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VOL. XII. NO. 27.
ATLANTA, OA., WEDNESDAY, SEPTEMBER 3, 1913.
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CRACKERS CONFIDENTOF 2d VICTORY
250 CHILDREN NEED MONEY FOR BOOKS
16 MORE SEPTEMBER
MORNS AT PIEDMONT
MISS PRANCES SMITH.
Your Mite Will Make Some De-'
serving Youngster Yearning for
an Education Happy.
Even going' to public school is de-
ied you if you are very poor—as poor
s the families of a certain 250 At-
mta children. About that many boys
rid girls there are in the city who
ill be unable to enter school when
Ie term begins next Monday. There
' no money at home to buy books and
te necessary clothes.
And that the children may have the
pportunity they desire and the
fiance for the education they covet a
ind is being raised in Atlanta to pay
ie necessary expenses. The appeal
ir contributions was first made by
ie Associated Charities, and extend-
i to every person In Atlanta.
The need of each chil/3 is small,
itifully small, judged by the general
andards. And yet the dollar or the
,ck of it will hiean education or
noranco for most of the 250.
You who read this would smile,
ouldn’t you, at the thought of the
;ry weighty financial transaction
lat spending a dollar involves.
May Be Their Only Chance.
But there are voys and girls who
i-day are crying out their hearts be-
tuse another day nearer the school
•rm has come and they see no chance
. enter.
Most of the children, according to
ie figures of the Associated Charl
es. are of the age between babyhood
ad that doubtful maturity whos<f
ears permit them to work In the
dlls. This year only their age keeps
lem at home, and to many, then
lis is the, one opportunity for even a
nattering of learning, for the bare
iree ''R's.”
And because they lack the little
mount, for books and clothes, they
iust stay at . home, facing the pros
ect of illiteracy.
There must be money for books,
lothes are necessary, too. And to
lat end the Associated Charities has
sked for contributions, both of cash
nd of clothes.
Fund Already Started.
The Georgian and Sunday Ameri-
m, with a contribution of $50, has
eaded the list of donations, and will
■ceive cash contributions from other
rurces. All money received will be
ent immediately to the office of the
ssociation.
Gifts of clothes for the poor school
hldren should be sent to the office of
ie Associated Charities, in the Gould
uilding on Decatur street, between
eachtree and Pryor streets.
The school term begins Monday,
nd the appeal that has gone out
pars the request that donations of
loney or clothes be made lmmedlate-
- as the time grows short, and there
re many children to care for.
It is estimated that no child will
eed more than $10 for books and
othing together. Many will need no
.ore than $1.
Sum Needed Is Trivial.
just a little sum the price of a
aseball game or two. a box of candy,
theater ticket. But to 250 children
means the chance of an education,
robably to some it is the only chance
The children who feel thus the
inch of poverty are eager to attend
chool, according t!o Joseph Logan,
•cretary of the Associated Charitie3.
None of your indifferent laggards
re they, but children of spirit who
■ill make the most of their oppor-
mitles, and who will learn, even if
ils be their only year at school,
nough of reading, writing and arith-
lelic to givd them a glimmer of the
ossibilities of education and of de-
elopment that lie beyond. So much
ie appeal promises, that the Asso-
iated Charities has sent out to ail
Now and then comes a real opportunity for doing good—an
opportunity so big and so broad that even the worst of us re
gard it a privilege to join in and help.
Just such an opportunity is offered Atlantans by the plea
from the Associated Charities for a fund to buy school books
for 250 little children of the poor.
Could there be a stronger appeal than is furnished by these
bright-eyed, ambitious young Anglo-Saxons whose thirst for an
education even extreme poverty threatens to destroy?
Could you invest five dollars or ten dollars better than in a
contribution to this fund? Not if you had waited for years.
The Georgian has headed the list with a check for $50. It
will be only a day or two before the sum needed is raised.
Join quick with your contribution before you lose the best
chance of the year to show that you are a good citizen and one
worth having in such a city as Atlanta.
FOR STATE
SECRET
Electrically Grown
Peaches and Onions
Form Prize Exhibit
LIBERTYVILLE, ILL*., Sept. 3.—
Raising vegetables, grains and fruits by
electricity is the latest in scientific
farming.
The “electric method” is being used
by Samuel Insull, president"of the Com
monwealth Edison Company, on his
farm near Libertyville. Today those
who visited the Lake County Fair at
Libertyville saw Mr. Insuil’s “electric”
fruits, vegetables and grains.
“Any one who knows anything about
electricity knows that it is a ’great fer
tilizer.” .said Mr. Miller, who is in
charge of the exhibit. “In the early
spring when one wishes to force onions
and radishes, the current is applied
more frequently and one can almost see
things grow'.”
New Haven Death Toll Twenty- Crop Report Assures $5,000,000
one, Thirty-five Hurt—Sig- More Than 1911 Receipts for-
nal System Scored. Georgia.
Tight Shoes Keep
Apollo From Navy
SPRINGFIELD, MO., Sept. 3.—Be
cause he had pinchted his feet Into
shoes several sizes too small, thus
contracting “hammer toes,” Frank
Eversley. a well-built young man, was
turned away from the LTnited States
Naval Recruiting Station.
The applicant was in practically
every respect the nearest perfect
specimen of physical manhood who
has ever applied at the recruiting sta
tion, but his ambitipn for a dainty
foot has ruined his chances for naval
service.
Oath Bars Chicagoan
From State St.; Can’t
Remain Sober There
1 CHICAGO, Sept. 3.—Hereafter when 1
j Robert H. Court goes shopping in a
State street department store he must
! carefully skirt the lake shore and slip
| in through an entrance on Wabash
, avenue or on one of the cross streets
in the loop.
Once inside he may gaze longingly
dow-n on State, street from a window,
but closer than that Court may not go I
on pain of breaking a lifelong oath!
which he took municipal Judge Sa- j
bath’s court.
Mrs. Court told Judge Sabath that
her husband followed the straight and ,
narrow* patch except when he got on
State street. His State street itinerary,
she said, vigzagged from one saloon door
to another. Wrereupon Court arose, ad
mitted the charge, raised bis right hand
on high and solemnly took oath that
as long as he lived he would never
walk, ride or set foot on State street,
nor cross it.
Watermelon Sent By
Mail in Pennsylvania
POTTSVILLE, PA., Sept. 3—A big
watermelon, weighing twenty pounds,
the exact limit of the new* parcel
post regulations effective to-day, was
sent through the local delivery.
It was consigned to the Pottsville
letter carriers by a local merchant,
and soon ceased to exist after it
reached the postoffice.
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To -morrow
NEW HAVEN, CONN., Sept. 3.—
With a total of 21 dead, four of them
unidentified, fifteen injured in hos
pitals here, and a score of others
being treated elsewhere, investiga
tions were begun to-day of the wreck
on the New Haven Railroad above
North Haven yesterday, when the
White Mountain express crashed in
to the second section of the Bar Har
bor express.
Engineer Augustus B. Miller, of the
White Mountain express, .and Flag
man Charles Henry Murray, of 1
Springfield, are locked up without
bonds by orders of Coroner Eli Mix,
who is holding a secret inquest.
Inquest Held in Secret.
After spending much time at the*!
sceno of the wwk yesterday after
noon the Coroner continued his in- j
quest in the offices of the New Haven
road here in company with the rail- j
road officials'and Chief Engineer El- J
well of the Connecticut Public Util- 1
ities Commission. No newspapermen 1
were permitted to hear the prelimin- :
ary testimony gathered from the rail- ^
road men.
In direct contrast to the proceed-
lngs following the fatal wrecks at j
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.
Road Disobeys the U. S.
Strong pressure was brought to
bear on him to-day to admit the pub
lic through the newspapers to his in
quest in order that the full and un
biased facts concerning this, the
worst wreck in the long history of
disasters on the New Haven road,
might be given to the people. It was
rumored this morning that State's
Attorney Arnon A. Ailing, to whom
Coroner Mix makes his report, might
order a public investigation.
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 furnishjngs, was gathered
together by the railroad wrecking
crews and consigned to the fire with
in a few hours after the accident oc
curred.
Interstate Commerce Commissioner
McChord, it was learned from the
inspectors, would arrive some time
to-day and pending his arrival no
comment was made by the inspectors
on the action of the road in burning
the wreckage.
In the belief of those who have
gleaned from the stories of pas
sengers and trainmen something of
the facts concerning the cause of the
frightful collision, the entire ques
tion of responsibility will hinge upon
the running of fast through trains
over the division between New Ha
ven and Hartford, equipped with a
signal system condemned months
ago as faulty and ordered r.^laced,
under headway of a few minutes, in- #
sufficient to permit of absolute safety,
especially in thick fog such as pre
vailed yesterday morning.
Rumors that, in order to accommo
date the heavy passenger traffic due
to the thousands returning from the
New England summer resorts, the
New Haven road had been running
Continued on Page 2. Column 5.
The sun is shining prosperity all
over Georgia to-day.
The Government report, which sent
the price of cotton up $3 50 a bale,
shows that the crop in this State is in
as good condition as it was last year,
and that the harvest will yield Geor
gia more than $5,(100,000 more than in
1912.
Cotton in Georgia did not deterior
ate even one-tenth of a point from
July 25 to August 25. according to the
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 exceptions, every State
in the cotton belt recorded serious de
preciation in the condition of the
growing staple, the losses ranging
from 4 points for the relatively linlm.
portant area in California to 36 points
for Oklahoma. Texas, the greatest
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 hve used 750,000 more bales last
year than the world’s fields grew, j
This must have reduced the cotton
left over from 1911, the banner 16.000,-
OOft-bale crop year, to almost nothing.
Those who are keenest in watching
the cotton trade already ec signs that
the mills in America and abroad al
ready are in the market for the new
crop. These are the arguments which
point to sustained high prices for cot
ton.
Georgia last year had a short cottor.
crop, while Texas produced an enor
mous yield. This year Texas banks
are overflowing with money. Many
of them are going through this au
tumn without borrowing from New
York, for the first time, they say, ir.
twenty years. Many of them, in fact,
have loaned funds in New York at
this period of tight money.
That’s what a big crop and high
pric es do for a favored State. That is
what Georgia financiers look forward
to hopefully.
Crop Going to “Pay Out.”
What Georgia needed title year,
above all things, was a good crop at
fair prices. Obligations are hanging
over from the previous season. There
was tight money thi.^ year. This crop
has to “pay out.” Every one realized
this, and the discouraging early spring
brought general gloom. All this now
is changed. Trade already reflects
the optimism born 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 not beyond possibility.
Sells Land: Oil Found
On It; Kills Himself
PUEBLO. Sept. 3.—WJIJiam Chip-
holm, a Choctow . Indian, of Tisho
mingo, Okla., killed himself after re
ceipt of a letter informing him that
a tract of land which he sold for a
small sum recently changed hands
for $3,000,000 as the result of the dis
covery of oil.
Chisholm was a graduate of Has
kell and a -former football player of
that school.
THE WEATHER.
Forecast for Atlanta and
Geoi-gia—Fair Wednesday and
Thursday.
Fair Bathers Hail With Delight the
Postponement of Lake Closing.
There are a lot of people in At
lanta who were made happy by the
action of the Park Board in deciding
to keep Piedmont lAike open until
September 19, but none of them is
any happied than Miss Frances
Smith, ore of the most popular girls
at home in the lake.
Miss Smith is one of the best girl
swimmers in Atlanta, and has been
a 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 :i few moments after
the lake wash declared officially open,
and she says she is going t,o be the
last person to leave the lake when
the powers that be shut it down in
the 19th.
Miss Smith lias 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 who are
devotees of the currents, and on La
bor Day she proceeded to break a
few more records. Incidentally she
proved to th** satisfaction of every
body who saw her that the water is
not too cold for bathing at this time
of the year. She swam 3 miles with
out geting 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 pused for a picture of
‘‘September M«irn!’'
Not. September Morn a la Paul
Chapas, but “September Morn” a lu
Piedmont.
Evelyn Thaw Offered Rich Chinese Slain
$10,000 by Canadians
SHERBROOKE. QUEBEC, Sept. 3.
Evelyn Xesbit Thaw la wanted as the
fctar feature at the Eastern Town
ships Agricultural Fair.
The Fair Association, eager to
overflow the town with Canadians,
has offered Thaw’s w i£e $10,000
through her New York manager for
a six days’ appearance in her vaude
ville act. As yet, no word has come
from her.
In Shop in Chicago
CHICAGO, Sep. 3.—Mystery sur
rounds the murder of Tom Low, one
of the wealthiest Chicago Chinese,
who wag found slain in his shop in
the heart of the city’s new “China
town” to-day. The cash register
which was known to have contained
several hundred dollars in cash was
robbed.
The police were working on the
theory that Low was killed by a
member of a rival Chinese tong.
Colonel Mique-Finn Is Likely to
Pin His Faltering Hopes on
Heinie Berger.
THE LINE-UP TO-DAY.
Mobile. Atlanta.
Stock, ss Agler, lb
Starr. 2b Don*! If!
O’Dell. 3b Welchonce, of.
Puulet, lb Smith, 2b.
Robertson, of. .. .. Bisland s.-.
Schmidt, c Holland 3b.
Ulark, If Nixon, rf.
Miller, rf ,.. Chapman, e
Berger or Hogg, p Dent, p.
Umpires—Rudderham and Pfen-
nlnger.
Ey 0. B. KEELER.
The old "jump game” in packed
away where the smoke and dust of
battle \yill not tarnish—w’here the
Gull.* can’t break through and steal.
And now Bill Smith and the Cracker-,
their vibrating nerves set and tuned
by victory, confront with confidence
the staggering prospect of having to
win three more games from Mike
Finn and the Mobile Gulls.
It’s a huge job, still. But not near
ly much of a Job as the Towm Boy*
faced yesterday at this time.
True to the principles of Erin.
Mique led trumps. He shot “Pug'
Cavet at the Crackers, and Pug. with
one eye In a sling, did his best to
ruin us.
His best w r asn’t as good ae Gil
Price. Th’at was all.
Hogg May Get Chance.
To-day an assortment of choice*
confronts the genial Mr. Finn. Heine
Berger and Wilbur Robertson are the
logical pitching entries, both being
fresh, after a good rest.
But it will be Just like Friend Finn
to skin over his cards again and flr*-
Mr. Hogg at us.
in fact, it’s just about up to Mr.
Finn to keep leading trumps. Ev
ery game the Crackers win takes
a great wad of confidence from* the
Gulls and turns it over to the Crack
ers.
If this series ever should get it
self boiled down to the last game,
w’ith the Crackers winning the firs*
three, Mr. Finn's robust back w'ould
be so close to the wall that a knit
ting needle couldn't be driven behin ?
him with a sledge hammer.
And nobody knows that better than
this same Mr. Firm.
So Mr. Finn is going to trim us to
day, if he can, just as he would have
trimmed us yesterday, if he could.
And if Mr. Finn doesn’t get us to
day there’s a mighty hunch in Un
making that Mr. Finn isn’t going to
trim us at all.
Up to Dent To-day.
The Crackers have given Mr. Ca
vet and his single sinister optic th
once-over. And they do not fear
him now.
For the rest of the series Bill
Smith has decided to w*ork Dent to
day, with Joe Conzelman always n>
the warming pan. To-morrow* it will
be Carl Thompson, with Slim Lov
and Conzelman both in reserve an L
ready any moment.
And If it comes to the final show
down, on Friday, Gilbert Price, of
the good left arm and the stalwari
soul, will carry the money in the
most important game ever played in
Dixie.
But that, of course, is all condi
tional—
You know the conditions
FOUNDER OF TOWN DIES
MACON, Sept. 3.—John W. Brad
ley, a prominent and wealthy middle
Georgia planter, who founded th*
town of Bradleys, in Jones Count',
died here yesterday afternoon fro in
appendicitis. He was 58 years of ag*
Mr. Bradley retired several years ago
and has lived in Macon sun t*