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i-., aAyMMMMOaiO'i, 'nil 'i tidMWNWap.t!j**8 — n i«iKarirT~lwi— fi TUM '*A OrfOimiAN AND NEWS. 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 1ST 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. "Developer of Efficient Executives" Paid for Decisive Thoughts The efficient manager is the man who decides and directs. The man paid for decisive thoughts and 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. Take our rnllrgiatc courses in Commerce. Accounts, Finance ami Commercial I,aw. t’lass hours don’t conflict with your work or pleasure. Number of students limited. Your future life and hap piness moe lie in tlie balance. Decide right. Knroll note. Work be gins September 15th. Evening School of Commerce Georgia School of Technology J65 W. North Ave., Atlanta, Ga. Classes 6:15 to 8:15 Ivy 4775 Free booklet on request T ,==1 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. Oakville Prison Fire Laid to Incendiaries “My Own Be auty Secrets” - — By ANNA HELD The Most Instructive ■ L-1 and Highly Inter- esting Series of Its Kind Ever Pre sented to Beauty- Seeking Girls and wm ^ §h| Women, Superbly Illustrated by Spe- l dally Posed Photo- graphs. BEGINS ON THE WOMAN’S MAGAZINE PAGE TODAY It scotch urn W LASSIES sre ."*mrn I Ifi iuJ L laJ 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. T 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 1 Pound Size 10 cents jiSfgSg Package* 2)4 “ Size 25 CdltS AT YOUR GROCER . \t 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. *• V 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.