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Final Game of Season Here Won
and Tie for Leadership Is Main
tained—All Depends on To
day's Clash in the Gulf City.
Poison Bracelet Her
Talisman in Wreck
Fair Cousin of ‘Uncle Joe’ Cannon
Never Boards Train With
out Charm.
Victory for Pelicans Means Pen
nant for Smith’s Team, Which
Has Made Remarkable Record
in Closing Days of Close Race.
Atlanta’s baseball season of 1913
passed Into history yesterday after
noon with a victory, 5 to 0, over
Chattanooga, the pennant race still
In a tie, and the stage setting one
of a wild and whirling activity and
excitement never before approached
at Ponce Del eon Park.
Down in Mobile to-day the 1913
Southern League pennant will be
won or lost. If Mobile beats New
Orleans, the Alabama team will win
the flag. If New Orleans wins the
game, the prized trophy will fly from
Ponce DeLeon Park next year.
Should, perchance, rain prevent the
playing of the game, or should the
game end in a tie, Atlanta and Mo
bile will still be tied for the cham
pionship. In that case, the league
will order one game or a series of
games to be played to decide the is
sue.
Therefore, all Atlanta will be
watching the outcome at Mobile to
day, for history will be in the mak
ing.
Yesterday’s game was won handily
by the Crackers, Carl Thompson's
masterful hurling being supported by
a savage attack that put the Town
Boys out in front in the first Inning.
Chattanooga fought hard all the way,
but never threatened.
10,000 Fans See Contest.
Ten thousand fans banked the
playing field, and they were on the
thin edge of hysterics.
The exalted temper of the crowd
was tested in the usual Elberfeld
row, which ended with some rough
and needless handling of the peppery
manager by two big policemen, after
he had been ordered off the field by
the umpires for arguing about a de
cision.
Two policemen seized Elberfeld,
and one of them slugged him, and only
prompt action by President Callaway
of the Atlanta club diverted a large
amount of pending difficulty, as a
thousand fans from the overflow
crowd were surging around the row
in a jiffy.
President Callaway held back the
angrv mob and soothed the troubled
Elberfeld and got him away from
the police, and off the field just in
time to prevent the game being called
and forfeited to Atlanta by the um
pire.
Then the crowd exploded again as
the last play of the game sent the
season Into history.
Cushion Battle Begins.
There was a tremendous roar and a
volley of cushions went sailing sky
ward. Some of them landed on the
heads of the fans in the field, and
were returned with force and ac
curacy.
And then the battle was on.
Thousands of cushions darkened
the evening light, while the air was
full of sound and fury, and a general
attack began on the stands, from
which the defenders showered still
more cushions, like vast confetti, up
on the besiegers.
It was all in great sport, of course
—but it was a bit rough on the wom
en and children. Hundreds were
penned in the upper part of the stands
and behind posts, trying to protect
their hats, which went to smash by
the score under the hail of leather
squares.
Shouts and shrieks featured the
combat, but finally, after three offi
cers. each with a pair of protesting
captives, had made their way from
the field, the exuberance simmered
down.
The season of 1913 was over—in At
lanta.
Mobile Sees Real Finish.
Down in Mobile, however, Charley
Frank and his doughty men do bat
tle with the Gulls in the game that
is to decide the pennant race of
1913.
Frank is fighting for Atlanta to
day. The Crackers, winning 19 of
their last 21 games, have wrought a
record that will blaze in history along
Its splendid path to a tie for the
pennant, up to the last game of the
year.
It’s up to New Orleans. They fought
craftily and grimly yesterday, and At
lanta, hundreds of miles from that
fateful conflict, was at one moment
within one little hit, one little error,
of the pennant. But Mobile won and
thereby kept their fighting chance.
But if the Crackers win the pen
nant by the thin margin of half a
game, or if they lose it by the same
narrow border, one thing remains un
tarnished and undimmed—
The gamest uphill fight ever made
by an Atlanta, ball club, or by ai.y
other ball club in the Southern League
—or in any league.
(For complete details of the pennant
race, see sporting sectionj.
NEW YORK, Sept. 6.—“This wreck
of the New Haven makes me believe
more and moer in my charmed brace
let. I never go by train, auto or
boat without wearing my cyanide of
potassium bracelet.”
Mrs. Claire McMillan, former wife
of Governor Oddie, of Nevada, and
cousin of Uncle Joe Cannon, made
these remarks. She is still young and
very beautiful.
A gold bracelet filled with cyanide
of potassium! Who ever heard of a
bracelet so tragic In Its meaning?
Mrs. McMillan has worn it since a
train wreck in 1904.
“The accident was so terrible,” she
says, “and I was so unprepared for a
tragedy that then and there on the
Western desert, where I lay all day in
the hot sun, almost dying for a drop
of water, 1 mad* ip my mind that if
I ever escaped alive I would wear
about me a dose of potassium cya
nide that would end my misery.
“I still wear my bracelet, and al
though I have escaped injury I have
been in racing automobiles going at
80 miles an hour and In other dan
gerous situations. That gave me con
fidence—for, after all, one must die,
but why suffer?”
Switzerland Again
Wins World Shoot
France Second and United States
Third—Canada, Forced to Use
Borrowed Weapons, Last.
CAMP PERRY, OHIO. Sept. 6.—
The championship of the world with
the free rifle, which goes to the win
ner of the International Union’s 300-
meter five-men match, was won to
day by Switzerland, for the fifteenth
time since 1897. The score of the
winning team was 4,957. The winners
get $1,000 in gold.
France was second with 4,771, and
get $900. The United States landed
third in the field of seven, with 4,577,
and received $800. The Swedes, who
were fourth with 4,571, get $700. The
Aregentine Republic was fifth with
4,080, and received $600, and Peru
sixth, with 3,883, and received $500.
The Canadian team shot the match
with borrowed rifles, being prohibited
from using their own weapons. They
scored 3,745, and won $300.
Joy Riders Held
After Street Fight
Negro Strikes White Man Who Had
Enjoyed Supper and Refresh
ments in Cafe.
Henry Frazier and Dennis Frazier,
of No. 20 Circle street, and Nina
Jackson, of Forsyth, after taking a
joy ride in a cab Saturday night,
were arrested following an encounter
with a negro, who knocked Henry
Frazier in the head.
The party, according to the story,
took a cab near the Viaduct, after
participating in a hearty supper, with
drinks. Beyond the Viaduct Henry
Frazier and the woman were accost
ed by a negro, who hit Frazier in
the face with his fist. The negro es
caped. Despite their story, the three
were held on a charge of disorderly
conduct.
Maud Allan Denies
Indian Ban on Dance
Manager Says She Will Continue
Her Performances Despite Agita
tion Created.
Special Cable to The American.
LONDON, Sept. 6.—Maud Allan,
who is away resting from a slight
breakdown, in answer to a telegram,
replied:
“I have absolutely no knowledge of
any official ban on my dancing in In
dia.”
Her manager. James MacLeod, said
to-day that she intends to proceed
w ith the program and is undisturbed
by the agitation created here.
BRINGS TIFF
VOTE MONDAY
Committee of the Whole Con
cludes Its Work on the Meas
ure at 10:45 p. m.
NO MORE AMENDMENTS
Poindexter’s Plea for Commission
Lost—Republicans Join to
Rush Bill Through.
WASHINGTON, Sept. 6.—At 10:45
to-night the tariff bill was conclud
ed in committee of the whole and re
ported to the Senate. No amend
ments not approved by the Finance
Committee will be made. The last
vote taken to-night was on Mr. Poin
dexter’s amendment for a tariff com
mission, which, like that of Senator
Cummins, was rejected by a vote of
33 to 21.
When the bill was reported out of
committee by the Vice President,
Chairman Simmons asked for a re
print and announced that when the
Senate met Monday morning at 10
o’clock lie would ask it to remain in
continuous session until the tariff hill
finally was passed.
Senator Gallinger, Republican lead
er, replied that he, too, hoped the bill
would be disposed of on that day.
This announcement, was received with
handclapping by the Democrats, who
were joined by the Democratic mem
bers of the House who were present
to watch the last stages of the fight.
The Senate then adjourned.
At 6 o’clock the dutiable and free
list had been finally* acted upon in
the committee of the whole. From
that time on the discussion was
based upon various administrative
features. All efforts to amend were
futile, and when the Senate finally
did adjourn over Sunday, Chairman
Simmons and his lieutenants were
upheld on every point.
Wheat Amendment Lost.
Senator Poindexter's amendment to
place a countervailing duty on logs
and shingles was rejected, and when
Senator McCumber moved to in
crease the countervailing duties of
wheat from 10 to 20 cents a bushel
he was defeated by a vote of 41 to 27.
The two Louisiana Senators voted
with the Republicans, while Senators
Cummins, Kenyon, Fall and Poindex
ter voted with the Democrats.
The Finance Committee agreed to
the motion to strike out the counter
vailing duty on mechanically-ground
wood pulp wood, as provided by the
House on the ground that under the
Canadian law this proposed duty
would be useless.
The paragraph placing leather on
the free list was strengthened, and
what was held by some to be a joker
eliminated. This “joker” was found
in the punctuation which would have
had the effect of shifting certain
classes of leather from the free to
the dutiable list.
Tariff Board Plan Rejected.
The duty on matches in bulk was
increased from one-fourth of a cent
to three-eighths of a cent a thousand.
The amendment of Senator Works
for a Tariff Commission of nine men
at $10,000 a year each was rejected
by a vote of 37 to 32.
A long debate followed Senator
Lodge’s amendment to retain the
House provision on works of art. In
this debate Senators Lodge and Root
paid a glowing tribute to the late J.
Pierpont Morgan in connection with
his art collection, which eventually
is to become public property. On the
theory that all are works in private
collections sooner or later become the
property of the people or are trans
ferred to public galleries. Mr. Lodge
Continued on P a ge 4, Column 1.
O NE of tho most interesting moving pie-
ture bills ever shown in Atlanta will
be at the Grand this week.
And these pictures will be shown by the
wonderful Kinemacolor moving picture
in natural colors. Everybody may see
them free—just cut out the coupon oil the
first Want Ad Page.
Then present it at the box office of the
Grand.
Go See Kioemacolor . You’lfl Enjoy
Advertises to Sell
Himself as Slave
‘Wanted, a Master,’ Is Novel Plea
of Man Who Can Not Find
Work in Rome, Ga.
ROME. GA., Sept. 6.—A peculiar
want ad appeared in to-day’s issue of
a paper here. It read:
WANTED—A master. Ablebodied
man, good references, willing
to work, will sell himeslf into
slavery for his keep. I have got
to eat. State best price. W. H.
The man who put in the ad was
neatly dressed and appeared to be
about 28 years old. His appearance
was that of a foreigner. Twice pre
viously the same man had advertised
for work without compensation other
than food and clothes.
Progressives Called
Weaklings by Bryan
Mooser Is Republican Who Is Asham
ed of It, Declares Secretary,
on Maine Stump.
PORTLAND, MAINE, Sept. U. A
Progressive is a Republican who is
ashamed of it—and hasn’t the cour
age to be a Democrat.
This is the definition given at Win-
terport by Secretary William J. Bryan
in a speech which he made in be
half of William R. Pettingall. Dem
ocratic candidate for Congress. The
Secretary bombarded the Third Dis
trict with sueeches.
Parcel Post Cuts
The Cost of Living
Fruit Drops From 12 1-2 to 5 Cents
a Pound When Shipment Is
Made Through Mails.
WASHINGTON. Sept. 6.—How the
parcel post did something toward re
ducing the cost of living in Gallup,
N. M., was related to-day in a re
port to Postmaster General Burleson.
The report said the price of fruit
on the Gallup market dropped from
12 1-2 cents a pound to 5 cents when
a parcel post shipment came in from
Colorado: -
Harry Orchard to
Apply for Pardon
Church Backs the Slayer of Gov
ernor Steunenberg in Fight
for Freedom.
BOISE, IDAHO, Sept. „ 6.—Harry
Orchard, self-confessed assassin of
former Governor Frank Steunenberg
and at one time sentenced to be
hanged, has published the required
notice in a Caldwell paper that he
will apply to the Board of Pardons it
the October meeting for a full and
absolute pardon.
The Metropolitan Church at Wau
kesha, Wis., is at the head of the
movement for the pardon.
Dewey Declares
Navy Ready for War
Admiral Says He Knows Nothing of
Army, but Sea Force Is
All Right.
PITTSFIELD, MASS., Sept. 6.—
When asked to-day if he regarded the
United States prepared for any un
expected trouble with a foreign na
tion Admiral George Dewey said: “So
far as the army is concerned I am not
prepared to give an opinion, but I
do not hesitate to say that the navy
has never been so well prepared fbr
war as at the present time."
Miss Eleanor Wilson
Denies She’s Engaged
Name of Youngest Daughter of Pres
ident Linked With That of
New York Man.
NEW YORK, Sept. 6.—Miss Eleanor
Wilson, youngest daughter of the
President, is not engaged to marry
Mervin Nelson, of New York. Ru
mor linked their names when they
were seen motoring with friends here
recently.
Mr. Nelson’s sister said to-day that
the rumor was so unreasonable as to
be absurd.
Miss Jessie Wilson
To Wed on Nov. 25
Ceremony to Take Place at the
White House—Details Are Not
Made Public.
•IPS FI Names U. S. Girl World Venus
; THUGS Grand Duke Picks Modern Helen
EETIil'S HI Czar’s "cousin* Is"Enthusiastic
Miss Marie Tailer (on the left), whom the Grand Duke Alex
ander Michaelovitch, cousin of the Czar, called “the handsomest
girl 1 have met in America.”
Chauffeur and Girl in Motor Car
Are Assailed by Three Negro
Highwaymen.
GROCER LOSES DAY’S CASH
Victim Pursues With Milk Bottle
as Weapon, Falls and Is Cut |
by Broken Glass.
Two sensational holdups*, one in
which three negroes fired a fusillade
of shots at occupants of art automo
bile and the other in which a West
End grocer was knocked down and
robbed of $200, occurred Saturday
night.
The automobile occupied by C. C.
Allen, a chauffeur living at No. 378
East Hunter street, and a young wo
man telephone operator at the
Terminal Station, was proceeding
along Garnett street when, at No. 18,
the negroes stepped into the middle
of the street in front of the ma
chine, and, brandishing revolvers, or
dered Allen to halt.
Calling to his companion to get to
the bottom of the car, Allen put on
speed and shot into the midst of his
assailants. The negroes broke away
before the automobile* and began fir
ing on it as it passed them. More
than a dozen shots were fired, two
of them hitting the rear tires of the
machine. Allen brought his machine
to a stop a block away, and ran back
to fight the negroes.
One of Trio Caught.
Orm Waddell, 32 Garnett street,
who had been attracted by the shots,
joined Allen and followed the negroes
to the Southern Railway yards, a
short distance away. Here yard de
tectives of the Southern Railway also
took up the chase, and a few min
utes later one of the negroes was cap
tured under a freight car. He gave
his name to the police as Joe Hunter,
33 years old, of Macon.
R. I. Orchard, a West End grocer,
was held up and robbed of $200 by
two highwaymen in front of hi« home,
235 Lee street, Haturday night. Though
they handled him roughly, the thugs
did not hurt him, but a minute later,
when he pursued them, he fell, broke
a milk .bottle he was carrying and
cut himself painfully about the eyes
Orchard closed his store at Gordon
and Lee street at about 11 o'clock
and placed all the cash from the day's
sales in a canvas sack. This he pock
eted, and started home.
Tackled a la Football.
From the shadows in front of his
home, two young men jumped at him.
According to his story, one seized him
around the neck, cutting off his
breath, and the other, diving at his
knees after the most approved man
ner of football tacklers, knocked his
feet from under him and hurled him
to the ground.
Then the man who had secured the
half-Nelson on the grocer changed
that hold for one even more effec
tive. He sat on Orchard’s head, while
his companion went through the gro
cer’s pockets, finding the sack of
money. Then they ran into the dark
ness of an alley.
Orchard gave chase, armed with an
empty milk bottle. Several feet back
in the alley he stumbled over a low
wire fence, lost his hold on the bot
tle, and fell forward. His face struck
the bottle and broke it. and the shat
tered glass cut him severely.
From his home Orchard notified the
police, and Patrolmen Gorman and
Evans responded to the call. Their
search was without result. Orchard ;
describes his assailants as young men, I
rather well dressed, and unmasked.
Miss Marie Tailer, of New York, Charms Royal
Russian Guest With Her Beauty.
NEW YORK, Sept. 6.—The Grand
Dukes of the royal House of Ro
manoff, the reigning family of Rus
sia, have always been noted, above
all other things, for their ability to
pick beauty.
Therefore, the edict of the Grand
Duke Alexander Mlchaelevltch. who
sailed to-day after a brief visit
among the smart set of Newport, car
ries much weight. During his stay
the Grand Duke was feted by the
most select society of the East. He
met every pretty woman of the New
port and New York 400. He admired
them all. Rut most of all he admired
Mine Marie Taller, ‘he beautiful
daughter of Mr. and Mrs. J. Lee Tai
ler, of New York.
"She is divine,” declared his higli-
Deaf and Dumb Get ,*
Place in Schools
Russian Prince Off
'Mid Salvo of Snipes
WINDSOR, VT„ Sept. Mrs.
Woodrow Wilson to-day announced
the date of the marriage of her
daughter, Jessie, to Franc!;' B. Sayre
as November 25, and that the cere
mony would take place in the White
House.
Other details in connection with
the wedding were not given out,
Class of Mutes To Be Given In
struction at Ashby Building
by Special Teacher.
For the first time, the Atlanta pub
lic school system this year will In
clude a grade for the deaf and dumb
children of the city. The new de
partment will be installed Monday at
the Ashby Street School building,
with Miss Alice Gibney, of Flint,
Mich., In charge.
The position of teacher in this de
partment was offered by wire Satur
day to Miss Gibney, who promptly
sent her acceptance.
Officials of the school system say
the new department will be perfect
ed along the. lines of the best deaf
and dumb s<wbols in the country. At
first there will be about ten pupils.
Engelicheff Declares New Yi^ Has
Prettiest Girls and Most Abom
inable Climate on Earth.
NEW YORK, Sept. 6.—Prince Nich
olas Engelicheff. for fourteen years
Rusisan Consul at Chicago, sailed for
Bremen on the George Washington
to-day with the Princess and their
small son, Prince Vladimir. The
Prince and Princess, who is a na
tive Chicagoan, both had severe colds.
"You have the most abominable
climate and the prettiest girls in the
world,” said the Prince. He sneezed.
"I believe Mr. Wilson will prove one
of the greatest of all Presidents.”
Sneeze. “You are on the eve of a
great era of prosperity." Sneeze.
"Once the tariff bill Is settled,
things are going to boom." Sneeze.
"But, oh. what a climate!” Sneeze
sneeze, sneeze.
CITY ENTERS
FIGHT OVER
ness, aftor lie had been presented to
her. “Sto-i is a modern Venus—the
most beautiful girl I have ever seen.
Your American girls can not be sur
passed anywhere in the universe.”
Lest his royal relatives think he
was only paying idle compliments, us
befits a royal guest in a foreign coun
try, the Grand Duke took back with
him a great collection of photographs
of American beauties to prove his
words. Tile Duke was an eager col
lector of photos and ulso accumu
lated a number.of snapshots- of New
port society girls in bathing cos
tumes. Amone theta.* are several of
Miss Tailer.
The Duke, before sailing to-day.
expressed himself as greatly pleased
with his visit and declared his inten
tion of returning.
2 Held For. Theft of
Armory Furnishings
Chairs and Carpets Stolen From Au
ditorium Found in Homes of
Negro Prisoners.
When Andrew Young and Elisha
Reynolds, negroes, were landed be
hind prison bars late Saturday night
the mystery of the daring theft of
costly chairs and carpets from the
Auditorium-Armory was cleared, ac
cording to the police. The negroes
were arrested by Detectives Osborn
and Cowan near 15 Warren place.
Chairs and carpets valued at several
hundred dollars were recovered by
the officers.
The arrest was the culmination of
a long investigation by members of
the detective department of the mys
terious disappearance of th<? Audi
torium furnishings. Several weeks
ago the guardians o6 the Auditorium
began to report carpets and chairs
missing. Systematic watdhing of the
premises finally enabled tljleTu to trace
the thefts to Young and Reynolds.
George H, Hillyer Answers Charge
of Mayor Woodward That Bosses
Have Framed New Government
for Atlanta and Intend to Rule.
Record Battle Over Abolishment
of Police and Fire Boards Is Ex
pected—Old Factions Lined Up
for Fight Like That of Year Ago.
Atlanta this week enters upon a
political campaign which bids fair
to surpass all others of recent his
tory in bitterness and political Big
niflcance. The new charter for At
lanta will be the main Issue ami
it is predicted that before it is
adopted there will be a tremendous
struggle among the faction*.
Leaders of the forces that are flgh; -
ing for the adoption of the new char
ter Saturday afternoon made lore -
ful replies to Mayor James G. Wood
ward's attack on that document.
In interviews for The Sunday
American they revealed for the fit's ■
time the argument that are to be
used In support of the charter, at
the same time endeavoring to re
pudiate the bitter charges of Mayor
Woodward.
Mayor Woodward and AJdine
Chambers, ex-councllmanic leader
stand as the heads of the opposing
forces m the coming campaign jusi
as they battled as the leaders In the
mayoralty campaign one year ago
The issue is not so clear as it was
then, but the inside politics is the
same.
Woodward's Support Mystsrious.
Mayor Woodward, boldly aggressive
himself, has little organization in hit,
support. Its strength, therefore, is
hard to estimate. The charter ad
vocates have almost the whole Cour.
oil for generals with the various
boards and city department organiza
tions drilled for battle array.
Atlanta has seen enough of these
fights before to know that this one
will be both exciting and bitter. c
George H. Hillyer, ex-Superior
Court judge and member of the State
Railroad Commission, who has been
chosen chairman of the charter cam
paign committee, outlined the issues:
as follows:
"First of all, the new charter codi
fies Rnd simplifies the organic law*
of our cits. That rea<*m*alone should
be sufficient to cause its adoption. So
much of the present charter is ob
solete and superfluous.
•It is not aimed at ousting Police
Chief J. L. Beavers or Fire Chief W.
B Cummings. I. personally, want to
see them both retained.
Abolishes Two Boards.
"Tile charter does abolish both the
Police Commission and the Board of
Fire Masters. It creates a Board of
Public Safety to administer the af
fairs of both departments. It Is up
to the people to elect Councilman
who will elect hoard members who,
in turn, will put the right sort of men
in charge of the police and fire de
partments.
“Other boards are abolished and
combined so as to make more effect
ive official bodies
“But the system of electing repre
sentatives from every section and
class of the city remains unchanged.
That fundamental principle of on
government Is left undisturbed to
give even the humblest ot citizens a
voice in the administration of At
lanta's affairs.
“The reduction of the Recorder's
flne limit of $500 to $200 is separate
from the main issue. You may vote
for the charter and then leave the
Recorder’s power as it Is or vote for
the charter and the reduction.
"The initiative, referendum and re
call Is to be voted on in the same
way. If you want that In addition to
the other reforms, vote for it. If nor,
vote against it.”
Alderman James R. Nutting said
the most pertinent facts in the char
ter election are these:
Each Ward Has a Say.
“The departments that have been
under Are are the construction and
fire departments. Neither »f them ist
administered by boards, mi the public
understands these bodies. The fir*
i