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2 TTTT ATLANTA OEOROTAN AND NEWS. WORLD'S BiGGEST SHIP WHICH WAS SWEPT BY | FLAMES AT HOBOKEN; At top is thf Imperator under fill) steam, and below, the! | giant turbine of the great liner. Continued from Page 1. ereif-n rights in this respect, will not hesitate, especially in times of serious domestic trouble, to consummate in the manner in which in the Judg ment of the United states of America and not in that of Mexico, may he beet for this latter. “You add that th*. President of the United States of America sincerely and ardently believes that my Gov ernment will see in the suggestion of his excellency Mr. Woodrow Wilson the most feasible plan for serving our vital interests and for Insuring the speed> re-establishment of our do mestic tranquillity. Quotes Conditions for Peace. "And always In the name of the President of the United States you submit to the consideration of my government the three folio" ing prop ositions : “ 1. That the election called for the 16th of October of the present year fthe note *ent to the Foreign Office by Mr. I*ind stated October 26, and not 16t shall be held in accordance with the constitutional laws of Mexico. “ ‘2 That President Huerta, in the manner originally Indicated by the President of the United States of America, give the assurance called for in Paragraph C of the original in structions. a paragraph which says literally, “The consent of General Huerta to agree not to be a candi date in the coming election for Pres ident of the republic.” "‘3 That the remaining proposi tions contained in your original In structions shall be taken up later, hut speedily, and resolved as circum stances permit and in the spirit of their proposal.’ “You add furthermore. Mr Uonfl- dential Agent, that the President of the United States of America has au thorized you to say that if my gov ernment ’acts Immediately and fa vorably upon the foregoing sugges tions.’ that same President will express to American bankers and their associ ates assurances that the government of the United State* of America will then look with favor upon the ex tension of an immediate loan suffi cient in amount to meet the tempo rary requirements of the present Mexican administration. Says Wilson Hasn’t Changed. ,** “'At t ie end of your note. Mr. Con fldentlal Agent, you express the hope of your Government that my Govern ment will Judge it consistent with the beat and highest Interests of Mexico immediately to accept such propor tions, stating that they are submitted in the same spirit and to the same end as the original proposition, but in a more restricted form, to the end that my Government may act within its faculties without the co-operation or aid of any other outside factor. “It appears at once. Mr. Confiden tial Agent, that in this case the pro posal of hip excellency, Mr. Woodrow Wilson, s not to remove himself an lota from the position originally as sumed by him. for. notwithstanding the time consumed since the 16th. the date of my reply, to the 25th, in whit a you delivered to me your second note, which I am here answering, the es sence and even the form of his origi nal instructions are the came with the aggravating feature well qualified by you as .‘more restricted.’ “For my part it would have been sufficient to answer this note in it* totality by reproducing the whole of thy note of the 16th instant as nega tive gs categorical, as I have the honor to reproduce it in this present note. Huerta Extremely Patient. ’’But the President ad interim wishes to carry his forbearance to the last point, ana to the *>nd that Mexican public opinion, which is so justly disturbed b> the present ten sion in the diplomatic relations ho- ! tween the two countries, and to the end that the various foreign govern ments, which have offered their good offices in the moat delicate possible mariner—1 am glad to repeat that tr.is has been their attitude, and not less pleased to express grateful acknowl edgment thereof—may be duly in formed. has authorized me o reply to you in the following terms. “It will begin by taking notice of a highly significant fact. Between th 1 night of the 14th instant when 1 re ceived the sheets containing \ our in struction—not directed to anyone an 1 calling the present administration the persons who at the present time have authority or exercise influence in Mexico—and yesterday, some prog ress has been made, in that now the constitutional President ad interim (see paragraph 2 of the new propo sitions) is (ailed President Huerta.' and in the whole course of the note the personnel of his administration is referred to as the ‘de facto govern ment. “But inasmuch as this or that qual ification is of no importance upon the ground that all the representa- on^ j of your Government have not betn Initiated except wi*h ourselves, which j ve have not been dispossessed of it. h | 1 perfect political and moral personal!- I tr up the ore • nt/Hvergenuo/* I intentionally limi point out the facts: “If your original proposals were not to he admitted, they are now. in the more restricted form in which they are reproduced, even more Inadmis sible. and one's attention Is called to the fact that they are in ft! stent upon, if It be noticed, that which the first proposals had already defined. "Precisely because we < omprehend the immense value which is possessed by the principle of sovereignty which •the Government of the United State* I so opportunely invokes in the ques tion of our recognition, and precisely for this- reason, we believed that It would never be proposed to us that we should forget our own sovereignty by permitting that i foreign govern ment should modify the line of con duct which we have to follow In our public and Independent life. Would Compromise Future. "If even once we were to permit the counsels and advice (let us ca l them thus) of the United States f America, not only would we. as I sav above, forego our sovereignty, but W( would aa well compromise for an in definite future <»ur destinies ns a sov ereign entity, and all the future ele - Hons for President would he submit ted to the veto of any President of the United States of America. "And such an enormity, Mr. Corn! dentlal Agent, no government will ever attempt to perpetrate, and this I am sure of, unless some monstrous and almost impossible cataclysm should occur In the- conscience of the Mexican people. “VVe believed, taking into consid eration the disproportionate interest that the President of the United States of America has shown con cerning our internal affairs, that ne. as well as his Government, would know perfectly well the provisions of our constitution in the matter of ele - tlone. "Unfortunately, and in view of the insistence with which his excellency Mr. Wilson, ftufttnins his first Ideas, wv are compelled to acknowledge we have made a mistake. "The reform of constitutional arti cles No ft. 47 and 109. put Into effect by the Congress of the Union on Novem ber 7. 1 y 11, provides among other requirements that which i.-» contained in the final part of article 78: ‘The Secretary of State In charge of the executive power shall not be eligible to the office of either President or Vice President when the elect ion shall take place.' Makes Huerta Inehgib 1 ®. “This Inscription, which I take the liberty of making. Mr. Confidential Agent. In order that the Government of the United States of America may take duo notice of It, prevents the constitutional ad Interim President of the republic from being a candidate of the forthcoming elections, and If his excellency, President Wilson, had taken Into consideration that para graph before venturing to impose on us the conditions in question and which we may not admit, the present Etate of affairs between you and our- ftolves would have been avoided, leav ing out of the discussion our decorum and the personal pride of the Presi dent of the United States, wrongly Interested In this discussion without foundation. "It should be well understood that the ad Interim constitutional President could not be elected President or VIcg President at the forthcoming elec tions. already called for October, be cause our own laws prohibit him from being a candidate, and these laws ar. the sole arbitrators of our destinies', but never through the Imposition, al though friendly and disinterested, of the President of the United States of America or of any other ruler, power ful or weak (tills does not matter in the case) who would he equally re spected by ue "I beg to inform you, Mr Confiden tial Agent, that up to the present time, at least, only the President of the United States of America ha.- spoken of the candidacy of the consti tutional ad interim President at the forthcoming elections. Huerta's Plans Unknown. “Neither the solemn declaration of this high functionary nor the most in significant of his acts all of which have been done with a view of ob taining a complete pacification of the country, which is the supreme na tional aim. and which he has decided to bring about in spite of every thing has authorized any one even to suspect that such are not his ulti mate intentions. it is perfeo^l) well known that there does not exist in the whole country a single newspaper, a sin gle club, a single corporation or group of individuals who have launched his candidacy or even dis cussed it. "On what. then, is the gratuitous suspicion of the President of the Unit ed Slates of America based and his demand, which is absolutely inadmis sible. that in order to comply with ihe suggestion of the President of tl • I ruted States the ad interim President *»f the Mexican republic shoul enter into agreements and oon- tracl ^ubligiUions which luivt never JIOI.000 FIDE I IMPERATOR EXCELLED TITANIC The Imperator was launched at Hamburg, Germany, May 13, 1912, in the presence of Em peror William, who stood sponsor for the n-iantess. The Imperator has been in commission less than three months, having left Hamburg on her maiden voyage to New York on June 11 last. Disaster to the great ship so soon after her construction instantly brings to mind the fate of the great Titanic, which sank on her initial voyage. In comparison, however, the specifica tions of the Imperator are more imposing than those of the Titanic. The dimensions of the Hamburg-American liner follow: Length 919 feet. Beam (width) 98 feet. Gross tonnage 50,000. The Imperator’s bridge is 90 feet above the water, and her three gigantic funnels extend 69 feet above the upper deck. Her masts extend 246 feet from keel to truck. Wireless apparatus sufficiently powerful to transmit messages 1,500 miles was installed on the liner, and she carries three wireless operators on every voyage. She is equipped with five mighty anchors, one weighing 26,445 pounds, two weighing 17,636, and one 11,463. Her kedge anchor weighs 4,960 pounds. ISO COUNTIES DFSTITEDEID E heretofore been Impound upon the rul er of any sovereign nation? "The question having been set forth, as I have had the honor of doing in this reply, his excellency Mr. Wilson will have to withdraw definitely from his present attitude at the risk that his motives, which I take pleasure in arknowleding are. as he himself quotes them, friendly and disinterested, altruistic and with out ulterior ends—at the risk. I re peat. that they may be wrongly and differently interpreted by all the other nations which look upon our present internal conflict with more or less In terest. Demand Use of ”De Facto” Stopped. "And although the President of the United States of America should take an altogether different stand from the universal standpoint which con siders differently an administration under the conditions in which our own Is at present (the best proof of rny assertion is the unconditional recognition of the foremost povvet- of the world, among which the United States of America occupies such a prominent and legitimately acquired rank), he will have to cease to call us a dp facto Government and will give us the title of ad interim con stitutional Government, which is the only one to which we are rightly entitled. "Permit me, Mr. Confidential Agent, not to reply for the time being to the significant offer In which the Government of the United States of America insinuates that it will recom mend to American bankers the im mediate extension of a loan which will permit us. among other things, to cover the innumerable urgent ex penses. required by the progressive pacification of the country: for. in the terms in which it is couched, it appears more to be an attractive antecedent proposal to the end that, moved by petty interests. w e should renounce a right which Incontro vertible* upholds us at a period when the dignity of the nation is at stake "1 believe that there are not loans enough to induce those charged by the law to maintain that dignity to permit it to be lessened. “On the other hand. 1 havt* seen with great pleasure that the Presi dent of the United States of America proposes for a later date, and ac cording to what the circumstances permit, the solution which was mark ed with tlie letter A in the original instructions and in the note to which this is a reply, with the No. 3. for this reveals that we are really in the way of arriving at an arrange ment equally dignified for both sides. Renounces Ambassadorial Demand. "In view of this, Mr. Confidential Agent, to-day more than ever we profoundly hone for an immediate so lution Uie conflict JtiiMh unlortu nately has separated us. I could go even further. I would renounce on our part the demand that our re spective Ambassadors be received im mediately. since for the end in view the present personnel of our recipro cal embassies is sufficient as it re mains as it has been heretofore until the elections of October have taken place, but I always stand on the un avoidable condition which declares that we are in reality the ad interim constitutional government of the Mex ican Republic. "In my turn. M. Confidential Agent. I beg again to repeat to you the pleasing Impression which you leave with me as a citl'/en of the United States of America, as an able, right eous and well-intentioned personal representative of his excellency, Mr. Woodrow Wilson. I esteem greatly the gratitude which you say you pro fess for the well-deserved treatment which you have received in Mexico at the hands of the ad interim const!- tional President of me republic, from private individuals and from myself, and I reiterate to you, as in my pre vious note, my present consideration. "F. GAMBOA, "The Secretary of Foreign Affairs ot the Mexican Republic. "To Mr. John Lind, Confidential Agent of tile President of the United I States of America, etc-., etc. "A true copy of the original, to I which 1 certify. "For the Sub-treasury of Foreign -Relations, the chief clerk: "PEN AYRES.” Ambassador Wilson To Quit Next Week. IXDIAXAPOI.IS. T ND.. Aug. 2S.— From a source ( lose to Henry Lane Wilson, Ambassador to Mexico. It was learned to-day that Ambassador Wil son will demand either next Monday or Tuesday that he be Immediately relieved of his position. The demand 1 will be made on Secretary of State Bryan. Ambassador Wilson has al ready tendered his resignation as Ambassador to Mexico, effective Oc- tober 1, but is anxious to be relieved ; of his diplomatic duties because of I the dissonance that exists because of President Wilson and Secretary Bry- j an on the one hand and himself on I the other over the Mexican situation. Commenting to-day on President Wilson’s message to Congress. Am- i bassador Wilson said that he pre- 1 ?erred to refrain from criticism until next Monday or Tuesday. "1 will then talk." said Ambassador Wilson, "for ; I will be in a position to do so." This is taken to mean that he will with draw permanently and peremptorily from the diplomatic service on one of who Were working these pumps de serted their posts in a panic of fear. Gerbrgcht might have staggeied to safety, but he clung to his task until he dropped and was roasted to death. Mahy'firemen were burned by being swept off their feet by a back draft. All the freight which had been brought over on the voyage ending here last night was in the ship's hold and the efforts of the ship's officers were redoubled by knowledge that loss of the cargo would add at least $ 1.- 000,000 more to the damage. Origin of Fire Mystery. The origin of the fire is a mys tery. Captain Ruser expressed belief that the flames had been burning for some time ^before discovered. It was possible that they had ignited about 4 o’clock or sooner. The Hamburg-American Company ordered a rigid investigation. In telling the experiences of his men. Fire Chief Gavin, of Hoboken, exclaimed: "It is a wonder any of us are alive That ship is the mo4H complicates thing inside we ever saw." Fire boats bringing firemen from New York City were rushed to the scene, not only to fight the blaze upon the Imperator, but to prevent the fire from spreading to the crowded ship ping in the district. The loss of life probably would have been heavier but for Chief Ga vin Captain Ruser ordered a num ber of seamen into the seething pro vision room to search for bodies, but Gavin would not let them go. "You are sailors, not firemen, and you don't know how to protect your selves." said the Hoboken chief. "I'll send some experienced men." He did. Here Are Some of Imperator’s Wonders. The imperator. which was the greatest ship ever built, had been in service cnlv a few months. It com- I pleted its maiden trip across the At lantic on June 21 last. It was a ver- j itable floating palace, excelling in comfort and luxury even the Titanic. Following are some of the wonders of the giant liner: A flower garden, with a large mint bed. A candy and toy store for children. A notion store. A running track. An elaborate Roman bath, two sto ries high. 65 by 41 feet, made of bronze and marble. A swimming tank 81 by 21 feet, with a maximum depth of nine feet. Turkish. Russian and mineral baths, 220 in number. A photographic dark rootn. Largest Floating Ballroom. The largest floating; ballroom in the worid—100 by 60 by 18 feet. A rudder that weighs 90 tons. A winter garden, filled with rich tropical vegetation. A Ritz-Carlton restaurant, with a veranda cafe. A roof garden. A gymnasium, with electrically driven Zander apparatus. A millionaire’s apartment, the size of a twelve-room New York flat. It has a private garden and deck, and would bring perhaps $30,000 a year on Manhattan. A public stenographer. A florist. Six barbers. A manicurist. A gardener. A tailor. A printing department, with three printers. A hospital, with five physicians. A cabinetmaker. Four elevators, running through five decks. Vessel Can Carry 6,000. The Imperator is nearly one-fifth of a mile long. She can carry* 6.000 persons. She has five captains. She carries 83 lifeboats Her wireless is powerful enough to reach land when she is in mid-ocean She has eight kitchens. Two chief chefs and 116 assistant chefs. For a seven-day voyage the follow ing quantities of food are carried: 48.500 pounds of fresh meats. 48,000 eggs. 121,000 pounds of potatoes. 2^500 pounds of fresh vegetables. 10.500 pounds of fowl and game. 9.000 pounds of fish and shellfish. 12.500 quarts of milk and cream. 900 pounds of tea. 500 pounds of chocolate and cocoa. 7,000 pounds of coffee. BREAK ILL President Wilson's ultimatum to Mexico has been interpreted by many in the South as a rumbling of war drums, according to Lieutenant J. A. Gallogly, U. S. A., who is in charge cf the Atlanta district of the recruit ing service, and there has been a sudden influx of enlistments in Atlan ta, Birmingham. Macon, Augusta and Columbus. One hundred and nine men already have enlisted during the month of August, smashing all records. During July there were more than 300 appli cants and 101 acceptances. The larg est number for any one month before that was 42. The average per month for the last six years has been nine teen. ihiViu mV*Y»» it iiVm (vrvVvVi 111 vrVfvi'v ir^’ Ht Rich’s Economy Basement l ; ■; White Canvas | Pufnps S 1 State Tax Assessor Hart Shows Forty-nine Pay Georgia's Expenses. That 100 counties of Georgia s 149 are drawing out more money annual ly than they actually pay into the State treasury was the startling information revealed to State Tax Assessor Hart Thursday. Judge Hart wished to know* just how much each county paid in and withdrew from the treasury. Accord ingly, he requested Secretary Har rison of the Comptroller General’s de partment to compile a list of the counties, with the amounts expended as w*ell as withdrawn. The list show ed about 100 counties withdrew more money annually than they paid in, and that the deficit is made up by the larger counties, including Fulton and Bibb. Judge Hart is conducting the most minute investigation of the entire taxing system, with the view of over hauling it to meet the demands of the new law* which was passed by the recent Legislature. TWO BLIND TIGERS CAPTURED. TIFTON. Aug. 28.—Two more blind tigers were led into Recorder’s Court Wednesday morning. Charley Rut land. white, was fined $75 or five months; John Crawford, a negro, was fined $60 or five months. MEMBERSHIP CAMPAIGN. MACON. Aug. 28.—The Macon Chamber of Commerce will put on a special membership campaign here during the month of October. Sev eral rallies, at which secretaries of other commercial bodies will illus trate the advantages of affiliating with the trades body, will be held. 76 pairs, 3 5 styles. For- > 4j mer prices | $2.50 and $3. 195c Fall season is the when MASONIC CONVENTION. DALTON, Aug. 28.—The Tri-Coun ty Masonic Convention is in session at Eton to-day. Among the visitors are two of the Grand Lodge officers— Robert L. 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