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The Weather,
Forecast for Atlanta
and Georgia: Fair Sun
day and Monday.
VOL. I. NO. 22.
Copyright, 1913. by
The Georgian Company.
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ATLANTA, GA., SUNDAY, AUGUST 31, 1913.
ALL PLEDGES
Of 181210 BE
CARRIED OUT,
SAYS CLARK
Speaker Says GoodTariff Bill Will
Be on Statute BooksWithinTwo
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 promisees 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
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 aH human prob
ability, will be upon the statute books
before the middle of September,” he
declared "In my Judgment, it is a
good tariff bill. It is not precisely as
l would have written it if I had been
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 cont of living, more fairly
adjust taxation and at the same time
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 Junteit 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 :
“ ‘For time at last sets all thing*
even,
And if we do hut watch the hour,
There never yet waft human power
That could evade* if un forgiven.
The patient scorch and vigil long
Of him who treasures up a wrong*
"And the high protective tariff sys
tem, beginning with the first Morrill
bill 1n 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 the
Glass-Owen currency bill. It is
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 o^,pri-
vate persons. The latter can do a
great many things which a President,
of the United States ca not afTord
do.”
In terminating the enumeration cf
the important provisions of the bill,
the Speaker said:
"I have no disposition whatever to
lamp bankers off as dishones' 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 Satuiday night, an un
identified deaf and dumb negro boy
was run do^n 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. v
Considerable excitement was caus
ed by the accident. Dr. King told
the police that his automobile yas
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 auto came around
the corner 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. t 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
i'ver. 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:
‘Tinder please notify Asa M. Mat-
tlce, No. 50 Locust street, Lockport,
N. Y.”
Mattice, 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 Us
facts, the boy, when he heard what
his mother had done, 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*
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 Schumm, the well-kipown 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 more
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. I will have made a replica of
the final grand councils of the red
men and tne whites, in which 1 will
pose all w*ho are living, to show com
ing generations Just how the treaty
lias signed."
fit REPULSED,
I SHOT,
MaddtJx 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 self-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 $s
supposed, was robbery.
Maddox, who was rushed to Grady
Hospital, is desperately 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.
Georgia has fallen upon evil days.
Its old-time supremacy 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-
femlnizing 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 fewer 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
still* 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.
Miss Rambo Takes ‘Flyer’ in Coal
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Enters Trade to Help Old Soldiers
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.
Boy Badly Mangled
By Neighbor's Dog
Lamar Eberhardt’s Screams Bring
Assistance to Terrified Lad in
Nick of Time.
Blinders for X-Ray
Gown Oglers Urged
“The Man Who Stares, Not the
Dress, Is at Fault,” De
clares Pastor.
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-
France 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 young
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 Memphie Man With
in Few Hours.
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 w'earers of these
fantastic gowns as vulgar is an in
suit 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 garb. He
declares the proper censor of styles
would be "a prim and ancient maiden
with ringlets.”
No Babies Advocated
At Suffragist Meet
Lawyer Opposes Popujation 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
legard 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
T-
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 hope* 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, were
not fierious>
Accident Plunges Society Girl
From Athletics to That
of Business.
Miss Regina Rambo has entered
trade.
This Georgia girl, whose fame ex
tends from Rabun . Gap to Tybee
Light, as the political persons are
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
BRICE FIVE CENTS.
.. I
MEMPHIS, Aug. 30.—Late report,
received in Memphis from Mr. and
Mrs. H. C. Ellet, who are searching
Switzerland for Joseph Wllberforce
Martin, say they have discovered a
clew to his whereabouts and expect
to find him in a few hours.
Martin left Memphis last spring j
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. Dr. 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.
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.
Mis* Boardmafc 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 her skill.
McGraw’s Team Retreats Under
Brickbat Shower After Win
ning Game by Forfeit.
PHILADELPHIA, Aug. 30.—Man
ager John J. McGraw and his team
retreated from the “City of Brotherly
Love" to-night under a shower if
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 hootei
and jeered them and then pelted them
with debris of all sorts. 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.
Lady Constance Stirs
Ducal 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 Kincraig
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 Kincraig 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 profosaUaal daaoer.
*
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.
SUBJECT OF QUIZ
Republican Senators Say Govern
ment Has Created, Not Destroy
ed, Rail Monopoly in West.
WASHINGTON, Aug. 30.—It is re-
ported here that a group of the most
influential Republican Senators have
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 rase, while the
Administration is to take unusual
steps to block 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 being prac
tically a subsidy f. m the Govern
ment, they will be able to defeat com •
petition in all States on the Pacifl
Coast eastward to Chicago by the
simple expedient of cutting rates.
SCARED DEAD BY THUNDER.
SEABR1GHT, 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 which
swept the northern New Jersey coast
early to-day.
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 is 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 actiivty.
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 wheel 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
a* has ever appeared on an Atlanta
ballroom floor. Any society man in
Georgia will testify that the regard
has been worthily bestowed.
Star in Water Sports.
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.
State Department Proposes Inter*
national Commission to-Fix Loss
to American Property During
Rebellion's Three-Year Reign#
Huerta’s Plea to Foreigners t®
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,
WASHINGTON. Aug 3f0.—Mexico
will have to settle to the last cent,
millions of dollar* damage done t«
property owned bv Americans in tfw»
Southern republic when the reign of!
rebellion, begun three years ago. ends.
During the present lull in the nego
tiations between the United Stated)
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-
talned a loss of $500,000,000.
The international commission w1?f>
be charged with ascertaining
First, the original value of th*
property.
Second, its depreciation.
Third, what would have been its;
present value.
Assert Mexico Had Chance.
The same officials say that a faidi
international commission, in deter
mining a claim, would take thesd
three items at their full value fowl
the reason that Madero and Huerta
were given full opportunity to rnak*
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 id !
composed entirely of Mexican offi-j
ciala. Few claims have been settled,
and a settlement, except on a prom-!
lssory note, appears to be an impose,
slbility with the Huerta, government.
The commission which the Statwj
Department has 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 would give it powew
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 1
means is one that sometimes has to
be enforced—compelling Mexico ter
hypothecate her revenue* for the pay
ment of the claims.
Rumors, apparently emanating fron%<
representative sources, in circulation/
at the State Department are that the,
Mexican situation shall be allowed "to
rest" until after the return of th*i
President from his week-end trip t#
Cornish, N. H.
Secretary Brvan was at the Statd
Department this morning. He senC
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 immediate
necessity of communicating witli
Premier Gamboa, and least of all, I
Envoy Lind. They assert that Mr,
Lind is by this time probably award
of the desire of the President that all
that the President has said shall ber
given time to be thoroughly digested! 1
not only by Huerta, but by the rural'
population of Mexico, who win he**
of the President’s message from th$,
Consuls throughout Mexico.
Riot Rumors Not Believed.
The State Department discount* a#
Continued on Pago 2, ColiumtG, j
EDITION FOR
NORTH GEORGIA