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ITEARST’S SUNDAY AMERICAN, ATLANTA, OA.. SUNDAY. AUGUST 10, 1010.
‘Boots and Saddles’ for Seventeenth’s Soldiers
Infantry Post Boasts a Crack Cavalry Squad
Rose From Turpentine Camp
Chopper to Head of World’s
Greatest Naval Stores Firm.
Daily Drills in Mounted Duty Are Held at Fort
McPherson—Daring Horsemen Perform
Startling Feats.
It’s “boots and saddles” at Fort I of the mounted detachment, which 's
McPherson nowadays. In spite of the | yet less than a year old. The men
fact that the Seventeenth is an in- who serve as mounted infantrymen
fantry regiment and proud of it. The j
new order of military things includes
a mounted detachment with every in- |
are picked for experience in horse
manship, and no reoruits for this
branch who have not the ability to
LEAVES $7,000,000 FORTUNE
Romantic Narrative of Career of
Georgian Includes Building of
G. F. & A. With Own Cash.
By M. A. ROSE.
Penniless at the age of 23 "years,
Captain Jesse P. Williams, fresh from
the Confederate Army, started work
chopping V-shaped gaahes in pine
trees for $1 per day. He was buried
, Thursday, leaving an estate variously
estimated by close associates at not
less than $7,000,000, nor more than
$9,000,000.
Here Are Things He Did.
Here are some of the things he did:
He built 250 mil««3 of railroad with
out borrowing a cent.
He built up the greatest naval
stores firm In the world.
He took one man, whose salary was
$20 a month, from behind the*counter
of a store. The man to-day is worth
$500,000.
He took one man from between the
plow handles of a South Georgia cot
ton patch. The man to-day is worth
$400,000.
He took one man, who was in bank
ruptcy, with liabilities $40,000 In ex
cess of assets. That man to-day is
a millionaire.
No man who followed him but be
came rich. No man who deserted him
but failed.
A Hurricane in Action.
“A hurricane in action, sweet as a
girl when the storm was over,” say
his friends. “Everyone had to do his
bidding. He demanded of partners
and directors blind faith. But he
always divided fairly. He was the
lion, but he took no lion’s share.”
Owning thousands of acres of vir
gin pirle forest. Captain Williams de
cided to develop the tracts by push
ing a railroad through them. In this
way he made it nc^siblp for turpen
tine operators to lease orchards ana
ship their product to market at Sa
vannah.
A short road was built. Turpentine
operators leased lands from him,
shipped turpentine over his road and
‘ consigned to him as factor—three
profits for Williams. But this is be
side the point.
There came a time when it seemed
profitable to undertake to push the
road farther, tapping territory the
Central of Georgia regarded as its
own.
Major Hanson, then the Great
Chief” of the Central, was wroth, not
to say indignant. He met Captain
Williams in the Knickerbocker Hot?l
in New York City.
“Stick a spade in the ground be
yond your present terminus and I’ll
break you,” Hanson shouted.
“I’m going to do it,” replied Cap
tain Williams.
He dld - . . r* . -n
Doe# Work In Reoord Time.
His charter required that a certain
number of miles of track be laid by a
specified time or the charter became
void The steel was late in coming.
Eight davs before the explTation date
on the charter there were twenty
miles of track to be laid.
Three hundred men were put to
work, and they tolled In four-hour
shifts. With a day and a naif to
spare, the line was completed and the
charter was saved. „„
But to revert to his career. Hp
was something less than 19 years of
age when tho first gun was fired at
Fort Sumter. He left the Virginia
Military Academy, went to his home
In North Carolina and raised a com
pany. Politics robbed him of the
captaincy and he was to be mado a
lieutenant. He went back home and
raised another company. This time
he was captain,
At the end of the war he was pen
niless and went Into the turpentine
woods Ho began, they say, "chop
ping boxes”—gashing the pine trees
to make ready for the cups which
catch the turpentine. This ls the
roughest form of manual labor Even
' now It pays not more than 51.bo a
*But soon he was buying timber and
selling It to sawmills A little later
we find him with a few dollars In
vested In turpentine orchards and in
little country stores.
Starts Naval Stores Firm.
Twenty years of this netted him
$40,000, and with this $40,000 he went
to Savannah.
He started the J. P. Williams Naval
Stores Company, and It grew until,
when he sold It, 1t was the biggest of
Its kind in the world, and it was ap
praised for sale at $3,400,000.
This was when he retired, owning
»he G., F. and A., 300,000 acres of
land in Southwest Georgia and Flor
ida and stock In a dozen or so
banks He had made large gifts to
Emory College, had been president of
its board of trustees; had become. In
short one of the most prominent and
one of the most wealthy men in
<J< Buf i hls health had failed. His
friends, their views perhaps colored
by their loyalty to their leader, say
that his passing from the world of
business was pathetic. The pack
turned on the lame Hon, they say.
He was forced out—though at Ills
own figure. He came to Atlanta six
or seven yeans ago and lived at No.
478 Peachtree street.
He sent a message to the board o.
directors who forced him out.
"There will come a time," he said,
"when you will want my help.”
That was five years ago.
Ho died at 12:15 o'clock Tuesday
afternoon. At that minute, in Sa
vannah. in Pensacola, and in New
Orleans 700 naval stores operator?
were in conference, their problem
how to escape bankruptcy. They had
no leader.
“He never was beaten,” says his
confidential man. "He doesn't know
lie's beaten yet”
MU AIIERS
IE ILL LEAVE
CITE DEBT FREE
Woodward Declares $700,000
Deficit He Faced on Entering
Office Will Be Wiped Out.
DEVICE TESTED
Whaddye Mean, We
May Lose Our Dog?
j Walter Taylor, Generalissimo of
Crusade Against Curs, Starts
Catchers Out Monday.
Atlanta and Montgomery Business
Men and Railway Heads See
Shepherd Invention,
fantry regiment, and there are horse
soldiers with the Seventeenth now as
intrepid as ever were Colonel Roose
velt’s Rough Riders.
Dally drills In mounted duty are
held at the fort, particularly during
the summer months, when the annual
school of Instruction is under way.
The practice Includes not only the
manual of arms and field maneuvers,
but real training in rough riding,
wrestling on horseback, obstacle
races and cross-country hikes.
Yesterday morning a squad of
horsemen moved out on the drill
ground. A party of admiring infan
trymen watched them from the front
porch of the barracks.
“I reckon you’ll find some of the
best riders-in the army In that bunch,”
spoke out one of the watchers.
Also Carries Artiilery.
In the squad were Privates Voe-
tick, Todd, Purdue, Flynn, Williams,
Pryde and Reynolds, picked horsemen
all of them. At the fort they swear
by these men for their ability to ride.
The mounted detachment carries
also light artillery equipment, and it
is believed that their assignment to
service with the infantry has height
ened the usefulness of that branch fit
the service considerably.
Lieutenant Supplee is in command
handle their mounts under all circum
stances.
The same squad of horsemen that
were hailed as the best riders in the
army were paired Wednesday after
noon for public exhibition of wrestling
on horseback. Atlanta was vouch
safed the sight of a new sort of con
test, and a thrilling new sport it was
at that.
Wrestling Holds Used.
Time and again the wrestlers,
locked in the well-known holds of
orthodox wrestling, including every
thing from the hammer lock and
half nelson to the new and deadly roe
hold, spurred their horse one way or
the other in the effort to throw one
another to the ground.
Usually the clutches were not 30
satisfactory, the wrestlers getting
their hands merely on the shirts or
trousers of their adversaries. Then
shirts were torn and trousers, too. In
the case of the match between Pri
vates Houston and Reynolds, Hous
ton lost his shirt altogether, and
emerged from a desperate clinch
bared from the waist up. He blushed,
and spurred his mount madly to the
stables.
Promise of other matches in the fu
ture are held out by the authorities
at the post.
In this remarkable photograph one of the contestants has
been dragged from his horse by his opponent and is clinging des
perately to the bridle to keep from being thrown under his horse’s
hoofs.
Buys a $4,000 Auto Slim Garrison Left
To Use Cheap Gas At Fort McPherson
When Ex-Senator Scott Has Burned Eight Companies of Seventeenth In-
Camp Meetin' Hymns
Jar Starnes’ Nerves
Atlanta Organist Leads Revolt
Against ‘Throw Out the Life Line'
and Others Like It.
Say City Was Run
On Bankrupt Plan
Auditors Criticise Tledeman Admin-
istratlon of Savannah as Solely a
Vote-Getting System.
Dr. Percy J. Starnes, former city
orgranlst of'Atlanta, is leading; a flgrht
at the National Convention of Or
ganists at Asbury Park, N. J., againsf |
the old-time songs and hymns that
'Tingle and jingle."
Included in the hyitins that are slat
ed to be placed under the ban are
"Throw Out the Life Line,” "The j
King’s Business,” and "Hallelujah,
Thine the Glory.”
The motto of Dr. Starnes and his ;
followers Is that anything with a
"ringle or a jingle,” no matter who
wrote It or what its effect may be in
revivals and camp meetings, should
be omitted from the hymnals and
sung no more.
Warrants Served on
Four Moose Officers
Dictator of Birmingham Lodge Criti
cises Coroner’s Jury That Probed
Initiation Deaths.
BIRMINGHAM. Aug. 9.—John P.
Abbott, dictator of the Birmingham
Lodge of Loyal Order of Moose, is
sued a statement this afternoon, fo.-
lowing the serving of warrants on
four officers, charging manslaughter
in the second degree, in which he crit
icised the findings of the Coroner's
jury that investigated the deaths of
Christopher Guzin and Donald Ken
ny, who were killed during their ini
tiation July 24.
Abbott says the jury only hear!
expert testimony Instead of getting
after facts.
SAVANNAH, Aug. 9.—That the
city of Savannah, a public service
corporation serving 100,000 persons
was run during the two years that
ended December 31 on principles that
would bankrupt a corner grocery
store is the substance of a report
of special auditors which the pres
ent administration empowered to in
vestigate the finances of the city.
It is charged that the Tiedemar
administration handled the city’s af
fairs solely for the purpose of secur
ing votes for the men in power dur
ing the two years covered by the in
vestigation. The report criticises
practically every department in the
city.
FINAL EXHIBIT PLANS TO
BE PERFECTED MONDAY
Final plans for the permanent ex
hibit of Atlanta manufacturers which
it is proposed to establish in the
Chamber of Commerce Building, will
be perfected at a meeting of the gen
eral committee Monday at noon, in
the Chamber of Commerce rooms in
the Empire Building.
Reports will be heard from the va
rious subcommittees that have charge
of the arrangements. W. H. Leahy,
acting secretary of the Chamber of
Commerce, declares* there is no doubt
of iii* success of the exhibit.
60,000 Gallons He Will Have
Saved Cost of Car.
WASHINGTON. Aug. 8.—The house
of Senator Nathan Bay Scott, of West
Virginia, is divided against itself, with
automobiles as they issue. The Senator
and Mrs. Scott are devoted to each
other. They attend the same dinners,
theaters and social functions together,
but they arrive and depart in separate
motor cars. It came about this way:
The senator has been paying 22 cents
a gallon for gasoline to propel the fam
ily machine. He discovered a place
where the price was 17 cents. With
much glee he informed Oscar, the fam
ily chauffeur, of his discovery and di
verted that Oscar purchase gasoline
there.
Oscar demurred because the gasoline
emporium was too far from the family
mansion. Mrs. Scott backed him up.
Whereupon Senator Scott bought him
self a $4 000 machine acquired a chauf
feur to navigate it and divorced himself
from the old machine and Oscar.
After Senator Scott has burned 60.000
gallons of gasoline he will have saved
the cost of the car. But he doesn’t have
to ride with Oscar.
fantry Assigned to Duty at
Camp Perry, Ohio.
Fort McPherson will have but a
slender gariMson after to-day, with
eight companies of the Seventeenth
I Infantry assigned to duty at Camp
| Perry, Ohio, in connection with the
national rifle shoot of the fc\fate
guardsmen. Five companies will leave
Atlanta early to-day to join three
companies of the regiment already es
tablished at the camp.
The regular ranks of the eight
companies are swelled to 66 men
each by assignment of men from the
other companies, leaving less than 200
soldiers in Atlanta out of the regi
ment's total field strength of about
700.
The soldiers assigned to duty in
Ohio will go with Major Holloway, of
the Third Battalion, in command.
They will remain at Camp Perry for
about a month.
86 YEARS OLD ON 63D
WEDDING ANNIVERSARY
ROME, Aug. 9.—Mr. and Mrs. E.
C. Hough, a venerable couple of
Rome, recently celebrated the sixty-
third anniversary of their marriage.
The occasion also marked the eighty-
sixth birthdays of both Mr. and Mrs.
Hough.
Atlanta will not owe one dollar at
the end of my term. The $700,000 In
debtedness when I took the oath of
office will have been paid, and the
Improvements will not have been re
tarded to any great extent.”
The above st;#tement was made by
Mayor Woodward after the confer
ence Saturday afternoon of the May
or, the Finance Committee and the
chief clerk to the Comptroller, whi ‘h
was called by the Mayor to discuss
ways and means of raising the extra
$13,220.74 apportioned by the Finance
Committee on unanticipated receipts.
Lock# Financial Door.
“The action of the Supreme Court
In the decision handed down in the
crematory case gives me the power to
lock the door on the finances of the
city of Atlanta, and I Intend to keep
it locked except where expenditures
are absolutely necessary,” continued
the Mayor.
“The Finance Committee, which Is
acting in accord with this decision
and my wishes, will not appropriate
one dollar except where the money is
in sight to meet the obligation It Is
my duty to see that not one obligation
of the present Council will fall on the
shoulders of the 1914 Council. In this
way we will be able to start off the
new year in good financial condition.
No Excuse for Debt.
“During my former term as Mayor
I was forced to take hold with an In
debtedness of approximately $350,000.
This was paid before I retired, and I
intend to see to it that no money
that is not absolutely in sight shail
be appropriated by the Finance Com
mittee or the City Council.”
The Mayor was convinced that this
money could be raised and consented
to its appropriation, but he put thi
committee on notice that in the future
whatever money they appropriated
they must show where it was coming
j from.
The meeting was indeed a friendly
conference, and every member of the
Finance Committee find the Mayor
appeared well pleased with the results
of the meeting.
ATLANTA NEGRoTs ARRANGE
BIG LABOR DAY CARNIVAL
A celebration and three-day carni
val will be held by the negroes of
Atlanta and vicinity at the Atlanta
Speedway on Labor Day, Monday,
Tuesday and Wednesday, September
1. 2 and 3. The program will begin
at 2 o’clock each day. There will be
automobile races motorcycle races,
foot races, baseball games, bicycle
races and other sports.
The Tuskegee Band and baseball
team and Professor Page’s band will
participate. Barbecue and refresh
ments will be served. There are seats
for 10,000 people.
HAUPTMANN WRITES PLAY
OF MONTEZUMA’S REIGN
Special Cable to The American-
BERLIN, Aug. 9.—Gerhart Haupt
mann is writing a new drama, to be
called “The White Saviour,’’ and which
deals with the introduction of Chris
tianity Into Mexico by the Spaniards
under Cortez.
One of the principal characters is its
j King Montezuma. It is predicted that
l the play will be a striking piece of
Christian symbolism and that It will
I have some remarkable scenic effects.
In the presence of representatives
from practically every railroad in tho
South. members of the Atlan'a
Chamber of Commerce and a dele
gation of 35 members of the Mont
gomery Business Men’s League, the
Shepherd automatic railroad switch |
was given an official test at Oakland i
City Saturday. The demonstration j
was made on a spur track of the At
lanta and West Point Railroad, and
among the most Interested spectators
was C. A. Wickersham, president of
the road, who expressed delight at its
operation.
The switch, the manufacture of
which furnishes Atlanta’s newest In
dustry, worked perfectly. Its object
i9 to remedy the open switch evil by
closing the switch automatically afte-
a train has passed into a siding. A
locomotive and freight car were used I
in the test, a dozen runs being made j
through the switch.
M. L. Shepherd, of Montgomery and j
Atlanta, is the inventor of the test,
and through the backing of the Busi
ness Men’s League of Montgomery a
$700,000 corporation has been formed
for its manufacture. The name of the
concern is the Shepherd Automatic
Switch Company and the shop in
which the switch used Saturday was
made began operations here several
weeks ago.
The device works on a combination
of locked switch, euard rail and pow-
erful coiled springs. The guard rail
runs for a length of 80 feet parallel
with the outer rail of the siding track.
When entering the siding, the flange
on the wheels forces a passage be
tween the outer and guard rails,
drawing the guard In about two
Inches. As the last wheel passes from
between the guard and outer rails, j
the guard is jerked back in close con
nection with the rail, releasing the
lock on the switch and causing it to
close, thus leavin'* the main line
clear.
Opening of the switch for the en
try of a train into the siding may be
handled by the engineer in throwing
a le*'er on the locomotive, or by re
quiring one of the train crew to un
lock the switch. The switch not only
closes automatically after a train has
entered the siding, but also closes Im
mediately upon the train moving out
of it.
Presentation of a silver loving cup
to the inventor, Mr. Shepherd, by
members of the Montgomery delega
tion added a pleasant touch to the oc
casion. General Counsel O. L. Hol
loway, Montgomery, made the presen
tation speech.
Laundered Money
Counterfeiting Bar
Bureau of Chemistry Urges Its Adop
tion Upon Secretary of Treasury
for This Reason.
Walter Taylor, City Clerk, gener
alissimo of the crusade against stray
dogs, issued emphatic instructions to
the crews of his dog wagons to start
out Monday morning. Blooded and
Pomeranians and ring-tailed curs
alike are to be impounded and chlo
roformed if they venture upon the
streets or the alleys without a tag
attached to their necks.
The tags are the most peculiar At
lanta ever has hung upon the necks
of its dogs. A dog’s head has been
designed so as to form the figure
“13” on the little brass disk. The
tag is the “open sesame” to the streets
of the city, and no dog will be spared
who ventures forth without it.
Attempts Suicide as
His Wife Is Dying
Macon Husband Grows Despondent
When He Is Unable to Care
Properly for Invalid.
MACON, Aug. 9.—Despondent be
cause he lacked funds to properly
provide for his dying wife, William J
Bettis, formerly in the transfer busi
ness, attempted suicide by drinking
laudanum and now is in a critical
condition- at the Macon Hospital.
Mrs. Bettis Is a victim of pellagra
and is in the last stages of the mal
ady.
Can’t Beat “GETS IT’1
tor Corns—It’s Sure
> Never Tried It Before? You'll Marvel
| How It Makes Corn# Vanish.
> There never was anything like 1
\ “GETS-IT” for corns, and there isn’t ;
anything like it now It ia the corn ,
“Oh My, Oh My, What a Relief!
'GETS-IT* Stops Corn Pains Right
Off and Gsts Corns Every Time.”
WASHINGTON, Aug 9.—Detection of
counterfeit money through laundering
was to-day announced as an Important
factor in the fight to have Uncle Sam’s
bank notes starched and ironed before
returning Into circulation.
The Bureau of Chemistry has found
that laundered money Is almost iden
tical with bank notes fresh from the
hands of the printer and urges the
a<loptlon of the process upon the Sec
retary of the Tre&sury.
\ cure on a new principle Put It on
( anv corn In two seconds; it stops
) Darn, the com begins to shrivel and
1 disappears. It never fails Simplest
thing you ever saw No fussy band-
( ages, no greasy salves to turn healthy i
. > flesh "peely” and raw. no planters -
J [ that make corns bulge out Your '
' , corns won’t pull and hurt ’way up to ■
i your heart. Lay aside your knife and
| razor. No more digging and tugging
> and wincing, no more bleeding, no
J more danger of blood poison. “GETS-
J IT” never hurts healthy flesh; it ls
> safe, painless, quick, simple, sure.
> For warts, callouses and bunions, too.
' “GET8-IT’’ Is sold at all druggists
, at 25c a bottle, or sent on receipt of
I price by E. Lawrence & Co.. Chicago. |
> Bold in Atlanta by Jacobs' Pharmacy ,
| Company. Elkin Drug Company. -
>Coursey & Munn, Gunter-Watkins '
> Drug Company, E. H. Cone, Inc., Tip- ,
} ton Xi Co.
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$6 WRIGHTSVILLE
BEACH
Round trip Saturday, August
23. Special train, sleepers and
coaches. Leave Old Depot 6 p. m.
SEABOARD.
Daughters to Unveil
Shaft to Col. Sanders
Grandchildren of Confederate Chief
tain to Take Part in the
Ceremonies.
GAINESVILLE, Aug. 9.—Arrange
ments are being made by the United
Daughters of the Confederacy, Long- j
street Chapter, for the unveiling of the i
monument to Colonel C. C. Sanders on
the postoffice lot. The memorial was
erected several months ago with funds
raised by the children of the Confeder
acy. Colonel Sanders was one of the
most beloved men in this entire section.
The life-size statue, in sitting position,
was made in Italy ai*d has just arrived.
The monument is one of the most beau
tiful in the State, with marble columns
and fountains. Six little grandchildren
of Colonel Sanders will likely lift the
veil.
SEABOARD E X C U R-
SION TO WRIGHTS
VILLE.
$6 round trip. Saturday, August
23. Special train leaves 6 p. m.
ANNOUNCEMENT
Ths Sanitary Barber Shop
under new management, in
vites the public to make us a
visit. Towels, shaving mugs
and brushes sterilized.
Ten expert artists for
service to our customers.
Shop fully equipped with
shower, needle and tub bath,
also electric body massage.
ALAMO THEATER
Don
Ferrandou
Baritone
Late Soloist
With
Dockstader
Minstrels
Positively the
best and highest
priced soloist ever
offered the “Mov-
| ie” goers of Atlan
ta. First-run li
censed pictures.
THE ALAMO
BOYS’ SUMMER CLOTHES
AT
August Sale Prices
Fancy Woolen Suits—Blue
Serge Suits—Wash Suits
—Furnishings—Hats and
Shoes—
Wool and Serge Suits
$ 5.00 Values $ 3.75
6.50 Values 5.00
7.50 Values 5.75
8.00 Values 6.00
8.50 Values 6.50
10.00 Values 7.50
12.50 Values 9.50
15.00 Values 11.25
Boys’ Wash Suits
$1.00 Values $ .76
1.50 Values 1.00
, 2.00 Values 1.40
2.50 Values 1.75
3.00 Values 2.00
3.50 Values 2.60
4.00 Values 3.00
5.00 Values 3.50
Boys’ Shoes
$3.00 Values $2.35
2.50 Values 1.95
2.00 Values 1.50
1.50 Values 1.20
This includes all Low
Cut Shoes.
Boys’ Single-Breasted Suits—Fancy—Knickerbocker Pants—i Price
50c Nightshirts.. .
. 40c
25c Underwear.. ..
. ,20c
60c Wash Hats
. . 40c
75c Nightshirts.. .
. .,60c
50c Union Suits.. ..
. ,40c
$1.00 Wash Hats. . .
. . 75c
$1.00 Pajamas . ..
. ..75c
All good fabrics.
All Boys’ and Children’s Straw Hals—Price
Men’s and Youths’ Clothing—Furnishings—Hats
and Shoes Attractively Reduced to Close Quick
PARKS-CHAMBERS-HARSW1CK
37-39 Peachtree COMPANY Atlanfa, Ga.