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•76?,. XL NO. 117.
FORAKER ON
MB TRIES
TO EXPLAIN
LETTERS
Former Senator Says He Was
Not “Ordered” by Standard
Head to Support Judge.
ARCHBOLD'S REQUEST
OF NO WEIGHT WITH HIM
Heard Hearst Paid $38,000 for
Letters. But Disclaims Re
sponsibility for Assertion.
WASHINGTON, Dec. 18.—Former
United States Senator Joseph B. For
ilt,. of Ohi", today explained before
the Clapp committee investigating
■ampaign funds his financial relations
with John D. Archbold, manager of the
St.'»n<lar' ; Oil Company. After reading
itements Dy himself, let
ters from the Standard Oil lawyer and
• ther ''.to which denied that he had
ought t- influence legislation, Senator
Foraker produced a document which,
hr said, was given him by Gilchrist
Stewart, a negro living in New York
;lty, which claimed that W. R. Hearst
had beer. Interested personally In the
inquisition of the Archbold correspond
nee. Foraker explained that the ne
gro had assisted him during the
Brownsville riots and he believed him
to be an honest man.
But." he added, “I will not take re
sponsibility for these charges. This
vae told me by Stewart. J suggest that
re and the other persons Implicated be
brougli. "tore this committee.''
“S3BTOO Paid
For Oil Letters.”
According to Foraker's version of
tat was related to him by Stewart,
two employees of the private office of
Archbold had taken the letters from the
tn Mr. Hearst, had offered to sell
’em. and had subsequently- received
about $38,000 for correspondence be
tween the trust magnate and men in
public life. The two men who took the
letters were Charles Stumph and Wil
le Wlnckfield, the latter being a negro,
l b negotiations for the sale of the let
ters were conducted In the offices of
n<- of Air. Hearst’s newspapers, he de
dared. During the course of his de
utron, Senator Foraker referred to
'tandard oil employees as "men, de
’ 1 ' to become progressive."
Chairman Clapp, one of the progres
ive senators on the committee, started
’ rise from his chair and Senator For
■i<<or added hurriedly: “I mean, of
course, tn a financial way."
In detailing the money alleged to
;.u<i by Air. Hearst's representatives
' the letters, Senator Foraker said
had received $7,000 for the batch
'• iting to himself. Senator Hanna of
‘’hio am! Senator Penrose of Pennsyl
vania.
We Seemed To Be
The Fat Cattle.”
seemed to be the fat cattle.” he
“marked, “for that was the highest
£ uin paid.”
>' senator concluded with the as
:: t negotiations were now un
’••o tween Mr. Hearst’s repre
atn, and the two former em •
of the Standard Oil Company
another batch of letters.
ei inclusion of the hearing,
‘ jli '" a Clapp stated that the men
• Foraker probably will be
ril '' ommitt.ee then adjourned, to
ire call of the chairman.
1 11 r. Mr. Foraker was called, he an
ui'u-d that he wished to make a coni
“ 'taiement before being examined,
iiiil.man Clapp insisted that he tell
he knew anything of the con
•'•mtions to primaries or campaigns in
IJr
p know nothing of them,” replied Air.
'“idKc,-, then he proceeded with
-limony.
Takes Up Letters
Reflecting” on Him. '
I, J l l’ stfd the privilege of coming
Lu.- committee because the Ict
l"hn D. Archbold, of thcStand
v ' ‘ ompany, as printed in Hearst’s
' n ‘• now form part of the official
Inasmuch as they reflect in a
•»n me. 1 desire to commence my
1 with reference to three mag
azinp articles.”
*o r then read from Hearst’s
.of May 8:
II u •’’’fl.” by William Randolph
• 111 which he explained how he
-■'Uen possession of the corre
♦* while ;n < V»lumbus.
R . ' 1 from th" Hearst article
' • H - "M r. A i cliiiolil [ ri -
p u hen h» said he paid Senatoi
for his legal services.” “Foru-
Continued on Paqe Two.
X
The Atlanta Georgian
ANGLIN BALM
SUIT CALLED
‘SPITE’ BY
JESTER
Rich Contractor Accused of
Theft of a Wife’s Love
Brands Charge False.
'RAILROAD MAN TELLS
HOW HE TRAILED PAIR
I
Declares He Spent His Meager
Fortune Following Them
Over United States.
“Anglin's charges.against me are false
and without foundation. The animus
behind them will be shown up at the
proper time and place,” said W. R. Jes
ter today’, in a statement to The Geor
gian. replying to the suit filed against
him in the superior court by J. T An
glin.
Anglin sued Jester for $50,000 dam
ages, charging that Jester had alien
ated the affections of Mrs. Anglin. The
suit was the outgrowth of marital trou
bles of the Anglins, which already had ,
attracted wide attention.
The story included a. chase across tht
American continent, with Anglin as
pursuer, and Jester and Mrs. Anglin as
pursued; a fight between Anglin an<
Jester in Macon a short time ago, and
a divorce suit instituted by Airs. An
glin.
Father of Wife
Also Is Accused.
The damage suit today also asks th<
sum of $1,994.80, to repay expenses in
curved by Anglin in his transcontiner.
tai trips and ir. other trav ‘ls on t:
trail of his wife.
Ira Bradshaw, latter of Mrs. Angii.
and formerly a carpenter in Jester's
employ, is alleged to have had knowl
edge of his daughter's infatuation for
Jester, a wealthy contractor, and- his
name is several times brought into the
suit.
Jester's statement today follows.
All that 1 desire to say at this
time in reference to the sensation
al allegations made by J. T. Anglin
in the suit filed against me is that
at the proper time and place the
animus of same will be shown up
and the charges will be shown to
be false and without foundation."
Says He Spent All
His Money Trailing Pair.
Anglin recites In his suit that Jes
ter, by his fortune of $300,000, cunning
ly, craftily and with great subtlety,
worked on the mind of Mrs. Anglin and
by showing iter the allurements of a
life of luxury and ease, such as Anglin
could not give her, gained a great
ascendency over her. He alleged that
Jester was a married man, though sep
arated from his wife, at the time he
was paying these attentions to Mrs.
Anglin.
“Your petitioner lias spent all his
money in an effort to frustrate the de
signs of Jester," recites the petition,
“and by reason of twice crossing the
continent to prevent the wreck of his
home has been reduced to such straits
that at times he has not had even car
fare." He alleges further that Jester
has given Mrs. Anglin valuable pres
ents of diamonds, chr’iing, pleasure
trips and other luxuries.
The suit recites that Ai n married
Mamie Bradshaw, daughter of Ira
I Bradshaw, a carpenter, on A, ril 19.
1911, in Atlanta, and the couple vent to
El Paso, Texas, where Anglin had ac
cepted a railroad job.
Left Husband in
West and Came Here.
Soon after then.' came messages pur
porting to be from the bride’s father,
begging her to come home on account
of his illness. About June 7 Mrs. Ang
lin left for Atlanta, leaving her husband
behind, happj in the belief that she
would return to him. There Had not
been a cloud on the honeymoon thus
far.
But Mrs. Anglin remained in Atlanta
and finally a letter "from one of her
lady friends” eame io Anglin telling
him Bradshaw's. illness was not such as
to render his daughter’s presence nec
essary. Then Anglin's brother wrote
'that Mrs. Anglin was taking daily mo
lt m- tides with W. R. J*»t'-r. And at
the same time came a letter from the
I wife, saying she was enjoying life In
I Atlanta and hated to leave.
But Mrs. Anglin returned to El Paso
land her father went with her. it was ;■
'short time after this recites Anglin,.
I that he discovered his wife w Iting a
I letter. She -tinted in surprise, and he
became suspicious. After a struggle
Continued on Page Two.
Read For Profit--GEORGIAX WANT ADS-Use For Results
\TLAXTA. GA.. WEDXI'SI)\Y. DECEMBER 18, 1912.
Police Matron Warns
Girls of Tight Dresses
And Trotting* Streets
Three "don'ts” for girls were issued
today by Mrs. Mary Bohnefeld, police
matron, who has come in contact with
several hundred young women during
the year. She says:
"Don't trot the streets and make a
spectacle of yourself.
“Don't paint and powder and burden
your head with false hair.
“Don’t wear tight, immodest dresses."
These three faults, Mrs. Bohnefeld de
clared, have figured in the case of
every girl brought to her notice this
"I have found.” said Mrs. Bohnefeld,
“that the wayward girl, the girl who
will not be controlled by iter parents,
who frequents the streets, who paints
and powders and wears great bunches
of false h.air and tries to be as fancy
as possible, and who thinks it smart to
wear immodest clothing, is the kind of
girl who finally lands tn the police sta
tion. These three faults invariably go
together.”
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Miss Annie Mae Wingate selling Red Cross seals
OLD CAPITAL C/TY CLUB
GOES NOW; MORE TALK
OP BIG CANDLER STORE
Asa <l. Candler, owner of the Candler
building. Commerce hall, tile Lowndes
building, the Candler building at Times
square, New York, and a score of other
valuable Atlanta properties, has taken
the first definite step in the improve
ment of his 260 feet of frontage on the
west side of Peachtree street, just north
of Ellis. This move was made today,
and consisted of appjllcation to tear
down the old Capital Citv club property
at the northwest corner of Peachtree
and Ellis streets, jqst across from where
the Winecoff hotel is to be.
W. C. Flournoy, of the wrecking firm
of Denton & Flournoy. 26 1-2 North
Broad street, applied for a permit at
Building Inspector Hays' office. The
cost of tearing down the structure will
be $2,600, and the job will be done in
about 70 dttjs. or by March 1.
Mr. Candler made announcement of
no ib finite plans for improving this
property and the adjacent 160 feet, but
he has considered several propositions.
For some time there has been talk
of a giant department store, after the
fashion of Gimbel Brothers or VVana
maker's in New York, or Marshall
Field's in Chicago, and it has been the
talk that su< h an institution would clus.
ter around it such a host of stores and
busim.-s Imuses that the immediate sec
tion would l>e completely revolutionized.
There ha- been other talk about a sky
scraper, but gossip of the department
store has been much more general.
Big Jumps in Values.
Tlie old Capital City club property
lias been considered by Mr. Candler
somewhat of a "'Cnt< elephant" and an
eyesori . It ha- been the home of res
taurants, cookiug schools, rummage
sales, auctions, tmd various charity
-ales, and has given .Mr, Candler no
little trouble.
The building was erected by John H.
Society Girls Continue Stamp War on Plague
GOAL IS 600,000 SEALS
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James, and for years was the James
i home until the owner had sold the pres
ent governor's mansion to the state. It
was put up for sale in 1879, and bought
by Green B. Adair for about $30,000.
Mr. Candler bid $28,000 and dropped
out. Three years ago Mr. Candler
bought it for $130,000. or at the rate of
$1,300 a front foot- The Leyden house,
' oldest large building in Atlanta, and
General Sherman's headquarters during
the war. was bought for SIOO,OOO, and
the Abbott home, between the two oth
er properties, was bought, for $56,000.
The Leyden property is of about 108
feet frontage, and the Abbott place, now
occupied by the University club, 60
feet. Tlie University club has a lease
on the Abbott property until next Oc
tober. and will have to move after that
tithe, as Mr. Candler declares he will
not lease the place again. The Leyden
house, Mr. Candler said, would also
come down before long. This will leave
only the Abbott bouse standing, and
with that down Mr. Candler can pro
ceed with his big building.
How Candler Bought.
"I bought Atlanta real estate,” as
serted Mr Candler this morning, "when
it was out in the country, and held to
it. Communities have grown up around
it and In it. I bought when 1 didn't
have the money, for 1 had faith In land.
Wherp the old Capita) City club build
ing now i.- was far out io the old days,
and where the Piedmont hotel stands
was the residence, park and beautiful
lawn of Dr. J. W. Alexander, later Judge
Ezzard's home. Henry Banks, Jerry
Goldsmith, J. 3V. Murphy and others
lived in the neighborhood.”
The destruction of the building will
take away one of Atlanta’s ancient land
marks. flic old club was host to manv
‘ of the country's' most famous men, in
cluding Presidents Cleveland McKinley,
. Admiral Dewey and Admiral Schley.
Miss Hattie Patterson, one of
the Christmas seal sellers.
One Team of Women Sell SIOO
Worth of Christmas “Stick
ers” in One Day.
With young women, well known in
the social world of Atlanta, as leaders
in the fight, the war on the white
pieague continued today through the
selling of Red Cross Christmas seals
and before the week Is out 600,000 of
the stamps that mean restored health
to thousands will have been placed in
this city.
Mrs. T. B. Felder sold In one morn
ing, with the assistance of Mrs. W. C.
Jarnigan, $75 worth of stamps,
and added $25 more during the after
noon. The local committee, of which
Mrs. Fred G. Hodgson is chairman, has
already distributed 570,000 in the city,
and expects to put out 600,000 by the
end of the week.
One hundred and sixty thousand
stamps have been placed with public
school children, and the revenue from
these will be $1,600. Mrs. J. Wade
Conkling is chairman of the school
committee and hopes to sell $5,000
worth‘during the campaign. This will
go toward the open-air school fund.
Booths have been placed in the Pied
mont hotel, the Terminal station and
the postoffice and many department
stores, and working girls are co-oper
ating in the movement. There are 25
members of a business women's com
mittee, of which Miss Genevieve Saun
ders is chairman, and each working
girl expects to sell $25 worth of stamps.
TJie headquarters of the local com
mittee are on the eighth floor of the
building at 140 Peachtree street, and
the committee is receiving many calls
over the phone, Ivy 804.
The manager of the state campaign,
Kendall Welsiger, lias sent out 1,600,000
stamps, including those furnished At
lanta, and is keeping 200,000 in reserve.
He believes more will have to be print
ed to supply the demand.
JUDGE BELL TURNS
COSMOPOLITAN LIFE
OVER TO THE STATE
Superior Judge Bell today formally
turned the affairs of the Cosmopolitan
Life Insurance Company over to the
state in a consent order taken by all
attorneys concerned.
Assistant Commissioner John Cope
land said today that the company's af
fairs would be administered by the
state for the present, at least until nil
th'- facts concerning its condition had
been brought to light to the satisfac
tion of all persons interested.
He said it was the determination of
tie state to keep the company a going
concern, if possible, and its affairs
wn'il.l )"• liquidated only as a lust re
sort. It Is more than likely that a
reciqanization of the company will be
permitted if matters are adjusted prop
erly.
1525,350.1)00,000 OF
mum RESOURCES
IN fflOS OF MORGAN
Financial King of America and Eighteen
Associate Institutions, by Interlocking
Directorships, Control Large Part of
Business and Industry of Country.
WASHINGTON, Dec. 18.—J. Pierpont Morgan, king of Ameri
can finance, took the witness stand this afternoon to testify before
the Pujo congressional committee investigating the money trust.
Mr. Morgan was questioned briefly. The committee adjourned at
2:50 p. in.
WASHINGTON, Dee. 18.—Philip Scudder, an expert statistician
of New York, told in great detail to the house money trust investigat
ing committee today how through the device of interlocking director,
ates, eighteen financial institutions, thirteen of them in New York
city, three in Chicago and two in Boston, controlled a great portion of
the business arid finances of the en
tutions, he said, had in all 746 dirt
ing total resources or capifalizatioi
In the aggregate they held 385
directorships in eleven insurance
companies, 155 directorships in 31
railroads, six directorships in two
express companies, four director
ships in one steamship company,
98 directorships in 28 producing
corporations and 48 directorships
in nineteen public utility corpora
tions.
Affiliations of
Morgan Widespread.
The table showed the affiliations of
J. B. Morgan & Co. and an enormous
maze of Interlocking directorates in
Wall street. It was shown that J. P.
Morgan & Co., the First National bank
of New York, the National City bank,
the Guarantee Trust Company and the
Bankers Trust Company have 118 di
rectors in 34 banks and trust compa
nies. having a total resource of $2,879.-
000,000 and total deposits of $1,983,000,-
000; that they have 30 directors in ten
insurance companies, having total as
sets of $2,293,000,000, 105 directors in 82
transportation companies, total capi
talization of $1,785,000,000, and a total
mileage of 150,200 miles; 64 directors
in 24 trading corporations, with a total
capitalization of $3,399,000,000; 25 di
rectors in 12 public utility corporations,
with a total capitalization of $2,150,-
000,000; In all 341 directors in 112 cor
porations, having an aggregate re
sources of $22,245,000,000. ,
Four Concerns
Ramify For.
“It also was shown that Morgan &
Co., the Guarantay Trust Company, the
Bankers Trust Company and the First
National bank together have 89 direc
tors in banks and trust companies, 29
directors in Insurance companies, 78
directors tn transportation systems, 49
directors in producing and trading cor
porations, 18 directors in public utili
ties corporations, in all 261 directors.”
The financial affiliation of the fol
lowing eighteen institutions were set
forth in detail: ,
J. P. Morgan & Co., First National
bank, Guaranty Trust Company, Bank
ers Trust Company, National City
bank. Kuhn. Loeb & Co., National Bank
of Commerce. Hanover National bank,
Astor Trust Company, New York Trust
Company, Blair A Co.. Speyer & Co.,
all of New York; Continental and Com
mercial National bank. First National
bank and Illinois Trust and Savings
bank, all of Chicago; Kidder, Peabody
& Lee, and Lee, Higginson & Co., of
Boston and New York.
WOMAN’S FIGHT FOR
$2,000,000.00 ATLANTA
PROPERTY IS BEGUN
Mrs. Eleanor Gunby, of Florida, filed
a suit In superior court today to decide
the titles to Nos. 38 to 43, inclusive,
West Alabama street, this being tire
first of a series of "John Doe" suits
growing out of the recently announced
determination of Mrs. Gunby to attempt
recovery of about $2,000,000 worth of
central Atlanta property to which she
claims to be heir.
The suit today was filed by Mrs. Gun
by, as “John Doe,” against C. J. Mc-
Kinney, administrator of the Mary J.
Rucker estate, as “Richard Doe,” and
the property involved is occupied by the
Enterprise Manufacturing Company
and the Gullet Engine Company.
Mrs. Gunby, a daughter of Clark
Howell, Sr., lays claim to valuable
property through the estate of her
grandfather, Nathaniel E. Gardner, on
a title granted in 1860. She asserts
that one C. W. Dill, executor, disposed
of certain properties which he had no
right to dispose of, and these now are
worth about $2,000,000,
HOHL
EDITION
2 CENTS EVERYWHERE ”^ R '}l o
tire country. These eighteen insti«
ictorships in 131 corporations hav
n of $25,325,000,000.
LIFER FREED FDR
QUELLING MUTINY
Giant Negro Who Saved War*
den in Convict Uprising Is
Granted Parole.
For quelling: a mutiny of negro con.
victe in the Sumter county camp thre*
years ago, and probably saving the Ufa.
of Warden Christian, of Americus, Mitt
Hammond, a life term negro prisoner,
sent up from Decatur county for mur
der in 1898, was paroled today by Gov*
emor Brown.
Warden Christian has fought cease*
lessly to have Hammond freed since the
morning the giant black stepped into a.
crowd of angry convicts and h Id them
back while the officer pulled his gun
and put down an Inciu.ent mutiny.
Christian says he entered the gates of
the camp one Sunday morning and was
assaulted by a mob of convicts, who
were waiting for him. He says ho
learned later that a carefully planned
jail delivery was on the program. Ha
was to be overpowered and perhaps
murdered, and the 60 convicts in the
camp were to scatter over the country
side.
“Hammond, help me,” Christian call
ed, as two convicts pinioned his arms
and grabbed at his gun.
The warden told the governor that
Hammond jumped out of the crowd and
grappled with the prisoners, while trio
officer yanked his gun free and covered
the leaders of the uprising.
Hammond’s crime was the slaying of
another negro in a fight. It was as
serted to the chief executive that there
were extenuating circumstances.
Sunday's Concert at
Grand Ideal Way to
Aid Christmas Fund
The Empty Stocking fund is
growing by SIOO jumps. It has
reached close to $1,200, but it is
not yet sufficient to buy all the
things the Christmas Editor
would like to give the children
on the long list.
The concert at the Grand next
Sunday afternoon at 3 o’clock
will be everybody’s opportunity
to contribute to the fund. Don’t
make any other engagement for
that day. Go to the concert,
hear excellent music and give as
Teely as you can to the Empty
■tucking fund.
Don’i think your gift will be
scorned because it is small. The
Georgian would like to have
every well-to-do boy and girl in
Atlanta contribute a quarter or
a dime apiece to help some less
fortunate child have a full
stocking on Christmas morning.