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4 THE ATLANTA GEORGIAN- SATURDAY, SEPTEMBER 3. 194*. The Atlanta Georgian. JOHN TEMPLE GRAVES, Editor. F. L. SEELY, President. Telephone Connections. Subscription Rates: | One. Tear $4.50 I Six Months 2.50 I Three Months .. 1.25 I By Carrier, per week 10c Published Every; Afternoon Except Sunday by THE GEORGIAN CO. at 25 W. Alabama Street, Atlanta,- Ga. Entered as second-rise* matter April 85, 19W. at tba Postoflee at Atlanta. On., noder act or eooareaa or Marcb A 1ST*. Subscriber* failing to receive THE GEORGIAN promptly and regularly, and readers who can not purchase the paper where THE GEORGIAN rhould be on sale, are requested to communicate with the Circulation Manager without delay, and the com plaint will receive prdtnpt attention. Telephones: Bell 4927 Main; Atlanta 4401. SMITH & THOMPSON. ADVERTISING I.EI'IIESKNTA- T1VKS FOR TERRITORY OUTSIDE OF O E O It •) I A. Eastern Offices: Western Offices: l-otter Rldp., Sew Vnrk. Tribune led;?., Chicago. =J 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. SEPTEMBER 29. IMS-Full nfjToitrtin). Belgium. 'ia' olra h r4, rnM ^- **«•. rspttlrod Am.Tt.iii, frtgatL- j ta . iS'L'T 1 '. dissolve*. Eatnl‘ al rimr.il h, Itojt.m ded- "'setmted |.y Brills*. iv ■ , of A in erica in, - on nil Nelson >Iiot by General l.» • m V* vl * n J l-HUvIHe.'Kv • ii®*’* 11 Isonlse, of Denmark '' Kvr” dint. wt llnltlc Pthl,, V, Ncv Vnrk tmvjr yimi! r11. -.11 lnum-lin.1 at E GEORGIANS IN GOTHAM. ■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."