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Atlanta Edition ot The American
Consists of the Following Sections:
1— Late News. 5—Editorial and City Life. <
2— Real Estate, Wants. 6—Magazine.
3— Sports, Autos. 7—Comics.
4— Society and Foreign.
BE SURE TO QET THEM ALL.
VOL. I. NO. 22.
Copyright, 1813, by
The Georgian Company.
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ATLANTA, GA., SUNDAY, AUGUST 31, 1913.
ILL PLEDGES
OF1912TO BE
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SAYS CLARK
Speaker Says Good Tariff Bill Will
Be on Statute Books Within Two
Weeks, Reducing Cost of Living'
but Giving Enough Revenue.
Democrats Will Live Up to Every
Promise Made at Baltimore, He
Asserts, While Affirming Belief
That Owen-Glass Bill Will Help.
SKOWHEGAN, MAINE, Aug. 30.—
“We can not In few months redeem
all the promises at Baltimore, but
with God's blessing: we will redeem
them all.
"We believe our tariff bill will re
duce the cost of living, more fairly
adjust taxation and at the same time
raise an abundant revenue for the
Government, economically and ef
fectively administered.
“Second in importance to the re
vision to the tariff downward was the
promise of currency reform. We are
now in the first stages of the redemp
tion of that promise."
These are striking excerpts from an
address made here to-night by Speak
er Champ Clark in behalf of the Dem
ocratic candidate for Congress in a
1 special election to fill a vacancy in the
Third District. The Speaker devoted
his entire time to a discussion of the
Democratic tariff bill and the Glass-
Owen currency measure.
“Our tariff bill, in all human prob
ability, will be upon the statute books
before the middle of September.” he
declared “In my judgment, It ls» a
good tariff bill. It Is not precisely as
I would have written It if I had beer,
given carte blanche.
All Laws Compromises.
“All legislation is the issue of com
promise and concessions. Nobody can
get everything he wants In this world.
“We believe our tariff bill will re
duce the co?»t of living, more fairly
adjust taxation and at the same tima
raise an abundant revenue for the
Government, economically and effect
ively administered. I put In the word
‘effectively* because no good Ameri
can desires to see the Federal Gov
ernment crippled in any of Its legiti
mate functions.
“Our tariff bill would not raise
enough money to pay the expenses of
the Government were It not for the
income tax feature. According to my
way of thinking, a properly graded
Income tax, with reasonable excep
tions. Is the justest and the fairest
tax ever levied.
Speaker Quotes Byron.
“I never think of the long fight that
has been made for tariff reduction
that I do not recall the splendid lines
of Byron:
” 4 For time at last sets all things
even,
And if we do hut watch the hour.
There never yet was human power
That could evade, if unforgiven,
The patient search and vigil long
Of him who treasures up a wrong.*
“And the high protective tariff sys
tem, beginning with the first Morrill
bill in 1861 down to the present day,
was one of the most monstrous
wrongs ever inflicted upon a people.
“I think it may be said without
, exaggeration or bad taste that we
have at the present time the worst
currency system of all the great peo
ples on the globe.
“Perfection is not claimed for Oe
Glass-Owen currency bill. It i*
claimed, however, that It is a vast
improvement on the present sys
tem.”
Someone Must Control.
Referring to the objection made to
the Federal Reserve Board having too
much power, Mr. Clark said:
“Power must be lodged somewhere,
and, in my judgment, It is better to
lodge it with t .e President and his
appointees than in the hands of pri
vate persons. The latter can do a
great many things which a President
of the United States c not afford cO
do.”
In terminating the enumeration tf
the important provisions of the bill,
the Speaker said:
• 1 “I have no disposition whatever to
lump bankers off as dlshones beyond
the average. I simply say they are
human, that they will work for their
own interests.”
Two Hit by Autos;
Both Seriously Hurt
Arthur Pearce, 10 Years Old, and
Unidentified Mute Victims of
Night Accidents.
While crossing the intersection of
Auburn avenue and Bell street on his
bicycle late Saturday night, an un
identified deaf and dumb negro boy
was run down and seriously injured
by an automobile occupied by Dr J.
Cheston King and Dr. W. A. Gardner.
The boy was dragged 100 feet before
the machine could be brought to a
stop. He was taken to Grady Hos
pital, where it was stated he could
not live.
Considerable excitement was caus
ed by the accident. Dr. King told
the police that his automobile was
driven by Tom Ridgeway, a negro
chauffeur, who jumped from the ma
chine and ran away after striking the
boy. Negroes who say they witnessed
the accident assert that Dr. King
himself was driving the car.
Arthur Pearce, a negro, 10 years
old, was seriously injured Saturday
night at 10 o’clock by an automobile
driven by John McKinney, No. 663
East Fair street. The boy was steal
ing a ride on a street car, and drop
ped off In front of No. 88 Capitol ave
nue. McKinney’s autcT came around
the comer and hit him, throwing
him against a water plug.
Son of Late Atlanta
General a Suicide
Harold B. Lewis Leaps Into the Har
bor at Buffalo—Body Not
Recovered.
BUFFALO, N. Y., Aug. 30.—Harold
B. Lewis, son of the late Brigadier
General John R. Lewis, of Atlanta,
committed suicide here at midnight
by jumping in the harbor. Adams
Smith, a watchman, notified the po
lice that a man had jumped into the
river. On the bank was found a straw
hat, a pair of tan shoes, a bank book
bearing the name “Harold B. Lewis”
and this note:
“Finder please notify Asa M. Mat-
tlce, No. 50 Locust street, Lockport,
N. Y.”
Mattlce, who is Lewis’ uncle, de
clared Lewis tried to kill himself six
years ago in Philadelphia. The body,
when recovered, will be taken to At
lanta.
Maid Too Pretty for
The Prince of Wales
Petite French Laundress Dismissed
by Queen Mary as Precaution,
Says Paris Paper.
Special Cable to The American.
PARIS, Aug. 30—The Cri de Paris
prints the story of the dismissal of
the pretty little laundress of the es
tablishment of the Prince of Wales by
the Prince’s mother, for the reason
that her pretty cheeks, bright eyes
and striking figure impressed Queen
Mary as being unsuitable for the im
mediate environment of the future
ruler.
If the Cri de Paris is certain of its
facts, the boy, w v n he heard what
his mother had one, presented the
girl with $750 by way of balm and
later wrote for her a letter, ad
dressed, “To whom it may concern,”
saying in substance that the petite
French maid is a dandy little laun
dress. „
Maddox Victim of Bullet Fired by
Watchman at Interurban
Station.
TWO COMPANIONS ESCAPE
C. G. Miller, Suffering From
Beating Received in Fight, Sur
renders Himself to the Police.
Lee Maddox lies at the Grady Hos
pital with a bullet in his head which
will cause his death, and G. G. Miller,
No. 136 East Georgia avenue, night
watchman for the Georgia Railway
and Power Company at the Gas and
Electric Building on Walton street, is
in the custody of the police as the
result of a sensational hold-up and
shooting there Saturday night at
about 11:40 o’clock.
According to Miller, the four men
suddenly attacked him inside the de
pot building while he was making his
nightly rounds. In sfelf-defense, he
says, he pulled his pistol and shot one
of the men, who proved later to be
Lee Maddox.
Miler gave himself up to the police
after he had received a severe beat
ing at the hands of four alleged rob
bers who, he says, broke through the
side door of the building. The arrest
was made by Officer T. D. Shaw, to
whom Miller declared that he had
shot a man.
Although Miller was badly beaten
he was able to walk to the door,
where he met the policeman, called
to the scene by a passerby who had
heard the shot. Miller handed the
officer his pistol.
Shortly after the shooting and the
arrest of the night watchman a large
crowd gathered. No trace of the
other three men could be found up to
a late hour’ Sunday morning. The
purpose of the daring attack, it is
supposed, was robbery.
Maddox, who was rushed to Grady
Hospital, is desnerately wounded and
can not possibly recover, it is be
lieved. The bullet entered the jaw
and lodged within a half inch of the
skull. Miller is 27 years old and has
been considered one of the company’s
trusties.
Art of Moonshining
Decadent in Georgia
Fewer Stills Raided In August Than
In Any Previous Month
for Years.
Miss Ramho Takes ‘Flyer’ in Coal
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Enters Trade to Help Old Soldiers
Blinders for X-Ray
Gown Oglers Urged
“The Man Who Stares, Not the
Dress, Is at Fault,” De
clares Pastor.
Odds 3 to 1 Against
Gaynor Re-Election
Even Money on McCall Against Mit
chell and Metz Against
Prendergast.
NEW YORK, Aug. 30.—Odds that
Mayor Gaynor will not be re-elected
Increased to-day.
Fred Schumnf, the well-known bet
ting commissioner, of Brooklyn, stat
ed that there was considerable money
being offered at 3 to 1 that Gaynor
would not serve a second term at
City Hall.
One bet of $500 was made at even
money that McCall would poll inort
votes that Mitchell, while another
wager of the same amount at even
money was placed on Metz against
Prendergast.
‘Busted/ Not ‘Down
And Out,' Says Cody
Only His Horse Left From Millions,
“Buffalo Bill” Starts Fight
For Fortune.
CHICAGO, Aug. 30.—“I am what
you might call ‘financially busted,’
but I am by no means ‘down and out’
said Col. William F. Cody, known
all over the world as “Buffalo Bill,”
at the hotel LaSalle, to-night
“Right now, I am getting ready to
take up the best work of my whole
life. 1 will have made a replica of
the final grand councils of the red
men and the whites, in which I will
pose all who are living, to show com
ing generations just how the treaty
was signed.”
ROCKLAND, MASS., Aug. 30.—The
Rev. Louis A. Walker of the First
Unitarian church of Rockland is
hailed as the champion of the X-ray
gown and slit skirt. Says the Rock
land minister:
‘To brand the wearers of these
fantastic gowns as vulgar is an in
sult to a large portion of American
womanhood. The immorality is with
those who see the suggestive, rather
than in those who wear novel gar
ments.”
Mr. Walker is sincere in his own
suggestion of blinders for the men
who ogle women in modern gdrb. He
declares the proper censor of styles
would be “a prim and ancient maiden
with ringlets.”
No Babies Advocated
At Suffragist Meet
Lawyer Opposes Population Increase
Until Life Is More Highly
Prized.
NEW YORK, Aug. 30.—Suffragists
at a noonday meeting to-day were
stunned when Charles Goldzier, a
well-known attorney, uttered this
sentiment:
•Race suicide is a good thing for
our country. It is one of the impor
tant features of the reform movement
for better conditions and a greater
regard for human life. When the
time comes that we really value hu
man life, then it will be time to bring
children into the world. Until then it
is better that no more children be
born.”
Wilson’s Rest Not
Marred by Mexico
President at Summer White House
in New Hampshire for Three
Days’ Vacation.
WINDSOR, VT., Aug 30.—Far
from the worries of the Mexican sit
uation, President Wilson to-night is
enjoying the delights of the summer
White House at Cornish, N. H. The
President hopes he will be able to
spend three days here in the genu
ine vacation spirit.
The President had not seen his
daughter, Margaret, for several
months until to-day. He was pleased
to learn that the injuries to Jessie,
sustained while riding a horse, Jvere
not serious.
Georgia has fallen upon evil days.
Its old-time supiemacy in the man
ufacture of moonshine whisky is
threatened. To the grizzled veterans
of the mountains, not a few of whom
have played merry hide-and-seek
with the revenue officers, this is an
Infallible sign of decadence. It is
Just another indication of the ef-
ferninizing influence of modern life.
Georgia stills hold the leadership
In the making of that whisky upon
which no Government stamp finds a
place. This is according to the offi
cial reports. But the gentle art of
moonshining gradually and certainly
is passing away. This also is ac
cording to the official reports.
There were few'er raids on Illicit
stills in August than in any previous
month for many years. This was nJt
due to any lack of vigilance on the
part of the revenue officers, but rath
er to the fact that there are fewer
sti 11 ^ to raid.
Shake-ups In the local revenue of
fice have insured that there will be no
let-down in the activity of the Gov
ernment agents.
Boy Badly Mangled
By Neighbor’s Dog
Lamar Eberhardt’s Screams Bring
Assistance to Terrified Lad In
Nick of Time.
Wild screams of 8-year-old Lamar
Eberhardt brought neighbors to his
aid while the little fellow was being
savagely attacked by a dog belonging
to Pack Evans, a neighbor, late Sat
urday afternoon. Their timely ar
rival in all probability saved the boy
-from being so cruelly bitten that his
leg would have to have been ampu
tated.
The child lives with his father, W.
H. Eberhardt. at No. 126 Flora ave
nue. Just around the corner on La-
Franee avenue Evans lives.
According to Lamar's father, as
the little fellow was passing the
Evans gate, the dog leaped out and
sank his fangs deep in the child’s
leg. The boy's screams and struggles
only served to madden the animal
and under his tearing attack yoyng
Lamar fell with the dog still snapping
at him. Aid came Just as the animal
was about to seize a new and perhaps
fatal hold.
Family Finds Clew
To Martin in Alps
Brother-In-Law Expected to Locate
Missing Memphis Man With
in Few Hours.
MEMPHIS, Aug. 30.—Late reports
received in Memphis from Mr. and
Mrs. H. C. Ellet, who are searching
Switzerland for Joseph Wilberforce
Martin, say they have discovered a
clew to his whereabouts and expect
to find him in a few hours.
Martin left Memphis last spring
and was reported murdered In Lon
don. Soon after his disappearance
the cotton firm of Martin & Phillips
failed for nearly $2,000,000.
No one, it is said, has heard di
rectly from him, although his mother
is reported very ill. L>r. Ellet is Mar
tin’s brother-in-law.
Peppermint Tea Wins
Miss Boardman Fame
New Brew, Learned In China, Finds
Quick Favor Among Washing
ton Society Folk.
M ISS REGINA RAMBO, popular society girl and friend
of Confederate veterans, who has added trade to her
other accomplishments in order to make Christmas merry for
aged warriors.
Accident Plunges Society Girl
From Athletics to That
of Business.
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WASHINGTON, Aug. 30.—Miss
Mabel T. Boardman is the expert tea
brewer of Washington society. She
has originated a “peppermint tea”
which her friends pronounce most de
lectable.
Miss Boardman brews the tea after
a method learned while traveling in
China, a gentle steeping in hot water
being the chief direction. The pep
permint is added in the shape of a
very strong lozenge. A section of
peeled lemon gives an added zest.
Mrs. James Bryce and other tea ex
perts have complimented Miss Board-
man on h*er skill.
Lady Constance Stirs
Dncal Cousins’ Anger
Dancer Who Will Appear In Atlanta
Is Now Persona Non Grata With
the Sutherlands.
Special Cable to The American.
EDINBURGH, Aug. 30.—Lady Con
stance Stewart-Richardson, who Is
spending her vacation at Klncralg
House, Rosshire, before going to Ameri
ca to fulfill theatrical engagements, Is
evidently persona non grata with her
cousin, the Duke of Sutherland.
Lady Constance used to be seen fre
quently at Dunrobin, which is not far
from Klncralg House, but lately she and
her husband. Sir Edward Richardson,
appear to have broken with the Suther
lands, who were furious when she be
came a professional dancer.
PHILft. FI
McGraw’s Team Retreats Under
Brickbat Shower After Win
ning Game by Forfeit.
PACIFICS’DIVQRGE
SUBJECT OF QUIZ
Republican Senators Say Govern
ment Has Created, Not Destroy
ed, Rail Monopoly in West.
PHILADELPHIA, Aug. 30.—Man
ager John J. McGraw and his teair.
retreated from the "City of Brotherly
Love” to-night under a shower of
brickbats, bottles and other missiles.,
as a result of Umpire Brennan's de
cision forfeiting to-day's game to the
visitors because the crowd surged
onto the playing field.
The players were followed to the
station by a large crowd, who hootel
and Jeered them and then pelted them
with debris of all sc-.s. Char'es Her
zog sustained a painful wound when
his head was cut by a flying brick,
and Larry McLean, the catcher, nar
rowly escaped a bottle hurled by an
irate fan.
Aged Man, Stabbed,
Is Found in Gutter
Police Unable to Identify Victim of
Mysterious Cutting—Robbery
Their Theory.
With half a dozen stab wounds In
his back and sides, a white-haired
man, about 65 years old, was found
lying in the gutter in front of No. 400
Decatur street by Plainclothes Offi
cers Powers and Chatham Saturday
night at 11:30 o'clock. He was un
conscious and had lost a large quan
tity of blood.
The police think the old man was
robbed by highwaymen and left for
dead. He could not be Identified.
WASHINGTON, Aug. 30.—It is re
ported here that a group of the most
influential Republican Senators ha'e
combined for the •'urpose of securing
an investigation of the “surrender”
of the Department of Justice to the
railroads In the Union Pacific-South,
ern Pacific dissolution case, while the
Administration is to take unusual
stepis to olock the inquiry and formu
late Its defense.
As a first move in an attack upm
the Department of Justice a resolu
tion soon will be Introduced calling
on the Attorney General to inform the
Senate why the case should not be
thrown into the courts to have the
decree of the Supreme Court executed
and receivers appointed for the rail
roads concerned.
The fight will be based on the
charges that the Department of Jus
tice really constructed a monopoly In
stead of destroying It; that not only
are the Union Pacific and the South
ern Pacific sti" left In possession >f
their property, but also they are ex
empted from paying debts amounting
to millions which they owe the Gov
ernment, and that this t eing prac
tically a subsidy f m the Govern
ment, they will be able to defeat com
petition in all States on the Paclfl
Coast eastward to Chicago by tho
simple expedient of cutting rates.
SCARED DEAD BY THUNDER.
SEABKIGHT, N. J.. Aug. 30.—Mrs.
B. A. McGough, -an aged resident of
New York, here on a visit, was scared
to death by a clap of thunder dur
ing a severe electrical storm w'hich
swept the northern New Jersey coast
early to-day.
PRICE FIVE CENTS.
MJss Regina Rambo has entered
trade.
This Georgia girl, whose fame ex
tends from Rabun Gap to Tybee
Light, as the political persons ar^
wont to remark on the hustings, has
entered the coal business.
And everyone in Georgia who knows
Miss Rambo knows she will succeed
in the making of dollars Just as she
has succeeded in every line of en
deavor that she has undertaken.
Miss Rambo didn't enter trade with
State Department Proposes Inter
national Commission to Fix Loss
to American Property During
Rebellion's Three-Year Reign,
Huerta’s Plea to Foreigners to
Stay Believed To Be Ruse to
Escape Responsibility for De
preciation in Value of Holdings.
Possible That the Southern Re
public May Be Forced to Hy
pothecate Revenues to Settle
the Fast Accumulating Claims.
malice aforethought. A railroad ac
cident had a good part In transform
ing the radiant society girl into a coal
dealer. An ability on her part to re
member that Christmas la coming
while the thermometers hover about
the 100 mark also entered Into the
little business venture, while her un
tiring love for the old soldiers of the
Confederacy was probably the most
potent factor of all. *
But the fact remains that Miss
Rambo is to-day an honest-to-good-
ness coal dealer in her home town of
Marietta, and it’s needless to say that
she is the most popular person selling
fuel In the Cobb County town.
Hard to Conceive New Feat.
It is difficult to convince Georgians
who know Miss Rambo—and she num
bers her friends by the hundreds—
that it is possible for her to enter a
new field of actlivty.
For in her young life she has done
a lot of things, and she has done them
all well. It is difficult to conceive
how she has added another to her
list of accomplishments.
She hardly had reached her teens
before she was regarded as the most
daring and accomplished horsewoman
in Georgia. It was worth the walk
from Atlanta to Marietta to see her
afield on one of her splendid mounts.
But then motor cars became the
rage, and when they did Miss Rambo
was as much at home behind the
steering w'heel as in the saddle. She
entered and drove her own cars In a
number of Georgia and national tours,
and there were plenty of men drivers
to envy her skill and marvel at her
resourcefulness.
She didn’t stop with these accom
plishments. Well, hardly. Miss Ram
bo is regarded as graceful a dancer
as has ever appeared on an Atlanta
ballroom floor. Any society man in
Georgia will testify that the regard
has been worthily bestowed.
8tar in Water Sport*.
No less skillful Is she is aquatic
sports. She is a strong and tireless
swimmer and her diving Is the per-
Continued on Page 8, Column 3.
WASHINGTON, Aug. 30—Mexico
will have to settle to the last cent
millions of dollars damage done to
property owned by Americans in the
Southern republic when the reign of
rebellion, begun three years ago, ends.
During the present lull In the nego
tiations between the United States
and the Huerta government, the State
Department Is turning its attention to
the immense Indebtedness that Huer
ta is piling up to be settled by his
successors. An International com
mission would ascertain this Indebt
edness, it was definitely stated to
The Sunday American to-day.
Officials of the State Department
said to-day that, by reason of the
Madero rebellion and the present dis
turbance, Americans already had sus
tained a loss of $500,000,000.
The International commission will
be charged with ascertaining:
First, the original value of the
property.
Second, its depreciation.
Third, wiiat would have been Its
present value.
Assert Mexico Had Chance.
The same officials say that a fair
international commission, In deter
mining a claim, w’ould take these
three Items at their full value for
the reason that Madero and Huerta
were given full opportunity to madee
some move for the arrest of depre
ciation by the restoration of peace.
There Is now a so-called commis
sion sitting at Mexico City, but It ts
composed entirely of Mexican offi
cials. Few claims have been settled,
and a settlement, except on a prom
issory note, appears to be an Impos
sibility with* the Huerta government.
The commission which the State
Department imsr In mind would, how
ever, be composed of Mexican and
American officials, and Its decision
would be final, because both the Con
gress of Mexico and the Congress of
the United States w-ould give it power
to act.
Revenues May Be Claimed.
It might be that Mexico would be
enabled by the flotation of bonds guar
anteed by a friendly United State*
government to pay off its enormous
claims. The most disagreeable
means is one that sometimes has to
be enforced—compelling Mexico to
hypothecate her revenue** for the pay
ment of the claims
Rumors, apparently emanating from
representative sources, 1n circulation
at the State Department are that the
Mexican situation shall be allowed "to
rest” until after the return of the
President from his week-end trip to
Cornish, N. H.
Secretary Bryan was at the State
Department this morning. He sent
dispatches to the President, giving
him the developments of to-day. Very
few telegrams arrived from the Con
suls during the day.
Officials say there is no lmmedia
necessity of communicating wl\
Premier Gamboa, and least of aR
Envoy Lind. They assert that mA
Lind is by this time probably aware
of the desire of the President that all
that the President has said shall be
given time to be thoroughly digested
not only by Huerta, but by the rural
population of Mexico, who will heir
of the President’s message from the
Consuls throughout Mexico.
Riot Rumors Not Believed.
The State Department discounts as
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