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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 F W S’-; Ji A J O | HEwßw 1/7 B JS . j '■s<? 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