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CIRCULATION , t . SUNDAY ° f AMERICAN OVER 100,000 The Atlanta Georgian. Read for Profit—GEORGIAN WANT ADS---Use for Results VOL. XII. NO. 33. ATLANTA, GA., WEDNESDAY, SEPTEMBER 10, 1913. av^SM^ 2 CENTS. p ^p N f ° EVENING EDITION THAW, FREE, FLEES FROM JEROME +•+ 4**+ +•+ +•+ +•+ +•+ *•+ *•+ 4-«*t* +•+ +•+ *•+ Hundreds Crowded Out of School *•+ +•+ *•-!- 4**4* +•+ +»4* +•+ +•+ +•+ 4**+ HEAD OF SHRINERS PRAISES ATLANTA POTENTATE 0 CONCLAVE W. W, Irwin Predicts Attendance Records Will Be Broken at Great Meet in 1914, "I look forward to the greatest meeting of the Shrine when we come to Atlanta next year,” said Imperial Potentate W. W. Irwin, of Wheeling, W. Va„ Wednesday. Mr. Irwin, with other members of the Imperial Coun cil of the Shrlners, arrived in At lanta shortly after midnight and went at once to their headquarters at the Ansley Hotel. “Atlanta has been well advertised all over the country,” continued Mr. Irwin. "I have every reason to be lieve that all records will be broken for attendance. Thousands of Shrin- ens who never have been to Atlanta before will take this opportunity to visit thf city of which they have heard so much. First Impression Favorable. "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 homes will be able to take care of the great hosts that will be here to attend the annual conven tion of the Shrlners. “I've been on a tour of the country, and I have not seen a city that I 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.” Tour of City Is Planned. The delegation of Imperial officers came to Atlanta to make hotel reser vations for the convention. They held a meeting at 10 o’clock, at which members of the local Shrine were present. A tour of the city was plan ned for the afternoon, and other en tertainment for the evening. The del egation will leave Thursday after noon. They came to Atlanta from a tour of Panama and the Canal Zone. Among those in the party are Fred erick R. Smith, imperial deputy po tentate, Rochester, N. Y.; William S. Brown, imperial treasurer, Pitts burg; J. Putnam Stevens, imperial chief rabban, Portland, Me.; W. W. Irwin, imperial potentate, Wheeling, W. Va.; A. B. Ricker, Lewiston, Me.; J. Mi Keller, Rochester, N. Y.; J. W. McWilliams, Rochester, N. Y.; Sam uel S. Brown, Pittsburg, and Alexan der Gileland, Pittsburg. 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 Ulivi, Ital ian scientist and inventor, who claims to have discovered a new agency of warfare in the violet rays. According to Signor Ulivi, a scien tist in his inland laboratory, by the application of certain elements and mechanisms, can blow* up great dreadnoughts at sea. Twain’s Friend Dead; Saw Famed Frog Hop SAN FRANCISCO, Sept. 10.—Otto Dolling, a friend of Mark Twain, who claimed the distinction of having seen Twain’s “Jumping Frog of Calaveras” jump, is dead here after a long illness He was the proprietor of the An gel's Hotel in Angel’s Camp, where the celebrated frog, loaded with buck shot, failed to jump at a time when hie reputation as a jumper was at stake. IRCULATION Growth of The Georgian and Hearst’s Sunday American. Below 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 * ... 49,725 June 8 ... ... ... 52,609 June 4 ... 53,494 June 5 62,692 June 6 61,311 June 7 49,114 June 9 _ 48 862 June 10 48,007 49,540 49,228 June 11 June 12 June 13 49,691 49,635 June 14 June 16 55,119 June 17 50,141 June 18 49,088 June 19 48,860 June 20 48,934 June 21 47,490 June 23 50,127 June 24 51,085 June 25 50,774 June 26 50,877 June 27 61,487 June 28 50,349 June 30 63,806 CIRCULATION OF THE GEORGIAN FOR JULY July 1 ... 51,671 July 2 51,401 July 3 ... ... 61,063 July 4 49,988 July 6 51.308 July 7 49,956 July 8 51.326 July 9 50,823 July 10 52,761 July 11 50,778 July 12 50.948 July 14 51,867 July 15 54.077 July 16 51,980 July 17 52,077 July 18 51,419 July 19 50,997 July 21 52,750 July 22 63,748 July 23 52,828 July 24 51,608 July 26 54,596 July 26 64,378 July 28 . .. 64,567 July 29 63,113 64,340 July 30 July 31 63,864 FOR AUGUST August 1 ... August 2 ... August 4 ... August 5 . .. August 6 ... August 7 ... August 8 . . , August 9 . . . August 11 .. . August 12 ... August 18 .. 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 ... 397 453 244 857 297 002 387 523 742 743 455 709 139 534 623 669 403 208 306 372 203 950 502 831 681 761 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, April 13 80, April 20 79, April 27 77, May 4 77, May 11 .. 78 May 18 78, May 25 76 June 1 74, June 8 76 June 15 80, June 22 85, June 29 82 July 6 87 July 13 85, July 20 86 July 27 86 August 3 88 August 10 95 August 17 95 August 24 101 August 31 102, 828 612 300 305 729 061 379 914 353 107 683 309 478 599 851 175 864 ,836 ,827 841 ,259 ,487 Spooners See Ray of Hope in Police Commission’s Action Ordering Inquiry. Friends of Cupid’s victims saw a ray of hope for freedom from police interference. Wednesday In the action of the Police Commission in ordering a thorough investigation of the whole kissing problem that recently has be come so pressing. Since Mayor James G. Woodward assumed the role of chief defender of the spooners at the meeting of the Police Commission Tuesday night, it is expected that he will continue to be the leader of'the fight for liberal ity at the special meeting of the Commission next Wednesday night when the investigation will be made. Trial Postponed. A large crowd that gathered at the police station. Tuesday night to. hear the trial of former Captain J. W. Nor man, charged with kissing a young woman while on duty in Grant Park, and a discussion of kissing In gen eral, were much disappointed when the whole matter was postponed for a week. But there was some zest in the discussions necessary to bring about a postponement. The charges of “neglect of duty, hugging and kissing a woman ,n Grant Park while on duty” were read. “To some of these charges I plead guilty and to others not guilty,” said Policeman Norman. With that Lewis Thomas, attorney for Policeman Norman, Jumped up. Demands Name. “Gentlemen.” he began, “the charges are indefinite. No woman is named. I demand that Policeman Norman be informed whom he is charged with kissing.” Mayor Woodward showed his colors when he remarked: “There might be liability for dam ages if the charges were not upheld. But if the Chief knows it he should name the woman.” Chief Beavers admitted he could not swear to the name of the wo man, but he said he could prove her identity by witnesses. Although Commissioner McEachern insisted that it made no difference who the woman was, the investigation was postponed on the motion of Com missioner Vernoy that the name might be Included in the charge. The investigation was given the broader scope of investigating kiss ing and spooning in general by the appearance of W. C. Williams, a well- dressed young man, who wag given an opportunity to protest against his recent arrest for spooning on the Capitol steps. Hadn’t Even Embraced. Williams stated that he did not even have his arm around the girl, and that he did not kies her. but that he was arrested by two plainclothes officers and taken to police headquar. ters, where both of them had to spend the night. The next day, he said, they were released by putting up $31.75. When he explained that this money had been forfeited to save the girl from the notoriety of appearing in court, Mayor Woodward spoke again: “Is *hat money in the city treas ury? If It is. I move it be returned to the young man. We don’t want that kind of money. It’s poisoned.” Chief Beavers offered a defense of the officers, Clack and Welchel, by reading a report of the arrest of an other couple for spooning on the Cap itol steps. It was shown by this re port that the couple were kissing and that Recorder Broyles dismissed the case with a mere admonition. Commissioner W. P. Fain moved that as the Norman case had been postponed that this matter also be postponed that Officers Clack and Welchel may be called before the commission to explain their side. FILLED BY ■PUPILS Overcrowding of Schools Even Forces Students at Girls’ High to Sit in Windows. Deplorable over-crowding in the Atlanta public schools was disclosed In reports of the opening day’s at tendance filed Wednesday with Su perintendent W. M. Slaton. Descriptions submitted by several of the teachers and principals of the difficulties which they were forced to meet showed that in some of the schools children are being housed in the basements of the buildings and that classes are being held there. Because the schools near their homes are so badly congested as to forbid the acceptance of any more pupils, other children are compelled to walk a mile or a mile and a half in order to be able to attend school at all. The negro schools are so much YY-ojcaa- that they are rtmnhrg orr-tiertf- time, one-half of the pupils attending from 8:80 to 12:30 and the other half from 1:30 to 4:30. Half of Schools Affected. The reports *«ent in the' first daj revealed the startling fact that more than half of all the schools of the city have more pupils than they can take care of properly. This condi tion will be aggravated during tho next few days, as the first day’s at tendance will be increased consider ably by late arrivals. An effort will be made Wednesday afternoon at a meeting of the prin cipals in the office of Superintendent Slaton to alleviate the congested con ditions so far as possible, but the superintendent said Tuesday that the only real solution was the building of new school houses about the city where they are most needed. At the meeting of the principals some of the children in the most crowded schools will be transferred to schools in contiguous districts where there is plenty of room or where the congestion is not so marked. Moreland Ready Soon. The Moreland Avenue School rap idly i3 being placed in shape for the reception of students and within two or three weeks it will be possible to transfer five grades, three from the Inman Park, Edgewood Avenue and Highland schools, none of which have pufflcient accommodiations for all their pupils. This, however, will not fully re lieve the congestion in these three schools and the conditions are very likely to be exactly as bad as they are now within another two or three years. Three grades in the Inman Park School are kept in the basement. There is no other place for them in the building. It has been a question either of keeping the children in these unpleasant, if not insanitary, sur roundings or of giving them no in struction at all. The basements also are used at the State Street School and at the Grant Park School. Girls Sit in Windows. An S. O. S. call for more room and more desks came to Superintendent Slaton from the Girl’s High School during Tuesday forenoon. All rec ords for flrf»t week attendance had been broken and the girls were sit ting on window' sills and rostrums pending the arrival of more desks. The attendance at the girl’s school on the first day last year was 637. This year it was • 673, with 62 more taking entrance examinations. Miss Jessie Muse, the principal, estimated that 700 would be enrolled by the end of the week, the high-water mark in the history of the school. The attendance at the Tech High School is beginning to crowd the ac commodations and within two or three years, if the school continues to grow' with the leaps and bounds it Continued on Page 2, Column 3. MATTEAWAN FUGITIVE SNAPPED IN CANADA Mrs. T, L. Osborne No. 1 Breaks Down Upon Seeing Alleged Rival in Courtroom. Confronted for the first time by the wife of her husband to-day in Re corder’s Court, Mrs. T. L. Osborne No. 1 went into screaming hysterics that interrupted the proceedings of the court, which were not renewed until she had been revived in the of fice of the police matron. No sooner had her nerves been quieted when nhe saw her husband being led from the “bull pen” to face trial on charge of bigamy. Another fit of hysteria followed that again stopped proceedings. Mrs. Osborne is an invalid. About a year ago she was hurt in an acci dent in a Whitehall street department store and it was while she was recov ering from this hurt in Columbus that It Is alleged her husband, who lives at No. 216 Central avenue, took as a wife Mrs. M. E. Tidwell, No. 107 Avon avenue. To-day was the first time the wom en have met since the second nuptials are said to have occurred. Osborne waived examination before Judge Broyles and was held for Grand Jury action under $1,000 bond. Two photographs of Harry K. Thaw taken at the Sher brooke, Que., jail, where he was held pending deportation pro ceedings. THE WEATHER. Forecast for Atlanta and Georgia—Thunderstorms Wed nesday and Thursday. Cowed by Club, Votes As Stern Wife Says NEW KENSINGTON, PA., Sept. 10.—Mrs. 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 special election. Bernhardt followed instructions. Movies Snap Raid on Mountain Distillery ASHFCVILLE, N. C., Sept. 10.— Guarded by half a dozen officers, op erators for the movies got pictures of the actual destruction of an illicit distillery in the mountains of Burke County. HOLBROOK, N. H., Sept. 10— Harry Thaw was placed under arrest here at noon to-day. STEWARTSTOWN, N. H., Sept. 10.—Harry K. Thaw, fugi tive from Matteawan Asylum, who suddenly and unexpectedly was deported from Canada this morning, is a free man upon United States soil, playing a game of hide and seek with representatives of New York State in Northern New England. After a dramatic zig-zag flight from Nortons Mills, Vt., near , which place he was left by the Canadian immigration authorities, to Averill, Vt., then back to Nortons Mills, thence to Beecher Falls, Thaw crossed the New Hampshire State line in a motor car and dashed into Stewartstown a nhour before noon in company with a number of newspaper men. When Thaw left here he was believed to be either on his way to Quebec to sail for Europe or on his way into Maine. Thaw executed a clever coup and outgeneraled Wm. Travers Jerome, special attorney general for the State of New York. Jerome had stationed a cordon of private detectives along the border to intercept the fugitive if suddenly dumped into the United States by the Dominion Government. From the very beginning the quick moving events of the day, beginning with ejection from Canrfha, were full of surprises. From the moment that Deputy Su perintendent of Immigration E. Blake Robertson aroused Thaw in the im migration detention quarters in Coaticook, Que., shortly after 7 o’clock more or less mystery sur rounded the movements and motives in the flight. Whether Thaw was 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 warrant for his immediate ejection from Canada the fugitive began to rave. ”1 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 waiting high-powered touring car. How Thaw Was Put Over Border Into Vermont. COATICOOK. QUEBEC, Sept. 10.— Harry K. Thaw was taken from the immigration station to the Vermont border at 8 o’clock this morning:. A* Thaw left the station he yelled that It was kidnaping:, and as he was carried over the line he stood up in the car shouting:, “Kidnaped! Kidnaped!” Thaw w«~s taken from the deten tion quarters of the immigration building: at Caoticook at 8 o'clock by E. Blake Robertson, deputy super intendent of immigration for Canada. Thaw protested against being taken into the United States. His shouts attracted a number of persons. “This is entirely regular,” was Rob ertson’s response to the fugitive’s protestations, Robertson produced a warrant sign ed by Minister of Justice Doherty, who also is Acting Minister of the Interior, ordering the ejection of Thaw. These proceedings were teken in direct defiance of court proceedings instituted in this city by Thaw’s law yers, and in the face of an injunc tion holding up the order of deporta tion handed down by the Immigra tion Board of Inquiry last week. When word was received in Mon treal from Coaticook that Thaw had been deported, it created consterna tion among Thaw’s lawyers. They had expected to hold up deportation for six months, at least, possibly a year, and, perhaps, if an appeal was taken to the Privy Council, for two years. Thaw lost complete control of him self as he was whirled through the streets of Coaticook from the Xmmi- Man of Rich Family Dies in Hobo Hovel MEMPHIS, TENN., Sept. 10.-^C. M. Wandling, nephew of James Wangl ing, treasurer of the New York Sav ings Bank Trust Company, died to day in a hovel in “Hobo Hollow.” Letters found on the body indicated the uncle gave young Wandling mon ey and censured his extravagance. 2 Atlanta Boys Held For Savannah Thefts SAVANNAH. Sept. 10.—R S. Free man and George. Mann, Atlanta boys arrested here Saturday, were bound over to-day on bulglary charges. They are said to have robbed of fices in the business district