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VOL. 1. NO. 24.
Copyright, 191J, by
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ATLANTA, GA., SUNDAY, SEPTEMBER 14, 1913.
PRICE FIVE CENTR
HE FIGHTS
.5. SOIL
Cool, Masterful Pose He Assumed
in Canada Disappears When He
races Jerome Under Stars and
Stripes—Angry With Dominion.
Preparations Under Way to Speed
Extradition From New Hamp
shire to Matteawan—Array of
Counsel Retained for Struggle.
CODEBROOK, N. H„ Sept. 13.—
Harry Thaw, far from maintaining
the cool, masterful pose that he af
fected when he began his tight against
returning to Matteawan, is living in
a state of terror. The unexpected
freedom given him when the Cana
dian authorities without notice hus
tled him over the border has unset
tled him.
Free for a few hours. .Thaw was
throwm into a panic of indecision. His
plans were disarranged. He had no
means of making good the escape for
which his freedom gave him oppor
tunity. And the panic seems to have
remained tvith him.
Here in the hotel where he remains
under guard, Thaw insists that the
officers sleep just outside the door.
The presence of Jerome Alls him with
terror.
Added reason was given to his fear
when requisition papers calling for
his extradition from New Hampshire
to New York State were approved by
Acting Governor Glynn, of New York,
at the request of the authorities of
Dutchess County. The papers were
directed to Governor Felker, of New
Hampshire, who has announced that
he recognizes Mr. Glynn's right to
issue them.
However, there come moments of
calm, in which he plans to continue
his fight against return to New York
soil. He announced to-day that he
has employed a retinue of lawyers to
conduct his fight here, and that he
keeps in touch with his advocates in
Canada, who are endeavoring to ob
tain his legal return to Canadian soil.
Scores Immigration Officers.
Also. In these moments of logical
behavior, Thaw is loudly indignant in
his attack on Canadian authorities
for arbitrarily hustling him over the
border. He and his lawyers charge
that the action was without legal
basts. His hopes were that the courts
of the Dominion would heed his plea
and prevent extradition. In Canada
he was glowing in his praise of Can
ada and its people, declaring his be
lief that he would obtain Justice. Now
he Is disgruntled.
"I hope to get a better variety of
justice under the Stars and Stripes,”
he said' to-day. in talking of his plans
to fight against returning to New'
York.
Oddly enough, Thaw and his ene
mies are of a single mind in denounc
ing the action of the Canadian immi
gratlon authorities. Jerome and his
allies who have been pursuing Thaw
are not yet over the fright they re
ceived when they found the fugitive
had been released. For three hours
they scoured the countryside, ob
sessed by the fear that they would
lose their quarry-. And now they are
indignantly talking of the high-hand
ed action of the immigration officials.
Jerome and Deputy Attorney Gen
eral Kennedy, of New York, both
were bitter in their attack on those
who sent Thaw across the border free.
The fight, transferred from Canada
to New Hampshire, will take on a
slightly different aspect. Jerome and
his allies will attempt to obtain
Thaw's return to New York on a
warrant charging him with conspir
ing to escape from the asylum, a
criminal charge. Thaw’s lawyers will
attempt to offset this with the argu
ment that Thaw being Insane in the
eyes of New York authorities, could
not conspire, in the sense of the law.
Jerome Grows Impatient.
The fight probably will consume
several days or a week, so that even
if the fugitive loses he will not be
taken to Matteawan before late this
we ek. Jerome is growing Impatient
over the stubbornness of Thaw’s
«_ ht and immediately upon his ar
rival' he sought audience, with Gov
ernor Felker and Attorney General
Tuttle of New Hampshire, to obtain
from them the promise of no delay in
th trnh ar the time for the hearing at
hand Thaw finds himself among a
people who are not nearly so uni-
q ttf , t ;i,usi sa-Pase 4, Column 5.
CIRCULATION
Growth of The Georgian
and Hearst’s Sunday
American.
Relow is given the circulation fig
ures of Hearst’s Sunday American
and Atlanta Georgian so that read
ers may see the remarkable growth
of the two leading newspapers of the
South.
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 .. ... 87,823
April 13 80,612
April 20 „ 79,300
April 27 77,305
May 4 ...... 77,729
May 11 ... ... — 78,061
May 18 ._ 78,379
May 25 ... 76,914
June 1 ... .. 74,363
June 8 76,107
June 15 80,683
June 22 85,309
June 29 ... ... ... 82,478
July 6 ... ... 87,599
July 13 ... 85,851
July 20 — 86,175
July 27 ... ... 86,864
August 3 ... ... 88,836
August 10 95,827
August f7 ... 95,841
August 24 . ... ... ... ... 101,259
August 31 ... ... 102,487
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
50,774
50,877
51,487
50,349
53,806
OUTLIVES LIFE.
Sir Oliver Lodge Declares That
Psychic Region Can Be
Studied Effectively.
EXISTENCE RESEMBLES LOOM
Intercourse Across the Chasm of
Death May Be Gradually
Attained, He Asserts.
CIRCULATION OF THE GEORGIAN
FOR JULY
i
61,671
2 51,401
8 51,063
4 49,988
49,956
51,326
50,823
52,761
50,778
50,948
July
July
July
July
July 5 51,308
July 7
July 8
July 9
July 10
July 11
July 12
July 14 51,867
July 15 54,077
July 16 51,980
July 17 52,0f7
July 18 51,419
July 19 60,997
July 21 52,750
July 22 63,748
July 23 62,828
July 24 > 51,608
July 25 54,596
July 26 ' 54,378
July 28 64,567
July 29 63,113
July 30 64,340
July 31 ... .„ ... 63,864
CIRCULATION OF THE GEORGIAN
FOR AUGUST
August 1 _* ... 64,397
August 2 65,453
August 4 74,244
August 5 74,857
August 6 76,297
August 7 * 75,002
August 8 77,387
August 9 ... 73,523
August 11 .. 73,742
August 12 72,743
August 13 — . . .. 73,455
August 14 70,700
August 15 72,139
August 16 71,534
August 18 75,623
August 19 s 74,669
August 20 75,403
August 21 76,208
August 22 77,306
August 23 79,372
August 25 131,203
August 26. ..
August 27 ...
August 28
August 29
August 30 ...
*• »M ••
-^,951
82,502
77,831
76,681
74,761
Special Cable to The American.
BIRMINGHAM, ENGLAND, Sept.
18.—“I am one of those who think
that the methods of science are not
so limited in scope as has been
thought, that they can be applied
much more widely and that • the
psychic regions, can be studied and
brought under law, too.”
So declared the learned Sir Oliver
Lodge, president of the British As
sociation for the Advancement* of
Science, in his address at the opening
of the association’s meeting here to
day.
And again the erudite president
said:
“Already the facts examined have
convinced me that memory and affec
tion are not limited to that associa
tion with matter by which alone they
can manifest ttiemseives here and
now, and that personality persists be
yond personal death.”
So, despite his denial that he would
invade the psychic region in his ad
dress Sir Oliver did enter it, but he
watched his every step, guarded his
every word.
“Keystone of Evolution.”
Said he to his great audience:
“If we have learned from science
that evolution is real, we have learned
a great deal. Surelv evolution is not
an illusion; surely the universe pro
gresses in time. Time and space and
’ matter are abstractions, but are none
{ the less real; they are data given by
experience; and time is the keystone
of evolution.
“I see the whole of material exist
ence as a steady passage from past
to future, only the single instant
which we call the present being ac
tual. The past is not non-existent,
however; it is stored in our memo
ries; there is a record of it in matter,
and the present is based upon it; the
future is the outcome of the present
and is the product of evolution.
Life js Like a Loom.
I “Existence is like the output from
a loom. The pattern, the design for
j the weaving, is in some sort ‘there’
already; but whereas our looms are
mere machines, once the guiding
cards have been fed into them, the
Loom of Time Is complicated by a
multitude of free agents who can
modify the web. * • •
“Either we are immortal beings or
we are not. We may not know our
destiny, but we must have a destiny
of some sort. Those who make de
nials are just as likely to be w r rong
as those who make assertions; in fact,
denials are assertions thrown into
negative form.
“Scientific men are looked up to as
authorities and should be careful not
to mislead. Science may not be able
to reveal human destiny, but it cer
tainly should not obscure ft. Things
are as they are, whether we find them
out or not.
Asks for a Fair Trial.
“Allow us, anyhow, to make the at
tempt. Give us a fair field. Let those
who prefer the materialistic hypothe
sis by all means develop their thesis
as far as they can; but let us try
what we can do in the psychical re
gion and see which w r ins.
“Our methods are really the same
as theirs—the subject matter differs.
Neither should we abuse the other for
making the attempt.
“In Justice to myself and my co
workers I must leave on record our
conviction that occurrences now re
garded as occult can be explained and
reduced to order by the methods of
science carefully and persistently ap
plied,” said Sir Oliver, on whom uni
versities have showered honorary de
grees.
“The evidence, to my mind, goes to
prove that discarnate intelligence, un
der certain conditions, may interact
with us on the material side, thus in
directly coming within our scientific
ken; and that gradually we may hope
to attain some understanding of the
nature of a larger, perhaps the real,
existence, and of the conditions reg
ulating intercourse across the chasm.”
FARMER FINDS LOST COIN
IN HEART OF WATERMELON
GREELEY. COLO., Sept. 13.—When
Daniel Kinney, of this city, cut open the
first watermelon of the season from his
garden to-day he found in the center a
half-dime of 1862, which he last last
spring while planting the melon patch'.
The juices of the melon had bright
ened the coin until it looked as if it
was newly minted*
Rivals Shave Rich
Youth's Upper Lip
Young Man Wins Girls’ Smile, but
When He Does So He Loses
Mustache.
SANTA BARBARA, Sept. 13.—
Wh^n Mayo Newhall, Jr., scion of a
wealthy and prominent San Francisco
family, came to Santa Barbara a cou
ple of weeks ago for a social visit,
he had to introduce himself to hiB
many Santa Barbara and Montecito
friends, for he was changed in looks.
He had grown a mustache.
Young men friends became Jealous,
as they had noticed the admiring
glances of the girls of the younger
set, and one night determined to place
Mr. Newhall on equal grounds with
themselves.
It was the night Miss Gladys
Keeney entertained that the young
men wrought their vengeance. One
with a mug of lather and another
with a safety razor followed closely
the gang that pounced upon the San
Francisooan. When the gang wt^j
through, Mr. Newhall was minus his
hirsute adornment.
Bloomer Girls Beat
Ministers in Skirts
Drexel Biddle Bible Class Sees Ex
citing Game, but No One Knows
the Score.
PHILADELPHIA, Sept. 13.—Nine
ministers dressed in skirts, sans slits,
and nine pretty girls clad in bloom
ers furnished the amusement and ex
citement in a game of baseball for
2,500 members of the A. J. Drexel
Biddle Bible class at the outing of
that organization at Lansdowne.
It wasn’t much of a game of ball,
but the contest, which was for a box
of candy, proved of much interest
and never-ending merriment. None
of the players knew the score when
the game was called at the end of
the seventh inning, but Mr. Biddle
announced that he girls had won.
Miss Anna Zang twirled the bloom-
erites to victory! Nearly all of the
girls shut their eyes when at bat, but
at that several hit for two bases.
Remorse Is Sentence
Imposed by Court
Judge Allows Teamster Who Killed
Boy To Be Punished by
Conscience.
NEW YORK, Scot. 13.—Counts
Judge Tiernan, of Brooklyn, deliv
ered two Solomonic admonitions to
prisoners.
To Herman Maier, indicted for
manslaughter, the court said:
“I’ll not send you to prison. I will
let remorse be your punishment.”
Maier, a truckman, threw a stone
at some boys who teased his horse.
He struck one and meningitis and
death followed.
To Harry Bender, convicted o^bur
glary, the Judge said:
“It would be better for this man if
he were dead. He is an habitual
criminal. I sentence him to four
years.”
Resolutions of Gratitude Passed
for His Aid After Eruption of
Vesuvius in 1906,
MONUMENT IS UNVEILED
At Banquet Following Ceremony
Publisher Is Toasted Along
With King and Queen,
Special Cable to The American.
NAPLES, Sept. 13.—A memorial to
the 105 mothers and children crushed
to death during the eruption of 1906
under the roof of the small chapel in
San Giuseppe Vesuviano, where they
sought refuge against the overpow
ering fall of ashes and rooks, was un
veiled to-day in tile presence of the
civil and military authorities of Na
ples, the Mayor of each town in the
Vesuvian district and a large crowd
of representative citizens.
A feature of the ceremony was a
resolution of the Town Council of San
Giuseppe Vesuviano thanking Mr.
llearst and his newspapers for the
substantial help sent to the afflicted
district at the time of the eruption.
The monument, consisting of a base
nine feet high and a twelve-foot mar
ble column surmounted by a Pom
peian capital, the work of the sculp
tor Arizo, of Naples, marks the site
where on the night of April 8, 1906,
the stricken mothers repaired with
their infants to pray for deliverance
from the impending catastrophe.
Resolution of Thanks.
While they prayed the roof of the
flimsy structure collapsed under the
accumulated deposit of ashes and all
were crushed to death.
The Hearst newspapers collected
ior the sufferers more than $35,000,
which was handed to the Italian Red
Cross Society. A small balance of
$206 afterward was devoted to the
erection of the memorial which the
local population had decided to build.
During the ceremony Lawyer Silvio
Cola, chairman of the memorial com-
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Captain Matthew A. Batson, U. S. A. retired, of Savannah, I
who is the inventor of a multiplane which he declares will make j
aerial commercial navigation possible.
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Kissed 15 Candy Girls
So Must Pay Alimony
“Matter of Habit,” Says Confectioner
When on Stand In Suit for
Divorce. /
SAN FRANCISCO, Sept. 13.—An
nie McCay, owner of a candy store
at No. 211 Church street, was granted
a divorce by Judge Tranucco, from
George McCay, owner of five candy
stores in this city and Oakland. Mc
Cay was ordered to pay his wife $20
a month for the support of their
minor child.
The wife took to court fifteen pretty
candy girls who had been In her hus
band’s employ. All of these girls tes
tified that McCay had either atempted
or had actually kissed them during
working hours. McCay admitted the
kisses, hut tried to condone his action
by declaring it was “a matter of
habit.”
Wife Beater Cured by
Whipping Post Scare
Judge Sabath Frightens Prisoner
Into Promise To Be Good
In the Future.
Captain Batson’s multiplane, in which he plans to fly across
the Atlantic from Savannah to England.
Make Old Barber Quit
Current From Customers’ Heads
Makes Him Nervous, He Says,
In Retiring.
CHICAGO, Sept. 13—The threat of
a whipping post for wife beaters by
Municipal Judge Sabath in the Hyde
Park Court yesterday was enough to
make John Firber, No. 1161 South
Park avenue, plead for mercy.
“I think I will let the policeman who
arrested you take you downstairs to
the whipping post,” said Judge Sab
ath to him. “You know we have one
for wife beaters now.”
“Fine me, Judge,” pleaded Firber
with his arms extended, “but don’t do
that.”
After he had made a promise never
to hit his wile against the court dis
charged him*
mittee, before unveiling the monu-|-[J FlppfFlP SVinplrSJ
ment, read resolutions thanking Mr. JJlLUullLf KJIIUUIyO
Hearst for his generous help. The
resolutions, engrossed upon parch
ment, were then handed to Judge Pal-
mieri, who was present as Mr.
Hearst’s representative.
Banquet to Judge Palmierl.
Later a banquet was given in honor
of Judge Palmierl. In an address the
Baron Quarante di San Severine cited
many actions of Mr. Hearst which, he
pointed out, entitled him to the grati
tude of Italians, both in Italy and In
America. He mentioned also the
stand taken by all the Hearst news
papers during the Italo-Turklsh war,
and the many fights made by those
publications against laws restricting
immigration.
Every reference to Mr. Hearst was
loudly cheered. _ • *r\ »
Speaking as the representative of PriVcitG RclDS ArillV!
Mr. Hearst, Judge Palmierl thanked * , 7
the committee and the municipality OrClGrGCi tiO tx 1S0I1
for the noble way in which they ex
pressed their gratitude to one of
Italy’s most sincere friends In Amer
ica. Mr. Hearst's name, which is en
graved In large letters at the base of
the column, was joined to those of
the Queen and King of Italy in u
toast which all drank standing.
DARBY. PA., Sept. 13.—After 41
years as a barber, Phil Slpler, of
Darby, announced to-day he had quit
business.
“A* I grow older," he declared, "I
become more and more sensitive to
slight electric shocks with which hu
man hair insulates my shears. It
makes me nervous. I should hate to
figure the total voltage of the shocks
I received during a year.”
PRAIRIE CHICKEN TAMED.
SHELDON, N DAK., Sept. 13.—A
young prairie chicken came to the
home of Robert Gray, near here, and
established a residence witn the tame
chickens. It comes to be fed every
morning and stays with the rest of
the poultry all day.
Soldier’s Letter to Tumulty Criticiz
ing Signal Corps Gets Him
Year's Sentence.
LEAVENWORTH, KANS., Sept. 13.
Because he was dissatisfied with
conditions in the signal corps and
voiced his complaint in a letter ad
dressed to Joseph Tumulty, private
Secretary to the President, Private
Clarence L. George, Company H, was
sentenced to a year in the military
prison here. He also will receive a
dishonorable discharge.
Multiplane Intended to Carry Pas
sengers Across Ocean Is Being
Built in Savannah.
SAVANNAH, Sept. 13.—A Georgia
man, with ambitious vision, Is plan
ning an aeroplane trip across the At
lanta Ocean. The time for the ven
ture Is not far distant, and the busy
hammering and filing that can be
heard in the workshop near Savannah
tells that every preparation is being
made. —
It is Captain Matthew A. Batson,
a retired army officer, w'ho will make
this challenge to destiny. He has
been working for years toward this
end, and has perfected a unique type
of flying machine that is popularly
known as the Batson hydro-aero
plane.
So certain are Captain Batson and
his friends that the daring venture
will be successful that a concern has
been organized, known as the Bat
son Aero Company, Incorporated un
der the laws of New Jersey, with a
capital stock of $300,000, “to operate
between Savannah, Ga., and Liver
pool England, a line of passenger-
carrying air craft.” according to the
words of the charter.
Captain Batson is president of the
company. The line will not be es
tablished for little more than a year,
but there will be trial flights a-plenty
before that time, aa the plans state,
at Thunderbolt, Brickyard Island, on
the Wilmington River, where the
plant is located.
Model* Fly Faithfully.
The first flight of the hydro-aero
plane will be made early. The mod
els of the machine have flown faith
fully. The entire machine is now' as
sembled, the flying section having
been fixed to the boat hull several
days ago.
It is the intention of Captain Bat
son to navigate the craft into the
Wilmington River, and to make the
first trial flights in the direction of
Wilmington IslanJ. The tests of the
airship will be visible from the Casi
no, Thunderbolt, and it is expected
that thousands of people will make
the trip to the resort to see the big
machine as it takes to ine air.
Of a size to permit the carrying of
Continued on Page 2, Column 6.
Court of Impeachment to Assem
ble Thursday to Try Governor on
Charges of Crimes and Misde
meanors Preferred by Assembly.
Technicalities Which Will Be Ad
vanced in Early Stages Expected
to Prolong Case Indefinitely.
Defense Has Brilliant Counsel.
ALBANY, Sept. 13.—-For the first
time In the history of New York
State a chief executive will go to trial
for “high crimes and misdemeanors”
when Governor William Sulzer faces,
on Thursday next, a majority of the
Senate and a majority of the Court
of Appeals, sitting as a high court of
impeachment
Special counsel for the State of
New York to prosecute the impeach
ment will summon Sulzer to the bar.
Aaron J. Levy, majority leader of
the Assembly and chairman of the
Assembly Board of Managers, will
have direct charge of the prosecution,
for it was the Assembly that im
peached Sulzer, as prescribed by the
Constitution. Sulzer, who still main
tains his right to the Governorship,
will be defended by a brilliant array
of counsel.
With Sulzer on trial the battle be
tween New York's “People’s Govern
or,” and Tammany Hall, the political
organization that made him and is
now setting out to break him, will
near its end. It is a. political quarrel
that will go down In history.
It will be a dramatic moment wben
Snlzer steps before the court of im
peachment, with Chief Justice Cullen,
of the .Court of Appeals, presiding.
There fiave been many rumors of
what Sulzer’s defense will be, but no
definite statement of what course it
will take could be obtained from anv
of his counsel to-day.
Sulzer Appears Confident.
On the eve of his trial Sulzer ap
pears confident. So. for that matter,
do his enemies. They say that the
court of impeachment will not be af
fected in any way by the feeling of
popular sympathy for Sulzer. It will
be a cold, calm proposition of wheth
er Sulzer was or was not guilty of
malfeasance In office—a question of
whether, as charged by the Assem
bly, he did or did not speculate In
Wall street with campaign funds and
of whether he did or did not fail ta
give a true and correct list of his cam
paign contributions In his ew’orn
statement of campaign receipts an*l
expenditures.
It is possible that a dramatic, per
haps pathetic, touch will be given the
proceedings by the introduction of the
name of Mrs. Sulzer. It is said to be
likely that Mrs. Sulzer will stand by
the statement credited to her in which
she is alleged to have said that it
was she who speculated in Wall
street with campaign fund's, without
the Governor’s knowledge. If this is
to be the Sulzer line of defense, Mrs.
Sulzer will be forced to make very
humiliating admissions upon the wit
ness stand, an ordeal that would b©
very trying to her and a proceeding
which even Sulzer*5 worst enemies
would prefer to avoid.
Before the Court of Impeachment
can commence to hear the charges
drawn by the Assembly, there must
be at least four of the judges of the
Court of Appeals present and at least
26 members of the Senate.
Justioe* Who Try Case.
Edgar M. Cullen is Chief Justice
of the Court of Appeals. Associated
with him are Justices John Clinton
Gray, William E. Werner, Willard
Bartlett, Frederick Collins. William H.
Cuddeback and John W. Hogan. There
are three other associate Justices, not
elected, as were all of the foregoing,
but designated by Governors at differ
ent times because of the press of liti
gation before the court. Emory A.
Chase was designated an associate
justiefein 1906. Frank H. Hlscock Is
also an associate justice, designated
by Governor Sulzer, Justice Nathan
Miller was designated by Sulzer him
self in January las*.
There is much difference of opin
ion as to whether these designated
justices will be legally entitled to ei|