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THE ATLANTA GEORGIAN-
SATURDAY, SEPTEMBER 3. 194*.
The Atlanta Georgian.
JOHN TEMPLE GRAVES, Editor.
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OUR PLA TFORM—The Georgian elands for Allania’s Owning its own gas and elec
tric light plants, as it now owns ils water works. Other cities do this and get gas as low as 60 cents,
With a profit to the city. This should be done at once. The Georgian believes that if street rail
ways can be operated successfully by European cities, as they are, there is no good reason why they
can not be so operated here. But we do not believe this can be done now, and it may be some years be
fore we are ready for so big an undertaking. Still Atlanta should set its fact in (hat direction NOW
The Georgian calla the attention of its multitude' of
correspondents to these facte: That all communications
must be signed. No anonymoue communication will bo
printed. No manuscripts wilt be returned unless stamps
are Inclosed for the purpose. Our correspondents are
urgently requested to abbreviate their letters at much
as possible. A half a column will be read, whereas a
full column will be passed over by the majority of
readers.
And This From Virginia.
The sensation of surprise Is almost greater than that
of indignation at the editorial which The News-Leader,
of Richmond. Va., has written about Atlanta and Its re
cent riot. ,
Of all the articles which have appeared In pnpers,
North and South, touching this unfortunate occurrence,
the editor of the Richmond paper la the harshest, the
most uncharitable and ’in every possible way the most
■vindictive and most unkind.
"It is difficult to understand how such an article could
have been written by a reputable organ of any city
News-Leader and shall be prompt to judge Richmond In
charity whenever Richmond is subjected to the provoca
tion which tempted Atlanta beyond Its strength.
Saturday Evening.
As the shadows fail upon this Saturday Evening
there will come an aspiration of general thankfulness
that, no shadow of apprehension rests upon the capital of
Dixie and that the week will close as serenely and hope
fully as the last Saturday set In smoke and tragedy, and
the new week dawned in grim resolve, hedged’ by the
majesty of law and by the martial ranks of soldiery.
It Is in ail respects a different and a better Sabbath
which Is to follow upon the Saturday evening.
The tragic and tremendous week through which wo
have passed has emphasised some permanent and essen
tial lessons, and has eatabilshcd some facta that deserve
a wide dissemination.
Flrst^ among these perhaps Atlanta would have It
known that her representative citizens—the majority of
her people—are opposed to raoba as a remedy for any
sort of crime. Two public meetings of her citizens, each
a thousand strong, have said so, and although that Is not
even a fiftieth of her population, It may fairly be assumed
that the thought moulding segment of this people con
demn mobB and deplore lynchlngB.
But whether they do or not, It is fair to say that all
elements of this population condemn the mob of Satur
day night which caught the old and young, the Innocent
and guilty into Its remorseless wrath, and walked
through a wassail of Indiscriminate cruelty to avenge the
whlte-skinncd and helpless victims of a dozen criminal*
of the negro race.
This mob Atlanta—the best Atlanta—the real Atlanta
—heartily condemns.
If the mob could hare found the real criminals or
the single nest from which they came, there might havo
been scant audience and scantier reaolutlona In the meet
ings that condemned the reign of the mob. But the blood
of the Innocent crlcB to heaven, and tho death of the
guiltless is a murder which Atlanta mourns and which
murks the reputation of the city and the state.
Atlanta through uli the pulses of her civic life thurv
one-twenty-flftH of the people of Atlanta came from the
Northern or Western states. Atlanta Is made up almost
entirely of Southern people who have built a vast ma
jority of Its public enterprises and Its stately homes, and
whatever Atlanta Is, It is a great typical representative
city of the South, not only of the Old South of heroic
memories and splendid traditions, but of the New South
of vital ambitions, of strenuous and triumphant vigor.
We repeat the expression of our regret that we have
not more Northern people among our citizens than we
have. We like those who have already come bo much
and have adopted them Into our homes and hearts so
cordially and so rapidly that we should like to see their
numbers multiplied an hundred fold.
McClellan Says He’ll Bolt.
Mayor McClellan announces that he will bolt the
nomination of William Randolph Hearst for governor.
Mayor McClellan can do as he pleases, but If he does
not vote for Mr. Hearst he will bolt the nomination
of as fairly and regularly nominated a candidate as his
party ever had, and of the bravest and best Democrat
that his party has nominated for governor In many years.
Mr. McClellan haa no excuse under the sun for his revolt
against his party nominee except his own vindictive and
personal dislike of the individual.
Mr. Hearst has done more In a year for the plain
people of New York who represent the Democracy of that
city than McClellan baa ever done or ever will do In all
the yeara of bis life. Mr. Hearst, by the Judgment of
thoughtful men. was fairly elected to the position which
McClellan-has been occupying for the last year. Mr.
Hearst was nominated for governor by a convention with
which he had little or nothing to do, and whose nomi
nation he did little or nothing to secure. He was elected
by men whom be has criticised and many of whom be bad
bitterly denounced, simply because of the colossal exhi
bition of force and energy and Influence which he has
made and which compelled from the reluctant leaders of
the Democratic party the acknowledgment that he best
represents everything that is real and honest and Dem
ocratic In the state of New York, and that he Is by rea
son of this record perhaps the only public man whom the
Democrats can elect governor of New York..
He stands for everything that Is clean, fair and
wholesome In New York politics. Single-handed and
alone he came dangerously near, even by McClellan's
own count, to rebuking the fraud, the bribery, the stuffed
ballot boxes and the corruption by whteh McClellan and
many bf his predecessors had been elected to the munlci-
pal chair. He runs upon a platform of putting out the
bosses and driving out the money changers and scourging
the bribers and putting in Jail the fraudulent Voters of
the state.
It McClellan cannot make up Ills mind to smother hll
personal venom to vote for a Democrat who stood for
these principles and who has Just been nominated vol-
untarily and without seeking, by an Immense majority
of the Democratic convention at Buffalo, then .Mr. Me-
Clellau Is perfectly welcome to go along with any He
publican procession that he chooses to follow.
I GOSSIP I
against another city. It Is even more difficult to under
stand how auch an article could havo been written by alders to her children: “Never disgrace me with another
newspaper of a Southern city against the people I night like this!"
of another Southern clt.v. And It Is almost impossible
to understand liow such an article could have been writ
ten by a newspaper published In tho capital of Virginia
About the people of the capital of Georgia.
In reading over this remarkable expression It be
comes perfectly evident to the most casual reader that
the condemnation Is not so much leveled at the riot of
Saturday night as It Is at the city Itself, and that the
abuse Is heaped with more personal venom upon Atlanta
than upon the crimes of Its lawless clement, which Is a
legitimate subject of comment throughout the country.
It Is impossible to escape the conclusion that the
Writer is animated by something more than an outraged
qense of public law and is fired through nnd through by
some bitter personal animus towsrd Atlanta. We find
otinyilvrs speculating as to what this Intense personal an-
Itytls can be nnd from what origin it haa sprung. Tho
editor of The News-Leader Is n 8outh, Caroilnan who
was for a number of years our neighbor in Greenvlllo
and Columbia and has received a multitude of kind words
and well deserved compliments front Georgia papers for
his virile style whllo he wns a writer for tho Cnrolina
press. He has been so close to ns In proximity and In
civilization that he certainly ought to lmve a better opin
ion of Atlanta than ho entertnlns and he certainly ought
to know that a great many of tho things which he so
wantonly charges against Atlanta are absolutely untrue.
It would seem to right-thinking men thnt the historic
relations existing between Carolina and Georgia would
have prevented the expression of such wanton bitterness
and misrepresentation. It would appenr natural that tho
noble pari taken by Georgia and notably by Atlanta's
great cltlxen, General Gordon, In tho redemption of South
Carolina from enrpet hag rule would have softened
the hearts of every Caroilnan toward this city.
And what Is true of Carolina ought to bo equally
true of the spirit of Virginia and of Georgia. Richmond
and Atlanta perhaps suffered most of any two Southern
cities In the wnr between the states. If Richmond liore
the brunt of the sieges In the enrtter part of the war, At
lanta was left fn ashes by General Sherman, and every
where on every possible occasion the uplrlt of Georgia
has risen generously, lovingly and admiringly to every call
that Virginia has made. It ha's not yet been three
month*, since Georgia, not particularly enamored of ex
positions, nor particularly euthuslnstlc over Industrial
dlsplnys, rose to an appropriation of $30,000 to place this
state In the list of co-operators with tho Jamestown ex
position. And this wns done everywhere to the ringing
and universally accepted declaration that Georgia could
not refuse anything that Virginia asked. The whole spir
it of the Old Dominion has been so thoroughly and ten
derly In touch with the thought and loving spirit of this
Empire state of the South, that It passes comprehension
how nny respectable or representative editor who Is In
his sound mind nnd sober sense* should have gone out
of hit way to surpass any writer In Massachusetts, In
Maine or In New York In the vindictiveness of his crit
icism of Atlanta at this time when her citizens are so
much overshadowed by recent events.
This phenomenal outburst of wanton bitterness ac
quires an additional mystery when we recall that The
News-Leader Is largely the property of John Skelton Wil
liams, than ahum no outylde man of this generation has
been better beloved In nit Georgia and has received more
cordial and eulogistic comment upon his persons! and pro
fessional character than he has had from the Georgia
pres*.
We do not need to be told that John Skelton Wil
liams was not Informed of the article which-his editor
has written about the city and the state which has done'
him *o much honor. We are confident that John Skelton
Williams, who is of sounder and saner mind and stom
ach, would have disapproved of the expression. And, we
can only fall back on the presumption that the editor of
The News-Leader has become embittered and dystteptlc,
cherishing some personal grievance against this great
city either for Its failure to recognize his transcendent
Ulents, or for Its crime In keeping at the head of the
procession of Southern cities.
We note with pleasure that neither The Tlmes-Dls-
pstch nor The Journal, Richmond's admirable morning
and afternoon patters, hare fallen In with the malicious
and unworthy bitterness which has characterized the ut
terance of The News-Leader.
Wa shall endeavor to survive the opinion of Tha
Anti we know that In the wiser light which reflection
has brought and comment has deepened, that the young
mei( of Atlanta will respond “Never again!”
With this much said and with our full condemnation
expressed for the lawless frenzy which took vengeance
Into Its own hands, let ns now gather from the events of
this lamentable week whatever of optimism and comfort
we can find.
In the first place we are at peace again. The city
ia normal, the factories are running, and tho dollars are
dancing over tho counters of our merchants as merrily
as before.
In the second place the police Inform us thnt this
city is quieter nnd more orderly than they have known it
tor a score of years.
Again our suburban towns are enjoying a sense of
security which has been foreign to them for a month or
more.
Above nil things our noble women are feeling anfer
nnd more secure nnd contented than at any time within
the last five years.
In fact, they are safer and more secure.
Cotton has not lost anything In demand or (trice by
reason of Atlanta's tragic week.
The comments of the outside newspapers which havo,
from the beginning, been pretty falrty divided, are grow
ing more moderate nnd kindly every day.
The negroes are politer and more considerate tljan
they have boun within the decade. It Is a matter of com
ment everywhere.
The lesson of the preachers has impressed the
hearts of the young and they will scarcely riot any more.
Hundreds of negroes all over Georgia havo been dis
armed of the deadly weapons which were an Invitation
to disorder.
The awful nature of the white man's vengeance when
aroused beyond forbearance has been given n lawless ob
ject lesson which, bad aa It Is, has not failed to make Its
deep and vast Impression.
The superior equipment of the white man In arms,
ltt ammunition. In organization, In military. In fire com
panies, In police Bystem. In supplies, In numbers and In
absolute control of all the avenues of force has been given
a powerful and convincing ocular demonstration.
There nre thoughtful men who bellove that the dem
onstration of these things by methods however deplora
ble, will give ns for the next few years greater peace
und security than wo have enjoyed in the last ten.
There arc Just ns many thoughtful people who bellcvo
that the restraining Influence of recent events will within
tho next two yoars save ten times more lives In Fulton
county than wero lost In the riots of Saturday night and
Monday.
And thore has not been even the suggestion of an
assault upon a white woman since 7 o'clock on Saturday
evening, September 22!
Surely In tho midst of much lamentation, and much
mortification, and much condemnation, and many things
to regret and many things to denounce, there Is something
of substantial comfort to he found in the list of compen
sating benefits which have conte to us out of the shadow
of dUgrace out of wlheh we feel that we have Jnst
emerged.
If there Is a sliver lining to our cloud It Is Just as well
to find It.
We (mint the souls of the sorrowful to the rifts which
we have written above.
OPEN LETTERS FROM THE PEOPLE
FROM THE PERSPECTIVE
OF OUR NEIGHBORS.
To the Editor of The Georgian:
On the first page of your estimable
paper appear* an article, "Committee
of Ten Seek Punishment of All Riot
ere."
This I*, on the face of It, absurd. Of
course the logical conclusion that all
law breakers Rhould be punched Is
correct. But to punish these rioters
and offer rewards for evidence la mere
ly putting a premium on blackmail.
Might na well pursue the policy of
cutting off a dog’s tall Inch at a time
on the ground of less pain; of curing
a cancer on the left hand by cutting off
the right. This riot In Atlanta Is the
result of several well-known causes
easily tracnble to their correct source.
Huch things do not>>ccur except when
a crisis Is reached and at a psycholog
ical moment. It was a revolution and
whenever circumstances and conditions
reach a given point where Incompatible
elements are forced together an ex
plosion results, a change, a clearing
of strained conditions, a correction of
existing evils, and new channels rpade
for different elements to course
through. The town council, the mayor,
the chief of police, aldermen, etc., have
known for months of low dives, ille
gal resorts, licensed, to make revenue.
There stands In the statute of Geor
gia a vagrant law, ’Show me a town
where It is enforced. This law Is the
key to keep men both white and col
ored at work, presents idleness, loaf
ing and trouble. A working man, while
or black, la seldom In trouble.
The saloons of Atlanta have been
closed now for a day or so. Why?
Because liquor at such a time makes
more trouble.* At other times it makes
trouble. The city aldermen ordered
them closed. A few weeks ago they
were licensing nearly every applicant
for aaloons In the face of the protests
of the best people of Atlanta.
They were ahown that adulterated
snake poison was sold, ns good whis
ky. They shut .their eyes and turned
down the preachers and the moral peo
pie of Atlanta.
The street car company can’t sepa
rate the races. Result, many negroes
killed on the cars because on there
with whites.
But It Is as ridiculous to talk of
prosecuting the rioters as It would have
been for the commune to have behead
ed the communists. This riot had to
come sooner or later. Every police
man on his beat knew trouble was
brewing when they saw negroes buy
ing thousands of ball cartridges, pis
tols and knives.
The vagrant law was rarely enforced,
vagabonds wandering all over the city
The courts slow In convicting and try
Ing criminals, appeals granted, new
trials given, writs of error and almost
self-confessed, criminals allowed to go
on from month to month and the law
unenforced, because a lot of shrewd
lawyers are allowed to clog/ the courts
and Justice using every lever to pre
vent the law from taking Its course.
Both the whites nnd the blacks whi
participated In this riot have been
punished heavily; every citizen of At
lanta will suffer and pay dearly for It.
But the boll has been lanced to the
bottom, the pus and corruption, stink
ing, rotten pestilential has been turn
ed out In the open, seen by all, breathed
by all, tasted by all und caused every
one to heave. Why cut off the doctor’s
hand because he held the knife and
used It that rid your fair city of an In
flammatory condition liable to fester
longer and penetrate Into the ramifi
cations of the community until rape,
murder, assassination, arson, and
carnage of untold horrors sweep upon
you and through you In a single night
like a cyclone nnd paralyse for weeks
every Industry, bring sorrow to every'
one nnd miseries untold?
N. K. SMITH.
Commerce, On.
horred by all who come In contact with
him. A GEORGIA WOMAN.
Washington, Ga., Sept. 28, 1906.
A HOME THRUST ON MARAL8.
Atlanta a Representative Southern City.
One Item tn the dyspeptic and vindictive comment of
The Richmond News-leader upon Atlanta demands a
brief comment of its own.
That patter declares that Atlanta is made tip largely
If not overwhelmingly of Northern people and is tn
no sense a representative Southern city.
The statement Is absolutely untrue. We do not hesi
tate to express our regret that we have not more North
ern people in this city than we have. Those who have
come among us are among our best citizens. They are so
cordially amalgamated to our life and to our commercial
interests and movements that we have almost lost sight
of the different cities and states in which they were
born.
But the fact stands that not one-twcntletb, nor yet
To the Editor of The Georgian:
Will you allow' one of your admiring
readers, a Georgia woman, to auk a
few questions, and also express a few
opinions through your valued columns?
While this awful question Is before
us, what must we do with the black
brute? Let me ask, What are we go
ing to do with the w hite brute?
Can the color change the nature?
How many colored girls of Georgia
reach the yeara of maturity before they
are In the toils of some white, must I
say, man? No, a thousand times, no.
I would not so insult my Maker, who
created man In His own Image, and X
am quite sure that does not express
the creature of today.
Some one will say the negro does
not know of, or care for a better life.
Who Is responsible for this state of
nffairs? Through the years of their
slavery, when they had no way, of
learning only from their masters,
what did we teach them? Are ‘we
still trying to teach them morality?
It seems rather that the being whom
God created, a superior being in morals
and Intellect, has himself fallen be-
neuth their standing, Instead of liftliig
the poor, Ignorant race to a higher
plane of respectability. I consider a
man, one worthy of the term, a su
perior being, but when he sinks be
neath the brute, a creature to be ab-
ATLANTA AND OTHER GITIE8.
To the Editor of The Georgian:
1 have visited London, Edinburg,
Paris, Berlin, New York, Boston, New
Orleans, Chicago and other large cities.
I like none of them better than At
lanta. They all have had their mobs
and riots; some of them killed kings
and queens, but these cities are all like
Atlanta, still on the map and doing
business at the same old stand and
growing every day.
Everybody is sorry that it looked
necessary to thfe mob to take things in
their own hnnds to regulate Fulton
county or Atlanta, but they did so,
and many Innocent people suffered by
their acts, as always happens when
riots break out. The people of At
lanta sympathize with and are help
ing the unfortunate, but while In do
ing this and condemning the mob, the
people of Atlanta are not called on or
expected to get down in sackcloth and
ashes or petition the legislature to
have Atlanta scratched off the map of
Georgia Just to please some preju
diced Northern newspaper or anybody
else. I do not blame the Atlanta pa
per* tor publishing the news, or for this
mob, for since the world started we
have had mobs In every country, and
will continue to have them as long as
the world stands, and as long as the
people think there Is a cause for them.
I huve heard that the devil raised a
mob In heaven anil got dumped over
board for it, so you see Atlanta has
plenty of good company.
A* there is some.good that comes out
of everything, 1 think this Atlanta row
will do more toward settling the race
question In the whole South than any
thing that has happened sine© tho ne
gro was 3ct free 40 years ago, for it has
given the state and city officials nil
over tho South a better insight into the
best way to handle the negro for his
own good, as well as for the best In
terest of the state; to treat them more
like wards or children of the state, and
protect them agatnrt themselves like
the Federal government does the In
dians, to prevent them from, tanking
up on cheap rotten whisky at a nickel
a drink, but forcing them that do get
drunk to buy better whisky.
Another good thing that will come
out of this riot Is, It will force the good
negroes to separute from the Horry ne
groes; the good negroes will have to
come out und Join with the white peo
ple to force the sorry negro to be good
or go to the chalngang. The good ne
groes cannot remain us they have al
ways been, afraid of the sorry negro,
and where they would help hide and
shield them from the law. The time
hrs come right now for them to de
cide where they stand. They must
come out nnd take sides, and it thej
go In with the white j>eople to help
matte the sorry .neem good, we will
soon have no sorry mgroes to bring
trouble and disgrace on their race, or
ckuse tho white people to raise mobs.
The question is up to the good law-
abiding negroes to decide, and let the
white people know' not only by talk,
hut by their acts on which side they
stand. The white people are now plen
ty able ami willing to take core of and
protect all the good negroes. *.* well ns
themselves, and always will he, and
they will do it If the negroes will come
out and show us where they stand,
but they can never get the full pro
tection of all the white people until
we know on which side they are.
It Is to the best interest of the ne
groes to havo the race question of the
South settled, and It Is in their power
to settle It inside of one year, if they
but come out on the side of the white
man to help him make the sorry ne
gro good, or make him move, or go t«
the chalngang. For the good of all, I
am, yours truly.
if they felt assured that the right per
son would have charge of the project.
And right here let me ask: Who
would be more appropriate than John
Temple Graves, a man who, without
fear or any hope of reward, has advo
cated the cause from early morn till
late night?
And for executive ability, V do not
think that a better man for the pur
pose could he found, ns combined with
your zeal there is a life long desire.
Of course, tha politician and office
holder docs not want them to be de
ported, ns the jobs of 75 per cent de
pend on the criminal negro; nnd also
90 per cent of the cost of running the
state and the different municipalities
are from the same enuse.
Take Atlanta alone; without the ne
gro In the city we would have no use
for a single justice of the peace and 25
policemen would be sufficient for all
purposes.
Of course, If we .replace the negro
with the scavenger population of other
countries we would only be getting out
of the frying pan Into the fire. But
there are plenty of good citizens in our
large cities to replace them thnt could
be easily persuaded to come South If
the negro was deported.
Now, Mr. Editor, Just make a call
for volunteers, and let’s see how' the
fallacy of too great expense will be ex
ploded. Respectfully,
W. P. DALE.
THE GEORGIAN STRIKES
THE RIGHT CHORD
To the Editor of The (JeorgJun:
The Georgian In Its movement to gerure
the open, active co-operation of the lenders
of the negro race In the prevention of rape
has taken the right step towsrd the one
prnctlcnl solution of the rape problem—nnd
therein very considerably of the race prob
lem. When our white men were nil In the
army during the Civil war, our black tuen
protected ns. I know that there must be
chivalry In the breasts of free-born, free-
raised negroes, liecnuic I have found It lu
the hrensts of the slave-born. A little girl
«ud t young girl wandering In the woods
by lonely roods nnd paths, If, nt nny time,
n dog’* bark or a snake’s hiss or a sudden
sense of louellncMS brought fenr. mid I
heard the ring of n negro woodsmau’s its,
or the crack of a negro driver’s whip, or
lifted ii)i my face to see n black man
Hose by, I felt thnt it friend wns uenr
and that I wns safe. A grent body of
Houthern women can sny the same. The
loloiis negro who makes our women afraid
to wnlk nt large Is a libel upon tin* uegro
nee, nnd nn enemy to both mecs.
We speak of doubling and trebling our
ouiifr police force, etc. If our negro
frieiuls will Join bunds with our white
people In this matter, then the tietter
»<W* popiilntlott Is in Itsotf
might,* constabulary force. Let this
vement which The Georgian has started
aprend through tin* negro ranks, and It will
not la* long before. If a woman could wnlk
nlotio I" .nifty through tho length unit
tireinltli of ally la ml. It would lie HIiIo'k
The Georgia ha. struck the right ehoril,
*“ “**e the responses no-
r «»«!, with pleasure
a Ad 1 mu rejoiced to
gro4*s are making.
■fflor of The Independent.
the letter of the
and of the nett
nnd business me
all In their *p°w
pri>ei
r powi
a ml peril
free
ml their own
rer upon
Atlanta, Ga.
T. J. EADY,
THE QUE8TI0N OF SEPARATION.
To the Editor of The Georgian:
As an ardent advocate of the cause of
the separation of the races, I was
Verv sorry when I read your annount'e-
ment thnt you had given up the race
for senator from this state, as I be
lieve that John Temple Graves would
have done more in one year for this
cause than has ever been accomplished
by everybody else combined.
‘But as you have decided that you
are more useful at home than In the
senate, suppose you publish In your ex
cellent paper a suggestion of a work
ing man. and as everybody has the
fullest trust In your Integrity and
honesty, I feel assured that a hearty
response wllf be given to the sugges
tion.
The assertion has been made that It
would almost bankrupt the government
send the negroes out of the United
States, hut if you will call for volun
teers who will give from $5 to u certain
amount of their earnings each year for
the expense of sending them away. I
can assure you that The Georgian office
will have to be enlarged to hold the
muney. I have Interviewed several
hundred real workingmen on the sub
ject, und without an exception have
found them ready to give almost any
amount for the purpose.
A/ several expressed It to me, they
would be willing to sell their homes
and give the full proceeds for the cause,
m their pur
from fen
race from the prtiHeiit
It. Segtves have reinnrknfiL ,„ r
argn ii tent ton. Their secret Mucleric« a in!
thin. They cm u
ut in Insuring the
i«i » . Vi Aml ,f «lsel.V Ini.
will do tills. I lmve always felt that
tin* only way to settle this problem nas to
rr.T* h V„ n0 . Kro, r *’<>«'l«»r«tloii. nml that
If the right chord were i.truck, we would
get it. I could not Itclleve that that attub
It)'- in, llie idil negro which made him
womanhood s protector was absolutely lack
Ing i. the new. The lenders of th.* race,
at the call of Hie Georgian, are striking
I*..lids movement spreads
Gins,
•hit r It able
turn this to good nce<
fety of our women.
I hnv
thnt
throughout the South, the Innocent
white and black, of the lute riot ...
lanta and the Innocent victims of that
which led to the riot, will not have mif.
I and died In vain. To the innocent
them. It
ravished and slain, lying betw.,
ujay in* thnt the two race* will raise
ble reform n» a fair memorial.
MYItTA LOCKETT AVAttV
THIS DATE IN HISTORY.
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■N“«' York. Sept. 29,-Here ore some
■ the visitors In New York today:
'TLANTA—o. Merritt other, P. Syd-
By CHOLLY KNICKERBOCKER.
New York. Sept. 29.—The news
which reaches here from Honolulu that
Wing Ah Fong, the famous Chinese
multl-miolllonalre. Is dead tn China
adds a final chapter to ’ one of the
strangest life stories of the Isles of the
Pacific. It is the story of a. Chinese
coolie who became many times a mil
lionaire, and whose thirteen daughters
today are the-wlves of prominent men,
nearly alt Americans. Throe became
wives of officers In the United States
nnvy, one being the wife of Rear Admi
ral Whiting, and one married an of.
fleer In the United States army.
In 1858 Wing Ah Fong, whose name
afterwards became Americanized to
Afong, arrived In Honolulu with a
ship load of coolies from Chins. Hs
soon gathered a little capital and set
up a store, denting in crockery, silks
nnd brlc-n-brnc.
Near him lived a Portuguese sailor
named Fayerweather, whose beautiful
15-year-old daughter, Concepcion, soon
won the admiration and heart of Ah
Fong. She was a mixture of Portu-
guesn and Keimka, with a strain of
Kngtlsh. In 1880 Ah Fong married
her.
The Chinaman prospered and grew
l icit rapidly. He, was a favorite of the
Hawaiian king, nnd obtained many ad-
vantages. His family Increased as ran.
Idly ns his fortune, and he became the
father of thirteen beautiful daughters
and the two sons. In 1880 he was re-
puled to be worth from 110,000,000 to
$30,0110,000. Fifteen years ago Afong
suddenly began setting his business
uffalrs In order. Then he settled $1,000,.
000 on his wife and sailed away, it
wns as if he was going for a visit.
Rumor said he had gone to China. But
he never returned.
One after unother the girls were
wooed and won for brides, the fact
that they were half-Chinese falling to
counteract the effect of their beauty
and accomplishments on Americans
and rich and Oriental and prominent.
When each girl married she received
from her mother a dowry of $160,000.
The first to marry was Miss Marie
Afong, as the name had become. She
became the wife of H. O. Humphreys
a well-known attorney of the Hawaiian
capital. Then Carrie became the brine
of J. A. Johnson, food Inspector of
Honolulu. Ktta was married to Cap-
ow Rear Admiral, Whiting, of
the United States navy. Helen was
married to C. B. Menshatt, a San Fran
risen lawyer, who was drowned In the
Oolden Date. F. V. McStnkes, then
collector of the port of Honolulu, mar-
rled Alice.
A Mr, Hlitehtnson, of Hilo, Hawaii,
married Beatrice. Alfred Magoon. a
Honolulu nttorney, married Nancy.
Lieutenant A. J. Dougherty, of the Sev.
enteenth United States Infantry, mar
ried Martha Muriel,
Miss Melalne became the bride of
James W. W. Brewster, of Elizabeth,
N. J., who met her when he was serv
ing as clerk to Captain Slgsbee on ths
cruiser Hartford, during the Spanlsh-
Amerlcan wnr.
Another of the girls wns married to
Lieutenant Riggs, of the United States
navy. The other girls married wealthy
merchants.
Then Alfred Afong. one of the sons,
married Miss Anna Elizabeth Whiting,
an American girl, and niece of Ad
miral Whiting.
Now comes the news that the Chi
nese father of this unique family has
passed away In Chino. There Is much
speculation as to what has or wilt be
come of the greater part of the Im
mense fortune which he took with him
when he left Honolulu fifteen years
ago.
Magistrate Cornell, In the Jefferson
market court today, Is to investigate
the pathetic circumstances surround
ing the theft of a book of Shelley's
poems and Goldsmith's "Vicar of
Wakefield,” by Henry Blenman, a se
nior 111 Columbia College, from a Sixth
avenue department store. It was Blen-
man's ambition to teach English liter
ature that led him to the theft. He
was too poor to buy books.
The Hornet, a big ice barge, from
Maine, Is the first craft to have a
tombstone erected on Its deck. The
stone wns erected by Henry Austin,
cook of the Hornet, In memory of his
wife. The stone Is circular and Is set
In cement on top of a barrel. Speak
ing of the queer fancy that led him to
erect the stone, Austin said:
"When my home was broken up I
took to the sea. I loved my wife, and
I put the stone there so that when at
night I sit out on the deck far away
from every one I can think of her."
The portrnlt of the countess of Brts.
tol, by Galnesborough, recently report
ed sold to a resident of Chicago by
Thomas Agnew * Sons, of London, for
$30,000. arrived In New York early this
week with a declaration valuation of
*10.000. The treasury department on
hearing from London what the pur
chase price was ordered the local ap
praisers to advance the vnluatlon to
130,000. The Increase In vnluatlon was
made. The Increase may carry with
It a seizure nnd confiscation of the
goods by the government
When Oeorge Reagan, of Grand av
enue, Chicago, left home for a pro.
longed period of Intoxication last week,
he said he did not want to aee his son.
Arthur, aged 20, again. But fate, in
the shape of a policeman, brought him
face to face with the son. and It was
when both were bound for the Bride
well to serve out sentences which had
Just been Imposed In different courts.
After his father’s fareweli, young Bea-
gon. with Arthur Dearbon, aged 18, was
arrested, charged with the theft ot
bioss from the 8t. Paul railroad cars.
Rcagnn. Jr„ was found guilty by the
criminal court and sentenced to a year
In the Bridewell.
William Keough, of Cincinnati, start,
cd out with the Intention of getting
married. He got as far ns Fifth street
and Central avenue when the bride-
elect said she had changed her mind
nnd concluded not to marry. He ar
gued, and then, according to the young
woman's story, grabbed her purse and
ran. She screamed and Keough was
arrested.
An eloping couple, the man a wealthy
Russian and his companion the wife
of a prominent general In the czar's
service, were stopped by the commis
sioner of Immigration and the Russian
consul general upon the arrival of the
Koenig Albert at quarantine from Gi
braltar.
In order to make an example of the
men and boys who shoot song birds In
the public parks of the city. Justice
McAvoy. In special sessions, yesterday
sentenced Silvio Antlollo, 19 years old,
to prison for 3i| day*. He hsd been
shooting thrushes,, meadowlarks and
high pollers In the Bronx park. In
Imposing the sentence the justice said:
"The city spends large sum* of
money every year for the protection
and the preservation of the bird*. It Is
an outrage to slaughter them."
