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ATLANTA: fiti „ ,000 'homes. telephones. Fften main lines of railroads. ji jp.MU) i J llfm t VOL. 1. NO. 97. Atlanta Georgian. ATLANTA, GA., FRIDAY, AUGUST 17, 1906. PPTOTT.. In Atlanta two cent* ± 1V1GJli. on Trains fciVF CENTS TWO MILLIONS IN TWO HOURS WON BY KING EDWARD THROUGH A SUDDEN TURN IN WALL STREET Harriman Crowd Pulls Off Sensational Coup in Stocks. By Private Leased Wire. New York, Aug. 17.—With a sharp upward swing of 10 points In Union Pacific and 6 points In Southern Pacif ic today, leaders in the tremendous bull movement cleared all the way from Slftft.000 to $2,000,000 each. Amid such excitement on the floor of the stock exchange as has been equal led only during ttye corner In Northern Pacific five years'ago, E. H. Harriman, It was estimated, won $2,000,000 in two hours, while King Edward of England, who has been buying those securities through his New York representative, profited to almost the same amount. The rise in the two railroad stocks followed Immediately upon the declara- ti'<n of the large dividend of 10 per cent on Union Pacific and 5 per cent '■n Southern Pacific. No sooner had the news of the divi dend spread throughout the financial district than orders to buy Union Pa cific and Southern Pacific flooded the market. Brokers rushed on to the fl'»»r of the exchange frantic to place their commission. In the flrst moments after the an nouncement of the dividends, the price °f the stock Jumped so swiftly that the tickers were unable to keep up with the changes. In the fractions of min utes the stock shot up the same frac tions. it was a scramble to buy, buy, buy. Shorts Flying to Cover. To add to the bullish sweep that sent the market soaring, the short Interest, as H is called, made the wildest fight •>f all to buy stocks so that they might cover the sales. It was known that E H. Harriman was a big holder of both Southern and Union Pacific. Of tne former it was stated that he had acquired 200,000 shares. King Edward bought through Sir Line«t Cassell, his New York repre sentative, ani j (a one of the largest holders of the securities. He cleared * , a share on his Southern Pacific and $30 a share on his Union Pacific Others who made profits were John W. Gates, James R. Keene, John > itRefeller, William Rockefeller, H. *-"&ers, James Stillman, Daniel Gug- lm, Harry Weill, Jacob Field and "llliam Oliver and Jefferson M. Levy. 1 he rise | n the union Pacific repre- an Increase In the value of the japt'aHzatlon of $20,000,000, while that m Jw/fhern Pacific represented an fn- i ,r " ,w tn value of $12,000,000. Mrs. Avrilla Connally. !^hf to The %Oeorgtsn. Jiaraison, Ga„ August .17.—Mrs. Av- n.ii i onnally, an aged lady living near r ? yesterday morning. Mrs. j ••nnallv was the aunt of Mrs. Mary' vaIIu,Uin » this place. ON TERMINAL PLAN On the second floor of the Empire building a staff of engineers and draughtsmen Is busy with scale and pencil drawing curves and gradients and calculating cubic yards. A tired looking man at the first desk Is patient ly explaining to residents of certain blocks that they really must move for "the railway needs the ground.” As outlined in The Georgian Thurs day afternoon, the Atlanta, Birming ham and Atlantic railroad is preparing to build its big terminals. The work will be carried on under the corporate name of the Gate City Terminal Com pany, which will control the terminal property. So far advanced are the plajis for the terminals that the contract for the grading and excavating has been let. Lane Bros. & Company, of Lynchburg, a well-knowfi contracting firm, will have charge of this work and the con tract price for the work is said to be more than $500,090. R, T. McDonald has been appointed chief engineer of the terminal compa ny and has arrived to take charge of the work. He Is at the head of the engineering staff which is so busy in the Empire building. The freight depot of the Atlanta, Birmingham and Atlantic and Sea board Air Line will be erected west of the Atlanta Terminal station. It wll| contain the freight offices of the com panies while two long warehouses In the rear will be used for handling In bound and outbound freights. The con tract for this building has not yet been let. , . , .. The terminal yards, local freight tracks and necessary buildings will rover the ground between Magnolia and Nelson streets, practically all of which is owned by the Gate City Ter minal Company. The strip Is about half a mile long and requires an enor mous amount of grading. The dfstiib- utlnK yards will be located about two mile* from the station near the Inter section of the Seaboard and Western and Atlantic roads. The terminal com pany will assume control of all track age within this point. The onntractlnB company will send a targe force of men Hiid a number of steam shove).* to Atlanta within a short time and actual work will begin. The contract for the grading ealla for Its completion by June I. l!>»i. Thoms* Sawyer, Special to The (lenrgtaB. Abbeville. Ga„ August I,.—Thomas Sawyer city marshal, died at his home in this city on Wednesday night. BIG SHIFT MADE IN THE SOUTHERN'S L DEPT, Guy L. Stewart, for the past six teen months the land and Induatrlal agent for the Southern railway In At lanta, transferred to headquarters at Washington, and W. L. Henderson, agent at Mobile, Ala., transferred to Atlanta aa general Southern agent, abolishing the Mobile office, was the Continued on Pag. Three. OOOOO <H3<KH3<H30O<HXH3<H3 <J<JO<J0<1 o a O “8HAKE/' 8AY8 ICE MAN O O TO 80DA DI8PEN3ER. O GREAT LOSS OF LIFE IS FEARED FROM ’QUAKE SHOCKS IN CHILE Whole Andean Dis trict Given Terrif ic Shaking. CITY OF VALPARAISO GREATLY DAMAGED Fire Is Reported To Have Attacked Place After the Buildings Were Knocked Down. "There’s plenty of time yet left O O for us," you can imagine the Ice 0 0 man saying to the soda water 0 0 man. "And then, people have to 0 0 have coal and drink hot chocolate 0 0 In the winter time, so we catch 0 O ’em coming and going.” 0 0 The weather man has, every day 0 0 this week, predicted showers and 0 O every day showers have fallen In 0 O parts of Atlanta, though hardly a 0 O drop has fallen In the business 0 O section of the city. The rain areas 0 O have been small. Lots of folks 0 O think It hasn’t been ralplng any, 0 O but they are mistaken. O O Foreeast: 0 0 Local thunder showers Friday 0 O night and Saturday. 0 0 Friday temperatures: O 7 o’clock a. m., 73 degrees. 0 8 o’clock a. m., 78 degrees. O 9 o’clock a. m.. 81 degrees. 0 10 o’clock a. m., 83 degrees. 0 11 o'clock a. m., 8$ degrees. O 12 o’clock noon. 86 degrees. O 1 o'clock p. m., 88 degrees. 0 2 o’clock p. m., 86 degrees. 0 DOO<HXH3<KI<K3 OWO <H300<H30<H300 Ily I'rlratP Leased Wire. New York, August 17.—A re port which reached this city this afternoon said that portions of Valparaiso were burning all night and that the bodies of hundreds of its residents were buried in the ruins of the buildings. For an in terval cable communication with Valpnraiso.was cut off but the op erator at the “hut” outside the city has since responded and sends word that the disaster may be a repetition of the San Francisco horror. By Private Leased Wire. London, August 17.—A report reaches here which has not yet been confirmed that Valparaiso, Chile, has been shaken "by an earthquake, and that there has been great loss of property, with perhaps heavy loss of life. By Private Leased Wire. New York, Aug. 17.—Private ad vices from Valparaiso, Chile, received In this city today, report terrific earth quakes there last night. Many build ings were wrecked and hardly a house escaped without damage; Fires broke out throughout, the city. It is feared there have been mafry flUmgUlag A dispatch from Valparaiso says that cable lines monvorklng as far as Val paraiso Hut, the cable building on the shore outside of Valparaiso. All land lines to the Interior of Chile are down. The operator in the hut says that the disaster Is probably a repetition of the San Francisco calamity. Many 8hoeks Felt, The National Cable Company receiv ed Information last night of the inter ruption of the service along the west coast of South America by earthquakes in f the neighborhood of Iqulque, Chile. No details were given. Advices received from Beunos Ayres, via London, also stated that a terrible earthquake was felt In the Cordillera de Los Andes lasting five seconds. Communication between Chile and Ar gentine was reported to be completely interrupted. Information la Vague. Kingston, on the Island of St. Vin cent, also was affected by an earth quake on Tuesday night, according to dispatches from that point. Shocks were felt albo on the Island of St. Lucia on the night of August 2. In all, 51 distinct shocks were felt. Information received up to 10 o'clock regarding the earthquake at Valparaiso Is still of a vague nature. It occurred, however, at 7:40 last night and there were four severe shocks followed by a conflagration. How far the Are extend ed or how much damage resulted has not yet been learned. Operators Resume Work. The cable operators who left the of fice In the city last night and repaired to the hut, have, this morning, re established their headquarters again at the main ofllces at Valparaiso. This Is construed as meaning that the city has not been ruined, and as indicoi- Ing that the danger Is over. HERE ARE THE CHILDREN OF THE "MEMORIAL ORPHANAGE." LITTLE CHILDREN MADE TO PRAY THAT THE MAYOR MAY NOT STOP THEIR SINGING IN THE STREETS HEAVY LOSSES OF LIFE REPORTED IN ANDE8. Special Cable-Copyright. Reunoa Ayrea. Atig. 17.—An unuau- ally heavy earthquake la reported from the Andean dlatrleta of Argentina. While news from the affected district. Is meager, It Is feared that there ha. been heavy los. of life. Land commu nication between Chile and Argentina hHs been completely .hut off by the earthquake. Special ('Bble—Copyright. Kingston, St. Vincent, Aug. 17.— There ha* been a number of earth quake shocks throughout the Island of St. I.ucln since August 2. A severe one wna felt August 14. Comparatively little damage has been done, hut the people are In a condition bordering on panic. By Private l^nsol Wire. Washington, Aug. 17.—No official confirmation of the earthquake had reached the Chilean legation In this city up to this afternoon. Great anxie ty was manifested by 8enor Vega, the charge d’affaires. Senor Vega stated that a calamity of auch proportions aa to overtake San Francisco would be Impossible In the Chilean metropolis, from the fact that the buildings nre all low, few more than three or four storie. high and are solidly constructed. They would not yield to in ordinary shock, and It Is doubtful If a shock equal to that which rained San Francisco would do great damage. The state department also wag with out confirmation of the report of the earthquake. There arc no American of ficials In the city at present and but few Americana engaged In business there. The present consul, Alfred A. Winslow, of Hammond, Ind., Is In this country on leave. “THEY'SHALL NO7 BRING CHILDREN ON STREE IS” “In no way am I Against the Institution,'* said Mayor Woodward Fri day morning when Interviewed on the subject of the "Memorial Orphan age.” "A*dong as the Institution Is run In a proper manner I will do all I can for It, but they shall not bring those little tots out on the streets at night and use them to create sympathy, so that money may be raised for carrying on the orphanage. If they need money, Mr. and, Mrs. Harwell, or whoever la at th!% head of the Institution, should raise It, not the chil dren. "Bringing the children out on tho streets Is not benefiting them In the least. It Is only teaching them to be beggars and when they aro turned out from the Institution they wilt know nothing’ else. Then, I un derstand, there are some girls getting along In their teens. They should not be allowed to be brought out on the streets In this manner. It Is for the children that I have told the police to break up the meeting and not because of any desire to Injure the Institution.” When nsked what would be done with the children If they were again brought out, Mayor Woodward said: “They will be taken back to the Institution, and, If this does not stop the practice, I will have them taken before the recorder and sent to one of the state Institutions until proper disposition can be made.” Mayor Woodward states that Rev. John R. Gunn, superintendent of the Georgia Industrial Home at Macon,, has offered to take care of the little ones. G.A.R. INDORSES PLAN FOR ATLANTA PARK By WALTER G. COOPER. Special to The Georgian. Minneapolis, Mfnn., Aug. 17.—The committee on resolutions of the Grand Army of the Republic adopted by ac clamation this morning the following resolution: “Resolved, by The fortieth national encampment, Grand Army of the Re public, That In the event of the enact ment by congress of further legislation establishing national parks, the battle fields around Atlanta should be con sidered when it shall be made to appear that the price of tho land to be ac quired for such parks is Reasonable and Just.” The Atlanta committee has beetj treated with great kindness and con sideration. They appeared before the committee on resolutions this morning and Colonel 8. A. Darnell, of Atlanta, who Is a member, Introduced the party. Councilman E. W. Martin, of Atlanta, was spokesman and represented At lanta well. Commander Tanner, Com mander, elect Brown, Governor Van- Rant and dozens of other Grand Army veterans have been especially cordial to the Atlanta delegation. The resolution adopted In convention by tho Grand Army of the Republic will, it is believed, greatly aid in get ting national parks around this city on the three battle grounds that played so important a part in the civil war. Ezra Church, Atlanta and Peachtree Creek. A Joint committee, comjiosed of members from the city council, county commissioners, chamber of commerce, Grand Army of the Republic and the Confederato veterans, have for some months been at work on tho scheme of establishing the three national parkn and Joining them by boulevards. It was decided several weeks ago to send a special committee to the Grand Ar my of the Republic reunion and there ask for the approval of that organiza tion. Never before had the Confeder ate veterans asked any favor of the Grand Army. “The Devil’s in This Work," Declares,. Mrs. Harwell. WILL TRY TO RESIS^ ORDERS OF MAYOR “Woodward Better Look Out or the Lord’ll Strike Him Dead." HUNDREDS OF POOR FOLK BESIEGE BANK IN CHELSEA TO GET THEIR SAVINGS By Private Leased Wire. Chelsea, Mass., Aug. 17.—Hundreds of depositors, for the most part poor working people and Hebrews, who have money at risk In the crash In the First National Bank of Chelsea, are clamor ing around the Institution this morn ing. The deposits and other liabilities of the bank aggregate nearly $1,000,000. The failure was not gsperally known until today, although Bank Examiner Ewer had ordered the Institution to cease business Inst night. Until before clock the examiner and officials of the bank worked on the book*. Presi dent H. B. Hinckley would not discuss the failure nor would any officers of the hank. The news of the failure sp?||d over Chelsea. People flocked to tw bank the scene was a wild one. One wonfan, partly clad and crying to get at the bank door, was prevented by Patrolman Harrison, who tried to calm her. The woman said that all the money she had In the w'orld was in the bank. I*arge crowds of men, workingmen of all types, who, ordinarily, w’ould have been on the way to w'ork, lingered about the bank. Many Hebrews were In the crowd and gathered In groups by themselves, wildly discussing the names of the officials of the bank and telling of their savings. The determination to close the bank's doors was reported at a special meet ing of the directors last yesterday. The United States authorities left for CheUea today. All the employees «*f the bank were called to the building last night. The examiner began his w*ork and the ataches of the bank building by scores and for a short time worked on the books all night. We are all praying for Mayor Wood ward. We had the children pray for him last night, and today,*too," says Mrs. J. R. Harwell, who, with her hus band, runs the “Memorial Orphanage” at 62 and 54 McDaniel street. Mrs. Harwell was called upon by a Geor gian reporter Friday morning and gave out an exceptionally Interesting Inter view' as to the orphanage and the work ings'of the devil through the city of ficials. Despite the order of the mayor to the chief of police to break up nny street meeting in which the children of the orphanage participated, Mrs. Harwell declared: “The Lord willing, I will be out on the streets with my children at 6 o'clock this afternoon.” Mrs. Harwell and her bevy of little ics will first app near the Kimball mayor’s instructions of Chief Jennhut^ arq carried out the children will be are carried out the children will be taken with all kindness and tenderness, back to the home by a squad of big, large- hearted policemen. It Is claimed In tw'o reports made by City Warden Thomas Evans, who made a thorough Investigation‘of the Insti tution some days ago, and also in the report of Secretary Joseph Logan, of the Associated Charities of Georgia, that the Institution is run on very slack lines, that the children at* n- t properly cared for, that they are drag ged out on the streets when they imould be In their beds and Mat tne institu tion lacks the proper facilities f r training the little ones. - Mr. Harwel stated Friday that his wife had a divine call 16 the work she Is now doing. "When she first started to carry on the work it was In Oakland City,” he said. “She took under her care three babies, although I was very much op. posed, and she finally saw' she had made a mistake when the Lord took two of them from us." He stated that there were twenty- six children now In the Institution, that they are well fed—If anything, over fed—that they enjoy life and are all full of the Divine spirit. "Training Them For Religious Work." When asked w'hat he and his wife were training the children to be he said: 0 -\\ "Missionaries, ministers and evange lists. We hold prayer three times a day and the devil cannot come Into the institution." He said that T. R. Saw tell, J. H, Bullock A Company and Wood A Sin gleton kept file institution supplied with meat; that ‘the three Cairo wa supplied a superabundance of syrup, that Nathan and other bakers supplied Page Three.