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EXTRA The Atlanta Georgian Read for Profit—GEORGIAN WANT ADS---Use for Results VOL. XII. NO. 29. ATLANTA, GA., SATURDAY, SEPTEMBER 5,1913. 2 CENTS. PATNO . - — - - — .... . .. THAW SHREWDLY STAVES DEFEAT *•* •j-** *•+ +•4* *>•+ +•+ -I-** +•* +•+ +•+ +•+ +•+ +•+ orts of 500 Dead in Storm Off Pamlico Sound Unfounded y* / 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. mum BOY, 4, 'TAKES CHARGE' OF TRAFFIC AT 5 POINTS +•+ ! 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.” "'jl 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. — 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 Continued on Page 2, Column 3. 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.