report
From Chief Beavers.
The odd part of the whole situation,
though, was that Chief Beavers made
- report to the police committee sev
a days ago and there was no unusual
nation going on yesterday.
' haiiman W. G. Humphrey, of the
I" ti e committee, has had Chief Beav
t' port in his pocket for several
guarding it closely. He will call
!s committee to order this afternoon
- o clock to vote on the clubs. The
nittee win make its report to coun-
I’s afternoon. It will undoubtedly
■tiunend that a number of clubs,
1:i ; t'iila■ ly those which have defied
by running without a permit,
■sed. and council will very prob
■tdopt the report of the committee.
’> he members of the police committee
: ’-ve given assurance that the real so-
1 nibs of the city will not be dis
turb,.,| But they are under the im
ssion that a number of clubs are
v barrooms run under the guise of
~ lor the profit of certain individ-
Chairman Humphrey said that
• he is determined to close.
lll ‘‘ committee does not believe that
•' is any violation of the law in the
‘octal clubs that have locker sea-
The committee and Chief Beav
s nave carefully investigated the
mbership lists and the system by
. ■' h drinks are served in everv one of
i hem.
de have no intention of discrlmi
i i, urn between social locker clubs run
' prominent men and those run by
' , ' l,l citizens." mid Chairman Hum-
<.y "Both have a right to exist
the state and city laws. The
run for individual profit are the
; Ilia: are illegal."
, he first locker clubs licensed in At
were taxed by the city and run at
, 11 " discretion of council. Council at
■uipted to close the Union Mechanics
. '■b now said to be reorganized iruder
'"'■the, name, and this club appealed to
state courts. The city’s authority
"as overruled. \
The Atlanta Georgian
Read For Prof it—GEORGIAN WANT ADS—Ute 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
the turkey trot as their own. The
dance, barred by so many fashionable
resorts and clubs, has found true ex
pression at the exclusive and ultra
fashionable Piedmont Driving club.
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 their heads 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
J. 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, came to 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 line between Fulton and
Campbell counties about ten days ago,
half-drowned and ill from exposure. He
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 care for him.
M’COMBS IN CHICAGO
FOR CONFERENCE ON
SITUATION IN WEST
CHICAGO, Oct. 21. —William B'. Mc-
Combs, chairman of the Democratic
national committee, arrived in Chicago
today for a conference with the West
ern leaders of the jrurty.
“I am here to get the general situa
tion in this section thoroughly in hand,"
he said. “Conferences with leaders from
all parts of the West will be held. We
will discuss the situation thoroughly.
Excellent reports have come from ev
ery quarter. The election of Governor
Wilson is not the least doubtful. I am
not ready to make any prediction of
the vote.”
McCombs predicted that Wilson
would carry Pennsylvania.
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 the
explosion of a Turkish mine on the
frontier of Novabazar.
ATLANTA. GA., TUESDAY, OCTOBER 22, 1912.
RYAN HELPED
WITH HALF
MILLION
INIBO4
Millionaire Tells Clapp Com
mittee of His Connection
With Parker Campaign.
WAS OPPOSED TO JUDGE.
BUT GAVE TO SAVE PARTY
WASHINGTON, Oct. 21.—Thomas
F’ortune Ryan, the New York financier,
testified before the senatorial commit
tee investigating campaign contribu
tions y 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 the nomination 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.
"I went to St. Louis,” 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 I opposed his nomination, being 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 1 made the national
party committee a contribution of $50.-
000. Later 1 contributed to the na
tional party small sums to SIOO,OOO.
Toward the end of the campaign mem
bers of the national committee came Io
me, when it was perfectly apparent
that Judge Parker could not be elected,
and told me that the campaign would
collapse unless I hey had financial aid.
In the interest of the Democratic par
ty just at the close of the campaign,
so the party workers throughout the
country who were trying to keep the
party together would have the aid they
thought necessary, 1 contrlbtued abbut
$350,000 and paid the debts of the com
mittee so that at the end of the cam
paign there were no outstanding obli
gations."
Gave Both to Harmon
And Underwood Funds.
S.-nator Clapp asked Mr. Ryan:
"How much of your contributions
came from you personally?"
"Every dollar 1 gave was my own.
1 did not get a cent from a corpora
tion or anyone else."
Ryan added that he might have con
tributed to congressional compaign, but
he did not remember any specific gifts.
"Do you know of any contributions
Continued on Page Two.
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 Barham, 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 this
department whose quarters were re
cently transferred from Richmond to
Atlanta, Glasco began preparations
Saturday for the trip to the Gate City.
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 was 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. "I
am a Southern railway clerk and I must
leave tomorrow night for Atlanta."
“I don’t quite grasp the situation,”
interposed Christian.
“In plain language." went on Glasco,
“I don’t want a license issued to Adele
Barham, fifteen years old, my adopted
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.
Glasco 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,
refused to accompany them to Atlanta.
Glasco explained to the reporters that
the young man in whom the gir] 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.
Harper, Jr., a twelve-.vear-old boy.
walking in his sleep, fell from a sec
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
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 I? What is the matter,
daddy'.”'
Then he felt the pain and commenced
to cry.
WOMAN, 60. SUES
RAILROAD FOR LONG
TRAMP IN STORM
Asserting that she was forced to walk
a great distance In Inclement weather,
because Western and Atlantic passen
ger train No. 93 failed to stop at Bol
ton, although the conductor had recog
nized her ticket for that point. Mrs.
Nannie F’uller, aged 60 years, brought
suit for SI,OOO damages against the
railroad company in superior court to
day.
She alleged that the station agent at
Calhoun had sold her a ticket for Bol
ton and told her to take that train.
The conductor took up her ticket' and
refused to stop. She said that illness,
resulting from the Incident, put her in
bed for weeks.
Children Santa Claus
Work With
The "Midsummer 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 the Elks
club in Cain street Is thronged with
applicants for parts in the Kirmess and
rehearsals are going forward rapidly.
Professor B". M. Asgostlni, who has
charge of the rehearsals, has expressed
himself as being entirely satisfied with
the progress being made. Those inter
ested in the gigantic affair assert that
the Kirmess will be the most success
ful of its kind ever attempted in At
lanta
The Kirmess is being staged by the
Elks for the purpose of a raising a
"Christmas Stocking Fund,” and the
GIH GETS BUSY
ONSEWERWORK
Council to Insist on Bond For
feitures if Contract Jobs
Are Delayed.
•
As a forerunner of the rigid investi
gation of the city const:action depart
ment by the special committee of ten of
council tomorrow afternoon, the sewer
committee of council met this after
noon to take up the matter of delayed
sewer contracts.
The committee will probably be forced
to stop the laying of lateral sewers,
though Chairman Aldine 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 has already been
authorized to keep the J. B. McCrary
Company, the contractor, busy until the
first of the year, the company is losing
money on the contract and insists that
the ordinances authorizing sewers not
yet begun be repealed
City's Engineers Complained Os.
The city oould require a forfeiture of
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 department.
These charges 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
result of The Georgian's campaign be
fore the citv primary
The sewer committee and the bond
commission today notified Chester A.
Dady, contractor for the Peachtree
Creek and Intrenchment Creek sewage
disposal plants, that he must complete
his contracts within the specified time
or his bondsmen would be appealed to.
The contracts amount to about $400,000
and extensions of time have been
granted for both plants.
The Peachtree plant is to be com
pleted by January I. while the other is
not supposed to be completed until next
spring
Tlie committee, declaring it was go
ing to enforce every city contract or
demand bond forfeitures, notified Con
tractor Noll that he must build a re
taining wall along the Intrenchment
Creek sewer to keep the creek from
washing the sewer away. The present
flow of the creek threatens to wasii
away this sewer for a distance of about
150 yards.
Protesting citizens along McLendon
avenue discovered today that the con
tract with the Southern Bitullthic Com
pany does not specify when the work
of paving this street is to begin. The
contract recently signed states that the
work must be completed within five
months from the time it is begun, but
the street is almost impassable, work
has not begun, and the citizens are
clamoring for relief.
Is Sure to Visit Enter
Enthusiasm.
lodgemen will leave no stone unturned
to give needy Atlanta children a real
Christmas.
The afternoon rehearsals are given
over to the drilling of children, who
will take part in some of the most
brilliant numbers. The grownups who
will appear in dances from the classic
operas are being drilled at night.
Perhaps the most striking feature of
the Kirmess will be the dances figured
in by members of the 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
Smith, Janie Cooper, Sophie Hopkins
and Lydia Nash.
SAYS STOCK SALE
IS USURER'S WILE
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 maintained to the court
that he borrowed SSB from the Guaran
tee Investment Company and was as
sessed a monthly Interest of $12.10. He
said that T. L. McCurry, manager of
the 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 agents
from taking his wages at the Southern
railroad, told the court his adventures
with several companies.
He said that P. P. Jackson had in
duced him to sign what is called “a
thousand-mfle order,” described as an
assignment of wages and the granting
of a power of attorney. In the “thou
sand-mile order." Robinson obtained
$57 at twenty per cent monthly Inter
est. His failure to pay brought a
threat from Jackson, which, If exe
cuted meant the loss of his job
While tied up with Jackson and the
Guarantee Investment Company, Rob
inson says the Atlanta B’inance Com
pany loaned him $25 at a monthly In
terest rate of twenty per cent and took
an assignment of wages, refusing to let
him see the paper that he signed. He
was led to believe that ft was merely
a promissory note. In addition', he got
S2B for $4.80 a month from W. Gar
land Cooper In the same manner.
Asa result, four companies, all hold
ing “thousand-mlle orders” against
him, are threatening to levy on his
wages as an engineer. He told Judge
Bell that the Southern railway made it
a rule to discharge a man if an as
signment order against his wages was
presented for collection.
After hearing the testimony, Judge
Bell granted Robinson i* temporary re
straining order and set the case for No
vember 4. Robinson said his wages
would not pay the interest, much less
the principal, of his various loans.
JONESBORO WITHOUT LIGHTS.
JONESBORO, GA., Oct. 21.—Jones
boio Is now without electric lights, the
city electric plant having burned to the
ground. It was insured for $3,000.
IXTRAI
2 CENTS EVERYWHERE P^ R N E °
T. B. JIBED OF
HOSPITAL.
OFF FOR
HOME
“It’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, but cheerful, and standing the
journey better than the physicians had
expected. 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 this way he passed the morn
ing. A part of the time the strenuous
former president openly and frankly
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
but the natural physical condition of
one who has been confined to bed. Be
sides, ft must be remembered that the
colonel has had cause for excitement in
political conferences during his stay in
the hospital."
rhe 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 Bay in excellent condi
tion.
A week of absolute rest there would
do wonders for him, the doctor added.
Crowds Quieter
At Railroad’s Request.
The doctors were pleased when they
found the people who gathered to watch
the colonel's train pass generally re
frained from shouting. After the train
had left Valparaiso the crowds at the
stations were smaller. The railroad of
ficials had sent out a request ahead of
the train that no big crowds gather and
that no demonstration be made.
At M arsaw, Plymouth and Winona
Lake crowds hail gathered. They walk
ed silently around the colonel's car
The shades in his stateroom were pulled
down before every stop. -
"How’s the colonel?" was the eager
demand at every stop. Some member
of the traveling party had to answer
the question. When assured that the
patient was getting along well there
were unmistakable signs that the peo
ple were pleased.
“Teddy! Teddy!" shrieked a group ot
railroad men at Plymouth.
Colonel Cecil Lyon stepped to the
back platform of the train and asked
them not to disturb the colonel.