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THE WEATHER
Forecast for Atlanta and Georgia:
Fair today and tomorrow.
VOL. XL NO. 102.
IM TH
FROM Jill
JNDPUTTO
GEffl
Enraged Neighbors of Assault
er’s Victims Seize Prisoner
From Sheriff.
ALL-NIGHT MAN HUNT
ENDS WITH HANGING
Negro Attacks Mother and
Daughter, Alone in Home.
Shoots Both.
M’RAE. GA., Nov. 30.—Sidney Wil
liams, a negro, was lynched at an early
hour today by a mob of enraged white
men of Telfair county. The lynching
took place just south of this town, fol
lowing an all-night hunt through parts
of Telfair and Dodge counties and the
storming of the Telfair jail in Mcßae.
Sheriff Wilcox was overpowered and
the negro was taken from the jail to a
secluded spot, a short distance from
town, where he was strung up.
Williams was lynched fur attacking
two white women —a mother and het
eighteen-year-old daughter—in their
tunic between McKm ano Milan, in the
north pat of Telfai ■ county. In the
r higgle til- negro shot both women.
Thei 1 ' oomuls, however. are not con
-h„|. ed <1: t'g" >us. though they tire
dueling c- m'durably from these
unfit an th< rough .•i cut fe
.lJ al tin negro's hand
"Ceienseless Women
Shot By Assailant.
Williams had been employed as a
m hand on the plantation of his vic
in . i t : ttavke i them eat ly lasi
eight whin- they were alone. At hen
law ordered him to have the house tie
, io . t’w. i. He further attacked the
dullgiiti: and then tied,
it io no until other members of
■he family returned home that the crime
b-1 a ..i ■ loiov. m They gave the alarm, a
moo j. .:r iged neighbors was formed
end i.uni hunt was begun.
\ ), /iff at Mcßae was notified
..ad V’.l deputies started after the ne
gro. They found him hiding in a small
il; house* .•ic 't'ss the Dodge county
inc, near the scene of the crime. I* eai-
i ng nlo b * iol tm e, Sh< riff Wilcox placed
>l‘ - i. g.o aii'l live d(\‘iith-S in u touring
car'an- by a ci. eui -iis unite reached
Mcßae, locking Hi' • 11 V 1 ,!I ’’
vault for safety.
The mob of neighbor, tha’ laid been
hunting the negro learned that the
sheriff had captured him and imme
diately started in pursuit. Th- y trailed
the auto to Mcßae, stormed the jail,
overpowered the sheriff and deputies,
found tie pi Lome ■ locked in the vault
and took Idm from the prison to where
they lynched him.
dormitories take
FIRE WHILE GUESTS
AT DANCE are dining
WASHINGTON. Nov. 30.-Fanned by a
«iiff northwest wind, fire last n.ght :.e
Xed dormitories of the Maryland
tgricultural college at College I ark. ML
Several adjoining buildings were saved
hut only after a hard fight by ‘he village
nre department. and scores of cadets and
residents living in the vl< ’ in t} | . t
The damage today was estimated at
' from SIOO,OOO to $150,000, covered by in
*UTeniporary quarters for the students
win be provided in Science hall and other
. -
SmASSB
, / v 7. •'(! -Thelma Me-
GRIFV'IN, GA. Xo'- o]d
X’e<dy, thro., awl one-c. '
;n d her motile . M . •
“r’"" VC tertlay.
>esult of burns •' ;(s jahe
The childs ‘ ‘' l '' t H er screams
toddled by an o| " " ” who extinguished
attarcted he. in" • both ]w(] ht(?p
t „e but no t|ii ‘ )Ught> boW evei.
badly burned. child’s father is
both will recover.
a merchant of Gridin.
EX stewa F r F t H c°o®
. ,J” Nov 30.—The fu-
I,l'Ml'KlX. Ir (i) . j,map
pers! of .1. I- and busi-
kin’s most prot
ness men. was I Jfl . st , w .,.. (
Mr. Holder id ~l i: w ... a
county ‘ , lie
eandtda . o' .m-
• i; i prim ry ■ > !1 ! . , , Mi -
i„ ~r tn. lc
IHE ATLANTA GEORGIAN
Read For Profit—GEORGIAN WANT ADS—Use For Results.
Small Boy t Playing
With Pistol, Kills
1 8-Year-Old Cousin
Weapon Kept at Telephone Ex
change to Protect Girl Oper
ators, Causes Tragedy.
• FORSYTH, GA., Nov. 30. —A pistol
in the hands of a small boy resulted in
the death of his cousin and playmate,
Hesper Stone, eight years of age.
The pistol, the property of one of
the girl operators in the local exchange
of the Southern Bell Telephone and
Telegraph Company, was kept on the
switchboard as a protection to the girls
who are on duty at night. While the
operator on duty was busily engaged in
. ! answering calls. James Minter, half-
I brother of one of the girts, picked up
I the pistol. In an instant there was an
j explosion, the ball entering the head of
i tlife Stone boy just below his right eye.
j As quickly as aid could be summoned
by the telephone girl, the injured lad
: was carried to a physician's office. Al
j though he,was given every medical at
, tention, he passed away eight hours
j I later without ever having regained eoii-
| seiousness.
i Tile little Minter boy is only six years
iof age. He was so badly frightened by
I i the distressing accident that he is un
able to give -n exact account of how
tlie shooting occurred. The telephone
girl on duty at the time has collapsed
from the shock.
C. H HYDE, FORMER
CITY CHAMBERLAIN
OF NEW YORK, GUILTY
NEW Y< )RK, Nov. 30.—Charles H.
Hyde, former city chamberlain, was
housed in the best room in the Tombs
today awaiting sentence following his
conviction last night of bribery ill forc
ing from Joseph G. Robin a loan of
$130,000 for the Carnegie Trust Com
pany. He probably will be sentenced
. Wednesday, but a certificate of reason
abie doubt, which his lawyers obtained,
will act as a stay and it will be many
, months before the former city official
, will begin serving bis sentence.
The*quartets to which Hyde was as
signed are the same occupied by Wil
liam J. Cummins, who was in the Tombs'
ithrough financial troubles. At that
time because Cummins was not placed
in the tier with the usual run of pris
oners there was much criticism of the
prison officials.
The place where Hyde is confined
■ was used at one time as quarters for
the late Warden Flynn. Later it be
: came . store room and hospital. Tech
nically tlie prison authorities are not
required to keep Hyde in any particular
part of the jail, as tlie commitment re
quires that he be confined "in * tlie
Tombs."
Hyde today had his breakfast sent
from a nearby restaurant. He wrote
letters an dthen asked reporters to ex
cuse him from seeing them, as he had
nothing to say.
TRADE BOARD OF
DECATUR TO SEEK
100 NEW MEMBERS
The committee on membership of the
Decatur Board of Trade will meet at the
council chamber in Decatur tonight at
8 o'clock to plan a short campaign for
new members.
The organization now has more than
300 members, and it is expected that this
campaign will increase the number to 300.
The plan is to complete the work by
Thursday night of next week. Each
member of the committee will be allotted
several names and lie will see those per-
I sons.
j Tne committee is as follows: George
| It. Jones, chairman; Frank W. Ansley, A.
I It. Almon, J. E. Bodenhamer, A. L.
! Brooks, Brooks G. Brown, G. Scott Can
dler. I’. F. Callahan, J. V. Dunlap. J.
I Taylor Green. John F. Green, W. H. S.
i Hamilton, G. C. Jossey, D. F. Kirkpatrick,
' B. B. Knox. J. A. Montgomery, Charles
IA. Matthews. Charles D. McKinney,
! George M. Napier, W. A. Oznier, W. J.
Dabney, K. C. \V. Kamspeck. .1. J. Scott.
J. C. Thompson and P. L. Weekes.
SOUTH ATLANTIC LIMITED
JUMPS TRACK, NO ONE HURT
GRH'T'IN. GA., Nov. 30.—South At
lantic Limited train No. 32, on the Cen
tral of Georgia railroad, southbound,
was delayed five hours late last night
and early today by the derailment of
the rear Pullman s.'eeper at Pomona,
just north of here. A broken rail is
said to have been the cause Only the
one car left the track and it remained
I upright, riding the ties until the train
was brought to a stop. No one was
I hurt.
The derailment took place at 11:10
I o'clock. The delayed train proceeded
lon its run about 4 o’clock, passing here
;,t 1:20 a. m. The track was cleared
I for other trains at 7:30 o’clock.
WHISKY IN JURY ROOM:
THREE MEN UNDER BOND
DAWSON, GA., Nov. 30.—Eli Bridges,
Burrell Bridges and Joseph Arnold,
prominent farmers of Terrell county,
have been placed under bonds of SI,OOO
'•■ach by Judge Worrill, of the superior
i court.
Eli Bridges was being sued by Dan
I Eaton for $5,000 damages for assault
i ing him. The jury had gone out with
| the ease, and upon returning from sup-
I per found a bottle of whisky and box
1,,f cigars iu the jury room. This was
I ported to Judge Worrill and he at
i ~p. . declared a mistrial and began an
Investigation that led him to hold the
I- . Bridges and Arnold for investiga
tion by th" grautl jur-
61.8.1 P. CO.
STINGINGLY
OnOHCEO
01 HURT
It Is an Avaricious Corporation
to Which the City Has Sold
Birthright. He Says.
POWER RATES THRICE
TOO HIGH, HE ASSERTS
’"Street Car Fares Should Be 3
Cents, and Employees
Are Underpaid/’
Joel Hurt, president of the Atlanta
Realty Corporation, confittning his an
nouncement that he would build an In
dependent power plant to furnish power
to the entire city, if not granted a per
mit to erect one for himself, today de
nounced the Georgia Railway and Pow
er Company as an avaricious corpora
tion, to whom Atlanta had sold its
birthright.
He declared that present power rates
were three tunes as high as they should
be, asserting that he CQpld furnish pow
er foi the operation of bis new sky
scraper at one cent per kilowatt hour,
while the poweg company charged three
cents.
• Mr. Hurt said he was determined to
show that he was no bluffer. He de
clared that when he owned the car
company ten years ago he had decided
that the capital should not be increased
more than $2,000,000, believing that the
city and the company’s employees
should share in its prosperity. Under
tlie present regime he understood that,
the total capitalization was well over
$80,000,000.
“Records Would Make
Startling Experience.”
Accrding to Mr. Hurt, the Georgia
Railway and Power Company paid
lawyers SBO,OOO to convince the city that
his (Mr. Hurtßs) offer to give tlie city
ail profits over six per cent was gold
brick.
"If .the records of this corporation
were revealed," said the capitalist, “it
would make the most startling expose
in the history of the United States. I
am no bluffer and I will see this thing
through to a finish.”
Mr. Hurt said the independent plant
he had in mind would be large enough
to furnish power to all and that it
would be a real competitor.
Three-Cent Car Fares
Enough, He Says.
Fie declared that street car fares in
Atlanta should be three cents and that
tlie employees of the ear company were
being paid just about half nough. At
lanta, he said, would have to pay for
the enormous capitalization of the
Georgia Power Company.
* Mr. Hurt’s decision and announce
ment came as the result of the opposi
tion of Preston Arkwright, president
of the power company, to a permit
which Hurt wanted from the street
committee of council to erect and op
erate a $150,000 power plant in connec
tion with his $2,000,000 Edgewood ave
nue project.
QUITS SECOND WIFE
TO PERMIT HER TO
TAKE NEW HUSBAND
NEW YORK, Nov. 3v.—Robert M. Ul
mer, a traveling salesman, made the
"amende honorable” in the supreme
court by testifying that he had two
wives, so that his second wife, Mrs. Eva
J. Ulmer, could obtain an annulment of
their marriage and marry another man.
Ulmer testified tiiat in 1893 he mar
ried Miss Otella Reed. After a short
married life they separated. The de
fendant said he heard that Mrs. Ulmer
No. 1 had left New York. He wrote her
letters, but never received a response.
Then Ulmer concluded that his wife was
dead.
Clmer became acquainted with the
i young woman who appeared as the
i plaintiff in 1904, when she was sixteen
I years old. They were married in Ho
boken, and lived together happily until
1909. Then one day they were out
walking, when a young woman bowed
to Ulmer. "Who was that woman?”
asked Mrs. Ulmer No. 2. "Oh, that was
my first wife. I thought she was dead."
was the startling reply of Ulmer.
Mrs. Ulmer No. 2 looked up Mrs. Ul
: mer No. 1. When she learned her status
she sued for tlie annulment of her mar
riage. In court she sakl she was al
i ready engaged to marry another man.
Ulnier said he honestly believed tiiat
hl- first wife was dead, and he gave Ids
I testimony with the understanding that
■ it •.’•mild not be used against him in any
| criminal proceeding. Justie leLie*
granted the annulment.
ATLANTA. GA.. SATURDAY. NOVEMBER 30, 1912.
His Majesty’s Modem Improvements!
Copyright, 1912, by Internationa! News Service
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Exploring Smoke-Befogged City by Torchlight'
IN’ DARKEST ATLANTA! 1
Eleven delegates to next week's gas
convention stepped out of their Pull
mans at tlie station early today and
turned savagely to
the porter.
T h o u ght y' m
said we got in at
8 a. in.?" they pro
tested. "Why are
you dumping us
out at midnight?”
"This ain't mid
night, boss,” re
turned the porter,
a shadow seen
dimly under the
arc lights’ glare
"It's after break
fast time. Dis is
smoke. Wait till
you gets in de
street and you'll
find more of it.”
The visitors
seized their grips,
stuck close behind
a man with a
torch, and made their way into what
seemed a great cave filled with an
opaque, mouse-colored substance in
which even arc lights made but a faint,
rosy spot.
“What’s this?" asked the leader.
“This is outdoors in Atlanta,” replied
the guide.
“What a town for a gas company!"
exclaimed the head of the Party, in ec
stacy. “Twenty-four hours consump
tion a day. No wonder we’re holding
the exposition here. Pittsburg h is noth
ing on this.”
“Well, are you game?” asked another.
"Let’s all go exploring in darkest At
lanta.”
Punching Holes in the Gloom.
They stood on the sidewalk for a
while, watching the pedestrians picking
their way along the curb, bumping into
each other in tlie gray cloud, hesitating
tc» cross the street. Trolley ears crept
past, clanging their gongs furiously.
Their headlights were turned on in full
power, though it was past 8 o’clock.
Motor car drivers tried vainly to make
their acetylene lights shoot holes in the
gloom, but even these searchlights could
not cut the smoke.
There was an English delegate in the
party, and he was the only happy man
in the bunch
“It's like dear old Lunnon!” he ex
claimed delightedly. "Yet it’s different,
it's much thicker, and tastes far worse.
A sea fog is very pleasant, you knosv.
This tastes like the cigar uhich went
out yesterday and v a- lighted again to
day.”
“What is it—fog ■■ smoke'.” i>sk> u
the man from Kans.,.- *'lty "L‘-t's cull
m the , ath< I ex: ” '
I
A flashlight taken
in Whitehall street
at 10 o'clock this
morning, showing a
part of the Great
Black Way.
"It is smoke—all smoke." said the
forecaster. "It is worse than usual to
day. because there is no wind to blow
it away."
“Then if Atlanta had no wind for a |
l week, a citizen would not be able to
; leave his door at high noon, with the
j sun shining bright, and find his way to
i the next corner,” said u scientific rnem
| her of tlie party. "If there were no
I wind, the whole city would first be
shrouded in this veil of smoke, it would j
! grow thicker and thicker, the air would
soon be so filled with poisonous gases 1
I that m> human could breathe, and in a .'
j few more hours Atlanta would be a city 1
lof the dead. Atlanta seems to be at <
the mercy of the winds.” <
Groping in the Shadows.
The party tried to make its way up 1
Peachtree street to a hotel. It was dis- i
flcult going, in tlie gray shadow. It i
was like walking in the wake of a for- <
est fire, for the smoke wrapped them in
its embrace, choked their lungs, filled i
their eyes. Their hands and faces were ■
grinv with soot. Their collars, donned i
a half hour before in the Pullman, 1
looked as though stowaways in the coal i
bunkers bad worn them.
At last, by feeling their way along ■
the buildings, inquiring of the dimly 1
outlined forms which passed with the ’
confidence which comes from familiar
ity, tlie visitors reached their hotel. 1
Even here the lobby was tilled with the
smoke. It resembled nothing so much 1
as a poker room at 3a. m., which every ■
window closed and everybody puffing 1
cigars. But instead of the scent of to- 1
bacco, there was the stench of soft coal '
Can't See Skyscrapers.
“Why doesn’t Atlanta do away with 1
this smoke?” demanded the visitors in 1
surprise.
"It’s trying to,” explained the Atlan- ’
tan who had welcomed them. "We liave
a smoke commission, with power to or- 1
der arrests for viTHations of the oidi
nance.” j ‘
"There ought to be a half-million in | '
tines stacked up after a day like tills.” ’
said the visitor. “1 suppose your police
force is using extra patrol wagons to I
take offenders to the station today ,
There must be at least a thousand vio- (
lations this morning. How many ar
rests do you suppose they have made?”
"I'-u-m, well. You see —” began the
Atlantan "The inspector did have an <
arrest or two made, but the smoke com
missioners didn’t like it. You see. it is
likely to injure business. And then
there’s politics. It’s mighty hard to go
to fining good citizens and tax payers,
you see."
“Then what dors Atlanta, propose to
do about it?" demanded the head of ■
tlie visitors.
”<'ome out and look at our skyscrap- '
ers." vetu ned the Atlantan. "They are '
the finest in tne South.”
Hut even till; was denied the strung- •
i ers. They co"' le’* «», hli'lier thru tl •
j.-.-ond Hop
SOUNDS DOOM OF
SAWING DEVICES
Council Committee Unanimous
in Approval of Ordinance
Banning Slot Machines.
The doom of tlie slot machines in
near-beer saloons and locker clubs was
sounded by the council committee on
legislation yesterday afternoon, and to
day the lenders in this fight expect
council to be unanimous in voting to
prohibit the use of the machines in
locker clubs, near-beer saloons and mo
tion picture shows when the ordinance
is submitted at the meeting Monday aft
ernoon.
The committee is unanimous in its
recommendation of the ordinance. There
was no protest against it at the meet
ing of tlie committee yesterday after
noon. The recommendations will be
signed bv < ’buries W. Smith, chairman;
James E. Warren, Claude C. Mason and
John S. Candler. Clarence Haverty,
the other member of the committee, is
out of tlie city.
W. D. Ellis, Jr., assistant city attor
ney, said he believed that the machines
were gambling devices. He said that
lie had signed a written agreement with I
Attorney John \y Moore, representing;
tlie owners of th" machines, that no I
more cases would be made against the i
owners until the legal status of the
matter was d'-eided by the courts. But,!
lie said, council could bar them by
adopting th" proposed ordinance, with
out interfering v-.'gth his agreement. He
said:
"By taking the slot machine case to
the court of appeals, by agreement, it
was expected that a decision would be
obtained within 60 days. The superior
court already has held tiiat they are
gambling devices."
Chairman Smith told tlie committee
that the evil of tlie slot machines bad
spread to such an extent that imme
diate action was demanded of council.
He said they should be stopped at once,
regardless of whether they technically
evaded the gambling statute.
MINER DIVES 90 FEET IN
SHAFT TO RESCUE MAN
DENNISON. OHIO. Nov. 30, When |
Andy Ronald, aie d 40, hear.' the body of 1
Harlin Thomas, aged 33, miner, whizz
down the shaft he dived after the form j
and landed 90 feet below In I.U feet "fl
water and muck. Ronald pulled the j
other man to safe:." and both "ere hoist
to the surface. Both wer« hi.jurid.l
■'"'omv' will not
IXTR4
2 CENTS EVERYWHERE
EXPERTS FIND
GITYWATER
PERILED BY
VAULTS
Council Urged to Buy Land
Around the Reservoir and
Pumping Station.
HEALTH BOARD SEVERELY
CONDEMNS THE SITUATION
Sanitary Conditions Said to
Menace All Atlanta—Acting
Mayor For Purchase.
Dr. Claude A. Smith and Dr. J.
Kennedy, Atlanta’s health officers, ar®
preparing a letter to the water board
today in which they severely condemn
the existence of the open vaults around!
tlie water reservoir at the city pump
ing station.
The doctors made an inspection of
tlie conditions yesterday. They declar
ed tiiat the purity of the city’s entire' •
water supply was endangered.
Following The Georgian's editorial on j
this situation, the members of the wa
ter board have decided to renew their
fight before council to get the land
on which these vaults are located.
Several Vaults
Near Reservoir.
Commislsoner W. J. Davis, who is i
leading the light, declared that the
board wov’l either get funds to pur
chase tiV /land or it would let every
citizen </. Atlanta know that the mem- j
bers of council are responsible for *he I
1 existing peri! tff the water supply.
Several of the vaults border on the
coagulating basins, which la the first M
pait of the filtration system. The oth
ers border on the big reservoir. Tnere
are about fifteen vaults on property
tiiat drains toward the stored water.
"It is ridiculous for the city not to j
control all the water shed around its
reservoirs," said Dr. Claude A. Smith,
"It would be difficult for me to con
demn ' too strongly the conditions
around tlie waterworks plant.”
W. Z. Smith, general manager of wa
terworks, said the water board repeat-' .j
edly had urged council to provide fundu - j
for the purchase of this land. He said
there was about $14,000 abtained from; J
the sale of water bonds which woultt j
be a good start on tlie purchase price j
of all tlie property desired.
Money Available,
Declares Smith.
He said this money was lying idle
and that the board bad no such useful •
purpose to which it could apply th®. ’
monei as the purchase of tills land.
At ting Mayor John S. Candler de
clared that the property was needed J
badly. It consists of one block M
two small triangles, surrounded by j
city property. He said it not only was
needed to protect the city’s water sup
ply but that with it the city could build
around the waterworks plant one o< .
the most beautiful parks in the South- ]|
Yesterday afternoon Mr. Smith, 1
Davis and the two health doctors df . ;■
out to the plant to inspect the cdt W
tions. It was there that the expft S
declared the sanitary conditions to®b«
bad ami they said they would write a ’
strong letter to the board today. The
board will send this letter to council
Monday witli the plea that steps be j
taken at once to buy the property.
Mr. Davis said if the owners wanted |
too much for tlie property the city could S
condemn it without delay.
NO SALOONS IN OR NEAR
NEW RED LIGHT DISTRICT
MACON. GA., Nov. 30. —The citj |
council is going to stringently regulate J
the new restricted district ’of Maconjxg®
ft.■■ -tive on January 1. Notice has
given that licenses will not be issued .'•JI
for saloons either in or near the dis- 1
trlct, which now lies on the edge of the M
city limits ornl a half mile from a single I
white residence, orders have also been g
issued which prohibit the women from I
going into any theater or from riding in ,
vehicles, unless on the way to the de
pot. Mayor Moore and the aidermen J
take the position that this method of '
regulation is better than abolition.
CHARGED WITH ROBBING
WIFE. JURY FREES HIM
ST. LoUIS. Nov. 30.—1 t took a jury A
only five minilies to return a verdict of' S
.H 'liiittul in favor of Charles Fuerst,
bo was on trial in Judge Kinsey’s '9
court on tlie charge of stealing sls.O ( otV'3 S
north, of diamonds from his formmS
niic. Mrs. Dora McClanahan, s hotel a j
to ' of Fort Worth. Tex. a