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SMITH FARM AIDPOLICE FUTED
BILL AVI IN FOB KISSING
Georgia Senator’s Measure Pro
vides Work Through Agri
cultural Colleges.
No Little Indignation Also Shown
by State and City Officials
Over Latest "Crusade.”
WASHINGTON, Sept. 6—Senator
Hoke Smith to-day introduced in the
Senate and Congressman Lever in
troduced in the Houf=e their bill for
agricultural college extension work
along the lines of the bill which lack
ed only one vote of passing at the
last session of Congress.
Senator Smith and Mr. Lever have
State House and city officials com
mented Saturday with mixed indigna
tion and amusement on the practice
of arresting couples who happen to
be spooning on the Capitol steps In
the evening.
While the plight of an affectionate
couple who are startled from their
osoulatory bliss is not without its
been in conference with Secretary
Houston, of the Department of Ag
riculture, and the executive commit
tee of the colleges of agriculture, and
the new bill is the result of their com
bined Judgment. It is regarded as an
improvement on the original bill, and
provides a more perfect plan for co
operation between the colleges and
the Agricultural Department in ex
tension and demonstration work.
The amounts to he appropriated
are the same—-$ 10,000 to each State
and In addition $300,000 the first year,
to he distributed on a ba>is of agri
cultural population, this last sum to
be increased each year by $300,000
until the total annual appropriation
so distributed reaches $3,000,000.
Buckhead Butcher
Urges Policemen to
Let Him Kill Rival
R. E. Cain, a butcher of Buckhead,
and T. B. Bell, a carpenter of Handy
Springs, mixed in such a fierce fist
fight Saturday afternoon that it was
all two big policemen could do to
separate them. They even had to
be held apart after cases had been
docketed against them at the police
station.
Cain’s story, totally denied by Bell,
is that Bell came by Buckhead Satur
day morning in an automobile and
took up two girls for a ride. He did
not look with favor on Bell’s atten
tions so he followed him on a street
car After searching the city all'
morning for the trio he found Bell
alone in the car on Harris street and
pounced on him.
Cain v ould not give the names of
the young women, but he declared
they had been hidden by Bell. He
urged the police to let him get to Bell
and kill him.
Think Girl’s Slayer
Killed in Surgery
N7W YORK, Sept. 6.—Detectives
at OlifTside, N. J., to-day were trying
to unravel the mystery surrounding
the death of the unknown girl whose
torso was found in the water near
that place yesterday. The girl un
doubtedly was murdered and her
head, arms and limbs cut off.
Surgeons declare the work was that
of someone skilled in the use of
surgical Instruments.
No Horses in '63 in
Chicago, Prediction
CHICAGO. Sept. 6.—There will be
no horses in use In Chicago 60 years
from now if the annual decrease of
2 per cent in the use of animals in
this city continues, experts declare.
Prefer Bachelors in
U. S. Aviation Corps
WASHINGTON. Sept. 6.—Recruits
humorous aspects, it appealed to the
majority of those who discussed the
action of the police as nothing short
of an outrage that persons should he
subjected to a humiliation of an ar
rest on the charge of disorderly con
duct and, as was the case with one
couple, he locked up all night in the
police station.
State’s Rights Involved.
The question also was raised as to
whether the police were within their
rights in going upon State property,
already guarded by State employees,
and arresting persons who admittedly
were doing no immoral act.
P. B. Latimer, keeper of the build
ing and grounds, was greatly incensed
when he learned of the arrest.
“I can characterize it as nothing
less than an outrage,” he declared.
“It is the most vicious thing that has'
been done by the police in my recol
lection. Anyone is likely to become
the victim of their overzealousness. #
"I have given orders that the
grounds be regularly policed by
Capitol attaches. If a couple hap
pens to be sitting on the steps, I can
see no excuse for disturbing them,
let alone arresting them, if they con
duct themselves properly.
“Kissing! Isn’t It Terrible?”
“And, as I understood It, the worst
charge made against the couples ar
rested was that they were kissing.
Isn’t that a terrible thing for two
young persons to he doing?
“I was young once myself and I’m
glad they didn’t arrest people for
kissing in those days. The aggregate
of my offense might have given me
a life sentence.
”1 think there are a great many
other lines along which the police
can bend their endeavors where they
will be much more profitably em
ployed.”
Jesse Perry, secretary to the Gov
ernor, who habitually refuses to he
interviewed on the subject of the
tariff, so far forgot his invariable rule
as to utter In an unguarded moment
his bitterest condemnation of the ac
tion of the police.
Even Perry Breaks Rule.
Unlike Custodian Latimer, Colonel
Perry is still a young man. Any
movement toward the suppression of
innocent spooning he regards as a
death blow to the Inalienable and
Heaven-born rights of the younger
generation. Colonel Perry was in
clined most gravely to doubt the
sound policy, if not the legal sound
ness, of a city police crusade against
spooning on State property.
A. H. Ulm, executive secretary,
Joined in the unsparing criticism of
the arrests. It was his comment that
lasting humiliation and a wholly un
merited disgrace might be brought
upon young women who chanced to
be on the Capitol steps when some
are sought for the ten vacancies in
the aviation corps.
Married men are not barred, but
bachelors are preferred
OBITUARY.
John Kendrick, the three-year-old
child of Mr. and Mrs. James Ken
drick. died early Saturday morning
at a sanitarium. The body will
be taken at noon Sunday to New
Holland Springs, Ga.. for funeral
and interment.
W. H. Hodnett, sixty-nine years old,
died at 2 o’clock Saturday morning
at a private sanitarium He Is sur
vived by one daughter. Mrs. R. O.
Neal, of West Point, Ga., one broth
er, James Hodnett. of L&ngdale,
Ala., and one sister Mrs Mary
Taylor, of Hartsville. Ga. The body
will be shipped later to Longcane,
Ga., for funeral and interment.
M rs. A. E. Beck, seventy-four years
old, died at 8 o’clock Saturday
morning at the residence, No. 34
Stewart avenue. She is survived
by one son. N. M. Beck. The fu
neral will be held at 2 o’clock Sun
day afternoon from the residence,
the Rev. John Pursher officiating.
Interment at Hollywood.
OLD RIVALS MAY CLASH AGAIN.
MINNEAPOLIS. Sept. 6.—Football
games between the University of
Minnesota und the University of
Michigan may be resumed as a re
sult of a resolution received to-day
by the Minnesota board of regents
from the governing board of the
Michigan University.
WILL IS EIGHT FEET LONG.
MILWAUKEE. Sept. 6 —By a doc
ument eight and one-half feet long,
Mis> Mathilda Tommett leaves to rel
atives a pair of old shoe strings, ‘ mv
best bed spread.” chickens, chicken
feed, vegetables, fruit, pickles and a
pall of iard.
members of the police department
took it into their heads to swoop
down upon the building and ensnare
all who mipht be within its shadow.
Man and Wife Not Safe.
There would be the first humilia
tion of the arrest, the ordeal at the
police station, the rush to get bond
or identification, and possibly, if no
sponsors could be found on the in
stant. incarceration in a cell. The
young woman’s name would be pub
lished along with that of her com-
I panion and her reputation would suf-
| fer In a manner entirely undeserved,
said Mr. Ulm.
It was not beyond the probabilities,
he said, that a man and his wife
might as easily be the victims as any
other young couple.
Carlos Mason, chairman of the
hoard of police commissioners, said
that he was opposed to police inter-
| ferenoe in matters of this sort. He
i added that there were enough duties
to keep them profitably occupied in
other directions.
Councilman Thompson commented
that the police must be mighty hard
up for arrests if they were compelled
to don plain clothes and stalk loving
couples about the State House in or
der to fill the blotter at the police
station.
Spooners Take Heart;
Parks Opaned to You.
Here’s hope fer Atlanta’s legions
of lovelorn.
Driven from the steps of the State
; Capitol and even arrested by raintons
| of the law, who must have been who).
THE ATLANTA GEORGIAN AND NEWS.
Atlanta’s Morals;
Away Above N. Y.’s,
Says Carlos Mason
Carlos H. Mason, chairman of At
lanta’s Police Commission, Just home
from New York, Saturday declared
Atlanta far better morally than
Gotham.
Mr. Mason said that as he strolled
Slaton Honors Requisition From
Mississippi for Man Charged
With Being Swindler.
A. D. Oliver, whose alleged opera
tions In South Georgia made him the
defendant under a half dozen Indict
ments charging various forms of
swindling, will find two officers of
the law from Mississippi waiting for
him when his three years’ chaingang
sentence in Lee County expires next
Tuesday at midnight.
Requisition papers were honored by
Governor Slaton late Friday, and the
Mississippi officers propose to rush
Oliver into that State with all possi
ble speed.
Deputy Sheriff J. H. Crosby, of
Aberdeen, said Saturday that they
have the prison record of Oliver and
that they know of his serving time
in Jackson, Mich., and Columbus.
Ohio, on charges of false pretenses
and swindling. Oliver's real name, ac
cording to Crosby, is Charles Blazer.
Oliver denies he had any part in
the shady transactions charged
against him. It must have been his
twin brother, for whom he often Is
mistaken, he asserts. Government
officials are said to be after Oliver for
fraudulent use of the malls.
Dr. H F. Broyles, cousin of Re
corder Nash Broyles, and a State
Senator, was one of the victims of
Oliver's alleged schemes. He lost
several thousand dollars. Dr.
Broyles, Judge J. O. Sykes and ex-
Sheriff Ollie Jones, who figured in the
arrest of Oliver In Mississippi, where
the prisoner broke Jail, were in the
party that came to Atlanta to ob
tain the requisition papers.
The people of Decatur County,
from which Oliver was sentenced, had
difficulty getting him convicted. One
indictment after another was brought
against him. He managed to slip out
of jevery one. Finally he w as convict
ed of bigamy, for which he served
hie time.
Oliver has lawyers and influential
friends, It is said, and it is regarded
as likely that a hard fight will be
made to save him in Mississippi.
Painter Fined for
Swearing at Lawyer
SWEPT BY
FL1LS
Conflagration Rages for Nine
Hours—Main Business Section
Saved—Houses Dynamited.
DESTRUCTION WROUGHT
BY HOT SPRINGS FIRE.
$10,000,000 of property.
2,000 persons are homeless.
An area a mile long and ten
block wide is a waste of smol
dering ruins.
500 residences are burned.
The courthouse, light, water
and power plants, high school,
Iron Mountain depot and shops,
three hotels, a theater and other
public or semi-public buildings
are destroyed.
HOT SPRINGS, ARK., Sept. 6.—
With 2,000 persons homeless, many
of them penniless, and a property loss
estimated at $10,000,000, the greater
part of Hot Springs to-day is a mass
of smoking ruins from fire that for
nine hours swept an area from seven
to ten blocks in width, in the eastern
portion of the city.
No fatalities have been reported.
But few of those whose homes were
destroyed saved any valuables.
The fire originated in a negro house
about 3 o’clock in the afternoon and
spent itself only when it reached the
foot o.: West Mountain, the Southern
extremity of Hot Springs,, at mid
night.
Hotels, manufacturing plants and
many fine residences were destroyed,
and for a time it appeared as if the
entire city was doomed. The hard
est fight was to prevent the flames
from gaining a headway on Central
avenue, the principal business street.
In this fight dynamite was used to
wreck buildings.
Militia on Duty.
State militia are to-day patrolling
up and down the Great White Way
he was impressed with Atlanta’s in
finitely better moral atmosphere.
“By comparison the old home town
was inviting with a shining purity,”
he said.
Upon Mr. Mason’s return to the
city one of the first matters to come
to his attention concerning the police
was the arrest of a young couple for
spooning on the Capitol steps.
“I don’t approve of that arrest,” he
declared with emphasis. “That’s a
universal, time-honored method of
courtship, and a policy of arresting
people for yielding to that indulgence
doesn’t get my support.”
Georgia Experts to
Study Boll Weevil
Pest at Close Range
Dr. E. L. Worsham, State Ento
mologist, will ac#/>mpany Dr. Phil
Campbell and agjfits of the Georgia
State College of Agriculture next
week on a tour of Louisiana. Missis
sippi and Alabama, where the boll
weevil, which is expected to enter
Georgia next year, will be studied at
close range.
Dr. Worsham and these agents are
going to bend every effort to have
those counties which are sure to be
visited first by the boll weevil for
tified against this pest as strongly as
possible.
Early maturing varieties of cotton
seed are now being raised on experi
ment farms throughout Georgia
which will be distributed in these
counties in which the boll weevil is
expected to appear, for through early
maturity the boll weevil is best com
bated.
Plans for Medical
College Abandoned
At a meeting at the Piedmont Ho
tel it was decided by the manage
ment of the Southeastern University
to abandon for the present the idea
of opening a medical department this
fall because the time was too short.
It was stated by Dr. Manhart,
financial secretary of the university,
that the building formerly occupied
by the Baptist Tabernacle had been
remodeled for a medical college, but
would be held until next fall, when in
all probability a medical department
would be launched.
Gets Old Master for
20 Cents; Asks $1,365
Special Cable to The Atlanta Georgian.
MADRID, Sept. 6.—In an antiqua
ry’s shop window there was exhibited
a painting and a sign reading “Au
thentic picture by Goya, 7,000 pesetas
($1,365) ”
A poor woman, passing by, observed
the sign and at once caused a dis
turbance which attracted a big crowd.
She declared that the antiquary who
now asks such a round sum for the
picture, Tuesday bought It from her
for 20 cents.
ly devoid of sentiment, spooners had
come to the disheartening conclusion
that that little line about all the
world‘loving a lover was piffle.
But comes one as their champion.
He is John O. Cochran, chairman of
the City Park Board. Just as it ap
pears that the smitten youths and
maids must seek the depressing fast
nesses of the family parlor, or the
front porch, where they are the ob
served of all observers, Mr. Cochran
rushes forward and tells them that
they may spoon in the city’s parks to
their hearts' content, and that If any
surly, misanthropic policeman inter
rupts them he will '..now the reason
why.
Mr. Cochran’s pronunciamento
was spread abroad Friday night Just
after a young woman, blushing with
mortification, and her companion,
sullen at the humiliation that was
theirs, had been haled into Record
er’s Court charged with disorderly
conduct.
What had they been doing?
Why, their terrible offense, accord
ing to Policemen Clack and Whelehel,
who arrested them, was “spooning''
on the Capitol steps. The officers of
the law, waiting for a propitious mo
ment, had come upon the twain just
as their lips had met in a long, lin
gering soul kiss.
“Break away, youse!” was the gruff
command that startled them from
their embrace.
Then they were taken to the police
station. They gave their names as
Miss Dora Welszmann. No. 290 Eas*.
Fair street, und Gus Meyers, No. 287
East Fair street. She is a stenogra
pher and he a clerk.
Recorder Broyles promptly dis
missed the case, as he did that of
Miss Dollle Johnson No. 168 East
Fair street, and W. C. Williamson,
No. 474 Woodward avenue, who were
arrested on a similar charge.
The Recorder admonished them,
however, that it were better to io
their spooning at home on the
porches and in the hammocks.
It was this warning that brought
the general Invitation of Chairman
■ Cochran for the young people to flock
to the parks, where they would be
1 unmolested.
E. E. George, of 249 South More
land street, representative of the
Painters’ Union, was fined $5.75 by
Recorder Broyles Saturday morning
for using insulting language to Paul
Etheridge, an attorney.
Mr. Etheridge asserted in Police
Court that he represented a painter
named Dempsey in the latter’s efforts
to get a union membership, which had
been refused him by George. He said
George used insulting and profane
language during a conversation.
George asserted he said only “h ”
and “d .”
Canada Decides to
AdmitMrs .Pankhurst
OTTAWA, ONTARIO, Sept. 6.—
Minister of Justice Doherty made a
ruling to-day that Mrs. Emmeline
Pankhurst, the famous militant suf
fragette who recently fled from Eng
land, leaving an unfinished term be
hind, will be admitted to Canada on
her American trip this fall.
Her crimes, Mr. Doherty said, do
not involve moral turpitude.
Frank Trial Deputy
Back From Vacation
Deputy Sheriff Plennle Miner,
bronzed by nearly two weeks of hunt
ing and fishing in Gwinnett County,
returned Friday to his duties.
Deputy Miner was in charge of the
growds at the Frank trial and left
for his vacation at its conclusion.
THE PLAYS
THIS WEEK
A bill of prime features, the very
best that the Keith offices could as
semble. will be the Forsyth attraction
for the week that will start with
matinee on Monday, and because of
the excellence of the program as an
nounced there has been one of the
heaviest advance sales the busy thea
ter has ever registered. The head
liners will be Frank Hale and Inez
Patterson, dainty dancers, and Lydia
Barry, the queen of singing comedi
ennes. The other five acts are ex
ceptionally clever and all in all are
the kind of features that make people
find their way to the Forsyth.
Others on the bill are Doris Wilson
and Company; Delmore and Lee;
Russell’s Minstrels, and Gordon and
Rica.
At the Bijou.
Capacity testing audiences will
greet Jewell Kelley and his players
this afternoon and to-night at the
Bijou, establishing a new record for
attendance at this house. “The Man
From the West” has pleased large
audiences during the w r eek and has
demonstrated beyond a doubt that
the Jewell Kelley Company is equally
at home in high-class plays and in
the more sensational melodramas.
Next week's play will be “My Dixie
Girl,” which has never been seen in
Atlanta at popular prices.
At the Lyric.
“The Call of the Heart.” next
week’s bill at the Lyric, deals with a
woman of fortune who was wedded
to a "name.” ancient, but not honor
able. and after living a life of misery',
love liberates her from bondage.
There are some rather daring
speeches and situations in “The Call
of the Heart.” but a startling socio
logical problem is handled so daintily
that it is introduced and dropped al
most before the listener is fully con
scious that it has appeared.
the burned district. United States
soldiers may be sent here from Little
Rock to protect property In the Gov
ernment reservation. Governor Hays
arrived about midnight and ordered
the State military patrol. In addi
tion, 250 men were sworn in as po
licemen to patrol the district. Thus
far there has been no disorder.
Alf the homeless have been cared
for temporarily, and the many offers
of assistance from the outside will
probably not be necessary, as the
citizens of Hot Springs declare they
can handle the situation.
The Little Rock fire department re
sponded to a call for assistance on
board a special train, and did good
work in the fight, but it was several
hours befoie .he efforts of the fire
fighters made any impression, and
then only in preventing the spread
to Central avenue.
Public Buildings Burn.
Among the buildings destroyed w’ere
the city light, water and power plants,
the county courthouse, the Park,
Princess and Moody Hotels, City High
School, Iron Mountain Railroad sta
tion and shops, Ozark Sanitarium,
People’s Laundry, Crystal Theater
and Bijou Rink, besides 100 or more
smaller business buildings.
During the fire a gale was blowing,
at times reaching a velocity of 40
miles an hour, thus making the fight
more difficult. As the firemen were
dynamiting a house the flames, forced
by the. gale, would leap over them and
ignite a dozen other houses. After
the destruction of a number of build
ings in an attempt to turn the fire
toward South Hot Springs, the course
was changed to such an extent that
it finally spent itself against West
Mountain, and the business section
was saved.
CABLE
|| NEWS
Important Events From All
Over the Old World Told la a
! Fear Short Line*.
JOHANNESBURG, SOUTH AFRI-
CA, Sept. 6.—Elaborate police and
military precautions were taken here
to-day to guard against violence to
night when the laboring class will
carry out a free speech demonstra
tion. The demonstration is a result
of the recent strike on the Rand. Two
hundred policemen and soldiers, all
armed, will patrol the streets to
night.
Plan Canal Steamer Line.
BREMEN. Sept. 6—The North
German Lloyd Steamship Line made
official announcement to-dav of a big
Increase in business during the first
half of this year, and that a Pacific
Coast service, through the Panama
Canal, will be arranged just as soon
as the canal is thrown open for traf
fic.
Famous Candy Maker Dies.
PARIS. Sept. 6.— Henry Meunier. a
rich and famous chocolate manufac
turer. died to-day at his home In
Pontoise.
’Jail Won’t Solve
Social Evil,’ Says
NotedDenverJudge
BOSTON, Sept. 6.—In Boston, to
deliver an address, Judge Ben Lind
sey, of Denver Jouvenile Court fame,
declared he was being hounded by
persecutors because he did not jail
all the girls and men who are the
victims of social conditions. He said:
"In Denver my few persecutors are
crying against me because I do not
Jail all the men and girls who are
but victims of our social condition.
Jail won’t settle that question, but
education will, and it is my idea^ to
bring Jesus Christ Into court, and I
shall handle these lesser cases as thev
ought to be handled by a humane
thinking man, or any Christian who I*
not acting the hypocrite.”
He declared his Ideal of happiness
is to be married to a sympathetic
woman, to have healthy and happy
children. “In a word,” he summed
up. “Just to be an average man.”
The 97-pound Denverite continued:
“I am going to write a book one of
these days,” and It*is going to be
called “Sex and Sin.” And in this
book I am going to show up these
hypocrites whose very mode of living
is basically responsible for the im
moral conditions prevalent to-day.”
U. S, Quiz of Wreck
On New Haven Ends
NEW HAVEN, CONN., Sept. 6.—
Recommendations of stricter discip
line on the New York, New Haven
and Hartford Railroad were given by
Interstate Commerce Commissioner
McChord to-day at the close of the
Federal Investigation into last Tues
day’s wreck when 21 w’ere killed.
General Manager C. L. Bardo, of the
New Haven road, promised to issue
orders for stricter discipline of em
ployees at once.
That the airbrakes on part of the
White Mountain express, which
rammed the Bar Harbor express, *were
not in working order, was sworn to
by Engineer A. B. Miller, of the White
Mountain express.
Killing Seals Lips of
Sing’s White Widow
CHICAGO. Sept. 6.—That hypnotic
paralysis has sealed the lips of the
white widow of Charles Sing, the
murdered Chinese merchant, as she
was about to, "tell all she knew,” is
the belief of Dr. Louis A. Mangan.
“Mrs. Sing is suffering from a
strange form of hypnotic paralysis,
brought on by herself,” explained Dr.
Mangan. “She will not be able to
speak until she is strong enough to
break the spell. If she witnessed the
killing of Sing, the shock of that was
enough to lead up to such a condi
tion.”
BoardWill Watch
Test of Crematory
The City Board of Health will ob
serve carefully the test run of the
new crematory, to be weighed under
the direction of Frank Lederle, the
consulting engineer retained by May
or Woodward to make the test. John
Jentzen, Chief of the Sanitary De
partment, will represent the board.
The board appointed W. P. Rich
ardson weigher at the crematory. F.
H. Schearer, superintendent of the
old crematory, was offered the posi
tion of engineer at the new' plant.
Charter Granted to
White Plague Foes
The Atlanta Anti-Tuberculosis As
sociation is now a regularly char
tered organization, Judge Bell having
issued a charter for 20 years. The
petition states that the organization
Is not formed for profit and that it
has no capital stock.
The incorporators are Hugh M.
Willet, Howard S. Cole, Mrs. H. W.
Salmon, Mrs. Nellie Peters Black, Da
vid Woowdard, Mrs. J. Wade Conklin
and Dr. Theo Toepel.
Farmers Oppose U. S.
Aid in Crop Moving
SALINA, KAN., Sept. 6.—At the
annual convention of the Farmers’
National Education and Co-operative
Association the plan of the Treasury
Department to aid in moving crops
was criticised severely.
The convention declared "it could
not see a single benefit” and that it
“would put more money into the
hands of speculators to buy crops
from farmers forced to sell because
they could not get money.”
FRANK GOTCH ON MAT.
CHICAGO, Sept. 6.—The appear
ance of Frank Gotch, heavyweight
wrestling champion, in the ring at
Brand’s Park to-night will feature the
athletic end of the program staged
by the Cook County Democracy.
Gotch is to meet Dr. Roller and
Charlie Cutter in a handicap match of
fifteen minutes each.
BOSTON BARS “TIN ROOFS”
BOSTON, Sept. 6.—A new excise
law went into effect here prohibiting
“drinks on the house” in local sa
loons. “It is against the best inter
ests of the proprietors and may be
morally and physically injurious to
customers,” the License Board says in
its notice.
KRYPTOK LENSES
Keep in mind that we make the
genuine Kryptoks—bifocals with
out the dividing line. Come in and
see a pair; they’re beautiful. A.
K. Hawkes Co., Opticians, 14
Whitehall street.
TRIST COMPANY
CAPITAL RAISED
TO I
Union Organization, Headed by
Pollock, Shows Progress—Fine
Connections Made.
Announcement of an increase of
capitalization of the Union Trust
Company, of Atlanta, from $300,000
to $1,000,000 and of the plan for a
further increase to $2,000,000 w’as
made Saturday by George D. Pollock,
president of the company.
The trust organization was formed
only last February and has been do
ing a business in farm and city loans
since then, specializing in the former.
The increase In the capitalization
was decided upon Friday at a meet
ing of the stockholders, among whom
are a number of men w’ell known in
the financial circles of the State.
The purpose was to afford a wider
scope for the operations of the com
pany and to enable it to get cheaper
money from financial interests in
America and Europe.
Important connections have been
made with Chicago and New York
houses by w’hich the Union Trust
Company will be enabled to make
loans of two or three million dollars
in addition to what it would be able
to do on its own capital. The offi
cials of the company have decided
upon an aggressive policy with the
determination to make the company
one of the strongest and most power
ful in the South.
President Pollock is an experienced
banker, being the organizer of two
banks in Rome, Ga., one of which he
resigned the presidency to take
charge of the Union Trust Company.
Moultrie Sessions, a vice president,
besides being president of the Ses
sions Loan and Trust Company, of
Marietta, is one of the best known
mortgage loan men in the State.
T. R. Lombard, another vice presi
dent, is president of Lombard and
Company, of New York, and is a
financier of long experience.
John Ruddle is a Pennsylvania fi
nancier who came to Atlanta to be
come secretary and treasurer of the
company. The officers are on the
eleventh floor of the Third National
Bal Haven, Ocracoke and Ports
mouth Safe, Though Damaged
by Water and Wind.
NEWBERN, N. C.. Sept. 6.—At 3
o’clock this morning for the first
time since last Tuesday afternoon,
when the coast storm struck this sec
tion, communication with Bal Haven
was possible. It had been reported
that Bal Haven hsi oee'n wiped off
the map. This was Incorrect, but tha
damage done by the high water and
wind was terrific.
The worst part of the storm struck
there Wednesday morning. Wat;r
rose fifteen feet above the high water
level and some of the buildings in
the lower part of the town were in-
undated. It was necessary to oper
ate motor boats In t ie streets to re.
move occupants of buildings to places
of safety.
The railway tracks between Bal
Haven and Pantego were washed
away, and it will be impossible to
operate trains there for several days.
Every sawmill in the place was eithe-
demolished or badly damaged.
The mailboat running betwe-i
Ocracoke and Beaufort arrived at the
latter place at midnight after making
a special trip, and reported that no
lives were lost at Ocracoke and Ports,
mouth, but that the damage by wind
and water was great.
New'hern citizens are hard at work
clearing away the debris of the storm
and the city is beginning to hav-
some semblance of its former seif
Careful estimates of the damage done
here made since the day of the storm
P ace amount at not less than
$500,000, and this is practically a to
tal loss, as no clatyje in any of ths
insurance policies provided for dam
age by water.
Cotton ’Change Seats
Increase in Value
NEW YORK, Sept. 6.—Member -
ilps on the New York Cotton Ex-
lange are advancing In price despite
tacks made on that institution and
e proposed tax of 1-10 of 1 cent
pound on speculative dealings in
•tton.
A s*eat has been sold for $14,000.
id advance of $1,000 over the last
evious sale. Two memberships are
iw being offered, one at $15,000 and
e other at $25,000.
'Cue for Officials at
Test of Fire Engine
With Alderman I. N. Ragsdale and
Councilmen J. T. Kimbrough and
Claude C. Mason as chief hosts, May
or Woodward and Council will be en
tertained at a barbecue at the Tenth
Ward fire engine house Saturday aft
ernoon.
The occasion is the official test of
the new automobile fire engine.
Woman Will Police
Kansas City Resorts
KANSAS CITY, Sept. 6.—A police
woman, who will be known as “the
city’s mother to the motherless,” will
be appointed by the Commissioners
here.
She will “walk a beat” embracing
largely disorderly resorts and all-
night cafes.
Coffin Stolen From
The Grave of Woman
Not More Than
Half Dozen Dead.
RALEIGH, Sept. 6.—Belated re
ports to-day from the storm-swept
area In Eastern North Carolina tend
to show that earlier reports of storm
damage were greatly exaggerated.
The loss of life will not total half a
dozen, and damage to crops and
business places may not reach mo'a
than $500,000. The Norfolk and
Southern Railway Company, whoso
lines run through the storm-swept
section, is the heaviest sufferer, but
it was impossible to-day to make an
estimate of the money damage.
If yesterday's rains do not cau«t
the Neuse and Tar Rivers to rise
again, It is not believed that the
freshet following the storm will
amount to much. No estimate has
been advanced as to the loss of crops
by the heavy rains.
Arrest Rich Couple
Who Abandon
Baby
SAVANNAH, Sept. 6.—For aban
doning an 8-month-old baby to the
care of a nurse girl, William B. Mott
and his wife were severely arraigned
by Recorder Schwarz to-day.
The child was adopted by th3
wealthy young couple, who thought
It would bridge the widening chasm
in their affections. Ten days ago
Mott left nis home and went to a
hotel. Last night Mrs. Mott sent the
baby and nurse in her automobile to
the hotel to wait for Mott. Police ,
noticed the child when the nurse de-/
serted it, and later arrested the fos-v
ter parents.
ALBANY. Sept. 6.—When the grave
of Mrs. Pauline Blum, whose body
was buried on Sunday, was visited
to-day the body wa» found in a rough
box. Tne coffin had been stolen. Her
finger on which she wore a wedding
ring had been severed and the rigg
also was missing.
GROCERY IN BANKRUPTCY.
A voluntary petition in bankruptcy
was filed Saturday morning by C. W.
Seymour, doing business as the Sey
mour Grocery Company. He admits
liabilities of $891.48, with assets of
$600. Thomas J. Ripley was appointed
receiver.
NEGRESS HELD AS STABBER.
Zada Wright, a negro woman work
ing at No. 594 West Peachtree, was
arrested Saturday on the charge of
stabbing Bessie Green, another k ne-
gress, at Forrest avenue and Butler
street, Thursday night. The Wright
woman pleaded self-defense, saying
that the other had shot at her.
$300,000 SYRACUSE FIRE.
SYRACUSE, N. Y., Sept. 6— Fire
of unknown origin to-day caused a
property loss estimated at $300,000,
and for a time threatened the entire
industrial section of city.
Rich Man’s Son Robs
Grave for Diamonds
ALBANY, Sept. 6.—John Stevens,
20, son of Thomas C. Stevens, a
wealthy fruit merchant, has confessed
to robbing the grave of lirs. Pauline
Blum, In Eage Hill Cemetery.
The youthful ghoul opened the
casket and cut off one of the woman’s
fingers to get a ring. He also took a
diamond pin and ear-rings. Later,
he carried the casket home and put it
in the cellar, where it was discov
ered by a maid.
Wear No Slit Skirts 1
Nor Anything Else
LIMA, OHIO. Sept. 6.—Sheriff Watt
was called on to-day to investigate
the strange existence of 75 stranded
men and women gypsies in an im
provised camp near here.
The nomads have dispensed wita
their clothes and are running about
in nature’s raiment.
AN EXCELLENT NIGHTCAP
Horaford't Acid Phosphate
Half a teaapoonful of Horsford’a Acid Phos
phate In half a glass of water on retiring Insures
a restful sleep.—(adv.)
SEEING THINGS
Whether it’s through a field glass. 5
opera glass, telescope or a pair of
Kryptok eyeglasses—be sure they j
are from “Moore’s.” “Moore” qual
ify is our watchword. . “We sell }
everything to see with.” Jno. L. |
Moore & Sons, expert opticians, 42 J
North Broad street.
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THROUGH SLEEPERS
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