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the weather e air tonight and Thursday; cold- Temperatures: 8 a. m., 57 de er' 10 a ™.» 59 degrees; 12 noon, Agrees: 2P- 59 de 9 rees ' •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.” •**' »-Y -i • * t r* A $ /I’ •*" . IF*' V // v- N > i n/ / i S mr | JjC-. | r J J jMSMUBu \\ ... ts — ?\ \\x \ LW J \w ' L_ 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 •S "W 4 . . F' / Y' A 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.