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HKARST’S SUNDAY AMERICAN, ATLANTA, 0A„ SUNDAY, MAY 30, 1915.
PER ClPITA“ db >' Wif 5 M »«y»CL[ SI HUS
WEALTH OF
0.S.S1.SBS
Total for Nation the Enormous
Sum of $187,739,000,000, a
25-Fold Increase Since 1850,
Is Largest of Any Country.
New York State Far in the Lead,
With Pennsylvania and Illinois,
Close Together, Coming Next.
Britain Follows America.
WASHINGTON. May 29.—With the
wealth of Europe being wasted by the
billions of dollars, the report of the
per capita wealth of the United States
lias aroused unusual interest. Direc
tor of the Census Samuel L. Rogers
in his report points out the remark
able increase since 1880.
The total wealth of the nation in
191- was $187,739,000,000, while in
1850 it was about $8,000,000,000. The
per capita wealth now is $1,965.
The total wealth of the nation, ex
cluding tax-exempt real estate, in
creased from $7,136,000,000, nr $308
per capita, in 1850, to $175,426,000,000
or $1,836 per capita, in 1912, the per
centages of increase being 2,358 for
the total and 496 for the per capita
amounts.
In other words, the wealth of ttye
nation as a whole is nearly 25 times
es great as it was in 1850. while that
of the individual is about six times
as great.
The tax-exempt real estate was es
timated at $12,314,000,000. or $129 j>er
capita, in 1912.
The to(al and per capita amounts
of the national wealth for the several
census years are as follows:
Totarf (exclusive
of exempt real Per
Tear. property). capita.
1912 $1 75.426,OOOiiOOO $1,836
1904 100,273.000.000 1.234
1900 82.305,000.000 1.083
T 890 61.204.000.000 975
1880 41.642.000.000 830
1870 24.055,000.000 624
I860 16.160.000.000 514
1850 7,136,000.000 308
Much Property Exempt.
The following table shows the esti
mated value of all classes of wealth
combined for the census years 1880
to 1912:
Total (taxable Per
Tear. and exempt). capita.
1912 $187,739,000,000 $1,965
1904 107,104,000,000 1,318
1900 88,517,000,000 1,165
1890 65,037,000,000 1,036
1880 43,641,000,000 870
Some of the items which make up
the 1912 total are the following:
Taxed real property and
improvements. . . . $98,365,000,000
Exempt real property
and improvements. . 12,314,000,000
Railroads and their
equipment 16,149,000,000
Manufactured products
(other than clothing
and personal adorn
ments, furniture,
vehicles and kindred
property) 14,694,000,000
Furniture, vehicles and
kindred property . . . 8,463,000,000,
Live stock 6,238,000,u00
Manufacturing ma
chinery, tools and im
plements 6,091,000,000
Agricultural products . 5,240,000,000
Street railways 4.597,000,000
Clothing and personal
adornments 4,295,000,000
Gold and silver coin
and bullion 2,617,000,000
Privately owned central
electric light and
power stations 2,099.000,000
Shipping and canals . . 1,491,000,000
Farm implements and
machinery 1,368,000,000
Telephone systems . . . 1,081,000,000
New York First.
The total wealth of New York, $25.-
001.000,000, is the greatest shown for
any State, while Illinois and Penn
sylvania, with $15,484,000,000 and $15,-
458,000,000, respectively, are close ri
vals for second place. Other States
which rank high in total wealth are
Ohio, with $8,808,000,000; California.
*8,484.000.000: Iowa, $7,868,000,000;
Texas, $6,860,000,000; Massachusetts,
*8,303.000,000: Missouri. $5,842,000,000;
New Jersey. $5,743,000,000; Minnesota.
$5,547,000,000; Michigan. $5,427,000,000,
and Indiana, $5,195,000,000. No other
State is credited with as much as
$5,000,000,000.
The latest published estimates of
the wealth of foreign countries show
$108,280,000,000 for the British Em
pire in 1903, of which amount $72,-
997.000.000 was credited to the United
Kingdom. The estimate for the
United States in 1904 was $107,104,-’
000.000. The wealth of Germany in
1908 was estimated at $77,864,000,000.
AUTOS FOR RESENTFUL GIRLS.
TAMA QUA, PA.. May 29.—Because
the Eastern Pennsylvania Street Rail
way Company allows workmen in min
ing clothes to ride on regular trolley
cars, despite protests, thirty-seven Coal-
dale girls, employed in Tamaqua mines
and factories, h^ve engaged auto ser
vice to take them to and from work.
Actress Asks $50,000 of Rich Man
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DR. I. T. GAULT
Specialist—far Mu
Established 11 Yssrs
S2 Inman Building,
Atlanta, Qaargta
Miss Elizabeth
Gilmore, an
actress, who is
suing Seymour
Guthman, a
rich manufac-
• turer for 50,-
000 heart balm.
He says he
met her by
telephone and
that she called
upon him at
his hotel.
Breach of Promise Charge After Short Ac
quaintance Denied by Manufacturer.
NEW YORK, May 29.—An intro
duction by telephone in Chicago was
given by Seymour Guthman, a man
ufacturer, as the start of the ac
quaintanceship that resulted in the
suit against him for $50,000 brought
by Miss Elizabeth Gilmore, of No. 23
West One Hundred and Twenty-third
street. She elaimk he has failed to
keep his* promise to marry her.
Guthman is a member of Guthman,
Solomons & Co., makers of novelties.
He claims that the first time he ever
spoke to Miss Gilmore was when he
was introduced to her by telephone In
Chicago, and the first time he ever
saw her was when she called on him
at his hotel. Later, he says, he dis
covered he was defendant in her
breach of promise action.
Justice Weeks vacated an order re
quiring Miss Gilmore to give bond to
insure payment of costs on the ground
that she was a resident of Winnipeg,
Canada. She filed an affidavit giving
her New York address.
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Promises Surprise in
Society Drink Probe
CHICAGO, May 29.—The results of
the cocktail and liquor study in “the
best society” by Leopold Neumann,
organizer for the United Societies, was
submitted to a meeting of the socie
ties. Neumann, who posed as “Dr.
Hugo Meyer,” a supposedly gay and
wealthy surgeon from Vienna, made
an inquiry to show the wealthy en
joyed privileges as to frivolity which
were denied to the poor. He asserted
society women forced him to cover
when it came to imbibing cocktails,
and that one woman danced on a ta
ble.
Adolph D. Weimer, chairman of the
societies’ political action^commlttee,
said the proper time had not arrived
for the full disclosures.
“Mr. Neumann told only the general
story of what he saw among the tea
rooms and drawing rooms of the
smart set.” he said. “The details will
he brought in when we must produce
them in our fight on class discrimi
nation against the poor.”
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Girl to Put Shingle
Up Near Her Father’s
BERXELEY, CAL., May 29— Miss
Margaret Hayne, the California Uni
versity girl just admitted to the bar.
declares she will open a law office op
posite to that of her father, a highly
successful attorney, and run friendly
opposition to him. just to demonstrate
that women can make as good lawyers
as men.
She says she will specialize in femi
nine clients, as. In her opinion, women
should be defended by women.
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Geological Survey Reports on
“Secondary" Metals Recov-
efed From Scraps.
By SIDNEY ESPEY.
WASHINGTON, May 29.—Untie
Sam’s scrap heap w«« worth nearly
$60,000,000 in 1914. 8his fell short of
the value for the previous year by
nearly $16,000,000.
These figures were announced in a
report by the United State Geological
Survey and represent the value of
metals, exclusive of gold, silver, plati
num, iron and steel, known technical
ly as “secondary metals,” recovered
from scrap metal, sweepings, skim-
mings and drosses. The exact value
for the last year of these metals was
placed by the survey at $57,039,706
and that for 1913 at $72,786,027, or a
decrease of $15,746,321.
These figures, however, represent
leas than one-half the extent of the
waste metal trade of the county, it
is stated. The inquiry did not cover the
volume of old iron and steel which
is estimated to amount to millions of
dollars, and concerned only lead,’ zinc,
copper, aluminum, tin and antimony.
Quality is Good.
The term “secondary metals” as
applied to those recovered in this
fashion, the survey explains, does not
mean that they are of inferior qual
ity, but is used to distinguish this
class from the “primary” metals
which are derived from ore.
These “secondary metals’’ recov
ered can be used In whole or in part
and most foundries employ them. The
bulk of the metal waste is contrib
uted by the manufacturing and rail
way centers. Thus when trade and
transportation are dull the produc
tion of scrap metal declines.
The business depression generally
prevailing in the country in 1914 is
said to account for the drop in the
value of the scrap heap for that year.
Most of the refining and smelting of
drosses and scrap metals in the
United States, more than 90 per cent
in fact, is done in the territory east
of the St. Louis and north of the
Ohio river.
Much Aluminum Saved.
Secondary copper, including that in
brass produced in 1914 totaled 127,882
tons, more than 22 per cent of the
primary copper smelted in this coun
try' from domestic ores.
In aluminum the recoveries in 1914
totaled 4,522 tons, valued at $1,673,-
140.
The secondary lead recovered
arqounted to 61.062 tons or more than
11 per cent of the primary refined
lead produced during the year.
A total of 71,642 tons of secondary
zinc, or more than 20 per cent of the
production of primary zinc, was re
covered during 1914.
Secondary tin recoveries were 12,-
447 tons valued at $8,887,158. As no
domestic tin ore was smelted in the
United States during the year this
output is viewed by the Government
experts as of special importance. The
secondary tin recovered was more
than 20 per cent of the metal import
ed during the year. Some tin con
centrates were exported from Nome,
Alaska, in 1914.
Kidnaps Son She Had
Lost When Divorced
SPRINGFIELD, MO., May 29.—Aft
er losing a long legal battle in the
courts for possession of her 10-year-
old son, Mrs. May Fitchenmueller, of
Kansas City, kidnaped the youth
while he wafe on his way home from,
school. The boy was last seen when
he entered p.n automobile occupied by
a woman and a chauffeur.
Mrs. Fitchenmueller made a fast
trip to the border of Kansas in the
automobile, and the police abandoned
pursuit w*hen it was learned she had
reached Galena. The contest was be
tween Mrs. Fitchenmueller and her
former husband, John Miller. The
court decred that neither should
have the youth, but that he should he
reared by the grandparents here.
J, B. Faulkner to Give
Bible Lecture Series
General Secretary of Raoul Founda
tion to Occupy Unitarian Pulpit
Each Sunday.
James B. Faulkner, general secreta
ry of the W. G. Raoul Foundation of
Georgia, will give a series of lectures
on the Bible at the Unitarian Church,
No. 301 West Peachtree street, each
Sunday morning, beginning to-day.
The audience is requested to bring
Bibles so it may follow Mr. Faulkner
in his remarks. Mr. Faulkner, who is
a thorough student of the Old and
New Testaments, will discuss the
Scriptures from a modern and liberal
point of view, and opportunity will
be given for questions on every
phase of his interpretation.
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GETS FIRST KISS
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Bachelor Tax Author Caressed by
Woman Worker Who Would
Not Take Dare.
SACRAMENTO. May 29.—Maurice
B. Browne, the tall and bashful As
semblyman from Tuolumne, author of
the measure to tax ali bachelors, has
Just been kissed for the first time in
his life.
He was kissed not once, but twic«,
for after the first osculatory smack
had been implanted upon the bucolic
statesman’s cheek, he up And took an
other.
It took place In the Assembly cham
ber toward the end of the day's ses
sion, and In the presence of a large
group of Assemblymen and Senators,
who gathered about his desk cheer
ing Browne and his fair companion
and complimenting him upon having
crowned his legislative experience
with this new’ and hitherto untried
sensation.
Begin to Jolly Browne.
There nu.l been a call of the House
w hile proponents of the bill were try
ing to drum up enough votes to insure
its passage, and the members were
sitting about enjoying themselves
Brow'ne was at his desk, and Mrs. J.
E. Bell, lobbyist for the Supervisors’
Road bill, went over and took the ad
joining seat.
A lot of tne members gathered
about and began to “Jolly** him about
the bachelor tax. As the conversation
went along Browne remarked that al
though he was 40 years old he had
never been kissed Assemblyman
Avey suggested that his fair aeatxnate
mlgnt show him what It was Ilka
“Here goes,” she replied end
Brown got his first kiss The crowd
roared and Browne blushed.
And He Likes It, Toa
“How did you line ltT*
“Give it back.”
“Take another" shouted rartocui
members.
"It was all right,” said Brovna
“and 1 guess I'll have another,” as he
put his arm about the young woman’s
shoulder and drew her closer to lilnL
Mrs Bell was “game” and she
kissed the Assemblyman again. Then
the Speaker's gavel called the mem
bers to order and the “kissing bee”
wajs dispersed
“I’m going to run again for the
Assembly, by heck,” declared Browne
as he turned again to his work.
Wills 1 Cent Each to
His Son and Daughter
N’fcw YORK, Maj 29.—Out of an ro
tate of $150,000, William J. Cooke, a
Richmond Hill leather merchant, be
queathed 1 cent and his parental affec
tion to his son. Dr. Tyler G. Cooke,
and his daughter. Margaret Gordon
Cooke, a nun in St. Mary's Convent.
Peekskill. The bulk of the estate is
left to his widow 1 .
The testator held they were amply
provided for.
Witchcraft Charges
Win Husband Decree
NORRISTOWN, PA. Ma> 29.—Believ
ing his wife was influenced by witch
craft or was "hexed" to leave him,
William A. Evans applied for divorce
from her. The court granted the di
vorce.
The master. W. B. Conver, reports
the “hex" testimony of the husband to
the court, but makes hts own deductions
that the woman Just got tired of liv-
with her husband after six years.
Willing to Give Sons
For Country’s Honor
GALVESTON. TEXAS. May 29—A
proposal that the Texas Equal Suffrage
Association indorse the women’s peace
party failed or adoption at the annual
convention Mrs. Wendell Spence, vice
president of the Dallas association, said:
“I am opposed to war. but if our
country is subjected to insult I will
willingly give my four sons to assist in
wiping out that insult.”
NEW MILL AT PIEDMONT.
GADSDEN, ALA., May 29.—The
Southern Manufacturing Oompan\
has received an order for material
for a cotton mill to be built at Pied
mont. Ala.
Georgia Man Is
Rescued in Time
Resident of Woodstock Finds Himself
Restored After His Physi
cians Failed.
T. A. Lewi^, whp lives out on Route
3, Woodstock. Ga., was the victim of
stomach troubles for a long time. He
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He tried all sorts of remedies.
His sufferings were a serious handi
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Values
English Longcloth 5J$c
Full yard-wide, highest grade English Long
cloth; worth $2.50 to $3 per 12-yard Dolts.
These are mill remnants and only 5 7-8c yard.
125c Pajama Checks 6J$c
Full yard-wide, best grade pajama checks;
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Large size Metal Beds for babies, exactly Ilk* cut
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$4 98
Threefold screens,
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