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CIRCULATION ' SUNDAY AMERICAN OVER 100,000 The Atlanta Georgian. Read for Profit---GEQRGIAN WANT ADS—Use for Results VOL. XII. NO. 33. ATLANTA, GA„ V WEDNESDAY, SEPTUM PER 10. 1913. 2 CEN’I PAY NO MORE , . - ■ HOME EDITION THAW DEPORTED; ARRESTED IN FLIGHT v • v »;*• v«v *!•••?• *1* • *1* V**’* v • +•4* +•+ *r*r Former Wife Defies Millionaire Seeking Child Scouts Possibility of ‘Kidnaping’ and Declares Promoter Fears to Venture Into Atlanta. K The threatened arrival of J. E. Bar- S low, millionaire promoter, with his f promise of taking his child from his former wife, has caused no scintilla of fear at No. 219 West Peachtree fctseet, where Edith Barlow is pursu ing* her profession of masseuse. Mrs. Barlow, in fact, has no idea that Barlow will arrive. She is rather of the opinion that if he does pass through Atlanta he will ask the con ductor of his train to “pull out” as eoon as the schedule will allow him. Concerning the possibility of the kidnaping of her 8-year-o!d daughter, Madeline, Mrs. Barlow shows her ab solute lack of fear on this score by having the little child answer door calls when patrons arrive. Thinks Husband is Bluffing. Mrs. Barlow pointedly intimates that her former husband is "four- flurhing" in the reports that he will cemc to Atlanta to get the child at why- cost, and is carrying on a game of bluff in causing declarations to be made that he has astounded Wall Street by his bold methods and has Interests in Cuba that put him in the plutocrat class. Mrs. Barlow was.-seen to-dhy. If naturally was expected that, after the husband’s declaration that he would arrive to-day, she would have her house and her child well guarded as a precaution against possible spiriting away process. Child Answers Door Bell. The house wasn’t guarded. Draw bridge and portcullis, bastion and outworks walls and watch towers were noticeably absent. The name “Edith Barlow, Masseuse.” was writ ten on a plate on the front door in bold 'etters of gold. V ring of the bell brought a prompt answer. A child of wonderful beauty responded to the call. The child was Madeline Barlow, the casus belli of the case in question. She has a sweet, oval face, marvel- OUS eyes of brown, hair of the same color that hangs in long ringlets over her shoulders. Mrs. Barlow Not Disturbed. A kidnaper could have sought no better opportunity'. The child left to find the mother, who was upstairs. Mrr. Barlow had read of the prom ised advent of her former husband, if she were perturbed by the news her face did not show it. She was ap parently as placid as a mill pond. “Mr. Barlow likes to talk," said his erstwhile wife. “1 don’t.” and there was just a suggestion of a snap in her dark eyes. "I guess it does him good in his business. His big finan cial deals have been made that way. Intimates Business Snarls. -I haven’t the least fear of his ar rival. In the first place T have no idea that he will ever arrive. Atlanta is not a particularly healthy spot for him. He owes a whole lot of money here and there are two of three busi ness transactions that he would have to answer for. should he set foot in Fulton County. “No. I haven't the leant idea that he will come here to fight for the child. That’s talk. He loves it. “Have I any fear that he will at tempt to kidnap Madeline? None in the least The court at Lumpkin gave me absolute custody of the little girl, when he failed to comply with that court’s order. Wife Shows No Fear. “If he should try anything like that he would be arrested in five minutes and I don’t think he would like to go to Jail. “You see how much fear I have. He knows where I live and Madeline has absolute freedom. “His talk is just to get before the public again his story that he is a financier, who is powerful on the bourses of Berlin, London and New York, and has a string of railroads in Cuba. If he reall- comes to Atlanta, he will not even stop over between trains." CIRCULATION Growth of The Georgian and Hearst’s Sunday American. Relow is given the daily circulation of The Georgian for the past three months, so that readers may obtain some idea of how rapidly their fa vorite evening newspaper is growing: CIRCULATION OF THE GEORGIAN FOR JUNE June June June June June June June June 10 . . June 11 .. June 12 .. June 13 . . June 14 . . June 16 . . June 17 . . June 18 . . June 19 .. June 20 .. June 21 June 23 . . June 24 . . June 25 .. June 26 . . June 27 .. June 28 . . June 30 . . 49.725 52,609 53.494 52,692 51,311 49,114 48.862 48,007 49,540 49.228 49,691 49,535 55,119 50,141 49,083 48,860 48,934 47,490 50,127 51,065 50,77 4 59,877 51,487 50,349 53,806 CIRCULATION OF THE GEORGIAN FOR JULY July July July July July July July July July July July July July July July July July July July July July J\ily July July July July July 671 401 063 988 308 956 326 823 761 778 948 867 077 980 077 419 997 750 748 828 608 596 378 567 113 340 864 CIRCULATION OF THE GEORGIAN FOR AUGUST August 1 August 2 August 4 August 5 August 6 August 7 August 8 August 9 August 11 August 12 August 13 August 14 August 15 August 16 August 18 August 19 August 20 August 21 August 22 August 23 August 25 August 26. August 27 August 28 August 29 August 30 C4.397 65,453 74,244 74,857 76,297 75,002 77,387 73,523 73.742 72.743 73,455 ^0,709 72,139 71,534 75,623 74.669 75,403 76,208 77,306 7Q 3U20S 98,950 82,502 77.831 76.681 74.761 Circulation of The Sunday American The circulation of The Sunday American follows, from the date of first publication, April 6, to the last Sunday In August: April 6 87,828 April 13 80,612 April 20 79,300 April 27 77,30o May 4 77,729 May 11 78,061 May 18 78,379 May 25 76,914 June 1 74,353 June 8 76,107 June 15 80,683 June 22 85,309 June 29 ... 82,478 July 6 87,599 Julv 13 85,851 July 20 .. 86,175 July 27 ... ... 86,864 August 3 •». ... m• 88,836 August 10 ... ... ... ... 95,827 August 17 . • •• 95,841 August 24 ... ... 101,259 August 31 ... ... «r»* 102,487 FOLTOim E MILLS County Board Orders Increase to 8Vs Cents Because of the Growth in Expenses. PLANS FOR SHRINERS' CONCLAVE LAID HERE BY IMPERIAL COUNCIL Imperial Potentate \Y. W. Irwin (right) congratulating For rest Adair, Potentate of Yaarab Temple, Atlanta, on the work of the local conclave committee. An increase of 20 mills in the Ful ton County tax rate—a jump of more than one-third—was ordered by the Board of County Commissioners Wednesday. The increase, made, it was de clare d,because of expenses entailed by expenditures on Fulton County’s new temple of justice and new courts voted by the last Legislature, will take from the pockets of taxpayers more than $300,000 yearly additional. It will mean an annual revenue of about $1,200,000, as against $900,000 last year. The new rate is 85 mills, as against 65 last year. An increase was made virtually certain when it was found that the new courthouse would cost at least half a million dollars more than originally estimated. Long Considered Inevitable. Disposition of the tax problem was he only thing of importance taken up by the Commissioners. The Commis sioners have beeri working on it for J several weeks, on the firm conviction that an increase was inevitable. After going over the appropriations they would be called upon to make to care for the departments of the county government, 85 mills was finally arrived at. It was thought at first that it would be necessary to exceed this amount, but by carefuiy chopping it was held down. Fulton County’s taxable property as shown in the tax digest compiled by County Tax Receiver T. M. Armi- stead and filed with the Commission ers in August, shows a total of $122,- 198,115. Commissioner Explains. "The increase in the rate of tax ation,” said Commissioner S. B. Tur man. “was necessary because of the increased expense of running the courts. We have four more courts now than we had six years ago, though until the last two were estab lished we were able to keep up the expense without additional taxes. “The action of the Legislature, however, in establishing the new' Su perior Court and the municipal courts made an increase in the tax rate ab solutely necessary. “The expense of maintaining the new courthouse also will be greater than the cost of keeping up the old courts, and additional expense has come because of advances in the price of material since the buiidtng was started. However, had not the new courts been established we could have kept the expenses of the county well w’tthin the revenues raised by the old rate.” Britain Buys Violet Rays,New War Agent Special Cable to The Atlanta Georgian. PARIS, Sept. 10.—A Portsmouth (England) dispatch to the Excelsior to-day said the British Admiralty has given contracts to Signor Uiivi, Ital ian scientist and inventor, who claims to have discovered a new agency of warfare in the violet rays. According to Signor Ullvi, a scien tist in his inland laboratory, by the application of certain elements and mechanisms, can blow up great dreadnoughts at sea. Rockefeller Takes Cripple Home in Auto CLEVELAND, Sept. 10.—Mr. and Mrs. John D. Rockefeller Sunday heard the Rev. Dr. W. W. Bustard, pastor of the Euclid Avenue Baptist Church, preach on the childhood of Christ, and Mrs. James Adams, who is crippled and w'alks with crutches, was taken home in the Rockefeller automobile. Mr. Rockefeller helped her at the church to her seat in the car. Japan Puts Marine Force in China to Enforce Indemnity SHANGHAI, Sept. 10—Japanese landed a force of marines with half a dozen rapid-fire guns on Chinese soil to- day to protect Japanese residents of the country in tne revolutionary zone and to enforce demands for in demnity for several Japanese who were killed in the battle at Nanking. Three Japanese cruisers and one Japanese gunboat are at Nanking, where a force of 200 Japanese sol diers are quartered. Mercury Hits 65, Lowest Since May With the Government thermometer registering 65 degrees at dawn—the lowest since last May—Atlanta Wed nesday had a foretaste of real au tumn weather. A cool wind kept the men who are still wearing straw hats chasing them all morning. At l o’clock the mercury had only climbed to 73 degrees, which was the temperature at daybreak Monday. The local weather bureau forecasts fair weather Wednesday night and Thursday for Atlanta. Cowed by Club, Votes As Stern Wife Says NEW KENSINGTON, PA.. Sept. 10.—Mr^, Harry K. Bernhardt, who conducts a small store here, marched her husband to the polls and, with a baseball bat handy, told him' to vote for the consolidation of Kensington and Arnold at the speojal election. Bernhardt followed instructions. Pathfinder Tourists Arrive at Galveston GALVESTON, Sept. 10.—F. L. Fer guson. of Atlanta, who is logging the all-Southern coast-to-coast auto high way. arrived here to-day. lie found the roads through East ern Texas in good condition as a whole. THE WEATHER. Forecast for Atlanta and Georgia—Thunderstorms Wed nesday and Thursday. 1 >tio: Plans for the great Shriners’ con vention in Atlanta May 12 and 13 were completed Wednesday at a con- l^rence of members of the Imperial Council in session at the Hotel Ans- ley. Headquarters were selected, reservations were made for the mem bers of The imperial divan, past im perial potentates and emeritus and honorary members, and the place for the sessions of the convention was chosen. All of the smaller details of the big conclave will be left to the local com mittee, which already has done a large amount of work in preparing for the reception of the thousands of guests and for the two days’ program. The Ansley and Piedmont Hotels were picked as the convention head- quai’ters. Reservations also were made in the^e hotels for the delegates or representatives, of whom there will be about 460, and for the past imperial potentates and honorary and emeritus members. The contracts signed by the hotel managers virtual ly amounted to a charter of the en tire accommodations during the dp.ys of the convention. Praises Local Committee. Imperial Potentate W. W. Irwin, of Wheeling, W. Va.. said that the two hotels admirably fitted the needs for convention headquarters, and that the local committee had done its work j so efficiently and had collected the data so well that the task of the Im perial Council was little more than routine. “I look forward to the greatest meeting of the Shrine when we come to Atlanta next year,” said Imperial Potentate Irwin. “Atlanta has been well advertised all over the country. I have every reason to believe that all records will be broken for attendance. Thousands of Shriners who never have been to Atlanta before will take this oppor tunity to visit the city of which they have heard so much. “Of course, I haven’t had much time to look around, but my first im pressions were that Atlanta had every appearance of a thriving and up-to- date city. I am confident that your fine new hotels, your apartments and your private hornet will be able to take care of the great hosts that will be here to attend the annual conven- n of the Shriners. ‘Tve been on a tour of the country, and I have not seen a city that 1 should say was any better prepared. Los Angeles is a wonderful town, but I hardly think it would be able to surpass Atlanta in the ability to take care of thousands of guests” Mayor and Beavers Hold 2-Hour Confab Mayor Woodward sent for Police Chief Beavers Wednesday morning and they held a two-hour conference in the Mayor’s office in the City Hall. When they came out neither of them would discuss the nature of the con ference. It is understood that they not only discussed the police policy towards / spooning, on which they have radi cally different views, hut other im portant matters concerning the po lice department. Hail in Charleston As Big as Walnuts CHARLESTON. S. C.. Sept. 10.— Fharleston is recovering from a ter rific hailstorm that hit the city yes terday afternoon, when a gale of 62 miles was generated and hailstones as large as walnuts pelted pedes trians, horses, roofs and foliage. The storm lasted twenty minutes. It was marked by hailstones that outride the memory of the oldest in habitants for size. Beach Resort Swept By Incendiary Blaze SALISBURG BEACH, MASS., Sept. 10.—Twenty-five armed citizens to day are guarding the fire-swept dis trict of Salisburg Beach, wlvere threu fires, all of which are believed to have been set, left 2,500 persons tempo rarily homeless and wiped out oter 300 buildings. The committee is ~>n guard to pre vent looting and further fires. MANCHESTER, N. H., Sept. 10.—Governor Sam uel Felker, of New Hampshire, stated to-day that he could not say just what action he would take with regard to Thaw. He said he would be governed entirely by the opinion of the Attorney General. C0LE3R00K, N. H., Sept. 10.—After enjoying three hours and a half of freedom, Harry K. Thaw, the fugitive from the Mat- teawan asylum, was placed under arrest here to-day by Sheriff Drew, of Coos County. Thaw had been deported from Canada earlier in the da.y by the Dominion immigration authorities, who acted suddenly and un expectedly. Thaw then began a three hours and a half automobile ride of the most frenzied character in the history of New England. He apparently was headed for Quebec or Maine, but his route made it appear he was playing tag with a phantom. Just as soon as Thaw was dumped over the border at Nortons Mills, Vermant, and disappeared in an automobile with several newspaper men, word was flashed to all the villages and towns of Northern Vermont and New Hampshire to watch out for the fugi tive. Just after noon a dust-covered juitomobile drew up in the public square of Little School House, a village five miles from Cole- brook. A travel-stained man jumped from the tonneau and began to stroll up and down. Sheriff Drew', who, with Bernard Jacobs, an attorney repre senting New York State, had been following the trail of the fugitive, came up. Sheriff Drew approached the man he assumed was Thaw and said: “I am the Sheriff of Coos County." Offers No Resistance. ( “Very well, Sheriff,” replied Thaw coolly, “I am very hungry. Where can I get something to eat?” The Sheriff and Jacobs were as tonished. They thought Thaw would put up a terrific battle against ar rest. The Sheriff volunteered to take Thaw to a hotel where he could get a meal and wash his face and hands, and the fugitive expressed his thanks. While Thaw was plunging into a hearty meal, Mr. Jacobs began to bombard Vermont with long distance telephone inquiries as to the where abouts of William T. Jerome, Special District Attorney representing New' York State. Jerome had been report ed at Manchester, Vt., but he could not be foqjpd there. Later he was lo cated at Bennington. Vt.. and headed his automobile toward Colebrook to take charge of the New York State’s part in the Thaw case. Mr. Jacobs and Sheriff Drew were in a quandary prior to getting into touch with Jerome. They did not want to put Tha v into Jail so they decided to put him under technical arrest or. in other words, to keep him under surveillance. Accordingly while Thaw was eat ing his w'ay through an enormous steak Sheriff Drew sat at the same take and never let his eyes w'ander from his prisoner. There were but two men in the au tomobile when Thaw was taken in charge at Little Schoolhouse. These were supposed to be two members of the newspaper party which had picked Thaw up at Nortons Mills. ** After his luncheon Thaw went to the lobby of the Mondanock House, where he had eaten, and ordered a cigar. Jerome on the Way. Jerome was expected to arrive here some time in the afternoon and im mediately begin his fight on United States soil to have Thaw extradited into New York State on the con spiracy warrant sworn out in Dutch ess County. New York, immediately after his escape from Matteawan Asylum. In the meantime Thaw was kept under the eye of the Sheriff. Thaw’ said hr would make no objections to going to the combination Jail and Jerome Calls the Chase 'Bug Hunting In the North Woods’ MANCHESTER, VT., Sept. 10.- William Travers Jerome, whe he heard of Thaw's deportatio? abandoned his plan to return t Montreal and telegraphed Attor ney General Carmody, of Nei York, asking him to request th Governors of New' Hampshire an Maine to arrest Harry K. Tha^ as a fugitive from Justice. He characterized the whol proceeding as “bug hunting In th North Woods,” and started for Ben nington, Vt., on his way to Nort Adams to await news of Thaw’ whereabouts. courthouse, as he intended to fight legally against his return to New York. “I can not talk about my trip here from # the border.” said Thaw. “Some friends tried to help me, but the roads up here must have been patterned after a cobweb. ”1 was so hungry and tired and cramped that I had to get out of the machine at Little Schoolhouse. I was going to aek ®ome directions, for we had traveled :n a circle part of the time this morning. Sheriff Drew spotted me while I was walking up and dow n stretching my leg*. I knew it was useless to make any fight against detention. It would only have made matters worse.” From the moment that Deputy Su perintendent of Immigration E. Blake Robertson aroused Thaw in the ^im migration detention quarters in Coaticook, Quebec, shortly after 7 o'clock more or less mystery sur rounded the movements and motives in the flight. Whether Thaw’ w r as in the hands of the New York authorities after he was dumped in Vermont or whether he had cunningly devised a plan for his own escape was not known until hours afterward. Thaw Raves at Officer. When Immigration Officer Robert son showed Thaw a w’arrant for his immediate ejection from Canada the fugitive began to rave. “I won’t go with you,” screamed Thaw. “This is a case of kidnaping. This is outrageous. I want to talk with my counsel. You can’t plot with Jerome to get me back into Matte - wan.” Thaw' almost had to be forcibly dressed. He grabbed a bottle and hurled it through a window of the room. Fighting and screaming he was carried from the room and placed in Continued on Page 6, Column L j i %