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VOL. XII. NO. 29.
ATLANTA, GA., SATURDAY, SEPTEMBER 5,1913.
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THAW SHREWDLY STAVES DEFEAT
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orts of 500 Dead in Storm Off Pamlico Sound Unfounded
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Damage Along Carolina Coast
Exaggerated, Say Reports to
Government From Lifesavers.
RALEIGH, Sept. 6.—The reported
loss of 500 lives by hurricane on Ocra
coke Island, on the ea9t of Pamlico
Sound, off the North Carolina coast,
just south of Cape Hatteras, is not
substantiated, according to telegrams
received here from Washington.
The wireless station at Cape Hat
teras reported to the Washington
wireless station this morning that it
had been In communication with the
Ocracoke life-saving station and the
life savers declared the reported loss
was unfounded.
They had assisted a number of dis
abled seamen caught in small boats
when the storm hit the island, but
beyond this and small property dam
age there was no cause for alarm.
The news to-day was so eneourag
ing that Governor Craig did not con
sider it necessary to start relief ex
peditions to Ooracoke or the coasl
towns or take other precautionary
measures. He notified the American
Red Cross that relief was unneces
sary at this time.
The local weather bureau to-day
received weather reports from Hat
teras station for the first time since
Tuesday.
The storm raged all along the
coast from Wilmington to Hatteras,
and first reports were that seamen
feared the 800 inhabitants of Ocra-
coke had been drowned by a tide',
wave. Because the island was com
pletely isolated, except for wireless
communication, it was at first diffi
cult to get news. It was only to
day that the Hatteras wireless sta
tion succeeded in communicating
with the life-savers on Ocracoke.
Telegrams received here to-day
from Newbern declare that the dam
age to towns op the coast side of the
sound was not as great as at first r°-
ported.
The communication between Ra
leigh %nd Newbern was by way of
Richmond. It is said that the dam
age there is not more than *150,000.
Sawmills are reported as the worst
sufferers.
Ocracoke Island contains a popu
lation of 800 persons, all fishermen
and their families, but only 500 were
at first thought to have been lost.
There is not a street in the colony,
and persons “going from one place to
another are compelled to climb
“enceB. The houses are built on piles
and even the graveyards are erected
on stilts. Between the Atlantic and
Pamlico Sound, Ocracoke Island is
the most exposed place on the At-
antic Ocean.
Telegraphic communication has
been restored to all important coast
towns except Beaufort and More head
City, to the south of Newbern. and
Washing toil, near the mouth of Pam
lico River. ■
Three persons were reported dead
at Washington. Two railroad bridges,
one a mile long, of the Norfolk South
ern line, were swept away. Docks,
warehouses, residences and public
buildings were destroyed, and water
waist deep flowed through the streets.
The streets of Newbern were cov-
red to a depth of several feet and a
number of small vessels were sunk,
bridges destroyed and lumber mills
oadly damaged.
Atlantan Tells of Storm.
.v vivid description o. the great
storm in North Carolina was givch
Friday by an Atlantan, Charles High
tower, representative of the Empire
Glass Company, who was in the af
fected district when the storm start
ed. Mr. Hightower said a 60-mile
gale wrought havoc in Oriental cn
Tuesday, raising the tide twelve fee:
and flooding the little city with a
four-foot sheet of water. Death was
dealt to cattle and chickens and de
struction to business houses and res
idences. Scores of lives were Im
periled, but Mr, Hightower heard of
no human fatalities
Democrats Agree
On New Rates of
Income Taxation
WASHINGTON, Sept. 5.
After a long debate in caucus
the Democrats agreed to the
following rates for the income
tax:
Incomes from $2,000 to $20,-
000, 1 per cent.
From $20,000 to $50,000, 2
per cent.
From $50,000 to $75,000, 3
per cent,
From $75,000 to $100,000, 4
per cent.
From $100,000 to $250,000, 5
per cent.
From $250,000 to $500,000, 6
per cent.
In excess of $500,000, 7 per
cent.
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BOY, 4, 'TAKES CHARGE'
OF TRAFFIC AT 5 POINTS
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! Duval Commissioner Fights Trac
tion Franchise—Says Company
Is Bluffing Board.
All of Cohan Party,
Hurt in Auto Crash,
Now Out of Danger
HARTFORD, CONN., Sept. 5.—At
the Hartford Hospital this morning
it was said that none of the party
accompanying George M. Cohan, the
comedian, thrown out of Wallace Ed-
dinger’s auto by a collision with a
garbage wagon on the Berlin turn
pike last night, was in a serious con
dition.
Cohan, who has a dislocated shoul
der. was also suffering from a bruised
forehead and chin. His daughter,
Georgia, who remained in a comatose
state following her removal to the
hospital, recovered consciousness ear
ly this morning and was pronounced
out or danger.
Mr. Eddinger and Francis Xavier
Hope, the other members 'of the par
ty, and the chauffeur, William Van
Buren, were not seriously hurt.
Mayor James G. Woodward’s
attack on the new charter and the
city officials who are supporting it at
Little Nathon
Blustin, the
youngest
‘ 1 cop ’ ’ on the
force. He
helped run
traffic at
Five Points
for fifteen
minutes.
MORIS
JACKSONVILLE, Sept. 6.—Com
missioner William Burbridge at a
meeting to-day of the County Board
declared that if the Jacksonville
Traction Company was trying to force
compliance with Its demand from the
board as tlie price of street car exten
sions In the county, the company
might pull up all its tracks in both
city and county before he would vote
to give the road a franchise.
“We are given to understand by the
company that if we will be good we I
will get street car extensions on Lem
on street and Main street. I’ll never j
vote for a franchise if the Jackson
ville Traction Company is going to
bluff us, nor for any other corpora
tion that tries it.
“They can take up their tracks if
they want to and I’ll walk. It would
be a very serious mistake for our
board to' give the Jacksonville Trac
tion Company a franchise on its own
term^. They seem to think they car
get anything they want, but I don'*
j think they can ger a franchise at .alk
They don’t want to do anything.”
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Gridiron Hero Coy
Explains Elopement
Durham Wages War
On Money Lenders
DURHAM, Sept. 6.—City Attorney
Charles S. Scarlett has begun a cam
paign against money lenders. Many
offices have been doing an extensive
business here.
Mr. Scarlett has given the money
lenders until October 1 to clear out
Should they not give up their offices
by that time he will swear out war
rants for them. Evidence is being
gathered which is thought to be
enough to convict them of usury.
Working negroes appear to be the
chief plaintiffs. Mr. Scarlett states
that he hopes to be able to get the
pawnbrokers in the campaign that
has been started.
-Prominent Gadsden
Man Badly Whipped
GADSDEN, Sept. 5.—Horace L.
Gw in. ~rand outer guard of the
Knights of Pythian of Alabama and
secretary and treasurer of the South
ern Manufacturing Company of th!e
city, is in a precarious condition as i
result of an assault made upon him
by J. A. Avant, a bookkeeper in his
office.
Gwin was struck over the face with
a paperweight, knocked down end
beaten in the head and face. Part
of his nose is gone.
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NEW YORK, Sept. 5.—Mr. and Mrs j
Edward H. Coy. whose elopement at
j Asheville, N. C.. surprised Southern
I society and college friends of the
bridegroom, ' ne of the greatest full- j
backs Yale ever had, dropped into I
! town yesterday ane registered at the ;
j Plaza
“It wasn’t exactly an elopement,”
said the gridiron hero, “although m>
wife’s parents didn’t know she waf |
to be married at this time. I met !
her when I was m; J ing a Glee Club
trip through the South, so it isn’t one
of those football romances the papers
I have tried to make it.”
Accused of Theft
Of $220 of Eggs
ASHEVILLE, Sept. 5.—In the ar
rest of Henry Jackson Turner, the
local police claim to have captured
the champion pilferer of eggs of the
United States.
With eggs dodging around the 40
I cents per dozen mark, Turner is said
to have claimed as his own already
this week $220 worth of the poultry
product. He has been working for
u wholesale produce house, and the
police say has taken eggs in raise
lots and sold them to small mer
chants in the city.
Raid Many Stills in
Dark Corner Section
GREENVILLE, S. C„ Sept. 5.—In
ternal revenue raider*? within
the past few weeks destroyed 50 il
licit stills in the mountain section
near this city, captured sixteen moon
shiners and destroyed many thou
sands of gallons of beer, their activi
ty having been iargely confined to
that section known as the Dark Cor
ner.
Recent orders from the new In
ternal Revenue Collector, William
H. Osborne, are largely responsible
for the activity of the raiding force.
Water System at
Anniston Extended
ANNISTON, Sept. 5.—Ten-inch
mains are being extended by the An
niston Water Supply Company .to
Blue Mountain City, the model mill
j town north of here, and to the plant
of the Lynchburg Foundry Company,
, at a cost of several thousand dollars.
This in keeping with the policy
announced by the syndicate which re-
I cently took over the plants at Annis-
! ton, Decatur, Ala., and Columbus, Ga.
J. B. Weakly, of Birmingham, is at
the head of the new company.
CHILD DIES OF BURNS.
EUFAULA, Sept. 5.—Margaret
McAJlister, 4-year-old daughter of
Mr. and Mrs. Lee McAllister, of Fort
Gaines, near here, died to-day of
burns received two weeks ago while
she and other children of the family
were playing with matches.
Injured Mill Owner
Known in Anniston
ANNISTON, Sept. 5.—Horace
Gwin, head of the Southern Manu
facturing Company at Gadsden, who
was hit on the head and probably
fatally injured with a paper weight
j by A. J. Avant, a bookkeeper in his
! employ, yesterday afternoon, is a |
nephew of Thad M. Gwin, a promi- j
nent Anniston merchant.
He was reared here. He Is grand
.Jpiner guard of Alabama Knights of.
Pythias. «
the meeting of the South Side Im
provement Association, in the Pryor
Street School Thursday night, has
resulted in a movement to get up a
bigger meeting to hear a second
speech and put more ginger in the
election fight.
The fact that there were less than
100 person*, present caused Mayor
Woodward to declare that the crowd
was not big enough for him to go
fully Into Atlanta’s political situation,
but if they would get up a real meet
ing he would give them some “red-
hot” stuff.
Leaders in the organization have
taken him at his .vord, and in an
ticipation of a stirring campaign be
tween now and the election on the
new charter on September 24, are
planning to give Mayor Woodward
an opportunity to spread himself.
Charges “Ring” Runs Boards.
Judging by his attack* Thursday
night, which were so hot that Dr.
J. G. Bradfleld, chairman of the meet
ing, left during the talk and later
resigned his chairmanship, the nexr
speech is expected to be a “hum
dinger.” He amplified some of his
statements in an interview Friday
morning, and here are the ideas he
wants impressed:
"That a ‘ring' Is in control of all
the boards of the city.
“1 don’t care anything about Dr.
Bradfield’s gratuitous insults after I
had loft the meeting. Tf he and all
of his kind should resign all their
official positions, the city probably
would be better off.
“That the object of the new char
ter is to perpetuate his ‘ring’ of
bossism.
"It abolishes the Police Commis
sion and creates a Board of Public
Safety. Under the present charter the
chairman of the Police Commission
is prevented from succeeding himse.f
on the commission the expiration
of his term next March.
Charter Framei by “Gang.”
“The adoption of the new charter
would mean that the fire department
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Aspired To He Crossing Guardian, and Was, Till
Frantic Mother Located Him.
COATICOOK QUEBEC, Sept.
5.—At 3:40 o’clock the board of
inquiry announced Its decision.
Its order is that Harry K. Thaw
should be deported on two counts.
First, that of entering the coun
try by stealth; second, that he is
undesirable because he was an in
mate of an asylum withm five
years.
Almost at the same minute
Thaw's attorneys in Montreal got
a new habeas corpus write re
quiring his presence before Jus
tice Gerveas, of the Superior
Court.
Thaw's attorneys at once filed
a notice of appeal, to which they
are entitled, and this acted as a
stay even without the issuance of
the new writ of habeas corpus.
COATICOOK, QUE., Sept. 5.—At
noon to-day the board of inquiry of
the Department of Immigration,
which has been considering the de
portation of Harry K. Thaw, ad
journed permanently with the an
nouncement that the finding would be
made public at 4 o’clock.
Immediately before adjournment,
Deputy Attorney General Franklin
Kennedy of New' York State identi
fied Thaw' as “the man who had been
incarcerated in the Matteawan, N. Y..
Asylum for the Criminal Insane since
his acquittal of the murder of Stan
ford White.”
All indications were that Thaw
would be ordered deported forthwith.
Even Thaw' himself believed this.
The sensation of the day was the
arrest of ex-District Attorney Wil
liam Travers Jerome, of New York,
on a charge of gambling. Jerome
spent several hours In the cell for
merly occupied by Thaw. If convicted,
he can be sent to jail for a year.
May Jump His Bond.
Attorneys Charles D. White and W.
L. Shurtleff, of the Thaw counsel, as
sured Mr. Jerome that they had
nothing to do with his arrest, and
guaranteed to defend him free of
charge.
Jerome said if Thaw was deported
this evening, he would follow him into
the United States, even if it did vio
late his bail bond.
Jerome will be arraigned for a hear
ing to-morrow morning at 9 o'clock
It was the Irony of fate that Je
rome was placed in the same cell th ii
Thaw had occupied.
.Crown Prosecutor Hanson object
ed to bail and wanted Jerome he'd
in Jail, but he was overruled by Mag
istrate McKee.
The warrant for Jerome’s arre-t
was based on an incident which hap
pened yesterday. While Jerome an. *
his detectives were seated in a tout
ing car outside of the immigration o'-
flee awaiting the result of the Thaw
deportation hearing, the former New
York District Attorney began to while
away the tedious time with a game ot
“penny ante.” Jerome lost nearly .»D
cents.
Wllford Aldridge, a local business
man, swore to the affidavit that Je
rome gambled. The warrant was is
sued and given to Constable John An
drews, who handed the warrant to
I Jerome this morning ju&t after he had
eaten breakfast.
Taken to Same Jail as Thaw.
| “What's this?” said Jerome, taking
I the paper. He read it. Then he
! laughed.
“All right, officer, lead on,” he said.
From the office of the Justice of
the Peace, Jerome was taken to the
same Jail in which Thaw wa*i confine !
when he was first brought here.
Within a few minutes more than
L000 p'-rsons surrounded the jail.
There was a groat deal of specula
tion as to whether complications
might not result from the arrest of a
New York State officer. Jerome i*
commissioned as a special assistant
attorney general of New York State.
The penalty on conviction for gam
bling here is one year in jail.
A lawyer rushed to Thaw with th*.
news.
The fugitive laughed heartily. “T : .e
learned counsel for the chicken trust
is in bad. is he?" said Thaw. “I al-
| ways said that man would come to
no good end."
Associate counsel of Jerome In the,
Thaw case demanded thn bail be
given and the ex-Dietrlct Attorney he
! arraigned at once. It was T oon, how
ever before Jerome was released ot*
ball.
Willie Jerome was being taken n»
Jail and after he was lodged in Jail
there was a wild demonstration.
Get Acquainted
With Kinemacolor.
On page 13 there’s a cou
pon which entitles yon to an
introduction.
Ladies and gentlemen, we have with
us this morning Policeman Nathan
Blustin. a lad of alarmingly adven
turous Instincts, and the youngest
minion of the law in captivity.
His years are but four; his ambi
tion* are the ambitions of centuries
of boys.
The sight of the brave and stalwart
crossing cops, thwarting with Im
perious gesture the desires of auto-
mobiilsts, halting traffic with a word,
veritable monarehs of all they survey,
kindled within hi* young breast i de
sire to “go and do likewise ’’
So he did it.
The morning wa* fraught with in
cident and adventure for Nathan. At
7 o'clock he got himself a hatchet and
broke the lock off the gate at his
home, No. 23 Piedmont avenue. He
strode valiantly up Decatur street,
armed with a stick he picked up when
he left home.
Take Place at Five Points.
He got in the way of pedestrians
and vehicles galore, but naught cared
he. He was headed for Five Points,
and nothing but the rod of parental
authority or a stick of dynamite could
have nrevented him getting there.
Patrolman Scott Is on duty at Five
Point* to-day. a mighty figure of a
man. He had long been the apple of
young Nathan’s eye. so to apeak, and
it was he that the youthful seeker aft
er brass buttons and the locust stick
aspired to emulate.
Gripping his stick with all the as
surance and bravado that a real cop
per grips hisA-iub. Nathan marched to
the aid*- of hi* idol He stood beside
the officer for fifteen minutes before
Scott knew lie was there.
In vain the “regular policeman"
searched himself to find the cause of
the grins which fell to hi* lot. He
was nothing amiss. So far as he
could nee he was all right. No but
tons missing, etc.
Helps Direct Traffic.
So for fifteen minim Nathan stood
beside the lordly traffic t op and did
everything Scott did. If Scott waved
the traffic on, so did Nathan; if Scott
gracefully inclined his head in re
sponse to a greeting, so did Nathan;
If Scott nonchalantly twirled his stick,
then Nathan twirled his stick, too.
At length, Scott *aw him, and *o
great was his astonishment that he
could only repeat the old formula:
“Where the Dickens did you come
from ?"
“I’m a policeman.” genially smiled
Nathan. “I’m going to help you. I
like to be a policeman.”
The “regular policeman," however,
bundled the youngster up and sent.
him to headquarters, where Nathan
jollied one copper into giving him
some chewing gum, borrowed a cap
and a night stick from another, and
perched himself In a chair.
He was happy for two hours—until
his frantic mother appeared and ho
was hustled away home—to the ac
companiment of sundry spanks and
vigorous protestations.
LATEST NEWS
Sweden Wants Free
Entry for Wood Pulp
WASHINGTON. Sept. 5.—Sweden
has raised the question whether
Sweden wood pulp and paper shipped
to another country and then trans
shipped to the U*rted State* is en
titled to free entry into this country.
Count Bonde. the Charge d’Af-
falres of Sweden, to-day conferred
with Assistant Attorney General Den
ison.
COLUMBIA, S. C.. Sept. 5.—
The Columbia police nave just
received a Ion'--distance telephone
call from Peak, a small station 22
miles north of here, that three
bandits shot down the paymaster
of the J. G. White Company, con
tractors, of the Parr Shoals Wa
ter Development there, on his-
way to pay off several hundred
men, shortly after 2 o’clock, and
escaped with the payroll of $16,-
000.
NEW HAVEN, CONN., Sept.
5.—Testimony was to-day piaced
before the Interstate Commerce
Commission to show tnat Flag
man C. H. Murray, who is held in
connection with the rear-end col
lision of the White Mountain and
Bar Harbor Expresses on the
New York, New Haven & Hart
ford Railroad, when 21 lives were
snuffed out, was a “green hand”
and not qualified for the work
and responsibility.
Extradition papers for A. D.
Oliver, “alleged Wallingford,"
were signed by Governor Slaton
late Friday afternoon upon rep
resentations by Mississippi offi
cers and the failure of Oliver’s
attorneys to appear, Oliver was
sent to the penitentiary from Leo
County for fraud and his term
will expire Tuesday. Mississippi
authorities claim he is an es
caped convict from that Stats,
having a sentence for embez
zlement h*.naing over him. Oli
ver alleges tnat the man wanted
in Mississippi is his half brother.
His attorneys are expected to file
habeas corpus proceedinns.
TOKIO Sept. 5.—The jingo
press is cal. ng for war against
China because a number of Japa
nese have been killed^in the
southern wninese . jvoluyThe
Premier left to-day for Ninko to
consult with the Emperor as to
what demands shaii be made.
“Spooning is a -reat institu
tion. You can come to any park
and spoon to your heart’s con
tent.” This was the invitation
extended by J. 0. Cochran, chair
man of the Park Board, Friday
afternoon after Miss Dora Weis
mann, a pretty stenographer, of
No. 290 East Fair street, and Gus
Meyers, of No. 287 East Fair
street, had been reprimanded by
Recorder Broyles. The two were
arrested Thursday ni"ht on the
capitol steps and charged with
disorderly conduct. The case
against them was dismissed.
GALVESTON, Sept. 5.—Th#
steamer Asian arrived here to
day from Tampico, Mexico, with
35 refugees, seventeen of whom
were Americans who left Mexico
at the request of President Wil
son. All told of the cessation of
business throughout the republic
and the inability of the Govern
ment to control marauders or
protect foreigners.
NEW YORK, Sept 5.—After a
meeting of the executive commit
tee of the New York New Haven
and Hartford Railroad in this city
this afternoon, it was announced
that J. P. Morgan & Co. had with
drawn all financial support from
the company. The letter of the
banking firm asks that the exist
ing arrangements terminate with-
in 90 days or earlier. TH© firm
has acted as financial agents for
the company.
HOT SPRINGS, ARK., Sept. 5.
A fire which started at 4 o’clock
in the southeast section of the
city has burned four business
blocks and is st*l| raging. It is
impossible to estimate the loss
It is still beyond control Entire
southeast end of the city^is dc->n
eci. Help is coming fropi Little
Rock.