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/HOPE LOST
(FOR MONEY
MURE AT
THIS SESSION
Confidential Reports Made to the
President Fix November 1 as
Earliest Possible Date to Expect
' Report of Committee on Finance
I Republicans Are Said To Be Pla
/ cated by Wilson’s Announce-
I ment That Legislation Will Not
Be Considered Along Party Lines
WASHINGTON, Oct 18—All hope
of enacting the Administration cur
rency bill into law at the present ses-
I sion <>f Congress was given up to-day.
\Contidential reports made to the Pres
ident set November 1 as the earliest
jM»ssible date upon which a report on
the measure could be looked for from
the Senate Banking and Currency
< ’ommlttee.
At the same it was stated that six
of debate would be consumed
by the Senate before the bill could be
-s* i <»n to the conferees of the Sen
. and House.
The R esident was assured that
ere i> no disposition on the part
< 'e . dators of the Upper House to
I <i out against the Administration,
lie cidican members of the Banking
and Currency Committee have been
placated by the Chief Executive’s dec
'• ration that he had no intention of
making the pending bill a strictly
party measure, and they, too, will join
in signing a report so as to facilitate
matters
A suggestion has been made that
the Banking and Currency Commit
tee hold night hearings beginning next
week in order to hurry along a report.
The opening of direct negotiations
i with Republican Senators, it is under
stood. was decided upon by the Presi
dent because of suggestions from out
side sources that they were endeavor
ing to delay action in committee.
Senator Stone, of Missouri, gave no
tice in the Senate to-day that he
would address that body Wednesday
on the necessity of immediate action
on currency legislation. No session
of the committee was held to-day.
X proposal that Federal reserve
banks provided for in the pending bill
'hall have power to Issue travelers’
‘ hecks was made to the Senate to-day
in a petition presented by Senator
Kern.
Hoke Smith Certain
Currency Bill Will Pass.
Senator Hoke Smith, home for a
week's respite from his work in Con
gress, predicted Saturday night an
easy victory for the currency meas
ure of which he has been an active
advocate. He thought that It ought to
reach the Senate from the Banking
and Currency Committee about No
vember 10.
Senator Smith said that the sup
porters of the measure had deter
mined that there should be no Inter
ference with the legislative progress
of the bill as it was regarded as the
most important measure remaining to
be considered by the present Con
gress. Any attempt to obtain prece
dence for another bill will meet with
a prompt resistance that already has
been successful in keeping the path
> clear for the passage of the measure,
7 the Senator declared.
All opposition to the main princi
ples of the bill, which are to provide
a concentration of the reserves and
to make the currency of the country
elastic so that It will meet all de
mands in the time of panic, has been
abandoned, according to Senator
Smith.
“Everyone is convinced of the
necessity of the Government having
more of a hand in the expansion and
contraction of the currency,’’ he said
The only difference of opinion is on
some of the minor details such as
how many members shall the board
contain and who is to be chosen to
assist in the regulation of the cur
rency. These details must be consid
ered carefully.”
Senator Smith is in Atlanta merely
for a rest while the committee has
the currency bill under consideration
He will return to Washington the
latter part of the week.
STEALS $lO HID IN BED.
Miss Elizabeth Kay. No. 215 Court
and street, reported to the police
k Saturday night that a thief had en-
I ♦-red her b one and rifled her pocket
bonk of sb‘i while she and her family
were on the front porch. The purse
was hidden beneath a mattress.
The Weather.
Forecast for Atlanta
and Georgia: Local
rains and cooler Sun- ;
day; cloudy Monday.
Forsakes Society to
Tame Savage Moros 11
Mrs. Lorillard Spencer, of New York
and Newport, to Sail for
Philippines.
NEW YORK, Oct. 18.—Mrs. Loril
lard Spencer, society leader of New
York and Newport, will forsake the
drawing room and the card table for
the wild jungles of the Philippines,
there to make good citizens of the I
savage Moros by force of moral sua
sion.
Shocked at the primal savagery of
the natives on the Island of Jolo,
which she visited several months ago,
Mrs. Spencer was inspired to the be- |
lief that instruction in the religion
and Industries of peace would bring
a surer, more substantial civilization (
to the Moros than the militant meth
ods of Uncle Sam's soldiers, with
their rifles and their intimidation.
4 Women Killed in
Auto-Train Collision !
Wealthy Driver Falls to See Danger I
Until on Tracks, and Also
Will Die. 1
LA PORTE, IND., Oct. 18.—Four ' !
women were killed and Edwin
Schurz, treasurer of the Hobart M.
Cable Piano Company, was seriously] 1
injured late to-daj- when Schurz's au
tomobile was struck by a Pere Mar
quette freight train. The dead:
Mrs. Edwin Schurz, Mrs. Fannie
Heinze, Mrs. Carlton Schaffer, Lu- 1
porte; Mrs. William Brace, Wash- 1
ington. D. C.
The women were the guests of Mrs.
Schurz. i
Schurz declared he did not see or
hear the approaching train until the
machine was on the track.
Mute Boy Struck by
Auto Dies of Injuries
W. L, McCalley, Whose Machine Ran
Down Jimmie Ward, Out on
SSOO Bond.
Another fatality was added to the
long list piled up through automo
bile accidents, when Jimmie Ward,
the 18-year-old mute who was run
down at Marietta and Forsyth streets
Friday, died at the Grady Hospital
late Saturday night.
W. L. McCalley. «0 Westwood ave
nue, driver of the car, is out on SSOO
bond. He declared the accident was I
unavoidable. The victim, he told the i
police, had rushed in front of his ma
chine.
Young Ward resided with his pa- :
rents at Gordon and Wellington
streets.
Artistic Jealousies
End Three-Star Tour
Lady Constance Stewart-Richardson,
Polaire and Gertrude Hoffman
Part in Boston.
BOSTON, Oct. 18.—Lady Constance
Stewart-Richardson, Polaire and Ger
trude Hoffman appeared as a three
star combination for the last time
to-night at a Boston theater.
“Petty jealousies and enlarged tem
peraments" are given as an explana
tion. Miss Hoffman will be at the
head of her own company In a re
view.
This trio had been booked to ap
pear at the Atlanta Theater later In
the season.
Murphy to Abdicate
As Tammany Chief
Recent Attacks Said to Have Prompt
ed Boss to Decide to Quit
After Election.
NEW YORK, Oct. 18. —Charles F.
Murphy will abdicate as leader of
Tammany Hall as soon as election
is over, according to a report from
very high authority, and the report
caused more go*sip in Democratic cir
cles to-day than anything that has
been heard in many months.
It is said that the veteran leader
of the Tammany organization is
ready to step aside, win or lose. The
decision is declared to be due to re
cent attacks.
Wilson 'Feels Fine,’
Says So Himself
President Denies Overwork Has Im
paired Health, Though it Keeps
Him on Job.
WASHINGTON, Oct. 18.—President
Wilson feels “fine." He said so him
self to-day in answer to the rumor
abroad that he was in ill health due
to his refusal to attend the target
practice off the Virginia coast. The
real reason for staying in Washing
ton. the President said, was the pres*
of Federal business.
The Chief Executive put in the day
on the golf links of the Chevy Chase
Club in a driving rain.
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SU N AY | WAM ERIC AN
Copyright, 1913, by
The Georgian Company.
DIAZ IN HUA
SHOWS FEAR DF
ASSASSINATION
General Is Surrounded by Police
and Given Close Guard
on Arrival.
WILL PROCEED TO MEXICO
Can Offer No Explanation for
Huerta’s Stand—Had Not
Heard of Dictatorship.
Special Cable to The American.
HAVANA, Oct. 18.—General Felix
Diaz arrived here to-day showing
every sign of being in deadly fear of
assassination. When he came off the
boat he glanced constantly to either
side and changed color at .the least
•suspicious movement in the crowds on
the pier.
He was immediately surrounded by
'a crowd of Cuban police and newspa
per men who asked regarding his
Mexican plans. Diaz declared that
his intention was to continue to Mex
ico, because he was confident of his
election as President of the republic
October 26.
He had not heard of Huerta's re
cent dictatorial actions, and expressed
astonishment when told. Diaz could
offer no explanation • for Huerta’s
stand. It is believed that when he
confers with the friends who have
come here from Mexico to meet him
he will decide not to continue to Vera
Cruz.
Those who had accompanied Gen
eral Diaz on his mission to Japan re
ceived orders aboard the ship to re
turn immediately to Paris and join
Francisco De La Barra, the new En
voy to Japan.
British Interests Are
Huerta’s Main Allies.
WASHINGTON, Oct. 18. —No con
firmation has been received at the
State Department of the rumors cur
lent to-day that General Huerta had
resigned the Presidency of Mexico.
A long-distance dispatch received
from (.’harge d’Affaires O’Shaugh
: nessy, however, made it clear that the
' Huerta : dministration has received
■ its greatest encouragement from the
British Minister in Mexico City and
the British interests throughout the
I republic. These important things are
j set forth in Mr. O’Shaughnessy’s mes-
I sage:
The British colony in Mexico City
and British moneyed interests else
where in Mexico are standing by
Huerta and the Huerta Government.
Wants to Guard Interests.
The British Minister has adopted
the views of his people on the situa
tion, possibly on the advice of his
home government. The Minister holds
that when Huerta resigns his* suc
cessor should be a man who will take
care of British interests in Mexico as
j Huerta has done.
The belief of administration officials
here is that Great Britain is assert
ing a domination over the diplomatic
corps in Mexico City and is ignoring
the United States because this Gov
ernment has not shown an inclination
to consult with the others.
The present alignment in the diplo
matic meetings in Mexico City is:
How Powers Are Aligned.
Great Britain. Japan, Spain and
most of the Important South and Cen
tral American countries on the one
side, and Germany, Austria, France
and the remainder of the South and
Central American countries on the
other.
The announced purpose of the meet
ing of the diplomats at the office of
the German Minister to agree upon
some solution of the situation in the
republic has caused some perturba
tion at the State Department, as such
a solution may not be in accordance
with the American policy and might
precipitate an awkward clash.
There was a general disinclination
at the department to-day to discuss
any phase of the situation in detail
or to even hint at what this Govern
ment proposes to do in the event of
Huerta actually resigning.
Howard Hears He
Is Just Plain ‘Billy’
Kirkwood Neighbors Inform Con
gressman That His Name Hasn’t
Been Changed.
“Billy’’ Howard is being given to
understand that he must always feel at
home in Kirkwood, and that he must
not expect anything else but the '‘Billy.”
Even if he does go to Congress, and {
get himself called the Hon. William j
Schley Howard in the papers, he will .
a ways be ■ Billy” in Kirkwood.
So the citizens of Kirkwood Informed*
the Congressman when he attended their
:lsh fry Friday evening for the benefit
of th*- Civic League They made it
plain at the same time that they con
sider him Kirkwood’s greatest spn
ATLANTA, GA., SUNDAY, OCTOBER 19, 1913.
DDF SHINS PDLE
ON DARE; KILLED
DF LINE WIRE
Mother Calls to Him “Come
Down”—Lad Falls Dead at
Her Feet.
TWIN SISTER ALSO WITNESS
Game of “Fox and Hounds” Has
Fatal Ending for Claud
Bowles, Aged 13.
On a dare. Claud Bowles, 13 years
of age, climbed last night to the ton
of an electric light pole 50 feet from
his home, No. 210 Rawson street.
His widowed mother called, “Com**
down.” Before he could answer, a
blue flame hissed from beneath his
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hands and his dead body fell at her I
feet. His twin sister and a half dozen
playmates saw it all
The boy was playing "fox and
hounds” at about 6 o’clock. The oth
er boys “dared” him to climb the i
pole. He had Just reached the ton
when Mrs. M. L. Howies, his mother,
who was coming home, saw him.
’’Come down from there!” -h
cried.
The boy did not live to answer. A
bright blaze shot out. hissing and
crackling, from the points where nis
hand touched wires, and his body fell
at his mother's feet.
Aided by his playmates, the mother
carried her son to the house, which is
scarcely 60 feet away. Here even
possible attempt was made to revive
the victim.
According to Charles Bowles, a
brother, the lad was wearing thin
rubber-soled shoes when the accident
occurred.
The relatives of the lad—a widowed
mother, Mrs., M. L. Bowles: a twin
sister. .Miss Maud, and three broth
ers. J. U. C. A. and Charles 1 owles
are prostrated.
Claud was said to have been the
brightest boy of his class in th- sis-h
grade at the Formwait Street School.
Only Friday the lad, accompanied'
l by two brothers, returned to Atlanta
from Griffin, where the three w. nt
ion an automobile trip.
The body will be taken to Chester.
S. Monday afternoon following
funeral services at the reslden e *
I Monday morning at 10 o'clock.
Keel of New Lipton
Challenger Is Laid
American Captain, Who Received
Model, Calls it ‘Most Wonder
ful Thing in Yachts.’
Special' Cable to The American.
LONDON, Oct. 18—The work of
laying.the keel of Sir Thomas Lip
i ton’s challenger has been begun and
I Captain Turner is busy selecting a
i crew. Sir Thomas has shown his
confidence in American sportmaflship
by displaying a completed model of
the challenger to Captain Bameson,
of San Francisco, who is now in Lon
don in connection with the Panama
j Exposition.
Captain Bameson said to-day that
I while he could not disclose the de
. tails of the model, our designers would
i have to “go some” to beat Nicholson s
I design, adding:
i “As a practical sailor and yachts
• man I would say that in Lipton’s
model I’ve seen the most wonderful
thing in yachts. It combines every
beauty of line and speed.”
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Thaw Bares Secrets
Os Jury to Governor
Counsel Files Brief With New Hamp
shire Executive Exposing Jerome’s
Efforts to Get Indictment.
CONCORD, N. H„ Oct. 18.—Counsel
for Harry K. Thau to-day filed a
brief with Governor Felker, giving the
so-called "inside facts” of the ef
fort on the part of William Travers
Jerome to secure an Indictment
charging conspiracy against Thaw.
The remarkable part of the brief is
that it contains information which
must of necessity have come from
members of the Dutchess County
Grand Jury, before whom the indict
ment was sought.
The brief states that the first vote
taken by the Jury stood 10 to 5, two
not voting, against finding the In
dictment. The District Attorney
then informed the Jurors that a ma
jority vote was necessary to return
' an indictment, and the matter was
reconsidered. The second vote stood
12 to 5 against finding the indict
ment. It was then voted to again
consider the matter, but the Septem-
I her Grand Jury adjourned without
taking the case up for the third time.
Children Revel at Wren’s Nest
Library Branch Is Opened
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’Unde Remus’ Stories Told
Miss Mary Browne, librarian of the Uncle Remus branch
library, is shown telling an Uncle Remus story to little Mary
Harris Camp, granddaughter of Joel Chandler Harris.
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Miss Mary Browne Wins Little Folk Wlien She
Narrates of Br’er Rabbit.
A hundred Atlanta children played ■
joyously about the grounds and
stared w’ith wide and expectant eyes
at the rows of “Uncle Remus” books
that filled the shelves. Saturday aft
ernoon, when the third branch of
the Carnegie Library was opened al
the “Wren’s Nest,” the home of Joel
Chandler Harris, with a program un
der the auspices of the Library Hoard
and the Uncle Remus Memorial As
sociation.
There was quite a gathering of
grown folk there, too. and they made
speeches and paid deep respe< t to
the memory of “Uncle Remus,’ but
they hardly counted. Appropriately
the spirit of childhood was alive ;n
the place where Mr. Harris created
“Uncle Remus” and “Brer Rabbit
who have gladdened childish hearts
and inspired childish brains for years
and will continue to do so for years
to come.
Every child who knew an “Uncle
Remus” story—and most of them
did told it, and then they pleaded
with Miss Mary Browne, who is to
be librarian of the new place and .•>
such the idol of the children. b» tell
them a story of the doings of “Brer
Rabbit” and good old “Uncle Remus.”
And she did.
She took little Mary Harris Camp,
“Uncle Remus’” granddaughter, in;
her lap, the hundred children crowd
ed as close as they could t ..rd
there, on the porch, where Mr. Harris
used to sit and play with rhi!dn-n. |
she told them tales <>f “Brer Ra .»- ,
bit,” the “Snap Bean Farm.” and the
other creations of Mr. Harris’ brain
that fill the childish soul with de
light.
That was THE event of the after
noon The children didn't understand
—and didn’t try to the spe.-.-hes |
made by their elders. But the} did
understand the language of “Uncle
I Remus” and the adventures of
Brer Rabbit”—and it is only right
and natural that whatever pleases the
children, if done at Joel Chandler
Harris’ home, should be the BIG
thing.
The Rev. <» M. Jackson, pastor
•f the St. Anthony’s Church which
•he Harrises attend, opened the pro
gram with a prayer. Mrs. McD. Wil
son, president of the Memorial Asso
• aat;on, presented the library room—
!.o the left as you enter the house—
io th** library board, and it was ac
epted by Mayor James G. Woodward
ind George H. Boynton, chairman of
Council Library Commit
!<•<*, and Major Charles W. Hubner
i« ad an original poem, “At the Wren’s
X«st.” After Miss Browne told her
Uncle Remus” story. Dr. John E.
White closed the program with a
prayer. Colonel Frederic J. Paxon.
■hairman of the advisory committee
if the library board, served as mas
ter of ceremonies, and was enthus
astie over the establishment of the
branch, and Mrs. H. L. Crumley,
hairman of the Memorial Associa
te m library committee, was chair
man of the day.
After the opening exercises the
ladies of the Memorial Association
M-rved tea, and the children reveled
i for more than an hour in “Uncle Re
mus” stories. Little brown and white
! rabbets, the gift of J. C. Gavan. of
■ the Southern Book Concern, were
sold by the association members, and
i < very child clutched a rabbit that had
been purchased for it by a parent
•r a friend.
Miss Katherine Wooten, librarian
■»f the main library on Carnegie way,
said there will be about 5.000 books
in the “Uncle Remus” branch, in-
■ hiding all of Mr. Harris’ works. All
I the children were taken in as mem-
b«rs yesterday, and the first books
will be issued next Tuesday.
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EDITION FOR
NORTH GEORGIA
PRICE FIVE CENTS.
MORETALES
OF CRUELTY
AND DEATH
INDUNGEON
OF PRISON
Former Guard Declares Half of .
Horror at Federal Penitentiary
Has Not Been Revealed —Cites
Cases Little Short of Barbarous,
H. T. Thomson Charges Convict
Was Kept Beneath Earth Until
He Contracted Fatal Malady,
. Says Negroes Boss White Men,
FRESH revelations of inhu
mane treatment of prison
ers in the Atlanta Federal Peni
tentiary are coming to light daily
how that the first startling
charges have been made by Ju
lian Hawthorne and Dr. W. J.
Morton.
Guards and attaches who have
insistently withheld their names
for fear of punishment or some
form of reprisal have made ac
cusations of abuses, including
underfeeding and imprisonment
in the “hole” underground. A
statement was made Saturday by
H. T. Thomson, a former guard
at tho prison, in which he told a
barrowing story of abuses that
came within his observation.
Thomson, now a traveling
salesman, named many sensa
tional details, among them th4 *
following:
A white convict, No. 180,
was kept in the dungeon for
three weeks, contracting liv
er trouble which caused his
death shortly afterward.
Convict 501 was in the
dungeon several weeks. His
legs were swollen so that he
could not arise from his cot
for days.
Convict 521, a man named
Lang, was kept in the
‘ ‘ hole ’ ’ for 145 days, charged
with assaulting an officer.
When taken in he weighed
180 pounds; when released,
115 pounds.
White men were sent into
the fields in charge of an
armed negro overseer.
Men were placed in the
dungeon for trivial offenses,
and kept chained in stand
ing positions.
Thomson was outspoken In his
cusation that conditions were Uttla
short of barbarous at times, as they
came within his notice, and that tho
instances of which he told were not
exceptions, but rather the horriblo
custom.
“The half of the things that havo
occurred in the Atlanta Federal pen
itentiary can never be told,” he de
clared Saturday, talking to a Sunday
American reporter. “They will never
be revealed, because the guards and
officers can hardly remember the
spectacles that come before their
gaze. I can not. I admit. Many
things I can not recall, and yet there
are some incidents that have fixed
themselves firmly upon the pages of
my memory. The story told by Haw
thorne and Dr. Morton is but a mild
beginning.
"The dark 'hole' of which they
spoke Is a reality. Men have been
kept there for weeks at a time, to my
certain knowledge. They have been
remanded to the ‘hole’ for trivial of
fenses and kept prisoners within its
stifling wails for days and weeks.
They have been kept chained in
standing positions for intolerable pe
riods, with great suffering as a re •
suit.
Three Weeks in Dungeon.
“There is the case of a white con
vict, No. 180, that Is not to be fax-*