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VOL. XI. NO. 303.
ATLANTA, GA., THURSDAY, JULY 24, 1913.
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GO VERNMENT TO DIVORCE RAILROADS FROM TRUSTS
TO END
Interstate Commerce Commission
to Halt “Allowances” Costing
Lines $42,000,000 a Year.
WASHINGTON, July 24,—The an-
swer of the Interstate Comerce Com
mission to the aplication of the rail
roads east of the Mississippi and
north of the Ohio and Potomac Rivers
for permission to make a general in
crease of 5 per cent in freight rates,
will be as follows:
1. The application will be denied.
2. All railroads will be ordered to
discontinue making “allowances” to
certain favored big industrial com
binations.
This will save the general public
from paying the aditional $42,000,000
year which the railroads are asking
for and deprive certain big industrial
corporations of a sum ranging be
tween $50,000,000 and $100,000,000 an
nually.
The Commission during the past
few months has secretly made an In
vestigation to determine just the ex
tent to which the practice of making
“allowances” to industrial short line
railroads, owned by manufacturing
concerns, is prevalent.
His Names and Facts.
It is now in possession of the
names of the concerns which receive
these “allowances” or rebates, or dis
criminatory rates—and in addition it
hay the names of the railroads which
pay them, the amounts received by
the favored industrial corporations
and something of the extent to which
the practice injures the competing
manufacturers, who are not in a po
sition to enter into such arrange
ments.
In a large number of instances, it is
claimed, the practice amounts to ex
tortion. The railroads are compelled
by the demands of competition to
make allowances to the manufacturer
for transferring his product over nis'
own insignificant trackage to the
junction where the regular railroad
takes up his cars. Where several
railroads are bidding for such a man-^
ufacturer’s business the one which
makes the most liberal allowance
usually gets the freight.
To End the Extortion.
In view of this fact it is expected
that the answer which the commis
sion will give the railroads will meet
with their approval and co-operation,
and will do away with the most im
portant of existing improper prac
tices without the necessity of prose
cution.
The railroads are asking for the
five per cent increase on the ground
/hat they must have increased rev
enue to pay their large operating
expenses, and particularly, to pay
the higher wages demanded by their
employees.
The recent demands for higher
wages would take $17,000,000.
Can Pay Wac,© Advance.
Under the order which the Inter
state Commerce Commission will is
sue the railroads will get mcg*e than
$42,000,000 by simply cutting off an
improper expense, and corresponding
ly, the favored trusts and combina
tions which have been mulcting them
of the amount will be deprived of it.
The railroads will be placed in a
position to pay their employees the
living wage they demand, the danger
of a huge strike will be avoided, and
the whole thing will be accomplished
without the shippers—and through
them the general public—being re
quired to pay more for the transpor
tation of the necessities of life.
Sewage Plant To Be
Finished by Sept. 1
W. A. Hansel, assistant chief of
construction, has announced that the
Peachtree Creek sewage disposal
plant will be ready for operation by
September 1.‘ With the completion of
this plant Peachtree Creek, about
which there has been much complaint,
immediately will be purified.
The main part of the plant practi
cally is complete, but the city has not
yet been able to get sufficient stone
for the filter beds.
Girl Outwits Cupid;
Wins Her Own Rival
WHEELING, W. VA., July 24.—
War, or Sherman’s equivalent for it,
“hath no fury like a woman scorned.”
Harry Pendleton mournfully confides
to his friends.
Pendleton had been engaged to Des-
sle McIntyre for two years, when he
met Henrietta Aiken, a Bridgeport,
Ohio, belle. He fell a w illing conquest
and Miss McIntyre was peeved, but
not without hope. She went cupid
one better by going to Bridgeport,
cutting her hair short, donning the
clothes of a modern Beau Brummel
and “cutting out” Pendleton in mas
terly fashion. Then she doffed her
masquerade.
Pendleton refuses to say whether
or not Miss Aiken has permitted him
to resume his courtship.
Tipsy Monkey Kills
Dog, Maims Master
SMITHERS, W. VA., July 24—A
drunken monkey belonging to George
Smith, went on a rampage and after
killing a bulldog, so severely chewed
up Smith’s hand that he was forced
to have it amputated.
Smith gave a party and the mon
key had come in for his share of
refreshments. After the guests de
parted the monkey evinced a desire
for another drink. Smith refused.
The bulldog then sprang at the
Simian, but the latter Jumped on the
dog’s back and with his claws soon
blinded him, then sank his teeth into
the neck, killing him.
Smith suffered his injuries in his
efforts to subdue his pet.
Capital Matrons Vie
As Queens of Beauty
WASHINGTON, July 24—Who i3
to be the beauty of the new' admin
istration is the much-discussed ques
tion here. Here are the leading as
pirants:
Mrs. John E. Osborne, wife of the
Second Assistant Secretary of State,
dark eyes and hair, clear-cut fea
tures and a graceful, slender figure.
Mrs. Dudley Field Malone, wife of
the Third Assistant Secretary of
State, Irish type, black hair, blue
eyes, sparkling with mirth.
Mrs. Timothy Ansberry, golden hair,
oval contuor, large blue eyes and su
perb figure.
Antique Inkstand
Brings $7,010 at Sale
Special Cable to The Atlanta Georgian.
LONDON, July 24.—At a sale of ob
jects of art and porcelain at Christie’s
a bronze inkstand of the first half
of the sixteenth century sold for
$7,010. It is formed as an equestrian
group of Marcus Aurelius, with an
inkwell and sand box by his side,
mounted on hexagonal plinth, with
foliage border and claw feet.
Three old Worcester hexagonal
vases and covers brought $655. A
bronze group of St. George and the
dragon was sold to- $1,110.
Charlton Dying Is
Verdict of Doctors
JERSEY CITY, N. J., July 24. —
Porter Charlton, who Is In jail hero
awaiting extradition to Italy for trial
for the murder of his bride at Lake
Como, three years ago, is so ill no
never will reach Italy alive, accord
ing to a statement by his physicians.
He is a victim of pulmonary tubercu
losis.
Two members of the Italian con
stabulary are expected to arrive in
this country this week to take Charl
ton to Milan.
Back From Liberia
To Die in the South
NEW YORK, July 24.—Pauline
Woodson, a 69-year-old negress, was
permitted yesterday to land in this
country on the assurance of her son-
in-law, David Robertson, that he
would care for her in his home at
Charleston, S. C.
Fifteen years s-o Pauline, her hus
band and daughter went to Liberia
and built a hut In the woods. They
thought the life of a semi'-civiltzed
African superior to the drudgery of
their Southern home. Her husband
and daughter died in Liberia, and she
came back to die in South Carolina.
DIXIE TAR
Anderson Youth, Heir to Mother's
$250,000 Estate, Killed
in Brawl.
PHILADELPHIA, July 24.—Wilbur
Martin, the young sailor from Ander
son, S. C., who was killed here re
cently in a brawl in a tenderloin sa
loon, was worth more than $250,000 in
his own right, according to Informa
tion received here to-day.
The fascination that the sea held
for him and the adventures of a naval
career led him to give up the enjoy
ment of his fortune to become a com
mon seaman on the battleship Con-
nectciut.
He inherited this fortune when his
mother died last March. His relatives
at once began to plead with him io
give up his adevtnurous life and sett’e
down in Anderson. The lure of the
sea was too great, however, and ne
disregarded their pleadings and ad
vice. In despair, his relatives ap
pealed to Washington, but this last
hope was without avail.
The Connecticut has been at the
League Island Navy Yard several
weeks. With the rest of the sailor®,
Martin was in the habit of coming
ashore and visiting the places of
amusement. He was in a saloon in
the old tenderloin district the other
night when he became involved In a
quarrel with a stranger.
Words led to blows and a general
brawl resulted. Suddenly a weapon
was drawn and Martin sank to the
floor. A hurry was sent to the police
and to a nearby hospital. Martin was
unconscious and died within a few
minutes.
Before her death his mother had
argued with him to leave the navy
and come home, where he could have
every luxury that he desired. His in
variable reply was that he loved the
service too well and w'ould stay in .t
all his life.
Foreign Colony in
Shanghai in Peril
Special Cable to The Georgian.
SHANGHAI, July 24.—Foreign
residents of this city are in grave
danger as a result of the fighting be
tween the loyal troops and the south
ern insurgents. A foreign naval bri
gade from the warships in the har
bor is being held in readiness to land
at a moment’s notice should the sit
uation become more acute.
The Government officials are charg
ing that Japan is aiding the revolt
and is lending all its strength to the
citizens of the southern countries in
the hope that the Republic may be
disintegrated.
404 Members Enroll
In Railroad Y.M.C. A.
Acquisition of 404 new members
through a whilwind campaign will be
celebrated by the Railroad Young
Men’s Christian Association Thurs
day night. Prizes will be given the
contestants, the awards being a gold
watch, a gold fob. a gold signet ring
and consolation prizes.
J. W. Whitaker, yardmaster of the
Southern Railway, and L. M. Hunter,
traveling fireman of the Western and
Atlantic Railroad, led the contest. W.
W. Walts, superintendent of the
Southern terminals, will present the
prizes.
OPTIMISTIC AT 110.
BLOOMINGTON. ILL. July 24.—
James Morgan, of Grundy County,
has just celebrated his one hundred
and tenth birthday. He expects to
live another decade.
THE WEATHER.
Forecast for Atlanta and
Georgia — Thundershowers
Thursday and Friday.
Sing Sing Convicts
In Mutiny; Plot to
Burn Prison Fails
OSSINNING, N. Y.. July 24.—Mu
tinous convicts. In open rebellion
against their keepers, to-day made ar.
attempt to destroy the entire Sing
Sing prison property by fire.
They set fire to the clothing manu
facturing building, In which all the
shoes, clothing and like articles are
made. The fire was extinguished by
the prison fire department after it had
swept the shoeshop.
The entire penal population is be
ing kep? under lock in fear of further
outbreaks.
Factory Supplants
Farm as Exporter
WASHINGTON, July 24.—How the
United States is changing from
great exporter in foodstuffs to manu
factures is shown in every report is
sued nowadays by the Bureau of For
eign and Domestic Commerce.
The bureau’s latent figures show a
growth in exports of manufactures
from $468.00.000 in 1903 to $1,200,000,-
000 in the fiscal year Just closed and
in manufacturers’ materials from
$409,000,000 to $740,000,000. while the
exports of foodstuffs remained at d
standstill, $510,000,000 having been
the value of the exports in that line
both in 1913 and 1903.
Eugenic Restaurant
To Save Babies’ Lives
NEW YORK. July 24.—“Thousands
of children are brought into the w'orld
handicapped for life because their
mothers were 111-nourished before they
were bom.”
Miss Mabel A. Parker thus tersely
explains w'hy she has embarked on one
of the most novel eugenic experiments
that has yet been made In this country
—a prenatal restaurant.
This restaurant, which wdll be con
ducted solely for women who are ex
pected to give birth to a child within
six months, will be opened in two
weeks.
HOTEL ELEVATOR HIS
SCHOOL OF AVIATION
Ban Goes On the Shipping of
Arms to Either Huerta
or His Foes.
Love Affair Drives
Mme.Curie from Paris
WARSAW, July 24.—Mme. Curia,
discoverer, w’lth her husband, of
radium, will return to her home here
soon to remain permanently. She
will have charge of a radiological
laboratory.
Another reason for her return is
the gossip connecting her name with
that of Prof. Langevin, of the College
of France, whose wife sued him for
separation. Letters between Mme.
Curie and Prof. Langevin became
public.
Metropolitan Gets
Abbey's ‘King Lear'
NEW YORK. July 24.—The Metro
politan Museum of Art has come Into
possession of “King Lear," one of the
most beautiful and noted of the paint
ings of Edwin A. Abbey. The picture
formerly was a part of the collection
of the late George McCulloch, whicn
was sold in London this spring. It
was bought by Knoedler for $25,200
and sold to George A. Hearn, who
presented it to the museum.
Guardsman Shoots
Escaping Comrade
INDIANAPOLIS, July 24.—Na
tional Guardsman Walter Dow'ell, of
Madison, Ind., is near death to-day
from a bullet fired "by Sergeant Edwin
Ball, Company H. of Indianapolis,
w f hen Dowell attempted to escape
after being arrested on suspicion of
smuggling liquor into the National
Guard camp at Fort Benjamin Har
rison.
Ball is held by the police on a
charge of assault with intent to kill,
pending the result of Dowell s wound.
WASHINGTON. July 24.—Presi
dent Wilson has determined that no
faction in the present Mexican revo
lution shall obtain arms or ammuni
tion from the United States and that
neutrality must be observed in its
strictest sense. This was the inter
pretation of the neutrality laws de
cided upon by the President after
conferences with Senator Bacon and
Representative Flood, chairman of
the two Congressional committees on
foreign relations.
While the Mexican rebels have
been getting no arms heretofore,
these developments mean that the
Huerta administration will be de
prived of the privilege previously ac
corded the Madero Government and
that the United States will treat all
sides alike in the present dispute.
The situation was precipitated by
the repeated complaints of constitu
tionalists and their sympathizers in
this country that if the United States
did not virtually assist the Huerta
Government by selling it munitions
of war, a termination of hostilities
would be possible.
Both Houses Favorable.
| Sentiment in favor of a new policy
I grew in Congres** to such extent that
j to-day a canvass was made of the
j committees in both Houses dealing
! with foreign relations.
It was found there would be little
objection to repealing the joint reso-
; lution of March 14, 1912, which gives
the President discretionary power to
prohibit exportations of arms or mu
nition** of war to countries w'here do
mestic violence existed, but permits
him to allow the legally constituted
Government of any country to buy
war supplies as usual.
Senator Bacon, however, reiterated
as he left the White House that the
Huerta administration could not be
considered a legitimate successor of
the Madero regime or a legally con
stituted government.
To Treat Both Sides Alike.
The constitutionalists representa
tives here had protested to the State
Department that 'nasmuch as the
Huerta government had not been
recognized, It ought not to obtain
arms. This construction of the case
found favor in official circles, and
while the repeal of the resolution of
March 14, 1912, was considered by ad
ministration officials as one way of
equalizing conditions, It was decided
that the same purpose could be ob
served by denying ammunition to all
factions.
There nevertheless is a firm feeling
in Congress in favor of lifting the em
bargo on arms and giving both sides
an equal opportunity to equip them
selves. This sentiment finds favor
especially among those who believe
that the Carranza rebels have public
opinion behind them in Mexico, and if
given the arms with which to supply
their large unequipped forces, the
revolution w'ould end speedily in their
favor.
For the present, however, the ad
ministration wll issue orders to its
agents everywhere to kep arms from
entering the rebellion ?torn country.
Millionaire Youth
Works for $9 a Week
BOSTON, July 24 —Elisha S. Con
verse, a 19-vear-old boy*with a mil
lion dollars in his own name, with
a 50-foot sailing boat, saddle horses
and a motor car, is working as an
ordinary “hand” in a rubber shoe fac-
1 ?ry. Ho earns $9 per week.
Arnold Believed to Be Conferring
With Judge Roan Regarding
Delay Until Fall.
Asks Receiver After
Tilt With Partner
Georgs O. Speir, stockholder In the
A. A. Smith Cotton Products Com
pany In the Grant building, has filed
a petition in the Superior Court ask
ing for a receiver for the company on
the grounds that disagreements be
tween him and A. A. Smith have
made it impossible for them to con
tinue to do business together.
He declares that up to 30 days ago
the company was earning $20,000 a
year.
CARRY CANES FOR MASHERS.
BOSTON, July 24 — Members of the
Women’s Homestead Association
here carry canes and w’histles as pro
tection against mashers. The
whistles are to attract attention.
‘ ‘I got a bank
with 4 pennies
an da dime.
That ought to
buy a good
machine, ’ ’
he says.
in the elevator of Hotel Ansley, be
cause he wants to be an aviator.
Robert figures it thin way: There
isn’t much use In buying and run
ning an airship if you are going to
get sick every time you get a few
feet up in the air; the thing to do,
therefore, is to get used to being j
off the ground—and then buy your
airship.
“I don’t like to ride in elevators,”
he says, "but I’ve got to. I’m going
to be an airship flyer w'hen I grow up,
and I’ve got to get used to being off
the ground. It Is working fine, too
I can go up to the twelfth floor now
without getting dizzy. I’ll make a
dandy aviator. I'll bet!”
The youngster has become a fa
miliar figure to attaches and guest.-*
of the hotel. Every morning, as soon
as he can slip away from Mrs. Pettit
and his nurse, he drags his little chair
Into the elevator and sits solemnly
behind the operator. He manifests
great interest in the operation of the
lift, and his greatest joy comes when
he is allowed to hold the levers and
make believe he Is operating the car.
Robert says he is going to have
an airship as soon as he Is sure he
can fly without getting sick.
“I’ve got a bank at home with four
pennies and a dime in it,” he said.
•'I guess that'll get a pretty good air
ship. If It ain’t enough. Mama will
give me as much more as I nee.d.”
Champ Clark Won't
Let His Wife Fly
WASHINGTON, July 24.— The
yearning of Mrs. Champ Clark, wife
of the Speaker of the House, to en
gage In an aviation flight, while visit
ing Representative and Mrs. Baker,
at Wildwood, N. J.. received a setback
when the Speaker flatly refused to let
her go.
“I never talk back to Champ,” she
said. He is master of his own house
and so 1 guess 1 won't fly just now.”
MARQUETTE, MICH., July 24.—
James A. Crune, Sheriff of Houghton
County, wired Governor Ferris to
day asking that 2,000 State troops be
sent to the district in which the great
copper strike is located.
He says he Is unable to cope wltn
the situation because of the wide area
included.
The strike takes In territory 28
miles.
The Sheriff declares the strikers
have begun to destroy property ani
that the lives of men who are not in
sympathy with the strike have been
threatened.
Nc violence, however, has been re
ported.
Loaded With Meals,
He Defies the World
CHICAGO. July 24.—Impelled * by
five meals at once, Juluius Johnson
to-day staled the walls of a three-
story fiat building, armed himself
with bricks pulled from the chimney
and defied the world.
At the station Johnson’s relatives
came for him. They said he had pur
chased a 21-meal ticket at a restau
rant and just before his escapade had
eaten five meals, one after the other.
Jury panels for the trial of
jeo M. Frank, charged with the
murder of Mary Phagau, were to
be drawn by Superior Judge
John T. Pendelton Thursday
morning, according to all indica
tions. Deputy Sheriff Plennie
Miner, who was instructed by
Judge L. S. Roan to have the
.jury drawn Thursday morning
unless he received instructions to
the contrary, stated that he
would take the jury boxes be
fore Judge Pendleton and ask
him to draw 144 names—12 pan
els.
Although Judge Roan had not de*»
elded to postpone the trial Thursday
morning It. was by no means certain
that some move in this direction
would not be made during th© day.
Reuben R. Arnold, Frank’s attorney,
asked Judge Pendleton to defer draw
ing the Jury until he heard from him
Thursday morning after he had con
ferred with Judge Roan. Attorney
Arnold could not be located in the
city and It was understood he had
gone to Covington, where Judge Roan
was holding court, to orge that the
trial be postponed until the cooler
months of fall.
Dorsey Must Be Consulted.
Prosecuting Attorney Hugh M.
Dorsey announced he would fight
vigorously any move to postpone the
trial without first giving him a hear
ing on the subject.
It developed Thursday morning
that there were two rather ruffled
chiefs at the police department the
previous afternoon when Jim Conley
was sneaked from his cell in the sta
tion over to th© Tower without their
permission and without their knowl
edge.
Chief Lanford said: “This will
never happen again.”
Chief Beavers would not talk of the
incident, but ’s understood to have
told the two detectives, Starnes and
Campbell, that if the negro was takbn
from the police station again he
(Beavers) proposed to be in on it.
There was a commotion at police
headquarters Wednesday afternoon,
when it was found that Conley had
been spirited away to confront Newt
Lee in the Tower. Chief Lanford
knew nothing of the circumstance un
til he was Informed by The Georgian
Even then he insisted that Conley was
in his cell.
Then Detectives Explain.
He went to Chief Beavers’ office to
see if permission had been given there
for Conley’s removal. Beavers said
he did not know Conley was gone.
Station Sergeant Holcomb was ap
pealed to. He said he had not been
notified that the prisoner was to be
taken away. Turnkey Bayne, the last
resort, was asked to explain the mys
terious disappearance of Conley. Ha
informed Chief Beavers that Detec
tives Starnes and Campbell had taken
him about a half hour before.
The Chief, to satisfy himself that
Conley was still In custody, made a
personal visit to the jail.
When Starnes and Campbell later
were in conference with the Chief
they told him that they had said
nothing about their intention because
neither Chief Beavers nor Chief Lan
ford were in the station at the time.
ELBERT CORN SHOW OCT. 17.
ELBERTON.—One hundred and
seventy-nine are enrolled on the
books of the Boys’ Corn Club of El
bert County. It has been decided to
hold the exhibit of the club at Elber-
ton on Friday, October 17*