The Atlanta Georgian. (Atlanta, GA.) 1906-1907, June 30, 1906, Image 1
SPECIAL SATURDAY
SIGHT EDITION.
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he Atlanta
VOL. I. NO. 57.
QUARTER OF MILLION NEW YO
. FLEE FROM TORRID RAYS
Crowded Trains Leave
Gotham for Cool
Country Spots.
80,000 PERSONS SLEEP
ON SANDS AT CONEY
Reports From All Sections of
Country Ind cate That Hot
Wave Is Dealing Death.
Mercury in Columbus Registered
At the /00 Degree Mark Friday
Friday and Saturday are the hottest days known in Georgia this year.
In Atlanta the heat has been oppressive, but In the southern and central
parts of the state the mercury has been reaching up to the very top of
the tube.
At Columbus Friday the maximum temperature was 100.
At Macon, Montlcello, Xewnan nn<l August;! the maximum was 93.
At no place In the state from which the local weather bureau receives In
formation was the maximum temperature for the day less than 90. At
such lofty and pleasant places aa Rome and Gainesville the emperature
reached 91. In Atlanta the maximum Friday was only 91.
Little hope for Immediate relief from the extreme heat Is felt by the
local weather officials.
ATLANTA, GA., SATURDAY, .11N £
ERS CONGRESS WAITS
m UNTIL MOON
Hy Private Leased Wire.
New York. June 30.—/The glare of a
merciless sky In the earlier morning
hours promised that this would bo the
'.armest day of the year, and by
o'clock the promlso was being torrldly
fulfilled. Within 16 minutes the deaths
of four boblea» all heat stricken, wara
reported to the coroner's office. ■
Thousands upon thousands who went
there to got away from the unbearable
conditions In the heart of the city, slept
out on the sands of the shore, rather
than return to swelter In fumace-llke
homes. It was estimated by the police
that no less than 10,000 men, women
and children slept at Coney Island
alone. ,
Thousands Leave City.
Thousands of people who had gone
through the terrible night In the
cramped and almost stifling rooms of
the tenements In the lower part of the
city, with one Impulse made toward
the public bath houses early today, and
the frantic attempts of all to get into
the places at once started disturbances
that kept the police busy.
The rush to get away from New York
over the Fourth of July to the country'
places found about the city began at
dawn today, and Increased hour by
hour. Tho shimmering heat In town
accentuated the exodus so that this
year It was greater than has ever been
known before. It was estimated from
the figures supplied by the railroads
and steamboat lines that 260,000 left
New York today.
Trains Overtaxed.
The railroads and several steamboat
lines had prepared for one of the great
est crowds of outgoing passengers In
their history, asd they were taxed to
the limit. Special excursions to varl-
-wu* were overfull. The usual
trains on most of tho railroads had
hex n run in two and even three sec
tion/ .
4 Nine Die in Chicago.
By Private loosed Win*.
('himgo, June 30.—The third day of
the Intense heat hero caused nine
deaths and fifty prostrations, several
of them serious. The police and hos-
pital .forces were kept busy all day
answering calls. The mercury In the
office of the weather bureau registered
92 at 1:30 o’clock, while It was several
degrees higher In the streets.
Three Are Prostrated.
By rrlvnts 1 erased Wire.
Toledo^ Ohio, June 30.—Three pros
trations have occurred here as a result
of the excessive heat. The victims are
Peter McGrath, John Nesbft and Thom
as Fielding. The mercury reached 92.
Is Driven to Suicide.
By irivste Leased Wire.
Louisville, Ky., June 10.—John Hil
ton, a farmer, who resided near Pra
ther, Ind., cut his throat from ear to
car at 3 o’clock yesterday. It Is be
lieved that Hilton was overcome by
heat and became deranged In conse
quence.
Made Insane by HsaL
By Trlratc Leased Wire.
Fremont, Iowa, June 10.—Christ
Fart lesson, an engineer, Is dead from
the efTects of a 58-grain morphine pow
der and a pint of whisky. The excess
ively hot weather Is thought to have
made him Insane.
MUTUAL LIFE MEN SPEND
$35,936,254 FOR PROPERTY
WITHOUT SANCTION OF BOARD
Theft of $300,000 Reported by Investigation
Committee—Name of Guilty
Persons Concealed.
House Agrees to Re
port on Building
Bill.
Washington, Jun. JO l-s At l|N p
the house agreed to the gunferenett
port on th. public build Ins bill
At J p. m. rongres took h re
until 6 p. in.. Saturday aft.moi.
By Private teased Wire.
New York, June 10.—The final re
port of the Trueidale committee ap
pointed by the board of trueteea to
investigate the Mutual Life Insurance
Company was made public today. It
shows many hitherto unrevealed Ir
regularities, Including a theft of 1300,-
000, but very carefully conceal, the
names of the guilty officials.
The committee states that Ellhu
Root, former trustee and counsel for
Thomas F. Ryan and the two McCur-
dys, declined to answer questions In
regard to the personal profits derived
by them through connection with the
company.
Not Sanctioned by the Bosrd.
Tt wee hardly to be expected that
thay would,” says the report.
One of the most startling revela
tions la that "the purchase of most of
the real estate holdings of the com
pany (coating 326,938,364) and the Im
provements on the same,” were made
by certain oifictaia without "the ap
proval or. uaflVHon of the board of
truslces,” ob required by law, an;'.
Here are some of
transactions that the house cleaning
committee • approved:
Get Office Rent Refunded.
Mutual trustee rente offices In com
pany'a building for 116,000 a year, and
gets tha money refunded as "attorney
fees."
Mutual trustee leases office for 32,-
600 and gets 36,000 back «a "attorney
fees." No record of services render
ed.
Twenty-five Mutual trueteea Inter
ested In truat companies which go!
one-half per rent rati- off on 336,000.-
000 In loans made to Mutual In two
years.
Seven trustees of Mutual use nffl
clal position to get Jobs for relatives
In company.
Interested In Syndicates.
Eleven trustees have been Interest
ed In • syndicates selling eecuritlee to
the Mutual.
Seven trustee! had Itnowledgo of
abstraction of money from Mutual
treasury for campaign funds, tho
books being falsified to conceal It.
To nvold >u lilchur, however, which
would hurt the company, tha'cominU-
tee advises the trustees not to do such
thing! any more.
$1,200,000 INCREASE
IN CITY’S BUILDING
Building in 1906.
Month. Number. . Cojt
January 240 $ {00.I0S.
February 241 JJWJI
May . 363 649,197
June 318 673,027
T&tal .~L819 $3,866,676
Building in 1905.
Month. Number. Cost.
April 279 266,626
May 166 <08,719
June ee 279 699,719
Total .T672 61,692,888
Increaee shown In number of buildings 147
Incresse In amount of money expended $1,166,848
PRESIDENT AT CAPITOL
TO APPROVE MEASURES
By Private Leatwl Wire.
Washington, June 80.—*l hi* in *, r-
ftwny day. for congress. Most of the
big events had been pulled oft when
the gate* closed last night, perhaps,
leaving only one Important bill and a
few minor •.!»••* f • « today's card.
The |.i«--dd*-nt fdKti»*d the railroad
rate bill late last night. The house
amended the resolution of the senate
making the rate bill effective sixty
day* from June 29, 1906. An the rnto
Mil pMNMPd. It Im .--.iii.-h t-ffiM't lvt> fi --tn
the time It wan approved.
Is Signing Measures.
The president went fo tho capito!
at 11 o’clock thin morning foi tln«
purpose of signing up bills In tho last
hours of tho session. He established
himself In tho president's room. Just
back of the senate chamber, and at
once began the work of turning bills
Into laws.
The conference report on the sundry
civil bill containing the $1,326,000 ap
propriation for the Jamestown expo
sition was adopted last night, and
will today become a law. The pure
food bill was also agreed to by both
houses. The principal thing that pre
vented adjournment last night wga
the omnibus, public building btQ.Jiliaa
"the pork bat 5 !."
Items, Agreed To.
The following Kerns, which]
still In dispute In the public
Ings bill, ware agreed on i>\ ti
ferees this morning: New Yo
customs office, $460,000;
city assay office, $360,00
Mich.. $325,000; Columbus.
000; Chattanooga. Tenn , $ll<yi
dar Rapids. Io.vn. $20(7,000;
Minn., $ 115,000; Ocala. Fla..
Fernandlnn. Fla.. $100.00Q;
Idaho, $100,000; Minneapolis
$350,000; Richmond. Va., Uooi
TRAGEDY FOLLOWS
DISPUTE OVER U
Apodal to The (learxfsD.
Birmingham, Ala., June 20.—A die-
pute over 33 Is aid to have caused the
murder of James Caldwell, a young
marrlod man, at Juniper mines.
John Russell has been arrested, he
being charged with the crime, brought
to Birmingham and placed In the coun
ty Jail.
According to the story that oomos
from Juniper mines six men started a
dice game around a keg of beer and
a dispute arose between Caldwell end
Russell. The altercation led to the
murder of Caldwell and another man
wounded In the arm.
THAW’S LAWYERS DECIDE TO RISK
HIS FATE ON STORY OF PRETTY WIFE
■ FISH IS PREPARING CAPITAL P, 0. MAN,
ID WAGE FIGHT
She Tells All About
White’s Persec'u-
• tion of Her.
Heat Kills Dairyman.
By Private Leased Wire.
Hamilton. Ohio, Juna 30.—All heat
records In Hamilton were broken when
the government thermometer register
'll at 1:30 o'clock (6 degrees. Harry
Hclntselman, a dairyman,' was killed
by the heat.
Hot In Philadelphia.
By Private Leased Wire.
Philadelphia, Pa., June JO.—The gov
ernment thermometer on top of the
poatnfrice building registered 06 de
grees yesterday, the record for the sea-
.on. Many thermometers on the street
touched 98. There were several heat
prostrations, but so far no deaths have
been reported.
A marvelous Increase In the amount
of money expended In buildings Is
shown by tha building Inspector’s rec
ord, for the half year passed In 1900
In comparison with the first six months
of last year. Over a million of dollars
more has been put out In building In
vestments during this year than the
first six months of last, which Is near
ly double the amount expended during
the similar time In 1106. This not only
speaks well for the rapid growth of At
lanta, but aleo for the superior quality
of the buildings being erected as the
Increase In the number of buildings la
far below the ratio of Increase In
money expended.
Building Inspector P. A. Pittman
said Saturday: “Tha great Increase
this year comes largely In business
houses. In the number of new dwell
ings, although a substantial Increase Is
shown, there le nothing so remarkable,
but the Increase In the number of bust
ness .houses, factories and warehouses
Is certainly wonderful."
When asked what was the cause of
the Increase, Bulldlnr Inspector Pitt
man said: "During the last seven or
eight years the growth of Atlanta In a
residence way outstripped the number
of business houses erected. The busi
ness men hare been remodeling, putting
In new floors and In every way at
tempting to make the old buildings
accommodate the new state of things,
until the old buildings bare become en
tirely Inadequate, and now new ones
are being built. Every day new cm-
terprtsea are being started and tha In
crease In business houses will. In my
opinion, continue for some time.. The
buildings now being erected are bet
ter In workmanship and material than
aver before.”
FOUR WORKMEN INJURED
AT BATTLESHIP LAUNCHING
By Private leased Wire.
Philadelphia. Pa., June 80.—Barring
a alight accident which Injured four
men, the 18,000-ton battleship New
Hampshire was successfully launched
from the yards of the New York Hhlp
Building Company on tha Delaware
liver In South Camden, N. J., at about
3 o'clock this morning.
Governor McLane, of Naw Hamp
shire, and his daughtsr, Mias llaxel
McLane, the sponsor, with othsr mem
bers of th# christening party, were on
hand ten minutes before the signal was
glvsn by Decouraay May, president of
the company, to send the steel hull oft
the ways.
While the workmen were engaged In
removing the shoring blocks, aeveral
pieces of heavy tlmbera fell. Injuring
four workmen, two of them so severe
ly that It was necessary to remove
them to the Cooper hospital In Cam
den. The accident was unknown to the
By Privets tedesd’Wire.
New York. June 10.—Life or death
for Harry K. Thaw depends now upon
the story which ' his beautiful young
wife, Kvclyn Nesblt Thaw, will tell on
the witness stand.
Thaw’s lawyers, chief of whom la
ex-Judge W. M. K. Olcott, hare deter'
mined'to rest their entire case on the
etory of Mrs. Thaw. It. la a dramatic
and sensational narrative
Counsel for Thaw etudled this nar
retire In detail last night. Today they
had concluded that In It rested Thaw’s
Justification. They determined that
Mrs. Thaw .would ba thslr chief wlt-
' r story of White’s per
form the basis of the
tjtH. Thaw Tells All.
Mrs. TnaW'a i attltude‘Is ons of con'
earn-only for -b*r husband. In her
story, to tha lawyers she talked with
absol&te' frankness. -
ness end that her story of White's per
secution . should, f
defense.
T HARRI
B/ Private Uik4 Wire.
Naw York, June 8Q.—President Htuy
vesant Flah. of the Illinois Central
Hailfoad, hae fired the Orel gun, the
echoes of which rumbled through Wall
street today, in what pfesngrs tho
moat desporate, determined warfare
between him and Edward If. Harrfi
the man of "not yet" fame, for the
trol of the Illinois Central. It will be
the most stirring battle that Wall
street has seen for years.
H .rh in* n nr.- ..ijt r-.r l-l'.od, jin<!
financiers on the street ngioed today
that he chances of a compromise wet
so remote aa to not be worth
RUINED BY RACES,
ADMITS STEALING'
i
- j Private I/rased wire.
Washington, June 30.—Charles W.J
MnrW'horler, assistant cashier In thaj
Washington pout office, Is locked up Ini
the hirst precinct police station, a rnn J
fesaed emboxxler of $10,000 of govern*!
icWhorter wsa arrested at tha,
of Postmaster John A. Mer-
vhoin a confession waa made
flee of the prisoner’s attorney,
W. II. Robeson, In the Rond building,
The prisoner hud Intended to glv* blm«f
self up today, the police said.
Friends of MacWhnrter say his