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TTEARST’S SUNDAY AMERICAN, ATLANTA. <1A.. SUNDAY. AUGUST 10, 1010. ISFEASTORTGF TWiri T ‘Boots and Saddles’ foi Infantry Post Boast >& a 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 fantrv regiment and proud of it. Thu are picked for experience in horse- new order of military things includes manship. and no recruits for this a mounted detachment with every in- \ branch who have not the ability to Seventeenth’s SoldiersIYDR Ml Crack Cavalry Sound f|[ fjl j |j p[ CITY DEBT FREE LEAVES $7,000,000 FORTUNE Romantic Narrative of Career of Georgian Includes Building of G. F. & A. With Own Cash, By M. A. ROSE. HE Penniless at the age of 23 years, ■ Captain Jesse P. Williams, fresh from i ■ the Confederate Army, started work ■ chopping V-shaped gashes in pine ■ trees for $1 per day. He was buried B Thursday, leaving an estate variously i 1 stirr\ated 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*** of railroad with in 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 ban*- 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 | Tiding. 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 pine forest. Captain Williams de cided to develop the tracts by push ing a railroad through them. In this way he made it nossibl* for turpen tine operators to lease orchards anu 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 „ n « ( .trrnnrl i r\ him Woodward Declares $700,000 Deficit He Faced on Entering Office Will Be Wiped Out. 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 statement was made by Mayor Woodward after the confer ence Satui day afternoon of the Ma or, the Finance Committee and the chief clerk to the Comptroller, whi h was callc d by the .Mayor to discuss ways and means of raising the extra $13,220.74 apportioned by the Finance Committee on unanticipated receipts. Locks Financial Door. “The action of the Supreme Court the decis’on handed down in the crematory case gives me the power to lock the door on the finances of the city of Atlanta, and 1 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 mon $700,000 corporation hus 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 In can operations here several weeks ago. The device works on a combination of locked switch, rruard rail and pow erful coiled springs. The guard rail 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 th its the “Great road farther, tapping territory Central of Georgia regarded ai own. Major Hanson, then 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 did. , . , _. Does Work in Record Time. His charter required that a certain number of miles of track he laid by a specified time or the charter became void The steel was late in coming. Bight davs before the expiration date on the charter there were twenty miles of track to be laid. Three hundred men were put to work, and they toiled In 1four-hour shifts. With a day and a half to spare, the line was completed and the charter was saved. to revert to his fantry regiment, and there are horse | soldiers with the Seventeenth now as intrepid as ever were Colonel Roose velt’s Rough Riders. Daily drills in mounted duty are held at the fort, particularly during the summer months, when the annua] 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 CaVries Artillery. In the squad were Privates Voe- tick, Todd. Purdue, Flynn, Williams, 2 I 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 of the service considerably. Lieutenant Supplee is in command But , career. He was something less than 19 years of aee when the 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 made a lieutenant. He went back home and raised another company. This time he was captain. At the end of the war he was pen- niiess and went into the turpentine woods He began, they say, chop ping boxes”—gashing the pine trees to make ready for the cups catch, the turpentine. This 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 ’oe hold, spurred their horse one way or the other in the effort to throw one another to the ground. Usually the clutches were not so satisfactory, the wrestlers getting their hands merely on the shirts or trousers of their adversaries. Th* n shirts were torn and trousers, too. In the case of the match between Pri vates Houston and Reynolds, Hous ton lost his shirt altogether, ani emerged from a desperate dim h bared from the waist up. He blushed. 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 in sight to mcr-t the obligation. It if**’ness Men's League of Montgomery 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 Hnamiil condition. No Excuse for Debt. “During my former term ns 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 th committee on notice that in the future whatever money they appropriated they must show where it was coming from. The meeting was indeed a friendly conference, and every member of the Finance Committee ^ art the Mayor appeared well pleased with the results of the meeting. Atlanta and Montgomery Business I'.tcn and Railway Heads See Shepherd Invention. In the presence of representatives from practically every railroad In the 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 City Saturday. The demonstration was made on a spur track of the At lanta and West Point Railroad, and among the most interested spectator* was C. A. VVickersham, president of the road, who expressed delight at its operation. The switch, the manufacture of which furnishes Atlanta’s newest in- dustrv. worked perfectly. Its object is to remedy the open switch evil by closing the switch automatically afte* 1 a train has passed into a siding. A locomotive and freight car were used In the tist. a dozen runs being made through the switch. M. L. Shepherd, of Montgomery an 1 Atlanta, is the inventor of the test, and through the backing at the Busi- Whaddye Mean, We May Lose Our Dog? Walter Taylor, Generalissimo of Crusade Against Curs, Starts Catchers Out Monday. 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 ind is in the last stages of the mal ady. j Can't Beat “G£TS-!T’ ! lor Corns—It’s Sure Never Tried It Before? You'll Marvel How It Makes Corns Vanish. There never was anything like ' GETS-IT" for corns, and there isn't It is the corn When Ex-Senator Scott Has Burned 60,COO Gallons He Will Have Saved Cost cf Car. WASHINGTON, Aug 8. —The house of Senator Nathan Bay Scott, of West Virginia, is divided against itself, with j automobiles as they issue. The Senator lard Mrs. Scott are devoted to each I other. They attend the same dinners, I theaters arid social functions together. ) but they arrive and depart in separate motor cars. It came about this way: Eight Comoanies of Seventeenth In fantry Assigned to Duty at Camp Perry, Chio. The senator nas been paying 22 cents and spurred his mount madly to the j a gallon for gasoline to pr stables I machine. He discovi Promise of other matches in the fu ture are held out by the authorities at the post. Camp Meetin' Hymns Jar Starnes’ Nerves Atlanta Organist Leads Revolt Against ‘Throw Out the Life Line’ and Others Like It. Dr. Percy J. Starnes, former city orgunist of Atlanta, is leading a fight at the National Convention of Or ganists at Asbury Park, N. J.. against the old-time songs and hymns that ‘Tingle and jingle.” Included in the hymns that are slat ed to be placed under the ban are “Throw Out the Life Line,” “The 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 Say City Was Run On Bankrupt Plan Auditors Criticise Tiedeman Admin istration of Savannah as Solely a Vote-Getting System. ored where the price was 17 cents much gke he informed Oscar, the fain- | ily chauffeur, of his discovery and di rected 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 he cost of the car. But he doesn’t have to ride with Oscar. Fort McPherson will have but a slender garrison after to-day, with eight companies of the Seventeenth Infantry assigned to duty at Camp Perry, Ohio, in connection with the national riiie shoot of the State guardsmen. Five companies will leave ■Opel*the fam- j Atlanta early to-day to join three mpanies of the regiment already es- Place ; , With , . . ... tabhshed at the camp. 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 repor 4 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- j 86 YEARS OLD ON 63D WEDDING ANNIVERSARY ROME, Aug., 9.—Mr and Mr?. E. C. Hough, a venerable couple of Rome, recently celebrated the sixty- third anniversary of their marriage. The occasion also marked the eighty- s xth birthdays of both Mr. and Mrs. Hough. The regular ranks of the eight ! companies are swelled to 65 men J 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. ATLANTA NEGROES ARRANGE BIG LABOR DAY CARNIVAL A celebration and three-dav carni val will be held by the negro s 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 ract s 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-* inents will be served. There are seals for 10,000 people. HAUPTMANN WRITES PLAY OF MONTEZUMA’S REIGN Special Cable to The American. BERLIN, Aug. 5).—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 King Montezuma. It is predicted that the play will he a striking piece of Christian symbolism and that if will have some remarkable scenic effects. runs for a length of 80 feet parallel ’ | anything like it now. with the outer rail of the siding track. When entering the siding, the flange on the wheels forces a passage be tween Ute outer and guard rails, drawing »he guard in about two inches As the last wheel passes from between the guard and outer rails, 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. Oh My, Oh My, What a Relief! •GETS-IT’ Stops Corn Pr.lns Right Off and Gets Corns Every Time.” < WASHINGTON, Aug. 9.—Detection of counterfeit money through laundering wa to-day announced as an important factor in the light to have Uncle Sam’s hank no'* •; starched and ironed before returning into circulation. The Bureau of Chemistry has found that laundered money Is a‘ ti< al with bank notes fro hands of the printer and urges adoption of the process upon the* rotary of the Treasury. i J cure on a new principle. Put it on ( any corn in two seconds; It stops \ ) pain, the corn begins to shrivel and < > disappears. It never fails. Simplest < | thing you ever saw. No fussy bar v d- ) i ages, no greasy salves to turn healthy ) I flesh “peely" and raw, no rwasters i | that make corns bulge out. Your S | 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 * more danger of blood poison. "GETS- { IT" never hurts healthy flesh; it is > safe, painless, quick, simple, sure. > For warts, callouses and bunions, too. | “GETS-IT" is sold at all druggists ; at 26o a bottle, or sent on receipt of ) price by E. Lawrence & Co., Chicago. v nasi i.Mm.i * Bold in Atlanta by Jacobs’ Pharmacy ilmnst I.ICT- 1 Company. Eikln Drug Company, h frm»» tin > Coursey & Munn, Gunter-Watkins ’ > Drug Company, E. H. Cone, Tnc , Tip- ’ ton & Co. the Se tnjmat** a $6 WEIGHTSVILLS BEACH Round trip Saturday, August 23. Special train, sleepers and coaches. Leave Old Depot 6 p. m. SEABOARD. ) I revivals and camp meetings, should vestigation. The report criticises i i roughest form of manual labor Even ft r now u pay® not more than $1.50 a da Rut 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, it 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 Georgia. But his 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 lion, they say. He was forced out—though at his own figure. He came to Atlanta six or seven years ago and lived ht No. 478 Peachtree street. He sent a message to the board of directors who forced him out. “There will come a time," he said, "when you will want my help.” That was five years ago. He died at 12:15 o’clock Tuesday afternoon. At that minute, in Pa- . vannah, in Pensacola and in N v 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 he’s beaten yet” • be omitted from the hymnals and sung no more. which ls the Warrants Served on Four Moose Officers Dictator of Birmingham Lodge Criti cises Coroner’s Jury That Probed Initiation Deaths. practically city. every department in ALAMO THEATER 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 t.i 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 w'ere killed during their ini tiation July 24. Abbott says the jury only heard expert testimony instead of getting after facts. 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 j Daughters of the Confederacy. Lor.g- } street Chapter, for the unveiling oi the monument to Colonel C. C. Saiuieus on the postoffice lot. The memorial was erected several months age 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. I , was made in Italy ai.d has just arrived. . | The monument is one of th* most beau- t 1 tiful in the State, with ma* Me columns I i and fountains. Six i :t • ;-a? dcii.ldren j i <,f Colonel Sanders will iikeiy lift the I veil. * FINAL EXHIBIT PLANS TO BE PERFECTED MONDAY P'inal plans* for the permanent ex hibit of Atlanta manufacturers which it is proposed to establish in the Chamber of 'Commerce Building, will i * be perfected at a meeting of the gen- i oral 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 declarer there is no doubt | of the success of the exhibit. SEABOARD EXCUP- SION TO WRIGHTS- VILLE. $6 round trip. Saturday, August 23. Special train leaves 6 p. m. ANNOUNCEMENT The Sanllary Barker Shop under new management, in- vit s 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 bodv massage. Don Ferrandou Baritone Late Soloist With Dockstader Minstrels Positively the best and highest priced soloist ever Ti-" H J offered the “Mov- ,p ie” goers of Atlan ta. First-run li censed pictures. IE ALAMO August Prices (I Fancy Woolen Sii'SJs—Blue Serge Suits—Wash Suits —FumishlRfis—Hats and Shoes— Wool and Scree Sails $ 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 0.50 15.00 Values 11.25 Roys’ Wash Suits $1.00 Values $ .75 1.50 Values 1.00 2.00 Values 1.40 2 50 Values 1.75 3.00 Values 2.00 3.50 Values 2.50 4.00 Values 3.00 5.00 Values 3.50 Boys’ Shoes $3.00 Values $2.35 2.50 Values 1.C5 2.00 Values 1.50 1.50 Values 1.20 This inckides all Loiv Cut Shoes. Boys’ Sifigls-Braasifc! -Suits—Fancy—Knickerboskar Pants—I Prise 50c Nightshirts. . . . ..40c 25c Underwear.. .. . 20c 50c Wash Hats . .,40c 75c Nightshirts.. . . ..60c 50c Union Suits.. .. . 40c $1.00 Wash Hats . . . . .,75c $1.00 Pajamas .. . ..75c All good fabrics. Ai! Boys’ and Children’s Straw Hats- % Price Men’s and Yo?it!^s , Clothing—Furnishings—Hats and Shoes Attractively Reduced to Close Quick rj3/ lMBL COMPANY 37-39 Peacbtrc2 Atlanta, Ga.