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3 CENTS
EVERYWHERE
PAY NO MORE
HARRIS TIDE RUNNING HIGH
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With the opening of the polls less‘
an 24 hours away, the management
the four candidates for Governor
ere busy Monday making the last
eck of the news from the countlies, |
vising their estimates of coumies‘
on and lost, and completing ar-‘
ngements for workers at a thou
nd or two polling places. 7The halls
the historic Kimball House,
ooder and incubator of many a po- |
ical chicken which never got home
) roost, were never quite so filled}
ith workers who looked busy and |
lers who looked important. }
At the headquarters of Governor
arris final preparations were lwzngl
ade for the big meeting at the Lyric
heater Monday night, when the Gov
nor will make his first campaign
dress to the people of Atlanta and
uiton County. He will be introduced
Dr. K. G. Matheson, president of
eorgia Tech, which was founded by
at E. Harris, who is still head of its
istees. Veterans from the Confed
rate Soldiers’ Home will have spe-]
al seats, having expressed a dr-sirci
repudiate in this manner the alle
ation that they are supporters of |
r. Dorsey. ‘
Women Invited, ‘
Women are given an especial invi- !
tion to be present at the Lyric ad- |
ress, and they may be assured Ofl
faring an eloquent and forceful, Yet
ood-tempered, speech, thoroughly in
feping with the dignity of the high
fice the candidate bears. Governor
arris has in none of his speeches
escended to abuse. He has now and
hen turned aside from the course of
s address to make a brief but effect
e reply to attacks from Mr. Dorsey,
it it is his custom to point out the
easons for his own renomination !
ather than to dwell upon the weak
dointes of his three adversaries |
At the Harris headquarters the
riends In charge of the Governor's
ampaign said they desired to revise
helr Saturday forecast only by add
"% a few counties to the Governor's
'alm. These had been In the doubt
il st until Monday, when telegrams
nnounced they appeared safe for
rovernor Harris
Considerable discusston was caused
D the streets Sunday and Monday
Y one of the last retharks made by
IT. Dorsey in his speech at the Grand
turday night, a remark carefully
liminated from the account of the
peech published Sunday in The Con-
Utution, In rebuking Governor Har
'B for showing clemency toward un-
Tlunate State prisoners Mr. Dorsey
*marked:
Dorsey in New Role.
Governor Harris, in his gpeeches,
ndulges in a lot of sentimental drivel
bout the sanctity of the home and
he virtue of wife and sister, and says
® will set free the man convicted of
laying the invader of his home.”
Among the letters and telegrams re
*ived at the Harris headquarters
Monday were several commenting on
tals and expressing the opinion that a
Man who considers this idea of the
Potection of the home “sentimental
Urivel” wil hardly find his expected
support among Southern voters.
It was worthy. of notice Monday
tk"' at the Harris headquarters the
“legraph messengers were bring tel
“¥rams In, while over in the Dorsey
licas the telegrams were all going
."" hundreds of them, to judge from
S string of boys hurrying in and
it It was a natural inference that
" Dorsey management was making
e last attempt to rally its forces
Yound the Watson banner.
The morning paper, which has for
Bany weeks done everything possible
!9 further the Dorsey campalign, even
,:" omitting to handicap him by its
f:‘v’”"fl&l indorsement, was brimming
r.::, Mdondly with last-minute de
""’"-i.l'"d.:r:.l’t. fundt rcpudll';_.lunn It
bt Den 8 front page, where none
sey might intrude until now,
Centinued pn Page 2, Column 4,
Harris Forces
Now Sure of
83 Counties
N forecasting the result of the
I Governor’s race in the Sunday
papers, it was estimated by
Governor Harris’ campaign mana
gers that he would carry at least
79 counties, and possibly more.
Today (Monday) that forecast is
confidently increased to 83 coun
ties sure, and perhaps 90.
There is doubt in the Harris
managers’ minds of only one of the
six-vote counties; he will carry a
heavy majority of the four-vote
counties, and far more than a suf
ficiency of the two-vote counties
to nominate on the first ballot.
The Harris’ management says
there will be no convention fight.
Harris’ friends will organize the
convention, nominate the Governor
for a second term on the first bal
lot, and adjourn.
Even some of the so-called
“Watson counties,” regarded until
lately as Dorsey strongholds, be
cause of Mr. Watson’s support of
the Atlanta man, will swing into
the Harris column Tuesday.
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William H. (i. e., Bill) Yaw is a pa
triot, all right, but what Mr. Yaw
desires to do is to fight, bleed and die
for his native land. He just can't
seem to square his system with the
foed at Camp Harris, and the infre
quency of the pay wagon causes him
acute distress.
So Bili has got to be such a seldom
kind of soldier that his captain is
thinking seriously of delegating a
ceropral's guard to keep an eye on
Bill und see that he does not run
away &Ly more,
Eill hae deserted the Fifth Regi
ment threc times in the last 60 days.
Twice Officer Appling, of Atlanta, has
collected him. and once it was Officer
Harrisou-—for Bill, with a striking
lack of eriginality, always comes home
to roost. He is 20 years old and lives
at No. § Castleberry street.
Threy must think pretty well of Bill,
at that. Every time he absquatulates
‘they ecatch him and haul him back to
‘camp. It Bill should behave so in
times of wearlike activity, it is hard to
see just where his usefulness wou\d
appear, as it would take several times
Bill's number to keep him anywhere in
the vicinity of taw.
President Racing to
Dying Sister’sg Side
(By International News Service.)
LONG BRANCH, N. J., Sept, 11.—
President Wilson {s racing with death
today. With his wife, the nation's
executive left here by automobile this
morning for New York, whence they
will go by train to New London,
Conn., in response to a telegram stat
ing that Mrs. Anna Howe, the Pres
{dent’s sister, is dying. ‘
One of the Forces That Keep
.
The Old World Wagging
Advertising in its broadest sense is a power that makes the
wheels of progress revolve much faster than they otherwise
would, but the people's advertising-—the Want Ads-—fllls all
the little grooves that display advertising skips,
Proof of this is found In the classified pages of The Geor
= glan-American, which teem with human interest-—the inter
est that arises from the buying and selling and renting and
letting of homes, pleading personals urging an absent father
to come home, searches for lost heirs-—these and scores of
other lively transactions appear only among the Want Ads,
Read them even more carefully In the future than you have
in the past. You will ba handsomely repald for a pleasant
five-minutes-a-day occupation.
The Georgian- Ameri
he Georgian- can
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Atlanta’s Want Ad Directory
Read for Profit — Use for Results
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VOL. XIV. NO. 345.
ESCAPES JAIL DOWN BLANKET ROPE
RUSSIANS MARCH TO ENVELOP BULGARIANS
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One Prisoner Gets Away, but An
other Falls Four Stories
at Tower, ‘
Will Armstrong,’ a young man ac-l
cused as a burglar, Monday was at |
large, with county police and deputy |
sheriffs scouring Fulton County for
him, and F. H. Hart, who was rear
rested a few days ago just as he com
pleted a three-year term in the Fed
eral Prison, was in the Tower hos
pital, seriously hurt as the result of a
daring escape from the jail early
Sunday morning, which brought free
dom to Armstrong and disaster to
Hart.
Hart fell four stories to the ground
in the jail yard when he lost his hold
as he squeezed out or a fourth-floor
window, from which a bar “ad been
sawed, and started to slide down an
improvised blanket rope. When he
recovered consclousness, he found
himself so badly hurt that he would
make no further attempt to get away.
Moaning and dragging hlmself‘
around to the Tower entrance, he
begged the jailers to let him inside
again. He was accommodated and
was found in such condition that he}
immediately was placed in the jail
hospital. }
Both Were Trusties. |
Armstrong and Hart both were
trusties and had the privilege of the
“run around,” the balconfes in front
of the prison cages. They were not
locked in the cages as the other pris
oners, and for this reason had only to
work their way through one barred
window. One bar was removed, this
making an aperture sufficient to ad
mit heir bodles through the window,
The blankets, which were spliced to
make the rope to carry the prisoners
to the ground, were obtained from
cells on the fourth floor.
The bar was sawed from a window
in the laundry, which is situated In
the south wing on that floor. The
laundry jailers were of the opinion
that the prisoners selected the laun
dry as offering the least chance of de
tection in their work task. The blan
ket rope was fastened to one of the
remaining bars in this window.
Armstrong Lands Safely.
Armstrong descended the rone first
and landed safely in the jail vard.
When Hart started down, however,
his hold broke and he plunged to the
ground. He was so stunned by the
fall that he was supposed to have lain
motionless for some time. Before he
could reach the jail oMcea and report
the escape, Armstrong had been en
abled to place a considerable distance
between himself and the prison
Sheriff Mangum Monday had under
way a vigorous investigation to deter.
mine the manner in which the saw
with which the bar was severed found
its way Into the Tower and into the
hande of the two men. It was believed
that Hart would tell the whole story.
ATLANTA, GA.,, MONDAY, SEPTEMBER 11, 1916.
MWWAJ
By FREDERICK PALMER,
Accredited Correspondent of the
Press of the United States
With British Army.
AT THE BRITISH FRONT IN
FRANCE, Sept. 10 (via London,
Sept. 11.)—The battle for the
ridge between Thiepval and Gin
chy redoubled yesterday after
noon when the British success
fully stormed the right bastion.
The artillery fire for the two pre
ceding days was continuous and
intense. In reply the Germans
set loose many thousands of gas
bombs and weeping shells, as well
as high explosives.
German trenches over a four
mile stretch were crumbled to
dust and many of their garrison
took refuge in shell holes and for
tifled cellars of the village of
Ginchy. The British troops left
their trenches about 4:30 p. m.
The main attacks against the vil
lage of Ginchy was chiefly In
trusted to the Irish. The Ger
man fortifications consisted of
cellars fitted with ingenious loop
holes for rifles and machine guns.
A mud fort in the middle of a
farm bristled with machine guns.
The fighting was desperate, but
the Irish carried through their
first attack In eight minutes, and
their second, after a thirty-minute
pause, in ten minutes, and estab
lished themselves outside the vil
lage on the north. The right wing
made slower progress east of the
village and the fighting continued
all night. The German machine
gun defenses were finally knocked
out by the British shells.
On the rest of the battle front
the Germans made good their de
fense in Highwood, but lost
ground and prisoners both east
and west of it. The total number
of German prisoners taken so
far !In this fighting is about 400,
most of whom are Bavarians. The
Germans fought very hard to hold
their last point of gnod observa
tion on the ridge, but the weight
of the British howitzers' fire and
the impetus of the attack were ir
resistible.
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F. A, Quillan, Jr., Is
Hurt by Motorcycle
Flotcher A. Quillian, Jr, son of the
attorney, of No. 657 Ponce Del.eon
avenue, was struck and peinfully in
jured Monday morning by a motorcy
cle, whose rider gave his name as E.
C. Murphy.
- Young Quillian sald he was just
preparing to board a trolley car in
‘front of the family home when the
motorcycle swept down on him,
knocking him down and In the path
of the street car., The car dragged
‘hlm several feet before it could be
‘ntowd. He was taken into his fath
er's home, where an examination
}-howod he had received no serious in
ijury *
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Bridge Span Falls;
Many Believed Dead
(By International News Service.)
QUEBEC, CANADA, Sept. 11.--A
span of the great bridge being con- |
structed over the St. Lawrence River
collapsed today without warning.
Many workmen were caught in the
ruins and first reports received here
said that the death list would be
heavy. ‘
Feared Sympathetic Walkout May
Spread Over Country if Not
Stopped now.
(By International News Service.)
WASHINGTON, Sept. 11.—Wash
ington officials today were very
gravely concerned over the labor out- |
look in New York. The fact that the
American Federation of ILabor has
espoused the cause of the striking
carmen, and that President Gompers
personally Las assumed direction of
the struggile, means, officials here
say, that unless the strike can be
checked soon it may spread through
out the country. By direction of
President Wilson, the Department of
Labor has taken a hand. Several of
its experts are already on the ground
and it is expected that Secretary‘
Wilson will go there within the very|
near future. |
Inasmuck as the Isues lnvolvedl
between the Interborough Rapid
Transit Company and lits men- -thol
transportation company responsible
for the initial strike—center amundl
the so-called master and servant con
tracts, organized labor Is intnnsalyl
interested in the outcome. At th(-,"
offices of the American Federation nf}
Labor here it was sald that the un
derlying points of differences affect
every iabor union in the country. The
propesition of making individual
contracts with men, it is saild, re
cently was indorsed at various meet
ings of manufacturers as the “ideal
way to check the spread of unionism”
and it is through realization of this
that the various unions in New York
city are now planning to go to every
possible length to force the Traction
Corporation to back down.
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General Strike This
BY L. V. B. RUCKER,
Staff Correspondent of International
News Service.
NEW YORK, Sept. 11.-<While
threats of a great sympathetic waik
out In all trade unionslnvolving 750,-
000 workers hung over the city to
day, the strike of Traction employees
made itsel!f felt in all quarters. For
the first time the service on the sub
way and clevated lines of the Inter
borough Rapid Transit Company
dropped below normal, while service
on the rurface lines was practically
at a standstill during the early hours,
The traction oMelals explained the
poorsar service on the subway and
elevated as due to the unprecedented
demand caused by cessation of sur
face transporiation, but the union
leaders claimed that many of the In
etrborough omployees, heretofore
loyal to the company, had joined the
union ranks
While the traction struggle entered
its Afth day reports were that all the
leading trade urions were preparing
for a strike vote Hugh Payne, State
representative of the American Fed- |
eration of Lator, declared that a gen- ‘
era; strike would be on before the end
o’ the week. |
President Samuel Gompers, of the
Federation, conferred with prominent
labor leaders. They asserted that the
gl:d“ of a general sympathetic strike
Gompers’' approval, but he de
clined to make any statement until
:\‘; had gone carefully into the ques
n.
Indications were ‘that unless some
means of reaching a settlement in the
Traction strike were reached it would
develop into one of the greatest labor
conflicts that has ever taken place,
The threats of the Traction chiefs to
Jeatroy the carmen’s union has all la
bor in this city aroused, «
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Reckless Irish, Pipes
Playing, Stage Flying
ChargeOverTrenches
BY PHILIP GIBBS,
(Baxclusive War Correspondent of The
Atlanta Georgian and The Lon
don Daily Telegraph.)
WITH THE BRITISH ARMY, Sept.
11.—The Irish charge at Guillemont
was one of the most astonishing feats
of the war. It was almost too impet
uous. They went forward, pipes play
ing, with an {lrrestible assault.
The English who fought with them
tell that they have never seen any
thing like the way in which the Irish
men dashed ahead.
“Like a human avalanche,” sald
one. The officers cheered the men
on. One of the commanding officers
threw pieces of chalk after the men,
shouting “Good luck!”
They stormed the first, second and
third German lines, sweeping resist
ance away and not stopping to take
breath. The men were lifted up.
“‘Fey,” the Scots call ft.
~ Death held no terror for them after
months of dull and dogged fighting
in the trenches. They were excited,
getting into the open and meeting
the enemy face to face.
Too Fast for Safety.
The only fault of their rapidity was
that i left no time to safeguard the
ground behind them. ‘
The English riflemen on the rl‘ht“
had more solidarity, but they were 80
inspired by the Irish dash and pipes
that those in support could hardly
be restrained from following. |
“I nearly biew my teeth out whists
ling 'em back,” sald an English ser-;
geant. But discipline prevailed. The
English hattalions have been recrult-f
ed since the first phase of the war,
but an officer who was once with the
guards sald that no soldlers of any
army in the world could have at
tacked in a finer and more disciplined
array than the young rifiemen with
their ice-cold self-control, but afire
with the resolve to win.
The Germans began sniping from
the rear. A young gunner officer,
Americanß
(By International News Service.)
WASHINGTON, Sept. 11.—" Don’t
take your boy behind the woodshed
if he throws a baseball through the
window, but encourage him in his
efforts to learn to throw,” sald an of
ficer of the United States Marine
Corps today. “Americans would be
the Dest bomb and hand grenade
throwers in the world, and therefors
the best fitted to fight under modern
conditions, such as those In Burope
today
“The average American youth early
learns to throw a baseball accurately
anfl with speed, and that is the reason
we are as & nation especially ftted
for trench warfare. Baseball is en
couraged in the Marine Corps, and
thejskill displayed by marines-—even
untrained recruits—4n the bomb and
hand grenade drill is nothing short of
remarkable.”
Burglar Stole Both
K%nds of ‘Chewing’
The burglar who entered the store
of M. M, Beck, No. 90 Kennedy street,
‘Sunday night evidently wanted some
thing to exercise his Jaws on.
Chewing gum and chewing tobacco
were reported among the lost arti
cles, also one cigar, the proprietor
said,
EVENING
EDITION
who had come up behind the infantry
“just to look around” as he puts it,
discovered a split in a rock leading
to an underground chamber where
twenty German soldiers and ons of
ficer were hiding. Surprised, but
holding their revolvers ready, they
surrendered, quietly clicking their
heels and saluting. The officer, a
polite fellow, offered the corporal a
gold watch for a souvenir,
Nearly Starved.
The prisoners, an odd 600, were in
a pitiful condition. CQur artillery had
yrevented them from getting rations
for three days. Their spirit was bro
ken and they wers trembling with
fear. One officer captured was clear
ly in command of the garrison of
Gulllemont. When he passed the
prisoners’ cage all sprang up and sa
luted him with profound respect. He
was the only man who maintained a
proud indifference regarding his cap
ture, He stood very straight and
still, as if careless whether he lived
or died. Two officers with him clung
to the necks of their British captors,
crying “Mercy!”
Another officar fell to his knees
lifting his hards in an attitude of
prayer, One man pulled out a pho
tograph of his wife and children as
bhis strongest plea for his life. But
the British had no thought of taking
their prisoners’ lives. It was hard
for some of them to be sorry. They
thecught of the moments when these
men from. their dugouts had flung
bombs to the last and then had dis
appeared into their holes, coming up
with an air of innocence and meek
ness.
One British sergeant, hit in the hip
by a shell, captured four without help
and ordered them to carry him on a
stretcher to the dressing station. Ha
arrived smoking a cigarette with his
prisoners as stretcher bearers. Of
the German garrison of 2,000 hardly
one escaped. All were dead, wounded
or prisoners. Two battalions were
wiped out.
. Lawrence
Dr. Brooks Lawrence, new head of
the Georgia Anti-Saloon League, told |
a Tabernacle congregation Sunday
that the real fight of the Georgla pro
hibitionists was just beginning, and
that he dry law victory of 1916-1916
must be followed up with a concen
trated drive to make It stick.
“Great battles are still ahead,” he
warned the dry forces. “The fight is
never won until the saloon is whipped
to a finish, and Georgia liquor men
indicate they are not yet ready to
yleld, in spite of our former victo
ries.”
Dr. Lawrence, who is probably the
most experienced saloon fighter in the
South, sald the prohibitionists must
make a combined fight for the law's
enforcement. |
Alabama Marshal Is
ine
Slain; Feud Blamed
DOTHAN, Sept. 11.~1. D. Chancey,
veteran marshal of Hartford, Ala.,
was shot and killed at Concord
Church, In Houston County, yester
day by Bartow Driver. The trouble
is sald to have grown out of an old
feud. Chancey was under indiot
ment in Geneva County for having
killed Donnle Driver, Bartow Driver's
brother, at Hartford last January,
Chancey clalmed that Donnle Driver
resisted arrest and that he shot in
seoif-defense. His trial was to have
come up at the fall term of court at
Geneva. Both famlilies are prominent
in Geneva County,
(By International News Service.)
BUCHAREST, Sept. 11.—The Rou
manian War Office today admitted
that Silistria, an important Danub¢
fortress, had been abandoned to thd
Bulgarians. The Roumanians retreats
'ed in good order after the fort had
been destroyed by heavy guns.
“Sillstria,” says the official state
ment, “was attacked with 18-inch and
16 1-2-inch guns, which destroyed thd
forts in a few hours. The Rouma
nians re‘ired in good order.
“Russian troops are marching t 4
the southward of Dobric, in order to
surround the enemy advancing on tha
Danube.”
Great Battle on
Along Black Sea
By SYDNEY B, CAVE,
Staff Correspondent of international
News Service,
LONDON, Sept. 11 ~—Zurich dis+
patches today confirmed earlier re
ports that a tremendous battle is de
veloping in that section of Roumania
lying along the Black Sea. It is ap
parent from this news that the Rus
sian and Roumanian commanders had
carefully selected the field on which
they wished to meet the advancing
Bulgarian and Turkish forces.
The same dispatches brought the
significant news that the Russiand
had resumed their offensive in Buko<
wina and were attacking the Aus
trians along their entire front. This
was taken as indicative that the Rou«
manian advance into Transylvania
had been so successful at every point
that the Russlan army was secure
from attack on its extreme left flank,
and could proceed with vigor against
the forces defending the passes lead
ing to the plains of Hungary.
While Interest in the spectacular
centered upon the campalgn in Rou«
mania, the military experts today ex«
pressed the opinion that success sos
the Turco-Bulgarian forces in the
Black Sea region would gain them
but little benefit. Following the. an«
nouncement of the capture of Turta
kal, it is claimed that the Rouma~
nian fortress of Silistria, 60 miled
from Bucharest, has fallen to the
Bulgarians.
These enemy successes, the experis
point out, are Immaterial, in view of
the fact that at no point have thz
Bulgarians succeeded in passing th
Danube River, which serves as a nat
iral defense for the heart of Rouma-«
nla.
French Check All
~ Attacks on Somme
i PARIS, Sept, 11 -—(German attacks
made on the Somme front were re
!;.ul.od by the French, according to
the official communique issued to
|-hy. The Teutons launched thelr chief
‘flnu'llm in the region of Berny and
Chaulnes, but they were unsuccessful
il‘ll"whorn on the: front calm pre<
' valled, the statement BAYS.
Church Money To Be
Put Into War Loan
(By International News lorvln!
BERLIN, Sept. 11.—Arch
Ilm!b«»r. n%‘.nuon and Posen, has -
structed clergy to put the money
| of the church at the disposal the
German w'llmuh:u* 4