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HEARST’S SUNDAY AMERICAN, ATLANTA, GA.. SUNDAY. AUGUST 10, 1913.
9 A
^ Savannah
SPEER RESENTS
Way cross
Miss Mary r. Jacobson
One of
the popu
lar members of the younger social set of Tennille. She has
many friends in other South Georgia towns
quently visits.
where she fre-
TO OEJICO ME!
Beach Manufacturing Company
Bankruptcy Case Goes to Judge
Newman’s Court.
SAVANNAH, Aug. 9.—That Judge
Emory Speer, of the United States
Court, has “washed his hands” of j
the Beach Manufacturing Company
bankruptcy proceedings, and desires
that Judge Newman, in Atlanta, take
over the entire case, is shown in an
opinion, a copy of which has been re
ceived in the bankruptcy court of
fice here.
It appears from the record that
the Beach Manufacturing Company
moved to have Judge Speer disquali
fied from considering a certain phase
of the case because the Judge’s son-
in-law, A, H. Heyward, Jr., is one of
the attorneys for the receiver of the
alleged bankrupt. This motion ap
pears to have annoyed the Judge,
causing him to express the following
opinion:
“There was a petition filed in this
cause in behalf of the Beach Manu
facturing Company to restrain the
receiver from cutting certain timber
for crossties for the purpose of rals- i
lng money to feed the live stock, and |
when the matter came on to be heard i
there was some discussion as to
whether the Judge of the Southern
District of Georgia was qualified.
“I do not think I am disqualified
in any matters in which Mr. Heyward
does not have a pecuniary interest.
He does not have any pecuniary in
terest as to whether the mules are
fed from the proceeds of crossties
or whether they are fed from the
grass and reeds along the swamps
or otherwise, but as there is ob
viously some little maneuvering one
way or the other, I don’t know how,
which raises the question of my
qualification, I wash my hands of the
whole thing.
“I will have nothing to do with ic.
Since he kindly expresses his willing
ness to try it, you can go to Judge
Newman with the entire case.”
Public Inquiry Into
Railroad Accident
entral of Georgia Inaugurate? New
Policy of Investigations of
Mishaps on Its Lines.
Commercial Leaders of Savannah
Urge Extension of Estill Ave
nue to Resort.
SAVANNAH, Aug. 9.—For the first
time in this section of the country,
fcnd in furtherance of a rule established
by the Illinois Central, the controlling
fine, that all accidents to passenger
trains where passengers are injured, be
publicly investigated at the scene of
the mishap, the Central of Georgia
Railway made an inquiry into the ac
cident at Oliver Tuesday morning, when
seventeen passengers were more or less
badly hurt. The inquiry was conducted
by disinterested parties selected by the
railroad. They were Marion Lucas and
John Kennedy, of Savannah, and Dr. A.
D. Kanier, of Oliver.
It was decided after full investigation
that the accident was due to some ob
struction, presumably the tie bar from
the front truck under the tank of the
engine which was pulling the train. The
tie bar fell and was dragged through
the frog, breaking the frog and causing
the derailment. The track at the point
of the accident was laid with 80^ound
raffs, on pine and cypress ties. The
switch ties, which were of oak, were also
found in good condition.
91-year-old Order
In Chatham Court
Judge Charlton Passes Paper Au
thorized by Grandfather in
Same Court.
SAVANNAH, Aug. 9 — An order signed
in the cause of Harry Haupt and others
against John Haupt in the Superior
Court of Chatham County, July 24, 1822,
was before Judge Walter G. Charlton, in
the same court, this week.
The old order was passed by Judge
Charlton's grandfather, Judge Thomas
u P Charlton. In tracing a record Kd-
mund H. Abrahams discovered that
through an inadvertence the then clerk
of the court had neglected to put the
old order on the minute book.
Abrahams obtained an order nunc pro
tunc from Judge Charlton to have the
decree recorded on the current minute
book of the court. This was done. The
old decree was written with pen and
ink in an old-fashioned handwriting.
There were no typewriters in those days.
WAYCROSS HOSTELRY PUT
UNDER NEW MANAGEMENT
WAYCROSS, Aug. 9.—Effective to
day W. A. Jones, Jr., became man
ager of the Virdie Hotel, succeeding
N H. Slaughter, who will return to
his home in North Carolina. Mr.
Jones conducted a boarding house
which was recently destroyed by Are
here. He proposes to make extensive
improvements at once on the Virdie.
WAYCROSS CITY COUNCIL
TO NOMINATE RECORDER
WAYCROSS, Aug. 9.—The new act
creating a Recorder's Court here pro
vides that City Council shall elect a
recorder to serve until the next city
election, and it is probable that
City Council will choose the tempo
rary Recorder at the next regular
meeting. Several men are prospective
candidates and are running for the
place, wihch can not pay more than
$75 a month.
THIEF STEALS WARDROBE
OF WAYCROSS CANDIDATE
WAYCROSS. Aug. 9.—Alderman Scott
T Beaton of the Fourth ward, a prob
able candidate for mayor, is on the war
path During his vacation at Mayport
some one entered his home on Gilmore
street and went off with hts best clothes,
a lot of silverware, some of his wife's
dresses and a shotgun he had Just pur
chased The kitchen window was
smashed with an ax and whoever robbed
the place made a good Job.
Must Not Tie Barges
To Government Piling
U. S. Engineer at Savannah Says
Wornout Hulks Rot at
Moorings.
SAVANNAH, Aug. 9.—Because own
ers of disabled barges and other vessels
persist in tying them up 10 the Govern
ment piling in the Savannah harbor, it
is probable they will be arraigned In
the United States Court and subjected
to a heavy fine.
Speaking of this violation of the Fed
eral law, Colonel Dan C. Kingman,
United States engineer for this district,
said:
“Uncle Sam Is patient and long suf
fering. He puts up with a lot of an
noyance rather than be disagreeable.
But finally spurred Into action, he is
likely to make things lively. It looks
to me as if something of this kind is
about to happen here pretty soon on ac
count of the action of certain impru
dent owners of vessels and barges who
persist in tying them up to the pilings
forming a part of the training wall of
Savannah harbor, and leaving; them until
they sink. These vessels are not only
unsightly, but are a great menace to
navigation.”
Tybee Season May
Include September
Central of Georgia Willing to Run
Trains Another Month if
Travel Justifies.
SAVANNAH, Aug 9.—The Central of
Georgia Railway will continue summer
schedules to Tybee Island through Sep
tember if assurances are given that the
cottagers and others will remain at thfe
resort in sufficient numbers to justify
the expense.
The Central has, in fact, been willing
to prolong the season for several years,
but the people invariably return to the
city during the latter part of August,
which means that there will not be suf
ficient daily traffic to justify the extra
trains. It has heretofore been the in
variable custom to officially close the
Tybee season after Labor Day. An agi
tation on the subject is now on among
the people at Tybee. The season at the
resort is now in full swing.
SAVANNAH, Aug. 9.—Probability
of the Chatham County Commission
ers issuing bonds for the extension of
Estill avenue to Thunderbolt, making
it a model highway throughout, has
brought forth two suggestions—one
from Joseph F. Gray, executive offi
cer of the Chamber of Commerce, and
the other from Arthur W. Solomon,
secretary of the Savannah Automo
bile Club and a member of the board
of directors of the trade body.
“The extension of Estill avenue to
Thunderbolt as a model road,” said
Secretary Solomon, “is a splendid
idea, and I hope the plan will be car
ried through. The county owes only
$25,000 in bonds. Why can not the
new issue be made for $1,000,000 if
necessary? Then we could extend
Estill avenue on to Tybee Island, by
the Wilmington Island route, making
a fine automobile road to that re
sort. This would be a splendid thing
for the development of a vast ter
ritory as a farming country and trad*
center easily accessible to the local
merchants when it becomes settled,
which would result in a short while
if there was easy vehicle access to
and from the city.”
Thunderbolt Has Road.
“The plan to improve the road from
the terminus of Estill avenue to
Thunderbolt is a splendid klea,” said
Executive Officer Gray. “But there
is already a fine road to Thunderbolt.
It certainly would be a great thing
for the County Commissioners to
build a model road from Savannah to
Tybee by the W r ilmington Island
route. But if bonds are issued to put
through the whole scheme, let’s start
the work from Tybee to Savannah.
When we get the road to Thunder
bolt it will be plenty of time to build
from Savannah to that point.”
Secretary Solomon in urging the
Tybee highway scheme points out
that Tampa, Fla., has just authorized
the construction of a brick highway
27 miles out of that city to meet the
southern terminus of the road which
is being built out of Jacksonville. He
thinks if the people of the county in
which Tampa is located can appro
priate money for a 27-mile highway
the people of Chatham, a much more
wealthy and prosperous county, could
provide for a road from Savannah to
Tybee. a distance of eighteen miles.
Solomon Revived Scheme.
The rqatter of building a road to
Tybee was revived som e time ago by
Secretary Solomon, as a director in
the Chamber of Commerce. The
proposition was at that time referred
to a special committee. The matter
at present remains in statu quo.
However, it is quite likely that the
scheme to have the County Cbmmis-
sioners issue bonds for the Thunder
bolt and Tybee road will be brought
to the attention of this special com
mittee.
There is now no intercourse with
Tybee except by the Central of Geor
gia Railway. Tybee Beach is the most
popular summer resort on the Geor
gia coast. Such a road as proposed
would immediately become popular
with automobilists. Tourists also
would take advantage of th e oppor
tunity to visit the resort.
Savannah Platoons
To Get Gun Practice
Dummy Mortar from Government
Arsenal To Be Mounted by
the Regulars.
SAVANNAH, Aug. 9.—Reaching Sa
vannah from the Government Arsenal at
Augusta, and carried to the Park ex- j
tension by the Gadsden Contracting j
Company, the mortar for the dummy
emplacements of the Savannah Volunteer !
Guards Is now resting on the ground
ready to be mounted.
This dummy mortar Is an exact rep
lica of the most modern 12-lnch mortar
In use anywhere in coast defense work,
with the exception that it is too lightly
constructed to be actually loaded and
fired. The Guards will use It in practice
firing.
The mortar pit Is on the Whitaker
Street side of the park extension. The j
mortar will be mounted by a special de- |
tall of officers and men from Fort
Screven as soon as the carriages arrive
Bacon’s Man Named
Savannah Collector
David C. Barrow Is Son of Confeder
ate Soldier and Well-
Known Lawyer.
SAVANNAH, Aug. 9.—David C. Bar-
row has been appointed Collector of
Customs at Savannah to succeed Wil
liam R. Leaken.
The nominee Is the personal choice of
Senator Bacon. Leaken’s term of office
expires about the middle of the month.
It is thought that Barrow will be con
firmed by that time.
Barrow is a member of a very distin
guished Georgia family. He Is a son of
the late Pope Barrow, who was judge of
the Superior Court of Chatham County,
a member of the Georgia legislature in
1880, and a lieutenani in the Confeder
ate army. He Is a nephew of Chancel
lor Barrow, of the University of Geor- 4
gia. He is a graduate of the University
of Georgia, a practicing attorney in Sa
vannah, and was assistant city attorney
under the last Tiedeman administration.
For several years he has been promi
nent In Savannah politics.
High Life Lands Boys
In Jail at Way cross
Youngsters Went to Brunswick and
‘Splurged’ on Lacy Green’s
Money.
WAYCROSS, Aug. 9— Fast and
reckless living for a day in Bruns
wick caused the arrest of two young
sters of Waycross, Archie Douberly
and Mason Walker, both 15 years old.
and they are in jail pending an effori
to get bond.
The boys got a sum of money said
to have amounted to between $30 and
$50 from Lacey Green last Sunday
night and left Waycross the next
morning to enjoy life. They stopped
at the most expensive hotel in Bruns
wick, rode about in an auto, bought
new clothes and had the best time
possible off the money they secured.
A relative heard of their whereabouts
and they were brought back to Way-
cross.
The preliminary hearing given be
fore Judge Harry M. Wilson resulted
in their being bound over to CitJ
Court for trial*
Stage Door ‘Johnny’
Has Fractured Skull
Theatrical Man at Savannah Hit*
Loiterer With Revolver—Now
Under Arrest.
SAVANNAH, Aug. 9.—George
Prince, director of a theatrical com
pany playing at the Princess Thea
ter, is under arrest charged with as
saulting W. P. Kehoe, \Vho is suffer
ing with a fractured skull.
According to Prince, Kehoe, with
other young men had been loitering
at the rear of the theater, annoying
the performers. He warned them to
stay away. Kehoe, he says, attempt
ed to strike him when he hit Kehoe
over the head with a stage revolver.
At first Kehoe was not thought to bo
seriously hurt. Not only Is his skull
fractured, but there is probably con
cussion of the brain.
PIERCE INSTITUTE HAS
FLATTERING PROSPECTS
WAYCROSS. Aug, 9.—According to
President W. A. HUckabee. Pierce Col
legiate Institute. Georgia’s newest col
lege, located at Blackshear, east of Way-
cross, will open in September with a
very flattering attendance. The college
is a Methodist institution and own*
bifUdings valued at $60,000.
Negro Gnn ‘Parties’
Denounced by Judge
Judge Charlton Suggests Militia Kill
Everybody Found on Festive
Battlefields.
SAVANNAH, Aug. 9.—In sentencing a
man in the Superior Court for shooting
another not in his own defense, Judge
Walter G. Charlton denounced in strong
terms certain places in the county where
colored people congregate and fight.
The particular trouble before him oc
curred at Crescent Pa**k, near Sandfly
Station.
These places are a terror to the com-
munity,” declared the Court. “It would
be a good Idea to have the militia or
dered out sometimes to kill everybody
wlio Is found at these places.”
Monteith, Woodsville, Baker’s Cross
ing and several other places of equal
familiar!i.y in court records were men
tioned by the Court in the course of his
remarks.
The jury did not think the crime was
assault with Intent to murder, and so
found the defendant guilty of shooting
at another not in his own defense, rec
ommending that he be. punished as for
a misdemeanor. The Court disregarded
the recommendation and sentenced the
prisoner to two years in the peniten
tiary.
The prisoner was William Jones. He
and John Pauline were conducting a
dancing pavilion at Sandfly, and Jones
shot Pauline while trying to wing an
other negro.
WAITER SLAPS MESSENGER;
IS HELD ON TWO CHARGES
W T AYCROSS, Aug. 9.—Because he
attacked a messenger boy of the
Western Union Telegraph Company
here two charges have been preferred
against C. G. Mototls, a waiter.
The waiter slapped Thornton Sta
ley, claiming that the boy had killed
a pet cat. Later he said he was mere
ly playing, but the affair created con
siderable excitement at the time. An
older brother of Staley 'wanted to
handle the waiter personally, but
friends Interfered.
WAYCROSS PAVING LAWS
HIT ATLANTIC COAST LINE
WAYCROSS, Aug 9.—Because its
tracks pierce the heart of Waycross and
are parallelled In almost every instance
by some of the main streets, the At
lantic Coast Line is being put to heavy
expense by the sidewalk and street pav
ing campaign. The latest saving ordi
nance. covering Plant avenue from But
ler street to the city limits, will cause
the Coast Line to pay a third of the cost
for the entire distance, the avenue run
ning along the road’s right of way. The
other portion of Plant that is paved Is of
h-fck and the Coast Line paid a third
of that.
Trustee After $30,000 of Wesley
Realty Transferred to Wife
of Failed Merchant.
SAVANNAH, Aug. 9.—Suit for the
recovery of a large part of an in
corporated town In Emanuel Coun
ty. as a bankruptcy asset, has been
filed in the United States Court by
R. A. Flanders, trustee in bankruptcy
for Cook and Fountain. The property
was transferred to Mrs. Hattie Foun
tain. wife of one of the parties, a
short while before the bankruptcy
petition was filed.
The real estate involved Is situated
In Wesley, a township located about
halfway between Swainsboro and VI-
dalia. There are nineteen town blocks
in the tract, much of which is im
proved. The postoffice has been
erected on one of the lots, and there
are numbers of residences going up
on others. As soon as suit was filed
J. Ben Wilson, deputy marshal, went
to Wesley to serve the papers on Mrs.
Fountain.
Land Worth $30,000.
It is estimated that under fair mar
ket conditions the land sought to be
recovered would bring $30,000, In
which ca?ie all of the creditors would
be paid in full.^But there is certain
to be a lively fight unless a compro
mise is effected.
Cook and Fountain, merchants,
failed last December. Their petition
was filed at that time, and Flanders
was apponted trustee. The liabilities
of the firm as scheduled amounted
to about $20,000. There were only
about $3,000 n assets. None of the
land named in the sniit now filed was
scheduled. It did not develop until
some time later that this property
figured in the caae.
Trustee Charges Plot.
It has been now ascertained that
almost immediately prior to the filing
of the suit in bankruptcy the firm had
deeded to Mrs. Fountain, wife of on# 4
of Its members, the parcel of land
which constitutes practically the
heart of Wesley. Under the law as-
. i >ets transferred within four months
of the date of filing a bankruptcy pe
tition may be recovered. Tne con
tention is made that Cook and Foun
tain were insolvent when the deed to
Mrs. Fountain was made.
The charge is made by the trustee
that the transfer was made with the
intention of hindering, delaying or de
frauding the general creditors.
Million Dollar Gain
In Ware County Taxes
Collector Chases Dodgers and An
nounces Intention of Making
a Perfect Record.
WAYCROSS, Aug. 9.—From his hasty
examination of the 1913 tax returns for
Ware County, Tax Collector J. T. Strick
land Is confident a large amount of prop
erty subject to taxation has not been re
turned and he announced to-day that he
intended getting every bit of it on the
tax books within a few months. That
his work will give Ware an increase of
at least $1,000.00 Ois practically cAtain.
As the report now stands the returns
for 1913 show an increase of $546,349
over 1912.
The big growth of Waycross Is the
mam cause for the gain shown.
The tax rate, now $13 a-thousand, will
probably be reduced to $10. The col
lector says he thinks he will make a
collection record for the year of 100
per cent, something that has not been
done in this county up to date.
New York Gas ‘Tips’
Wasted on Waycross
City Council Ignores Wall Street
Promoter’s Proposal to
Build Plant.
White Way Proposed
On Brunswick Street
Landowners and Merchant* to Form
Stock Company and Install
Lighting System.
BRUNSWICK, Aug. 9.—The efforts
made the past week to put in a white
way along Newcastle street no doubt
will culminate in this Improvement
being made in the near future.
It Is the intention of those working
for the white way to form a stock
company composed of the landowners
and merchants along the street, who
will be called upon to take an amount
of stock on the basis of the frontage
of their buildings. The movement has
met with considerable encouragement
and It Is now considered a certainty
that the principal business -street of
the city will take on this improve
ment in the next two months.
Southern to Improve
Brunswick Terminals
Railway to Spend $20,000 on Build
ing* to Handle Naval Stores
Business.
BRUNSWICK, Aug. 9—Extensive
improvements will be made by the
Southern Railway upon its buildings
in the local yards and docks, for
which an appropriation of $20,000 has
been made. Cement foundations will
be built under the buildings at th?
Turtle River docks, and other im
provements will t> e made on the othei
docks of the company in the city.
It is the purpose of the company ’.o
rebuild Its present facilities and put
them in the best of condition so as to
be able to handle the increased traf
fic which will come through Bruns
wick owing to the changes in the na
val stores business.
SEEKING OFFIGE OFiBm
City Editor Lucas of The Morning
News Wants to Succeed Baker
as Postmaster.
Brother's Tireless Quest Results
in Capture of Negro Who
Killed B. C. Booth.
Killing of Bachelor
Mystifies Officers
Despite Strong Alibi, Tom Bullard 16
Held for Death of Farmer
Mack Spain'.
WAYCROSS, Aug. 9.—Whether or not
Mack Spain, the eccentrac bachelor far
mer of Mexico, a small place west of
Wayoross, was really murdered and
robbed or committed suicide In a fit of
despondency. Is a question that has
arisen in view oT the alibi offered by
Tom Bullard at the preliminary hear
ing given him this week, but in spite
of which he was bound over to the fall
term of Superior Court.
Bullard asked a fr'end to kill Spain
and get all his money, but claims the
statebent was made merely as a Joke.
Spain’s body was found In a small pond
2 miles from his home three weeks after
his disappearance. Bullard himself
found the body, which fact argued in his
favor, although the testimony of wit
nesses was to the effect that no one
could havq seen the body <n the pond
without having had previous knowledge
of Its whereabouts.
A careful search has so far failed to
find any of the money the farmer had
with him and at his home.
WAYCROSS, Aug. 9.—Aldermen of
Waycross have evidently had enough of
the gas proposition, Judging by the lack
of interest taken by City Council in a
communication from a New Yorker
showing how the city could build a gas
plant and operate it at a profit instead
of giving a franchise to outsiders. '
The proposition was made to the city
when It was learned that a bond of
$2,5T»0 given by George W. Deen and
L. M. Aldrich as evidence of their in
tention to spend no less than $20,000
within a year, had been declared for-
felted. _ ,
By spending $85,000, the New Yorker i
claimed, Waycross would have a money - 1
making plant. The success of the mu
nicipal gas plant at Albany was given as
an illustration. The Waycross City
Council Ignored the proposal.
Too Much Money to
Spend in V/aycross
City's Income More Than Pays All
Expenses—Tax Rate To
Be Cut Down.
WAYCROSS. Aug. 9.—With a $780 ap
propriation for twelve months, the com
mittee on parks and cemeteries of Way-
cross City Council expended only $1.30,
according' to the financial statement for
the first six months of the year just
Issued. „ ^
Practically every department of the
city is keeping within its budget, and
will end the year with a balance to its
credit. The engineering department,
with $14,454 available, has spent only
$6,011.96. Out of an appropriation of
$10,280 the fire department has spent
but $3,855.38.
The revised estimate of income places
the total for 1913 at $156,442.43. The
estimate when the year’s appropriations
were made was $151,000 The expected
Increase will therefore leave the city a
neat balance to start 1914 with.
In addition to these expenditures the
city Is spending $100,000 in permanent
improvements, this money coming from
a bond issue voted last year.
SENTENCE OF YEAR FOR
CONVICTED GUN T0TERS
WAYCROSS. Aug. 9.—Judge John j
C. McDonald has shown that he pro- |
poses to stick to the twelve-month
sentence for persons found guilty of
carrying concealed weapons. Clifford
Johnson, a negro. Is the latest to find
that It means a year's Job with the
county chaingang to carry a gun.
Hardly a case of this kind has been
disposed of in City Court without the
twelve-month sentence being imposed,
and the gun-totlng habit is said to
be declining rapidly as a result.
$5,498 Suit Brought
For Rescuing Dredge
Owners of Tug Columbia Dragged
the Maryland Out of Beaufort
Harbor.
SAVANNAH, Aug. 9.—Claiming $5,-
498.50 damages and salvage, a libel has
been filed in the United States Court by
R. S. Salas and F. TI. Meader against
the dredge Maryland.
Salas, as chief owner and president
of the Standard Fuel and Supply Com
pany, and Meader, as master of the
tugboat Columbia, claim this sum of
money for time, labor and material ex
pended by the tug In hauling the dredge
In and out of the harbor at Beaufort,
S. C., and claim $3,500 of this amount
for the work of sSTvage or rescue done
by the tug.
The dredge, which is said In the libel
to be worth $50,000, was towed out of
New York harbor on May 27 last by the
tug under contract between the Home
Dredging Company and the Standard
Fuel and Supply Company, the latter
being the owners of the tug The con
tract price for taking the dredge from
New York to Savannah was $1,500.
The dredge Maryland is now In the
Savannah River. The libel will be tried
at the coming term of the United States
Court.
The libel recites a full account of the
rescue of the dredge on her way down
the coast.
BRUNSWICK BOY CHOSEN
FOR WEST POINT CADET
BRUNSWICK. Aug. 9.—George
Bennett, son of Judge J. W. Bennet,
of this city, has received the appoint
ment to the West Point Academy
from President Wilson. He will leave
next month to attend a preparatory
school in Washington, expecting to
enter West Point the following sea
son.
I $6 WPJGETSVILLE
BEACH AUG. 23
I Round trip, six days. Special
1 trains, sleepers and coaches leave
| 6 p m. Make reservations early,
f SEABOARD.
GOOD VAUDEVILLE
TAKES PLACE OF TABLOID
AT BONITA THEATER
Tablotd musical comody will give
way to vaudeville at the Bonita,
beginning Monday. Following is
the splendid bill:
Kemyon Quar, a r^al harmony
singer.
Mabel Blondell, singing and
dancing.
Bud Fogg, monologist, and a
good one. too
Anderson sisters, songs and
danc*s.
Four first-class acts that will
please.
SAVANNAH. Aug. 9.—On the sup
position that. Marcus S. Baker, post
master at Savannah, who has recent
ly been Investigated by the Postofflce
Department in Washington, is about
to be retired as a result of that in
vestigation, Democratic candidates for
the position are becoming active.
Among these Is Marion Lucas, at
present city editor of The Savannah
Morning News, who seems to have the
lead over prospective opponents, both
in the energy with which he is work
ing and the political support which
is behind him.
Lucas was active in the last munic
ipal campaign, and stands well with
the present Administration. There is
scarcely any doubt that he will secure
the backing of the Administration. It
also Is said that he will have the in
dorsement of Congressman Charles G.
Edwards, although the latter has
stated that he is not promised to
any candidate and will not advocate
anyone for the position until he has
conferred with the President on the
subject.
Lucas has addressed a circular let
ter to practically all Democratic vot
ers In Savannah asking for their sup
port. He has a great many friends
among the rank and file of the peo
ple. Lucas himself says that he has
the promise of sufficient support to
land the job.
It is believed that the retirement of
Postmaster Baker will be in effect
within the next 30 days.
Efficiency Idea in
Vogue in Savannah
Auditor's Report Expected to Start
General Shakeup Among City
Officeholders.
SAVANNAH. Aug. 9.—Because of
the absence of Chairman W. J. Pler-
pont, of the Finance Committee, the
report on the audit of the city’s books
was not submitted to Council this
week.
Before the report goes to Council It
will be considered by the Finance
Committee. Chairman Pierpont is
now on a vacation. A special meet
ing of Council will likely be called to
act upon the report.
The auditors have suggested that a
controller be appointed and placed In
charge of the administration of the
financial affairs of the city. This
will do away with the office of City
Treasurer. In all probability Captain
C. S. Hardee, who has served the city
efficiently for over 30 years, will be
retired on a pension.
All departments of the city that are
not managed properly are criticised
in the report. The auditors have
found, for one thing, that the office of
Tax Assessor can be greatly improv
ed. It is also pointed out that the
work in this office does not require
the appointment of three assessors.
WAYCROSS, Aug. 9.—After elud
ing officers and the persistent search
maintained by a brother of the man
he killed at Manor January 25, 1897,
Will Eady. a negro, has been appre
hended near Blountstown, Fla., and
unless he demands requisition papers,#
will he lodged in Ware County jail
within the next week.
Eady shot and instantly killed B.
C. Booth at Manor when Booth called
at his home to see him about a debt
of $12. The negro went into the
house on seeing Booth approach and
refused to reply to his calls. Think
ing the negro wuu u . Mr> out of the
back door. Booth started from the
front of the house toward the rear.
As he turned a comer he was shot
down by Eady who stood by a win
dow and fired three shots from a
revolver.
Negro Makes Escape.
An hour’s start enabled the negro
to escape, despite the vigorous ef
forts to overtake him. At the April
term of Ware Superior Court that
year an indictment charging Eady
with murder was returned, and on
this he will be tried at the next term
of Superior Court.
From the time it was known the
negro had gotten away until his cap
ture near Blountstown a brother cf
the slain man, W. S. Booth, kept up
a search for the negro. Probably •50
negroes arrested in various sections
as suspects have been viewed by
Booth.
It was learned to-day that since
his murder at Manor. Eady was in
volved In another crime in Florida . t
a place known as Cooks on St. An
drews Bay, twelve years ago. Eady s
father-in-law, a negro named Gile-*,
had a dispute with a white man
named Smith, whose home was at
Valdosta, and shot him. While Smith
was In a dying condition on the
ground Eady approached and kick>1
him, saying that th* man was not
dead and asked for the gun.
With an oath, he then fired three
shots into the white man’s body.
Eady and Giles went into Alabama,
where a search covering several
months was conducted without suc
cess. As far as is known, Giles *s
still In Alabama.
Eady Renorted Lynched.
But for a report that Eady had
been lynched shortly after the shoot
ing of Booth it is believed the officers
would have located the negro and
brought him to trial. As it was, the
report was believed and people who
had been aiding in the search stoppe.1
and returned home. t
W. S. Booth has kept a standing
reward of $100 for Information lead
ing to the arrest of Eady, and it is
thought that the State’s reward of a
like amount, while not now standing,
will be renewed and paid to those re
sponsible for the finding of Eady.
For social news of the South see
page 10 of this section and the
society section. J
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