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A CHAIR ON
OF THE BALTIC
8pecl*J Cable to The Atlanta Georgian.
QUEENSTOWN. IRELAND, Sept.
12.—The death ship Baltic of the
White Star Line, bearing the body of
Mayor William J. Gaym of New
York City, arrives in port at 4:25
«. m., bringing fresh details of the
famous American’s death.
The stateroom occupied by Rufus
W. Gaynor, son of the late execu
tive, wa* roped off and guarded by a
cordon of ship's stewards. It was
explained that young Mr. Gaynor was
overcome by his father's death and
had been suffering Intense mental
anguish for nearly 48 hours.
Officials of the consular office in
Queenstown visited young Mr. Gay
nor and later viewed the body of his
father, which had been temporarily
prepared and lay In a stateroom.
Officials who had entrance to Ru
fus Ga.vnor’s stateroom said that the
young man had not slept an hou*
since his father’s sudden de: th at 1
o’clock Wednesday afternoon. Nor
had he eaten anything. He has been
constantly under the care of the ship’s
physician.
When Mayor Gaynor embarked for
a sea voyage on Thursday, September
4, it was known that his physical con
dition was run down. Mr. Gaynor
showed signs of weakness, but after
the ship had been at sea a few days
he seemed to grow better. He spent
much of his time alone or with his
con.
Seemed To Be Improved.
* Officers of the Baltic, it was learned
here, repeatedly asked Mayor Gaynor
if they could not perform some spe
cial service for him, but the sick man
would reply: ‘If you treat me as well
as you treat others. I’ll be satisfied.
I am only a passenger like the others.
I am content.”
The* morning of Mayor Gaynors
death the sick man seemed in better
spirits than usual. He walked the
deck for some time in the warm sun-
chine. accompanied by the small son
of one of the passengers. A warm
attachment had sprung up between
the tall, grave, gray-bearded man and
the little 3-year-old boy.
Mr. Gaynor had been telling the lit
tle fellow stories about some of the
big fish which live in the sea and
laughed heartily at some of the ques
tions which came back to him.
Shortly before 1 o'clock Rufus Gay
nor went below to look after his fa
ther’s luncheon. He returned shortly
to find his father huddled up in a
deck chair. Young Mr. Gaynor
thought at first that his father was
deeping and shook him gently by the
ehoulder. The pallor of the recum
bent man’s face caused his son to be
come alarmed and the ship’s surgeon,
Dr. Hopper, was called. He immedi
ately pronounced Mayor Gaynor dead
from heart failure.
Although Rufus Gaynor realized
that his father’s condition of health
was serious, he was completely
stunned by his parent’s sudden death.
It was all he could do to write the
wireless message which wac received
In New’ York City yesterday morning
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by Robert Adamson. Mr. Caynor s
Dr. Hopper, who was more or less
acquainted with the history of Mayor
Gaynor, said that his constitution
steadily had been declining since ho
was shot by a maniac in Hoboken. X.
J., three years ago. Mr. Gaynor’s
frame was emaciated, and Dr. Hop
per said that it was only by the most
tremendous exertion of will power
that the dead official could l-^ve held
himself to his tasks.
The death of Mayor Gaynor cast a
pall of gloom over the ship. All the
dances and other festivities on board
were canceled and the passengers
adopted a resolution of condolences,
which they tendered to Rufus Gay
nor.
The male nurse who accompanied
Mr. Gaynor to attend to his physical
comforts, and who seldom left his
patient’s side, said that the Mayor
seemed to be suffering, but never
complained. /
Did Not Discuss Politics.
The last words he is known to have
spoken were addressed shortly before
his death to a person who asked how
he was feeling.
"I am feeling very well; thank you,”
replied Mr. Gaynor.
Mayor Gaynor did not discuss poli
tics on the voyage, saying time and
again that his trip was for complete
rest and that he did not intend to
bother his mind about political af
fairs or municipal problems for a
fortnight.
Many came to the conclusion that,
in addition to taking the voyage for
rest, Mayor Gaynor also took it as a
means of getting a fortnight of semi
seclusion In which he might think
out his own course in the fall cam
paign In New York, decide upon is
sues and, in brief, settle all political
questions upon which his mind had
been in doubt.
If the Mayor felt that his fnd was
near he did not show it. He left no
message for the world.
Mrs. C. N. Williamson, the well-
known writer, who was a passenger
on the Baltic, said that Mayor Gaynor
appeared in the best of health and I
spirits.
‘‘He died with a smile upon his
face and a look of perfect content in
his eyes,” said Mrs Williamson. "His
death was the most beautiful that one
would ever see. His face was turned
upward to the sun, his hands were
clasped beneath a steamer rug. His j
life on board had been very quiet. He j
kept much to himself in his cabin
Occasionally he walked the deck with
his son. He became the chum of
the little son of one of the passen
gers and they spent some time to
gether in the warm sunshine. Mr.
Gaynor must have had a large fund
of children’s stories, for he kept the
tot interested every minute of their
time together. Mr. Gaynor appre
ciated music and attended the con
certs regularly.”
The plan of transferring the body
to the liner Cedric on a tender was
abandoned. A grim coincidence in
this connection is that Mr. Gaynor
had planned to return on the Cedric.
There was a Miss Gaynor on the
passenger list and a Mr. Whalen, but
it was officially denied that the
g woman was a relative of
Mayor Gaynor. She just happened to
be of the family name. The Gaynor
party consisted of Mayor Gaynor, his
LIVERPOOL, Sept. 12.—All plana
PUZZLE DELAYING
SALEOFA..B.&A.
Division of Five-Million-Dollar
Debt Depends on Report of
Auditor October 7.
Foreclosure sale of the Atlanta,
Birmingham and Atlantic Railroad,
ordered by Judge Don A. Pardee, of
the United States Circuit Court of
Appeals, is proving to be a compli
cated undertaking V. L 8mith. spe
cial master appointed to conduct the
sale, has been forced to postpone un
til October 7 determination of the
proper allotment of receivers’ cer
tificates.
The receivers have assumed $6.-
000,000 indebtedness, for which they
have issued certificates. The A. B.
Si A. consists of three parcels of
property, the railroad proper and two
terminal corporations, the Georgia
Terminal Company and the Alabama
Terminal Company.
What proportion of the $5,000,000
debt should be assumed by each of
these three was to have been decided
by the master this week, but, after
two days of hearings, at which at
torneys for the Old Colony Trust
Company, of Boston, representing the
bondholders, and attorneys for the
holders of the receivers' certificates
were present, it was found that vital
data were lacking.
The auditors’ office has been given
until October 7 to prepare these nec
essary figures.
ODD FELLOWS AT ETON.
DALTON, Sept. 12.—Hundreds of
Odd Fellows have assembled at Eton,
Murray County, to-day for the open
ing session of the fall convention of
the Eighteenth Division.
Edwin Gould Plans
To Fly to Florida
NEW YORK, sept. 12. — Edwin
Gould has purchased two hydro
aeroplanes and is planning a flight
along the coast from New London
to Palm Beach. He has been spend
ing seevral weeks in Chicago watch
ing Harold McCormick’s airboat and
perfecting his flying.
The largest Gould airboat will carry
six persons and will be the most lux
urious in the world. The flight down
the coast is to take place next month.
‘Bald’Jack Rose Hits
Reform Hypocrites
SOUTH NORWALK, CONN.. Sept.
12.—“The underworld will gradually
die for lack of population, when the
reformer® In our State reformatories
learn to be living examples of what
they preach and do not practice,”
said Jack Rose, the former gambler
and Rosenthal witness, in an addres.i
here.
Rose took the lecture platform for
the benefit of the East Norwalk Epis
copal Churcn
All-Southern Auto Route Trail
Blazer Reaches Calvert, Tex.,
in Downpour.
‘Women Are Losing
Ability to Blush’
BALTIMORE. Sept. 12.—“Rouge is
growing in popularity because women
are losing the ability to blush,” de
clared the Rt. Rev. J. S. Johnson
Bishop of Western Texas, a guest of
the Rev. Dr. Richard W. Hogue, of
this city.
"Women dress in these modern cos
tumes. designed by men tailors of
Paris, who meet rix months ahead
of the season. Women in our land
should rise up and throw off their
bondage.”
CALVERT, TEXAS. Sept. 12 —
Pathfinder Ferguson and his party
finished the lap of the all-Southern
transcontinental highway that ends
at Calvert to-day by covering several
miles of road submerged in places by
a foot or more of water.
Despite the downpour between Cal
vert and Hearne, Mayor J. W. Do-
remus, E. J. McGuirk, editor of The
Calvert Picayune; Guy Townsend and
Tom Field motored nine miles to
Hearne to meet Mr. Ferguson. A
rousing though drenching reception
was tendered the pathfinder and he
was the honored guest at a chicken
dinner after his arrival.
Mr. Ferguson left Hempstead
Thursday morning and stopped at
Navasota College Station, Bryan and
Hearne before reaching Calvert for
the night and was given an enthusi
astic reception at each place.
At Bryan, near which the Agricul
tural and Mechanical College is lo
cated, the pathfinder met, besides
County Judge J. L Maloney, Repre
sentative J. L. Fountain, City Engi
neer A. B. Carson and L. M. Howit,
secretary of the Commercial Club,
and R. J Pools, professor of highway
engineering at the college.
Atlanta Motorists
On Pathfinder’s Trail.
MOBILE, Sept. 12.—-Mr. and Mrs.
E. J. Paquette, of Atlanta, who are
following the all-Southern transcon
tinental route being mapped out by
H. L Ferguson, arrived here late last
night.
They left to-day for New Orleans
via Gulfport.
The
Arrangements were made with the
A local
The first official honors were paid
The Lord Mayor of Liverpool
When
A cordon of police will watch be-
The United States Consul here will
or's successor, met this forenoon to
arrange for a public funeral to take
place after the arrival here of the
Mayor’s body aboard the steamer
Lusitania, which sailed to-day from
Liverpool and is due here next Fri
day. Monday, September 22, has been
suggested as a tentative date.
There also were to oe meetings of
the dead executive’s cabinet—com
missioners of various city depart
ments—and of the Board of Aider-
men to pass appropriate resolutions
on the death of the chief executive
and to take in hand the city govern
ment, confused by the Mayor’s sud
den taking off.
The recent resignation of John
Purroy Mitchell, now candidate for
Mayor, from the presidency of the
Board of Aldermen, and the sudden
elevation of Mr. Kline, vice chairman
of the board, to the Mayor’s chair,
has left that body without a head.
The new Mayor, a Republican who
will serve until a successor, to be
chosen at the coming November elec
tion, is inaugurated on January 1, In
tends, he has announced, to carry out
the policies of the Gaynor adminis
tration. “in so far as I know’ them.”
and to make no changes in appointive
officials. None of these officials, : t
was believed to-day. would hand in
their resignations.
Anna Held Against
Stage for Daughter
NEW YORK, Sept. 12.—Anna Held,
who, with her daughter. Liane. ar
rived recently from Europe, does not
encourage the latter to follow her
mother's footsteps.
“No, I hope to keep her away from
the stage,” said Miss Held, “and I
will see to it that she sees as many
sides as possible. There is good, but
a good deal that is bad."
Miss Held has grown thinner since
the last time she visited America. Her
figure is now svelte and girlish.
FANATIC DEPORTED.
NEW YORK. Sept. 12.-William
Houghton, English, was deported here
for persisting that he was the Mes
siah.
Photographs of the newest
hats for fall and winter are given
in The Sunday American. Just
from Paris. Called “flapper”
hats and “flopper” hats. Every
woman will want to see them.
Bank Re-elects Heads;
Declares Dividend
Duke of Manchester
Is Sued as Bankrupt
Special Cable to The Atlanta Georgian.
LONDON. Sept. 12.—The Duke ot
Manchester, husband of Helena Zim
merman, of Cincinnati, is hopelessly
in the tolls of the money lenders. A
petition in bankruptcy, filed by one
of them, will be heard in the Bank
ruptcy Court.
The Duke owns 70,000 acres and a
magnificent gallery of old masters,
but these are either entailed or heav
ily mortgaged.
Officers of the Georgia Savings Bank
and Trust Company were re-elected
Thursday at the annual meeting, and a
semi-annual dividend of 4 per cent was
declared, payable Monday. It is the
oldest savings bank in Atlanta and has
earned its dividend regularly for years.
George M. Brown is president of the
institution; John W. Grant, vice presi
dent, and Joseph E. Brown is secretary-
treasurer. Other directors are Joseph
A. McCord, Arnold Broyles, John L
Tye. Elijah A. Brown and Fred B. Law.
A statement of the condition of the
bank at close of business August 31
shows total resources $1,047,487.92; de
posits, $632,756.22.
325TH FLYER KILLED.
Special Cable to The Atlanta Georgian.
MUENSTER, GERMANY, Sept. 12.
—Aviator Hans Lorenz was killed
here to-day while making a flight.
His death is the three hundred and
twenty-fifth in an airship.
Make It a
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Save $10
We have 117 stores.
Swellest woolens come to us
In carload lots—-direct from
the mills. We save nearly 50%.
That’s why we can make a
regular $25 suit for $15.
Suit or Overcoat
NE7W YORK, Sept. 12.—New York
J. Gaynor.
uarters. the municipal building—
fere draped in black.
The Board of Estimate, called to-
Tax for Bachelors
And Childless Wives
CINCINNATI, OHIO, Sept. 12 —
Bachelors and chadless wives are to
to be made a source of income for
the State of Ohio if the plana ad
vocated before the Woman’s Tax
payers’ League are carried out. The
plan Is to tax single men about 10
per cent.
Married women who have been in
that State for twenty years and are
not mother j are to be taxed also, ac
cording to the scheme.
GOOD JOKE ON LOCAL
SUPPLY COMPANY.
Through the carelessness of their
printers. 10,000 wholesale Catalogs
of the 35 Per Cent Auto Supply Com-
pany, No. 236 Peachtree street, which
were intended for wholesale trade,
were bound in the covers printed for
their retail Catalogs, but as part of
the issue was mailed before the er
ror was discovered, the comijany de
cided to stick by the prices until a
new Catalog could be issued.
It is stated that the printers who
made the blunder are making good
the losses rather than stand suit
Meanwhile numerous automobile
owners who have secured copies of
this Catalog (No. 36) are profiting by
the mistake and getting their tires
and supplies at wholesale prices. Adv.
Photographs of the newest
hats for fall and winter are given
in The Sunday American. Just
from Paris. Called “flapper”
hats and “flopper” hats. Every
woman will want to see them.
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To-morrow and Monday. September
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made at this store or by parcel
post, we will give a waterproof
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ABSOLUTELY FREE
Gigantic Bargains
Saturday and Monday
The supreme value-giving effort of our ca
reer begins to-morrow morning at 8 o’clock.
Most remarkable bargains in high-grade wa
terproof garments for men, women and children
ever offered bv a reputable concern. Read on.
The prices tell the story.
$5 English Slip-Ons
Saturday and Monday at this ctore
you can buy Regular $5 English Slip-
Ons for men, women and children at
the sensationally low price
$1.99
$8.00 Slip-Ons at
Styles for men and women in excel
lent all-wool, double texture Cash-
mere with regulation or Raglan
shoulders. Notice the fine finish. Ab
solutely waterproof, at
$3.99
$12 Slip-Ons at
Coats for both men and women, splen
did styles of Ctshmere cloth In the pop
ular tan or a rich shade of brown. An
unheard of value, at
$5.99
$18 Priestley Cravenette
Of IViestley's cravenetted
Scotch Tweeds and fine English
mixtures tor men. You might
pay more, but you couldn’t get
a better coat'. At ..
$8.99
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Hers's the place to get the
“big hit” styles and classiest
"all wool’ ’ materials—and sa va
a ‘‘ten spot”
107 Peachtree St.
$25 Gabardines
for men and women; elegant
'-oats, all good colors, silk
lined, convertible collars. For
rain or shine
$12.99
Boys’ and Girls’Slip-Ons
The finest models of the sea
son; sizes 6 to 16 years. Regu
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$1.79
$2.50 Girls’ India-Stripe Rain Capes $1.29
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