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PROSPERITY FOB STATE
16 MORE SEPTEMBER
MORNS AT PIEDMONT
MISS FRANCES SMI TH.
GOOD. PRICES HIGH I
The sun is shining prosperity all
over Georgia to-day.
The Government report, which sent
the price of cotton up $3.50 a hale,
ghovv.w that the crop In this State is in
much better condition that It wax las*
year, and that the harvest will yield
Georgia more than $5,000,000 more
than in 1912.
Cotton in Georgia did not deterio
rate even one-tenth of a point from
July 25 to August 25. according to th<
Cen> ;s 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. 1 ’, every Stat*
in the cotton belt rec orded serihus 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 greates 1
cotton State, is 17 points off. The
central belt shows insect ravages. Ir.
the West is drouth.
Mills Seeking New Crop.
Spot cotton rules now above 12
cents. The world's mills are supposed
to have u^d 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
crop.
:>f tfi.
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 price* for cot
ton.
Georgia last year had a xhort cottor.
while Texas produced an enor-
yield. This year Texas banks
verllowing with money. Many
tm are going through this au
tumn without borrowing from New
York, for the lirst time, they say, in
twenty years. Many of them, in fac*. i
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 [trices. 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 tills now
is changed. Trade already reflects
tlie optimism born of good crop pros
pects.
The crop never was grown with les^
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. I
IDY-H0SB1ID < I» YEAR'S STM BFi
JAIL, KB
IT
Homer Whitaker, 19, Sentenced
for Contempt of Court for Not
Paying Alimony.
For failure to pay alimony of $30
a month tA his divorced wife, Homer
A. Whitaker, 19-year-old son of J
W. Whitaker, general yardmaster 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 orolginal 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 IX, and a decree granting
the divorce and alimony rendered
May 30. The original petition stated
the pair were married September 20,
1912. and that Whitaker had aban
doned hi.- wife in April, and had re
fused to provide for her, though site
was ill.
Whitaker’s father, it was also al
leged had remarked that he “would
pay any tine for contempt of court
for his son before he would allow the
alimony t<• be paid.”
Mrs Whitaker charged that her
husband was capable of earning $100
pt-r 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
M<Daniel 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 s<r 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 Poole'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 he given another year’s time be
fore the law making smoke a nuisance
is enforced against them.
Mi. Durant Maid 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 the
smoko commission, declared Wednes
day he had anticipated just such a
move and expected the commission to
turn deaf ears to the apartment house
o\v ners.
Factories Have Complied.
“We nave made 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,
ut 20 per cent of the apartment
s have been remodeled
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 furnacea
were fired up this fall.
"Despite the fact that apartment
houses were among the greatest
sources of the* smoke nuisance, injur
ing ami discomfiting homes, we ex
cused them from shutting off their
heat during cold weather.
"I understand that ife we refuse
them an extension of time they will
employ a lawyer and attack the con
stitutionally of the smoke law.
"1 think that will be their only re
course. They have waited too long to
protest against the course of the
smoke commission.”
U.S.MRS SECRET
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A hi
house furnac
mo as not to
Federal Car Structure Reform Is
Expected to Result From the
New Haven Tragedy.
Fair Bathers Hail With Delight the
Postponement of Lake Closing.
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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 I>ake open until
September 19, but none of them is
any happier than Miss Frances
Smith, oi e 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 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 he shut it down on
the 19th.
Posse Searches for
Assailant of a Girl
WAYCROSS, Sept. 3. -A posse, led
by the Clinch 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 11-year-
old girl of a prominent family
The girl was returning home from
a store, where she had been sent on
an errand by her mother.
Richmond Raises Tax
Rate to Pay Big Debt
AUGUSTA, Sept. 3 —The tax rate for
Richmond County for the year 1913 has
been fixed at $5.70 per $1,000. I-isi year
it was $4.60.
The increase is due to the fact that
the county is in debt $140,000 and rather
than issue bonds she will raise the rafe
and liquidate the debt in four yearly
instalments of $35,000 each.
Miss Smith has done a lot of un
usual things at Piedmont Lake. She
can swim faster and farther and
mote 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 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 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 posed for a picture of
“September Morn!”
Not “September Morn” a la Paul
Chaims, but “September Morn” # a la
Piedmont.
25 Killed When Old
Irish Tenements Fall
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 buried,
probably will exceed twenty-five. Up to
noon to-day fifteen bodies had been re
covered of the ihirty-nve rescued, ten
were said to be fatally injured.
There were pitiful scenes about the
disaster. While workmen mig through
th<‘ wreckage the faint cries of those
pinned beneath the debris
heard
NEW HAVEN, CONN., Sept. 3.—
The United State/* 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 was
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 F’ederal
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 w r as “Mary Jane,”
and her home in Hartford, Conn.
Engineer Miller, of the White
Mountain express, W’hich 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-
I road men.
| In direct contrast to the proceed-
I ings following the fatal wrecks at
Saugatuck and Stamford was this
investigation. Each Connecticut
County Coroner is judge of w hether
the investigation of death shall be
secret or public. Coroner Mix ad-
j 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
crew’s 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-mlle headway, which
many passengers say was the speed
of the train, would have brought it
to tlie scene of the collision in just
three minutes, not enough time to
permit the preceding train to get ou‘
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 hLs tor
pedoes. ' The charge tentatively laid
against him is that he failed to set
could
'me ruins fill the street.
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Naming New Atlanta Judge and ; Commissioners Estimate Total Ex-
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 wno 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.
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
brakeman on the Boston and Maine
Railroad at one time, he lost no time
when the train stopped in getting off
to see w r hat was the cause of the
stop.
pense of Trial to Fulton County
at Nearly $5,000.
The jury in the trial of Leo M.
Frank cost Fulton County $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
taled $685.56 for rooms and meals,
and that of the German Cafe $289.15
for meals.
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 w’as 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
$1U0 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
tow’n 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.
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.
$5 COME TO ME
1 ExamineYourTeethFree!
Lithonia in State Chamber.
LITHON1A. Sept. 3.—The Lithonia
Board of Trade will join in the organ
ization of a State Chamber of Com
merce.
At a recent meeting the Board of
Trade voted to send a representative
to the meeting to be held in Macon
Stptemb* r 16 and elected J. K. David
son delegate.
TOMBSTONES OF ASTOR HOUSE.
NEW YORK. Sept. 3.—The granite
blocks that have served as walls for
the old As»tor House here will be sold
to a tombstone maker bv the firm
engaged to raze the landmark.
MEMPHIS. TENN., Sept. 3—That
three men set fire to the Oakville, Miss., I
prison, in which thjrty-five negro pris
oners were supposed to have burned to I
death several weeks ago, was asserted
here to-day by Will Davis, a negro, who
was arrested as an escaped convict from j
sissippi
Mis
Davis said that he did not know how ,
many of the negro prisoners escaped ,
from the burning penitentiary. He
jumped when the fire ate away the side
wall near where he was lying.
Police Chief Loses
His 'September Morn'
WAYCROSS. Sept. 3 —Chief of Police j
John W. Colley is on the warpath here I
to-day.
This morning some one entered his
office at the City Hall and stole his J
recent gift, a copy of "September Morn.” j
and he lias failed to locate the picture.
It was in an appropriate frame.
*
| point with pride to the
ffict that hundreds of patients
have been treated successful
ly and satisfactorily by
me since the opening of
my Atlanta office some
months a go. amply demon
strating 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 Service for
the ieast money.
My prices are the lowest:
Set of Teeth . $5
Gold Fillings $1 up
Platinum and Porcelain
Fillings 50c to $1
Gold Crowns 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.
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City Warden Seeks Home for
Young People, Who Are Edu
cated and Industrious.
City Warden Thomas Evans has in
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 cams
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
was 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
Mill. There again they were con
fronted with hopelessness, for they
knew nothing about working in a mill
I 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 -*!x
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.
He 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 Weunesday they are all at
work.
They are bright, healthy young
people, with true Scotch frankness
, marked in their faces. The girls are
j anxious to get housework to do. They
are experienced in this. The boy is
willing to take the best he can get.
I All they ask Is to stay in the same
j town, where they can see each other
I occasionally.
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,
Five different grades of Rice including "'Domino"were placed
under the magnifying glass and photographed. No. I repre
sents 'Domino while the others represent various inferior grades
DOMINO RICE
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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.
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CHORUS MAN FOUND DEAD.
NEW YORK, Sept. 3.—Russell
Summerville, aged 22, a member of
the chorus of a musical show, was
found dead to-day in his apartments.
He w’as a son of Mrs. Amelia Sum
merville, the actress.
ESTRADA UNDER KNIFE.
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.