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THE ATLANTA GEORGIAN AND NEWS.
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SMITH FARM AID SPOONERS. TAKE
HEART; PARKS
Atlanta's Morals;
Away Above N. Y.’s,
Says Carlos Mason
Georgia Senator's Measure Pro
vides Work Through Agri
cultural Colleges.
WASHINGTON, Sept, 6—Senator
Hoke Smith to-day introduced in the
Senate and Congressman Lever in
troduced in the House 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. l^ever have
been In conference with Secretary
Houston, of the Department of Ag
riculture, and the executive commit-
lee 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 be appropriated
are the same—$10,000 to each State
and in addition $300,000 the first year,
to be distributed on a basis 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
Chairman Cochran Comes to the
Rescue of Lovelorn Following
Capitol Steps Episodes.
Continued from Page 1.
R. E. Cain, a butcher of Buckhead,
and T. B. Bell, a carpenter of Sandy i
Springs, mixed in such a lierce fist
fight Saturday afternoon that it was
all two big policemen could do to
separate them. They even had to
be held apart after oases had been
docketed against them at the police
station.
Cain’s story, totally denied by Bell,
Is that Bell came by Buckhead Satur- j
day morning In an automobile and j
took up two girls for a ride. He did j
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 l
pounced on him.
Cain would not give the names of
the young women, but he declared I
ihey had been hidden by Bell. He
urged the police tolet him get to Bell j
and kill him.
Think Girl's- Slayer
Killed in Surgery
N7W YORK. Sept g —Detectives |
at CUlTside, N. J., to-day were trying!
to unravel the mystery s»urroun<fPh s r
the death of the unknown girl whose j
torso was found In the water near i
that place yesterday. The girl un- I
doubtedly was murdered and ner |
head, arms and limbs cut off.
Surgeons declare the work was that I
of someone sskilled in tha use of
surgical instruments.
ernor, who habitually refuses to be
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.
Unlike Custodian I>atimer. Colonel
Perry is still a young man. Any
movement toward the suppression of
innoncent 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 hecretary,
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
members of the police department
took it into their heads to swoop
down upon the building and ensnare
all who might he 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, incerceration in a cell. The
young woman’s name would be pub
lished aloug with that of her com
panion and her reputation would suf
fer in a manner entirely undeserved,
said Mr. Pirn.
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
board of police commissioners, said
that he was opposed to police inter
ference in matters of this sort. He
added that there w'ere enough duties
to keep them profitably occupied in
other directions ;
CJouncilman 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.
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
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-honqred method of
courtship, and a policy of arresting
people for yielding to that indulgence
doesn’t get my support.”
CALLED I TO
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We’ll Disregard Dress in Time,
Doctor Predicts. But Not
Spooners Take Heart;
Parks Opened to You.
No Horses in '63 in
Chicago, Prediction
CHICAGO, Sept. 6.—There will be
no horses in use in Chicago 50 years
frofn 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
are souRht 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 Langdale,
Ala., and one sister Mrs. Mary
Taylor, of Hartsville, Ga. The body
will be shipped later to Longcane,
Ga., for funeral and interment.
Mrs. A. E. Beck, seventy-four years
old, died at 8 o'clock Saturday
morning at the residence, No. 54
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 HollvWood.
OLD RIVALS MAY CLASH AGAIN.
MINNEAPOLIS, Sept. 6.—Football
games between the University of
Minnesota and 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,
Miss Mathilda Tommett leaves to rel
atives a pair of old shoe strings, “my
best bed spread.” chickens, chicken
feed, vegetables, fruit, pickles and a
pail of lard. i
Here's hope for Atlanta’s legions
of lovelorn.
Driven from the steps of the State
Capitol and even arrested by minions
of the law, who must have been whol
ly devoid of sentiment, spooners had
come to the disheartening conclusion
that that little line about all the
world loving h 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 Know the reason
why.
Mr. Cochran’s pronunciamento
was spread abroad Friday night Ju«t
after a young woman, blushing with
mortification, and her companion,
sullen at the humiliation that was
theirs, had been haled into Record
ers Court charged with disorderly
conduct.
What had they been doing?
Why, their terrible offense, accord
ing to Policemen Clack and Whelchel,
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 Welssmann, No. 290 East
Fair street, and 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 Dollie Johnson No. 158 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 lo
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
unmolested.
Quite Copy Eve’s Style.
POUGHKEEPSIE, N. Y., Sept. 6.—
Women’s attirfe popularly classed as
"Slit,” "Peek-a-boo" and “X-ray'’
prolongs life. According to Dr. EH
G. Jones, of Burlington, N. J., presi
dent of the American Association of
Progressive Medicine, at the annual
convention here, that style of cloth
ing is conducive to the health and
longevity of the wearers.
“I have come to believe,” he said,
"that the less clothing we drape on
the figure in the heated weather the
more we Increase the chances of pro
longing our lives. I have records
which show that the percentage of ill
ness among women who wear little
clothing is much lower than among
thofie who put on too many garments,
and I do not refer to the Zulus or
Fiji Islanders, either, but get my sta
tistics right here in the giddy whirl.
“I agree with the futurists that
we are returning to an age which
shall disregard dress, although I do
not predict the adoption of the fig
leaf by any means. For reasons which
all wom?n know, light and airy cloth
ing assuredly is better than the heavy
gowns worn some years ago.
"Necessity brought out the X-ray
apparel, Just as It brought out the
hoop skirt of cur forefathers. Some
day a rising modiste, the genius of
his age. will invent a style which will
omit the transparency, but will supp’y
its airiness, and women will adopt the
garment more eagerly than they havo
the present stayle.
Georgia Experts to
Study Boll Weevil
Pest at Close Range
Dr. E.' L. Worsham. State Ento
mologist. will accompany Dr. Phil
Campbell and agents of the Georgia
State College of Agriculture next
w’eek 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
vifdted 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
w’hioh 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.
Gets Old Master for
20 Cents; Asks $1,365
Special Cable to The Atlanta Georgian.
MADRID, Sept. 6.—In an antlqua-
ry’M 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
, TWO FAST TRAINS
Lv. 7:12AM-, 5;I5lP}J.
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.
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 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 mails
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 Ollle 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 every one. Finally he was convict
ed of bigamy, for which he served
hi* time.
Oliver has lawyers and influential
friends. It is said, and it is regarded
a* likely that a hard fight will be
made to save him in Mississippi.
Painter Fined for
Swearing at Lawyer
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, wtych 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 Plennie Miner,
bronzed by nearly tw'o weeks of hunt
ing and fishing in Gwinnett County,
returned Friday to his duties.
Deputy Miner was in charge of the
crowds 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 w f eek 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” ha* pleased large
audiences during the week and has
demonstrated beyond a doubt that
the Jew’ell Kelley Company is equally
at home In high-class plays and in
the more sensational melodrama*.
Next weeks 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 wMth a
woman of fortune w r ho was wedded
to a "name," ancient, but not honor
able. and after living K 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.
Nearly All City Officials Except
Mayor Woodward Are Workign
Hard for Its Adoption.
Political leaders, active in support
of the new r charter, declared Satur
day it would be adopted by a safe
majority.
While the candidates for Aldermen
and Couneilmen are reluctant to take
positions on this measure, the great
majority of city officials not running
this year are fighting hard but quiet
ly for It* adoption. It is the general
opinion among them that If this char
ter is adopted, charter reform agita
tion will be ended for many years
to come. »
Mayor Woodward, in his militant
way, stands out as their most for
midable obetacle. But he announced
Saturday that he would approve the
resolution of Council providing for
the new charter election on Septem
ber 24.
'Til be fairer than that crowd ever
was,” he said. “They kept a real re
form charter from going to the peo
ple. I will do all in my power to
give the people a chance to vote on
all of them."
Since campaigning for the new
charter has become active there ha*
been a great increase in the registra
tions for voting. Lucien Harris, as
sistant to Official Registrar Andy P
Stewart, said the total registration
now was about 11,000.
The registration books for the char
ter election on September 24 and the
Councilmanic election on September
30 close September 9. The books gtill
are several thousand names^short gf
the normal registration list.
CABLE
|| NEWS
Important Events From AH
Over the Old World Told In a
| Few Short Line*.
JOHANNESBURG, SOUTH AFRI-
CA, Sept. 6.—Elaborate police and
military precautiops were taken hero
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 Jn business during the first
half of this year, and that a Pacific
Coast service, through the Panama
(’anal, will be arranged Just as soon
as the canal is thrown open for traf
fic.
Japanese Diplomat Is Slain.
TOKIO, Sept. 6.—Director Mori taro
Abe, of the Political Bureau of the
Japanese Foreign Office, who was
stabbed Thursday night, is dead. Two
assassins mistook Mr. Moritaro for
Dr. Sun Yat Sen, first President of
China. They were Chinese and w’ere
believed to have been in the employ
of President Yuan Shi Kai.
Bulgar-Turk Treaty Near.
CONSTANTINOPLE, Sept. 6.—
General Say off. former command-
der-in-chief of the Bulgarian
army, whose troops defeated the
Turks in the first Balkan war, de
clared to-day that if the Powers
would not interfere Bulgaria could
rout the Greeks within a week.
It is announced that a treaty be
tween Turkey and Bulgaria will be
signed soon. There is good ground
for belief that the Bulgars may join
the Turks in war upon Greece.
Do La Barra Warns U. S.
PARIS, Sept. 6.—Intervention by
the United States iri Mexico, either
directly or indirectly, will not be
tolerated, according to Senor De La
Barra. Mexican Minister to F'ranee,
in an interview to-day. Senor De La
Barra skid that all Mexicans resented
outside interference.
Mattresses as Life-Savers.
PARIS. Sept. 6.—A large Paris firm
is busy filling an order for thousands
of mattresses which are pronounced
as unsinkable. Every passenger in
a ship furnished with these mat
tresses will have an ideal life-pre
server right in bed if they are what
is claimed for them.
Noted Theologian Dies.
GLASGOW. SCOTLAND. Sept. 6 —
Professor James Orr, one of the best-
known theologians and writers on
theology in the world, died here to
day, aged 69. In 1895 he visited
America and delivered a series of
lectures on German theology in
Chicago. Two years later he deliv
ered a series of lectures at Prince
ton University.
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
Noble Victim of Wreck.
DERBY. ENGLAND. Sept. 6.—Sir
Arthur Douglass, who was injured
in last Tuesday’s wreck on the Mid
land Railroad when thirteen persons
were killed, died to-day.
DIAMOND RING IN CLAM.
PATCHOGUE. N. Y, Sept. 6 —
Walking along Water Island Beach,
near here. Augustus Rhyer. a local
barber, picked up a clam and opened
it He found a ring set with three
large diamonds wedged inside the
shell.
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 girl* and men who are the
victim* of social conditions. He said:
"In Denver my few persecutors are
crying aga»nst me because I do not
jail all the men and girls who are
but victim* 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 they
ought to be handled by a humane
thinking man, or any Christian who i#
not acting the hypocrite."
He declared hi* 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 w'hose 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 w'hen 21 were killed.
General Manager C- L. Bardo. of the
New r 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 Whita
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 Eihe witnessed the
killing of Sing, the shock of that was
enough to lead up to such a condi
tion."
Board Will 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 T :>epel.
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 Kryptons—bifocals with
out the dividing line. Come in and
see a pair; they’re beautiful. A.
K. Hawkes Co. Opticians. 14
Whitehall street.
TRUST COMPANY COMMUNICATION
CAPITAL RAISED IN STORM BELT
TO MILLION IS
Union Organization, Headed by
Pollock, Shows Progress—Fine
Connections Made.
Announcement ol 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 was
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 well 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 which the Union Trust
Company wtl! 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
Bank.
Cotton 'Change Seats
Increase in Value
Bal Haven, Ocracoke and Ports
mouth Safe, Though Damaged
by Water and Wind,
Not More Than
Half Dozen Dead.
NEW YORK, Sept. 6.—Member
ships on the New York Cotton Ex
change are advancing in price despite
attacks made on that institution and
the proposed tax of 1-10 of 1 cent
a pound on speculative dealings in
cotton.
A seat has been sold for $14,000.
and advance of $1,000 over the last
previous sale. Two memberships are
now being offered, one at $15,000 and
the other at $25,000.
Cue for Officials at
Test of Fire Engine
With Alderman I. N. Ragsdale and
Couneilmen 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
Rich Man’s Son Robs
Grave for Diamonds
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
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. The coffin had been stolen. Her
finger on which she wore a wedding
ring had been severed and the ring
also was mi.«wing.
GROCERY IN BANKRUPTCY.
A voluntary petition in bankruptcy
was filed Saturday morning by G. W.
Seymonr, doing business as the Sey
mour Grocery Company. He admits
liabilities of $801.48, with assets of
$600. Thomas J. Ripley was appointed
receiver.
Wear No Slit Skirts
Nor Anything Else
AN EXCELLENT NIGHTCAP
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 ne-
gress, at Forrest avenue and Butler
street, Thursday night. The Wright
woman pleaded self-defense, saying
that the other had shot at her.
Horsford's Acid Phosphate
Half a tcaapoonful of Horsford's Acid Phos
phate In half a glass of water on retiring insures
a restful sleep.—(adv.)
$300,000 SYRACUSE FIRE.
SYRACUSE, N. Y.. Sept. 6.—Fire
of unknown origin to-day caused i
property loss estimated at $300,000,
and for a time threatened the entire
industrial section of city.
SEEING THINGS
Whether it’s through a field glass,
opera glass, telescope or a pair of
K ryptok eyeglasses—be sure they
are from “Moore’s." “Moore" qual*
ity is our watchword. “We sell
everything to see with." Jno. L.
Moore & Sons, expert opticians, 42
North Broad street.
jOUISVILLE
THROUGH SLEEPERS
Ly.7:12AJL5:ilLEM.
NEWBERN, N. C., Sept. 6.—At 3
o’clock this morning: for the flr«t
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 had been wiped off
the map. This was incorrect, but the
damage done by the high wafer and
wind was terrific.
The worst part of the storm struck
there Wednesday morning. Water
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 either
demolished or badly damaged.
The mailboat running betwe-n
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.
Newbern citizens are hard at work
clearing away the debris of the storm
and the city is beginning to havu
some semblance of its former seU.
Careful estimates of the damage done
here made since the day of the storm
place the amount at not less than
$500,000, and this is practically a to
tal loss, as no clause in any of tha
insurance policies provided for dam
age by water.
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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 crop* and
business places may not reach mor^
than $500,000. The Norfolk and
Southern Railway Company,' whose
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 cause
the Neuse and Tar River* 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.
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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 w'as adopted by the
wealthy young couple, who thought
it w'ould bridge the widening chasm
in their affections. Ten day* ago
Mott left hi* 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
ter parents.
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ALBANY, Sept. 6.—John Stevens,
20, son of Thomas C. Stevens, a
wealthy fruit merchant, has confessed
to robbing the grave of Mra Pauline
Blum, in Eage Hill Cemetery.
The youthful ghoul opened the
casket and cut off one of the woman’
fingers to get a ring. He al»o took-
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.
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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 nomad* have dispensed w’ith
their clothes and are running about
in nature's raiment.