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VOL. XI. NO. 310.
4TLANTA, GA„ FRIDAY, AUGUST 1,1913.
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FACTORY GIRL CALLED
TO STAND BY STATEj
Mitchell Named by
Anti-Tammany Men
For New York Mayor
NEW YORK, Aug. 1.—After a stormy
ill nigtlt session of the anti-Tammany
allies, John Purroy Mitchell, collector
of the port of New York, was named as
the fusion candidate for Mayor of Great
er New York. Mitchell was named on
the ninth ballot, with 46 votes, to 43 for
pletrlct Attorney Whitman.
’ The rest of the ticket follows:
Comptroller, William A. Prendergast;
President Board of Aldermen, George
McAneny; President Borough of Man
hattan, Marcus M. Marks; President
Borough of Brooklyn, Lewis H. Pounds;
President Borough of Queens, Robert W.
Hlgbie; president Borough of the Bronx,
Cyrus C. Miller; President Borough of
Richmond, George Cromwell; District
Attorney New York County, Charles S.
Whitman.
Vote Buttons Sold
By Suffrage League
Atlanta suffragists busied them
selves Thursday in the sale of suf
frage buttons and distribution of suf
frage literature just to be doing some
thing while their suffrage sisters were
parading in Washington. The button
sale was held at the entrance of Mrs.
Milian Smith’s millinery store, Ns.
116 Peachtree street, and a neat sum
Secured. This fund will be expended
the holding of meetings to further
ie cause.
The sale was held under the aus
pices of the Woman- Suffrage League
uf Atlanta, which was the Woman’s
Livic League until two weeks ago.
Society Women in
Pajamas Dance at
Narraganset Ball
NARRAOANSETT PIER, R. I.,
Aug. 1,—Stories of a gay party at the
Point Judith Country Club, at which
several of the women guests are de
clared to have danced In pajamas un
til sunrise, are being circulated here
and are almost as much of a sensa
tion as the hunt for the Jewel thieves
Some of the best known young ma
trons and maids of New York and
New England society were among the
guests. Turkish costumes are said to
have vied with the pajamas.
. One observer says fifteen of the
women wore ankle watches. Detet
tlveg guarding the country club, it is
said, to learn something of the Jewel
thefts, were ordered off bv Malcolm
Stevenson, who was giving the party.
SEES IDEAL
Noted Author-Convict Pictures in
Strange Allegory What Penal
Reforms Would Bo.
Puts Steam Shovel
Above Court; Jailed
PITTSBURG. August 1.—When
Judge R. A. Kennedy, in Common
Pleas Court. wa« annoyed by the puff
ing of a steafti shovel excavating a
street near the courthouse, he ordered
the shovel stopped. When the noise
continued, he issued a warrant and
had the crew brought into court.
The superintendent tfas asked
whetner it would be better to stop the
fhovel or stop the court. The super
intendent replied that the court should
stop, and was promptly sentenced to
Jail for contemDt.
Four men sat round a table at one of
the western windows of the great din
ing hall; one of them was a recent ar
rival at the prison. . . . The last
course of dinner had been served, And
the 400 friends were enjoying their cof
fee; a few were smoking cigarettes,
lor this was Sunday and tobacco was
allowed to all those who cared for it,
on that day The band was playing
Beethoven’s “Moonlight Sonata;’’ the
music vibrated softly and remotely on
the air. T^e hall bad marked archi-
•ral beauty, and the colors and
decorations Were qi*fet but effective.
The tables were arranged with aisles
between, at the intersection of which
stood immense orange trees and stand
ard roses alternately.
That is the setting that Julian Haw
thorne, in what is probably his last
article for “Good 'Words,” the maga
zine of the Atlanta Federal prlao.i,
provides for a remarkable dialogue
between the four men on “Jails of the
Future,” forecasting prison reforms.
It appears in the August number,
and is without doubt one of the best
that the noted writer has produced
since his incarceration in prison. One
of the four men is a newcomer, both
to the prison and to the country, and
to him is explained the workings of
a system that has revolutionized the
treatment of crime and changed jails
from “hells to a kind of ante
chamber to Paradise-”
The dialogue is fanciful, but It un
doubtedly depicts conditions th'.t
Hawthorne believes must exist when
humanity has come to recognize crime
as a disease and treat it as such.
That portion of the article that de
scribes the workings of the Jails of
the future is as follow's:
“No More Lawyers.”
“When we found we were jailing
about a million men a year, and that
the faster the lawyers made laws, the
greater was the number of law
breakers, some of the sane ones got
together to talk It over.
“They fixed it so that there snould
be no more lawyers admitted to the
bar for 50 years, and those already
practicing should be Charged 75 per
cent of their incomes in taxes. No
lawyer was eligible for election to
any Legislature or office of public
trust.
“A body of 500 experts was set to
work revising the statutes, and they
reduced the number of them 90 per
cent. All artificial crimes—those cre
ated by laws—were cut out; only kill
ing, stealing and lying were left in.
“If these were committed owing to
congenial defects, or under abnormal
conditions, the perpetrators were nut
under medical care; if otherwise, th*
culprits were tried and sentenced, but
were given their choice of going to
Jail, or carryine round their necks,
by a small steel chain, a pewetr disk,
on which was engraved the crime
and the penalty. At first, nearly
everybody took the disk, but after a
few years the majority preferred the
Jail. The jails, meanwhile, had been
undergoing strange transformations,
both actual and theoretical.
“It began to be realized that the
handling of crime was the most im
portant function of the State and
problem of society. If even justice
were done, everybody would be
prison, and so-called officers of Jus
tice were often the worst of the lot.
B' Men as Wardens.
“Accordingly, the very best men of
the community were appointed war
dens and guards of jails. Upon elec
tion, these men were given a free
hand and all the funds they wanted
to carry out their plans. All the old
Jails were torn down and new one?
built upon different principles, both
of construction and administration.
“In a few years jt.ils had become a
kind of universities for training men
who were found to be below the aver
aee in Intelligence, character or hab
its in the obligations and responsibil
ltles of the best citizenship. All kinds
of trades and nrofesslons were taught
theoretically and practically, and the
men were put to work as soon as
possible at such employment as they
selected or as were chosen as most
suitable for them.
“Along with all this was established
Continued on Page 2, Column 7.
What’s T. R, Up To?
Hist! Enlisting Men
To Conquer Mexico
Editor’s Note.—The riddle Is solv
ed. “What is Roosevelt doing?” the
public has asked. Here Is an an
swer by an ingenious and enter
prising Texas correspondent. - What
ever its merits or demerits, it is
worth reading.
AUSTIN, TEXAS, August 1—Gov
ernor O. B. Colquitt was to-day pro
vided with what purports to be re
liable and inside Information to the
effect that Colonel Theodore Roose
velt has quietly organized four regi
ments of volunteer cavalry of the
Rough Rider type, composed of train
ed riders and marksmen of Arizona,
New Mexico and Western Texas.
It is alleged that the real purpose
of Colonel Roosevelt’s present visit to
the Southwest is to direct the selec
tion of men for the military division
and that he will soon have it in readi
ness to enter Mexico in event of hos
tilities with that country.
The circumstantial report says* fur
ther that Colonel Roosevelt is carry
ing on this work with the knowledge
and sanction of the United States
War Department. He will be placed
in command of the brigade if war
should come, it is said.
Weds Fiance, Georgia
Man, on His Deathbed
LEBANON, PA., August 1.—The
death of Wallace Van Sickle, of Ma
con, Ga., in a ho*»pltal here to-day
revealed the devotion of a young
woman member of a prominent
Lebanon family. Miss Miriam Bow
man, to whom Van Sickle became en
gaged. Shortly after the announce
ment was made he was stricken with
typhoid fever.
The date of the wedding had been
fixed, but it was postponed in the hope
of Van Sickle’s speedy recovery.
There was ho change in his condition,
however, so it was decided that the
marriage ceremony should be per
formed in the hospital. The cere
mony was performed, and the bride
remained at the bedside of her hue-
band Until he died.
Girl Fights Turks as
Man; Weds In U. S,
PITTSBURG. PA., August 1.—A ro
mance that began in the Balkans re
sulted in the marriage of Vida Radak
and Barbara Coganic, Bulgarians, in
Farrell, Pa.
When Radak w r as obliged to join
the army and go to the front, Barbara
dressed as a man and entered the
fighting against Turkey. After many
hardships, she found her lover and
fought by his side.
In a battle, she wa? slightly wound
ed, her sex was discovered and she
was sent back home. Later Radak
left the army and came to this coun
try. He sent for his sweetheart.
$900 Tip by Gates Is
Returned by Waiter
MINNEAPOLIS, August 1.—Charles
G. Gates, son of the late John W.
Gates, nearly caused the collapse of
a negro waiter in a hotel cafe here.
His dinner check amounted to al
most $100, it is said. Gates called the
waiter to him, pulled out a roll of
$1,000 bills, slipped off the top one
and said: “Here, boy, keep the
change.”
Gates then left. The waiter turned
the $900 over to the manager of the
cafe, who mailed Mr. Gates a check
for the amount
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IN DIXIE
Government to Minimize Money
Stringency During Crop
Moving.
WASHINGTON, Aug. 1.—To faclll-
tate the movement of crops, the Ad
ministration, through Secretary Mr*
Adoo, announces that $25,000,000 to
$50,000,000 of Government funds will
be deposited In the national banks of
the South and West at once. Federal,
State and municipal bonds and prime
commercial paper will be accepted na
security for the money, upon which
the banks will pay 2 per cent interest.
Unusual Amount Needed.
The motive of the Administration in
establishing this new policy is to an
ticipate the money stringency in the
late summer and fall, which accom
panies the marketing and movement
of crops, especially when the crops
are unusually large, as the harvest
now beginning forecasts. He intends
to prevent or minimize the usual
tightness of money.
The Secretary announces that Gov
ernment bond* will be accepted at
par as security for the new’ deposits,
and that the additional money would
be placed only with banks widen
have taken out at least 40 per cent of
their authorized circulation.
United States 2 per cent bonds,
serving as security for most of the
national bank circulation, have been
depressed recently to new low market
records, dropping to 95 3-4 during the
past few days. The Secretary’* will
ingness to accept these bonds at par
as security for the $26,000,000 to $50,«
000,000 of promised deposits and the
inducement to the national banks to
increase their circulation up to the 40
per cent limit are expected to help in
restoring the parity of the depressed
2s by creating a new market for them.
To Accept Commercial Paper.
For the first time in history the
Government will accept prime com
mercial paper as security for depos
its. This privilege will be granted,
announced the Secretary, in order t)
make these special deposits available
to the banks on securities readily
within their reach.
“The commercial paper submitted,”
added Mr. McAdoo, “shall first bs
passed upon and artproved by the
clearing house committees of the cities
in which the banks offering such pa
per may be located. All commercial
paper and bonds must finally be
passed upon and accepted by the Sec
retary.”
Dies Trying to Save
Chicken From Storm
NORTH FIELD. MASS.. August l.«-
Riehard Stratton, 11 years old, was
killed instantly In an electrical storm
to-day while attempting to release
a chicken which w’as caught in a wire
fence.
Lightning struck the fence 100
yards distant from the boy and. fol
lowing the w'ire, pasged through his
body.
Mystery in Blaze
That Does $2,000
Damage to Store
Fire of mysterious origin early Fri
day morning damaged the building
occupied by the G. A. and F. Grocery
Company, at 23 Piedmont avenue.
The loss is $2,000. Firemen conquered
the blaze in a hard fight.
The fire was discovered soon after
3 o’clock by Call Officers McHugh,
Arnold and McWilliams, who thought
they heard a pistol shot in the neigh
borhood of the stopu. They found
the second floor of the store in flames.
They think now w’hat they supposed
was a shot was an explosion.
‘Walk With My Wife,
Then Buy Her Shoes'
SACO, ME.. August 1.—Irving L.
Meserve, an expressman, attempted
to take a new pair of tan shoes from
the feet of his young wife when he
met her w’alklng in Main street with
a young man he did not know.
“You’re not goin'- to parade in my
shoes.” he cried. “I bought these and
paid for them. If that man is going
to w’alk wdth you, he can buy your
shoes.”
With that he pulled off one of the
shoes and was about to take off the
other when the young man attacked
him. They were fighting, it is alleged,
when Special Officer Whltewortn
placed them under arrest.
Try a 3-Year Egg;
Ten Tons on Sale
TRENTON, N. J.. August 1.—The
State Board of Health has released
ten tons of cold storage egge, worth
$4,000. which had been held by the
Government for the last three and a
half years in a warehouse in Jersey
City.
Doctors and reporters had eaten
cake, custards and ice cream made
from the eggs, and not one of those
daring persons had died, so the board
decided the eggs were fit for other
stomachs.
Peace Near in Mine
War in Transvaal
Special Cable to The Georgian.
JOHANNESBURG. Aug. 1.—A
peaceful solution of the demands-ef
the railroad men and miners seems
assured to-day. Both sides are adopt
ing a conciliatory attitude.
Troops which were called in n
guard property in case violence was
resorted to will be withdrawn by the
Government.
Widow Will Inspect
Harriman Railways
NEW YORK, August 1.—Mrs. L. H.
Harriman, acompanied by her daugh
ter, Miss Carol Harriman, will leave
early in August to visit her ranch in
Idaho.
There was a report which C. C.
TegethofT, of the Harriman estate, re
fused to deny or confirm, that Mrs.
Harriman will be accompanied by
railroad officials and engineers for
the purpose of making an official in
spection of the Harriman railroad
properties in the West.
Wife’s Lips Too Red;
Won’t Pay Alimony
NEW YORK, August 1.—Emil Kop-
stein, a wine salesman, told Supreme
Court Justice Donnelly yesterday that
his wife. Mrs. Elizabeth Kopstein, is
not entitled to alimony pending the
trial of her suit for separation be
cause she painted her lips and pen
ciled her eyebrows.
He said that on July 4. when they
were at Arverne, L. I., his wife's
cheek* were so red that he wouldn’t
be seen on the street with her. and he
told her that if any other man had
been her husband he “would have
broken her bones long ago.”
Fire Alarm System
Nearing Completion
Work on the new fire and police alarm
signal system is being rushed by the
Okenite Company, despite the fact that
an Injunction restraining the city from
paying for the work has been sought
on the ground that the contract is a
moral obligation, ami therefore not le
gal.
Fire Chief Cummings speaks favorably
of the new system, believing it will
mean the saving of many thousands of
dollars. The total cost of the new sys
tem will be $106,000.
THE WEAKER.
Forecast for Atlanta and
Georgia—Occasional thunder
showers Friday and probably
Saturday.
Fines Both Twins
To Get Right One
PHILADELPHIA, August l.— It
rnnke* $8.50 difference to-day to either
Frank or Harry Swartz, 19 years old,
because the are twins. Magistrate
Morris fined them both that amount
because he couldn’t tell which had
been guilty of flirting in the park.
Tlhe only difference between th6 pair
was that -one of them wore white
socks and the other lavender.
Vincent Astor Bitten
By Monkey on Yacht
NEW YORK. August 1.—Vincent
Astor has sailed on the Noma to meet
the Olympic, aboard of which is his
mother, Mrs. John As»tor. He wli!
probably pick up the Olympic about
100 miles out.
Mr. Astor's friends to-day learned
for the first time of an encounter he
had last week with his pet monkey.
Jocko, on the Noma. In his attempt
to return him to his cage, Mr. Astor
Was severe^' bitten on the hand.
Massacre and Pillage
Continued by Turks
Special C«fole to The Georgian.
SOFIA, Aug. 1.—The Turks an con-
tinging their campaign of massacre
and pillage in the country near De-
deagatch. All the men in the village*
of Tartarlire, Seiilu, Saryta and
La' hman. were killed when the Turk
ish troops entered tho^e places.
GIRL KILLED AFTER
FRANK LEFI PLANT,
Mrs. Arthur White, wife of one of the employees of the
National Pencil Factory, who declared she saw a negro hiding be
hind some boxes on the first floor of the plant on the day Mary
Phagan was killed, was the first witness called Friday in the trial
of Leo M. Frank.
The State with her testimony began to pave the way for the
appearance of Conley, who, it is believed, would be the last witness
to be called by Solicitor Dorsey, as he would be the most spectac
ular.
The first witness said her husband had been working at the
National Pencil Plant about two years.
She said she went to the factory about 11 o'clock. She saw
Frank in his office, and told him she would like to see her husband.
Frank sent for White. The witness said she returned about 12:30.
On the return trip she saw Mr. Frank standing at his safe in his
office.
In reply to the question as to what happened then, she said
she asked Frank if she could see her husband again, and that
Frank jumped as she spoke. She then went upstairs to see her
husband.
Was Mary Phagan killed at or very near the time she entered
the Sational Pencil Factory April 26 to get her pay envelope or
was she merely attacked at this time and murdered later?
The line of questioning pursued by Luther Rosser in his cross-
examination of two of the State’s witnesses Thursday afternoon
indicated this will be one of the questions the jurors will have to
settle before they will be able to determine the innocence or guilt
of Lo M. Frank.
Rosser was most persistent in
his interrogation both of William
A. Gheeslin, embalmer, and Dr.
Claude A. Smith, physician and
bacteriologist. Gheesling went
to the pencil factory at about 4
o’clock the morning of the crime
and took charge of the Phagan
girl’s body. He told Solicitor
Dorsey in the direct examination
Thursday that the girl had been
dead 10 or 15 hours and that
rigor mortis was well established.
Get* Admission Before Jury.
Rosser at once began an attempt to
brettk down this portion of the ern-
balmer's testimony, and succeeded in
getting before the jury the witness'
admisaiou that rigor mortis is ex
tremely variable in the time it takes
to set in and become well established
In a body. Gheesling admitted that
the surroundings in respect to damp
ness and temperature had their ef
fect, an did the cause of the person’s
death, and that the degree of rigor
mortis could not be taken as an Inva
riable indication of the time that a
person had been dead.
Frank’s attorney made similar in
quiries of Dr. Smith and from him
obtained similar statements. The
sumption is that he will use the tes
timony of the State’s witnesses to
supplement that of the defense, com
bining them to support the theory
that the Phagan girl was attacked on
the first floor by Conley and by him
was thrown down the elevator shaft
or carried down the ladder into the
basement, but was not actually slain
until after Frank had left the factory
in the evening.
Two other points will be estab- the conversation between Lee and
takable Intention of making the de
tectives and officers admit that Frank
was under virtual arrest when he w r as
questioned Monday by the authorities,
and that there was no reason why he
should not have been aw’are of his
status.
He succeeded in getting B. B. Has-
lett to make just this admission and
undoubtedly will use it to explain the
measures that were taken at once for
the protection of Frank’s interests,
measures on which the State has
looked with suspicion because, the
attorneys state, Frank was not placed
under arrest until 11:30 the Thursday
forenoon after the crime.
State Fare* Better Thursday.
The State fared better Thursday
than any other day during the trial.
Harry Scott, Pinkerton detective,
submitted considerable damaging ev-.
idence in respect to Frank’s appear
ance and actions during the first
days of the investigation, although
nothing that was startling or direct
or even new.
He told that Frank was extremely
nervous when the superintendent and
Newt Lee were placed in the same
room at the police station and that
Frank squirmed about in hifl chair,
rubbed his chin and lips in agitated
manner, grew pale and trembling and
in every way Comported himself as
one might who was guilty of a crime.
Scott said that he and John Black
entered the room as Frank and Lee
were finishing their conversation and
that he overheard the latter part of
Frank's remarks.
Rosser immediately caught the de
tective upon this statement, referring
him to his testimony before the Cor
oner’s Jury, where he testified that
he had not entered the room until
llshed by the defense before the State
rests if Rosser is able to wring the
information he wants from the wit
nesses called by Dorsey.
Say* Frank Returned Alon®.
One of them is that Jim Conley did
not walk to the factory with or just
behind Leo Frank Saturday morning.
April 36, as Conley swore in his last
affidavit that he did. E. F. Hollo
way, one of the State’s witnesses,
testified Thursday afternoon that no
one was with Frank when he re
turned from Montag Brothers that
morning.
Rosser also displayed an unmls-
r.
Frank was completed and that he
overheard nothing. Scott explained
that he must have been mistaken
when he testified before the Coroner.
Denies Attempt to Suppress.
Scott testified that Herbert Haas,
one of Frank’s attorneys, early in the
case had tried to persuade him to
turn his evidence over to the defense
before submitting it to the police, but
this already had been aired at the in
quest and was without particular ef
fect, as Scott added, under the cross-
examination of Rosser, that there was
no attempt to have it suppressed or
kept from the police authorities, but
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