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TOT ATT A NT A GEORGIAN AND NEWS.
PROSPERITYFORSTATE
IS ASSURED B¥ COTTON;
CROP 6000. PRICES RICH
16 MORE SEPTEMBER
MORNS AT PIEDMONT
MISS FKANC ES SMITH.
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The sun Is shining prosperity all
over Georgia to-day.
The Government report, which ent
the price of cotton up $3.50 a hale,
shows that the crop in this Stale is in
much better condition that it was last
year, and that the harvest will yield
Georgia more than $5,000,000 more
than »n 1912.
Cotton in Georgia did not 4ietcrio-
rate even one-tenth of a point from
July 25 to August 25. according to th*
Census Bureau estimate of condition
North Carolina and South Carolina
gained 1 and 2 points, respectively.
Florida lost but 1 point in condition.
With these exception**, every Stat*
in the cotton belt recorded serious de
preciation in the condition of the
growing staple, the losses ranging
from 4 points for the relatively unim
portant area in California to 36 points
for Oklahoma. Texas, the greater
cotton State, is 17 points off. The
central belt shows insect ravages. In
the West is drouth
Mills Seeking New Crop.
Spot cotton rules now above 12
cents. The world's mills are supposed
to have used 750.000 more bales last
year than the world’s fields grew.
This must have reduced the cotton
left over from 1911. the banner 16,000,-
000-bale crop year, to almost nothing.
Those who are keenest In watching
the cotton trade already see signs that
the mills in America and abroad al
ready are In the market for the new |
crop. These are the arguments which I
point to sustained high prices for cot-
tort.
Georgia last year had a short cot to*, i
crop, while Texas produced an enor- !
moils yield. This year Texas hanks
are overflowing with money. Many |
of them are going through this au
tumn without borrowing from New
York, for the first time, they say. In
twenty years. Many of them, in fac •,
have loaned funds in New York at
this period of tight money.
That's what a big crop and high
prices do for a favored State. That is
what Georgia financiers look forward
to hopefully.
Crop Going to "Pay Out.”
What Georgia needed this year,
above all things, was a good crop at
fair prices. Obligations are hanging
over from the previous season. There
was tight money this year. This crop
has to "pay out.” Everyone realized
this, and the discouraging early spring
brought general gloom. All this now
is changed. Trade already reflects
the optimism horn of good crop pros
pects.
The crop never was grown with less
expense. Even 12-cent cotton will
show good profits, and Just now It
looks as If 13 and a fraction is a price
for middlings ivot beyond possibility.
STB OF
Homer Whitaker. 19, Sentenced
for Contempt of Court for Not
Paying Alimony.
For failure to pay alimony of $30
a month to his divorced wife. Homer
A. Whitaker, 19-year-old son of J
W. Whitaker, general yard master of
the Southern Railway, was sent to
the Tower for contempt of court by
Judge Ellis Wednesday. The young
man expressed regret that moving
picture shows and baseball games are
not provided for prisoners.
The sentence provides for his con
finement by the Sheriff until he
"purges himself of the charge against
him by the payment of $45," and also
provides that the oroiginal order pro
viding of the payment of $30 per
month alimony shall stand.
A divorce petition was filed against
Whitaker by his wife, Eula C. Whita
ker, April 18. and a decree granting
the divorce and alimony rendered
May 30. The original petition stated
the pair were married September 20.
3912, and that Whitaker had aban
doned his wife in April, and had re
fused to provide for her, though she
was ill.
Whitaker’s father. It was also al
leged, had remarked that he "would
pay any fine for contempt of court
for his son before he would allow the
alimony to he paid.”
Mrs. Whitaker charged that her
husband was capable of earning $100
per month. In a cross-bill, he alleged
that, as an extra switchman, he could
not earn more than $35.
Soon to Complete
McDaniel Sewer
Work on the connecting link of the
McDaniel street sewer will be com
menced immediately, the County Com
missioners deciding upon this Wednes
day. A contract for the use of a steam
shovel at a rent of 250 per month was
approved and every effort will be ex
erted to get the work under way as
quick as possible.
The sewer to be constructed will ex
tend for a distance of 3.000 feet Its
construction is a matter which has been
before the commission for some time
Apartment house owners in Atlanta
have united in an effort to stay the
enforcement of the smoke laws
against them.
Given eighteen months in which to
repair their furnaces so as to stop
the smoke nuisance, they now de
clare they are uncertain as to the.
proper course to pursue, and want a
conference with the smoke commis
sioners.
George Traylor called at Smoke In
spector Boole's office Wednesday and
explained that he came at the chair
man of a committee appointed at a
meeting of apartment house owners
who met in the office of Edward Du
rant Tuesday.
His request that they he given a
hearing at the meeting of the board
next Tuesday was granted
To Ask Another Year.
From Mr. Traylor’s statement, it
seems that the owners will urge that
they be given another year’s time be
fore the law making smoke a nuisance
is enforced against them.
Mr. Durant mid Wednesday the
apartment house owners wanted to do
what was best, hut they were uncer
tain just how to proceed, and their
conference with the smoke commis
sion would be In the spirit of co-oper
ation.
R. M Harwell, chairman of th
smokr* commission, declared Wednes
day he had anticipated Just such a
move and expected the commission to
turn deaf ears to the apartment house
owners.
Factories Have Complied.
“We have mad# the manufacturing
plants, office buildings and railroads
go to great expense to endeavor to
comply with this law.” he said. "Won
derful results have been accomplished
About 20 per cent of the apartment
house furnaces have been remodeled
. l! o as not to make excessive smoke.
The other 80 per cent has done noth
ing.
"Would it be fair to give them more
time?
Can Make Test of Law.
"We notified them last March that
they must not make over a certain
amount of smoke when their furnaces
were fired up this fall.
"Despite the fact that apartment
houses were among the greatest
sources of the smoke nuisance, injur
ing and discomfiting honien, we ex
cused them from shutting off their
heat during cold weather.
“I understand that ife we refus
them an extension of time they will
employ a lawyer and attack the con
stitutionallty of the smoke law.
"l think that will b# their only re
course. They have waited too long t<
protest against the course of fh
smoke commission.”
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inUM
Fair Bathers Hail With Delight the
Postponement of Lake Closing.
There are a lot of people in At
lanta w'ho were made happy by the
action of the Park Board in deciding
to keep Piedmont Lake open until
September 19, but none of them Is
•any happier than Miss Frances
Smith, one of the most popular girls
at home In the lake.
Miss Smith is one of the best girl
swimmers in Atlanta, and has been
familiar figure at the lake all sea
son. She was the first person to
dare the waters, and dived off the big
springboard into the chilly waters of
the lake within a few moments after
the lake was declared officially open,
and she says she Is going to be the
last person to leave the lake when
the powers that be shut it down on I ohabas. but
the 19th. I Piedmont.
Miss Smith has done a lot of un
usual things at Piedmont Lake. She
can swim faster and farther and
more gracefully than any of the hun
dreds of other young women w’ho are
devotees of the currents, and on La 1
bor Day she proceeded to break a
few more records. Incidentally she
proved to the satisfaction of every
body who saw* her that the water is
not too cold for bathing at this time
of year. She swam three miles with
out getlng out of the water, break
ing all records, and then came out of
the lake as fresh and as rosy as when
she went in.
Then she posed for a picture of
"September Morn!”
Not “September Morn” a la Paul
September Morn” a la
“Developer of Efficient Executives”
Paid for DecisiveThoughts
The efficient manager is
the man who decides and
directs. The man paid for
decisive thoughts a n d
plans—not for time and
details. He can have the
better comforts and pleas
ures in his home. You
want to be this man. You
can grow. Get the “de
cide” HABIT. Decide
now. Decide right.
Posse Searches for
Assailant of a Girl
WAYCROS8, Sept. 3.—A posse, led
by the (Minch County Sheriff, Is to
day searching the woods around Cut
ting, a small mill and turpentine town
west of Waycross, for an unidentified
white man who attacked an ll-year-
old girl of a prominent family.
The girl was returning home from
store, where she had been sent on
an errand by her mother.
Richmond Raises Tax
Rate to Pay Big Debt
AUGU8TA, Wept. 3 The tax rale for
Richmond County for the year 1913 has
been fixed at $6.70 per $1,000. Last year
It was $4.60.
The Increase is due to the fact that
ihe county Is In debt $140,000 and rather
than Issue bonds she will raise the rate
and liquidate the debt In four yearly
instalments of $35,000 each.
25 Killed When Old
Irish Tenements Fall
Take our collegiate oourneH in Commerce. Accounts. Finance and
Commercial Law. Class hours don’t conflict with your work or
pleasure. Number of students limited. Your future life and hap
piness moil he In the balance. Decide right. Enroll note. Work lie.
(tins September 15th.
Evening School of Commerce
Georgia School of Technology
J65 W. North Ave., Atlanta, Ga.
Lithonia in State Chamber,
LITHONIA, Sent. 3.—The Lithoniu
Hoard of Trade w ill join in the organ
ization of a State Chamber of Corn-
meres.
At a recent meeting the Board of
Trade voted to fend a representative
to the meeting to be held in Macon
September 16 and elected J. K. David
son delegate.
Classes 6:15 to 8:15
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TOMBSTONES OF ASTOR HOUSE.
NEW YORK, Sept, 3.—The granite
Mocks that have served as walls for
the old Astor House here will be sold
to a tombstone maker by the firm
engaged to raze the landmark.
Special Cable to The Atlanta Georgian
DUBLIN, Sept. 3.—The death toll in
the collapse of two antiquated tenant
houses In Church street last night,
when thirteen families were burled
probably will exceed twenty-five. Up to
noon to-day fifteen bodies had been re
covered. Of tlie thirty-five rescued, ten
were said to be futally injured.
There were pitiful scenes about the
disaster. While workmen dug through
the wreckage the faint cries of those
pinned beneath the debrl^ could be I
heard. 'J ne : • mi
Oakville Prison Fire
Laid to Incendiaries
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MEMPHIS, TliNN., Sept. S—That
three men set fire to the Oakville, Miss ,
prison, in which thirty-five negro pris
oners were supposed to have burned to I
death severul weeks ago, was asserted I
here to-day by Will Davis, a negro, who |
was arrested as an escaped convict from
Mississippi.
Davis said that he did not know how i
many of the negro prisoners escaped
from the burning penitentiary, He
Jumped when the fire ate uway ihe side j
wall near where he was lying.
U.S.BW1S SECRET
MODEST INTO
Federal Car Structure Reform Is
Expected to Result From the
New Haven Tragedy.
NEW HAVEN, CONN., Sept. 3.—
The United States Government to
day barred a secret probe of the
wreck of the Bar Harbor express on
the New York, New Haven and Hart
ford Railroad yesterday, when 21 were
killed and 50 injured, such as wa$
planned by Coroner Eli Mix and offi
cials of the road.
Inspector Benlap, of the Interstate
Commerce Commission, received a
dispatch from Washington ordering
him to see that no investigation is
held without a representative of the
commission being present.
Facts were brought out to show
that the New Haven Road, in order to
accommodate the rush of returning
vacationists, encouraged high speed
in spite of the fact that the Bar Har
bor express and the White Mountain
express were running over a division
whose system of signals had been
condemned twice.
Interstate Commerce Commissioner
McCord, who will investigate the ac
cident, will be on the ground before
the inquest begins to-morrow, but
the Government investigation will not
open until Friday.
Rail Reforms Are Probable.
Widespread results regarding rail
traffic may come from this wreck, as
the Government has demanded that
the Pullman Company furnish a
list of parlor and sleeping cars in
service, with the exact proportion of
wooden and steel coaches. A Federal
law may be passed making steel cars
compulsory.
But one body remains unidentified.
This is the corpse of a woman whose
meager identifying marks indicate her
Christian name was “Mary Jane,”
and her home in Hartford, Conn.
Engineer Miller, of the White
Mountain express, which rammed the
Bar Harbor express, and Flagman
Murray have been put in jail.
Inquiry Held in Secret.
After spending much time at the
scene of the wreck yesterday after
noon the Coroner continued his in
quest in the offices of the New Haven
road here in company with the rail
road officials and Chief Engineer El-
well of the Connecticut Public Util
ities Commission. No newspapermen
were permitted to hear the prelimin
ary testimony gathered from the rail
road men.
In direct contrast to the proceed
ings following the fatal wrecks at
Saugatuck and Stamford was this
Investigation. Each Connecticut
County Coroner is Judge of whether
the investigation of death shall be
secret or public. Coroner Mix ad
heres to the old custom of interrogat
ing his witnesses in secret.
Chief Inspector H. K. Belnap and
four field inspectors of the Interstate
Commerce Commission who arrived
during the night were surprised to
find that in direct disobedience of the
orders from Washington the New
Haven road had burned the chief part
of the wreckage at North Haven.
Debris Burned in Haste.
The debris, consisting largely of
the remains of the wooden coaches
and their furnishings, was gathered
together by the railroad wrecking
crews and consigned to the fire with
in a few hours after the accident oc
curred. _ . ,
Meanwhile the railroad officials,
Coroner and Engineer El well have
been hearing the stories of the rail
road men who are tentatively held
responsible for the disaster. Engineer
Miller and Flagman Murray. Accord
ing to their statement, the Bar Har
bor express had passed Into the block
past the banjo signals, which would
have, warned the White Mountain
express 3 miles back, had It been
set.
Sixty-Mile Speed Charged.
The Bar Harbor express stopped
Just outside the signal. but later
started again and calling in the flag
man, gave the succeeding train the
right of way over 3 miles of track,
which, under 60-mile headway, which
many passengers say was the speed
of the train, would have brought it
to the scene of the collision In Just
three minutes, not enough time to
permit the preceding train to get out
of the way.
Flagman Murray’s signals were un
doubtedly set, but they were abso-
lutely useless, according to the testi
mony. as the approaching train was
already bearing down upon him with
in the block, even as he set his tor
pedoes. The charge tentatively laid
against him is that he failed to set
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Bit IBS HIT IFFiASIK JURY COST
sira's
Naming New Atlanta Judge and
Fish and Game Commissioner
Are Most Important.
When Governor John M. Slaton gets
back to his desk early Friday morn
ing after a ten-day trip through the
West, where he attended the Gov
ernors’ Conference, he will be con
fronted by a calendar embracing
problems as important as any he has
tackled since he succeeded Governor
Joe Brown.
According to the schedule, the Gov
ernor will take up first the matter of
naming a superior judge for the new
court created for the Atlanta district
by the last Legislature. Scores of
applications have been filed and
delegations of Atlanta lawyers have
called on the Governor several times
to urge the appointment of an At
lanta attorney. Rumor had it at
first that Judge L. S. Roan, who pre
sided at the Frank trial, was to get
the plum.
Another matter of importance
which will be decided by the Gov
ernor within the next week or ten
days is the appointment of a suc
cessor to Fish and Game Commis
sioner Mercer. Those who are in
close touch with the situation say
the Governor has already determined
to give the plum to Charles Davis,
and has given notification of the
change to Mr. Mercer, who is in
Washington.
The Governor must also appoint
delegates to several State conven
tions which convene during the next
few months.
.Commissioners Estimate Total Ex
pense of Trial to Fulton County
at Nearly $5,000.
The jury in the trial of Leo M.
Frank cost Fulton Courtty $974.71 for
board and lodging alone.
Bills for this amount Were ap
proved by the county commissioners
Wednesday morning, there being two
accounts, one from the New Kimball
Hotel and the other from the Ger
man Cafe. Bills of the Kimball to-
(City Warden Seeks Home for
Young People, Who Are Edu
cated and Industrious.
City Warden Thomas Evans has iff
his care a wee Scotch lad and two
bonnie lassies fresh from the old
country, whom he wishes to place in
some good Atlanta families as house
servants. Their stories have touched
the Warden very much, experienced
as he is in aiding the bewildered and
the helpless, and he urges all who are
interested In giving these young peo
ple a good home and in getting some
good servants to confer with him at
once.
The young Scots are Mary, Mar
garet and David Logan, ages 21, 18
and 16 years, respectively. They were
all educated in the public schools of
Scotland, where the compulsory edu
cation laws are very strict, and came
to this country ten months ago from
Glascow.
Well-to-do Uncle Fails.
An uncle. W. M. Turnbull, of At
lanta. sent for them. At that time he
wa>< pretty well-to-do and he had
provided work for them to do on a
farm at Fair Oaks, Ala., near Mobile.
The uncle’s investments turned out
badly. The children were unaccus
tomed to farm work. From their in
experience they faced a real tragedy.
The uncle thought he could get
them work in Atlanta, so he brought
them to the Fulton Bag and Cotton
I Mill. There again they were con
fronted with hopelessness, for they
knew nothing about working in a mill
and were refused jobs. The uncle
was called out of town on business
and they have not heard from him
since.
Warden Evans was told of their
condition by a good woman who lives
out at the mill in a three-room cot
tage and has six in her family. De
spite the fact that only two of the six
are now at work she welcomed the
young people into her home, and that
made nine to live in the three dingy
little rooms.
AH Three Willing to Work.
A. Cruickshank, the cigar man,
knows the uncle of the young people.
and Mrs. .T. W. Payne, the Travel
ers’ Aid representative at the Termi
nal station, were requisitioned by
Warden Evans to help find them a
home, and Wednesday they are all at
work.
They are bright, healthy young
people, with true Scotch frankness
marked in their faces. The girls are
, „ ...or ro r j,| anxious to get housework to do. They
taled $685.56 for rooms and meals. arp exper i en ced in this. The boy is
and that of the German Gate «289.15 wll , lnK * to take the best he ran get.
for meals. j ^1] they ask is to stay in the same
I town, where they can see each other
off a coston signal, as it is claimed
was his duty in the fog that pre
vailed.
That Engineer Miller received
warning that he was closely follow
ing the Bar Harbor train at Meriden,
miles beyond the scene of the acci
dent, is the evidence of C. J. Dana-
her. a lawyer of that city, who yes
terday told of hearing the two trains
pass his home and hearing the White
Mountain express explode two tor
pedoes of warning.
The evidence of L. G. Morse, of
Chicago, a passenger on the Bar Har
bor express, is a severe arraignment
of the trainmen in charge of that
train. Mr. Morse says emphatically
that the brakes on the Bar Harbor
express were set at the time the
wreck occurred. Having been a
brakeman on the Boston and Maine
Railroad at one time, he lost no time
when the train stopped In getting off
to see what was the cause of the
stop.
LATENT
SUCTION
$5 GOME TO ME
I Examine Your Teeth Free!
Police Chief Loses
His ‘September Morn’,
WA Y0RO68, Sept. 3.—Chief of 1‘olloe
John W. Colley is on the warpath here
to-day,
This morning some one entered hla
office at the City Hall and stole his
recent gift, a copy of "September Mom."
and he has failed to locate the picture I
It was in an appropriate frame.
| point with pride to the
fact that hundred* of patient*
have been treated successful
ly and satisfactorily by
me since the opening of
my Atlanta office some
month* ago, amply demon-
crating that I do Dental
Work Painlessly and that my
service is strictly MODERN
and agreeable in every re
spect.
I want to thank the people
of Atlanta and vicinity for
their kind patronage so gen
erously extended to me and
I promise faithfully to give
the best Dental 9ervice for
the least money.
My prices are the lowest:
Set of Teeth $5
Gold Fillings $1 up
Platinum and Porcelain
Filling* . ,50c to $1
Gold Crown* and Bridge
Work $3, $4, $5
Teeth without Plates, $1 per
tooth.
Work guaranteed for 15
years.
Terms, Don’t worry; these
are arranged to suit.
Painless Extracting and
cleaning FREE, where
other work is being done.
Appointments can be made
by Phone 1298.
It was estimated by the commis
sioners that the total cost of the
case to the county will be between
$4,00 and $5,000.
A request that the commission pay
Newt Lee for the four months he was
held as a witness was filed with the
board by his attorneys, Graham and
Chappell. It was referred to the
County Attorney for an opinion.
Chairman Shelby Smith said he
though it was nothing but right that
the negro should be paid something;
that he had done the county a great
service. General Clifford L. Ander
son said he did not believe the board
had a legal right to make such a pay
ment. Commissioner Tull C. Waters
suggested that a payment of $75 or
$100 be authorized, and the matter
be gotten rid of at once.
FOUNDER OF TOWN DIES.
MACON, Sept. 3.—John W. Brad
ley, a prominent and wealthy middle
Georgia planter, who founded the
town of Bradleys, in Jones County,
died here yesterday afternoon from
appendicitis. He was 58 years of age.
Mr. Bradley retired several years ago
and has lived in Macon since.
occasionally.
King’s Chauffeur Driving.
Police investigating the acicdent
in which a boy on a bicycle was run
down by Dr. J. Chester King’s auto
mobile, have established the fact that
Tom Ridgeway, the physician's ne
gro chauffeur, was at the wheel. The
case against Goodwin will be tried
soon.
Woman Blind Tiger
Given 39 Days in Jail
MACON, Sept. 3.—Mrs. J. D. Nobles,
owner of a grocery store on the Co
lumbus road, has been convicted in the
City Court for violating the prohibition
law and sentenced to serve 39 days in
jail or pay a fine of $100. Deputies
found beer and whisky in the rear of
the store. A similar charge against Mr
Nobles will be heard later in the week.
Mrs. Nobles has been in jail 52 days,
owing to her inability to give bond,
which has been fixed at $2,500. She is
the second woman ever tried in the lo
cal courts for breaking the prohibi
tion law. She is not more than 35 years
of age.
CHORUS MAN FOUND DEAD.
NEW YORK, Sept. 3.—Russsll
Summerville, aged 22, a member of
the chorus of a musical show, was
found dead to-day in his apartments.
He was a son of Mrs. Amelia Sum
merville, the actress.
ESTRADA UNDER KNI FT:.
NEW ORLEANS. Sept. 3.—General
Juan Jose Estrada. President of
Nicaragua, was operated upon here
to-day for appendicitis. Physicians
declared the operation was successful
and that he was resting well.
Five different grades of Rice including “‘Domino”were placed
under the magnifying glass and photographed. No. I repre
sents T>omino while theothers represent various inferior grades.
DOMINO RICE
DR. WHITLAW, PAINLESS DENTIST
73 1*2 WHITEHALL STREET.
Opposite Vaudette Theater; Fourth Door South of J. M, High
Store. Open Daily, 8 a. m. to 8 p. m.; Sundays, 10 to 5.
Lady Attendant. Ladies' Rest Room. Phone 1298.
Is Sold Only
in Sanitary
Package*
1 Pound Size 10 cents
2% “ Size 25 cents,
AT YOUR GROCER
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