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4 THE ATLANTA GEORGIAN. s.vrrnnAT. September 1m The Atlanta Georgian. JOHN TEMPLE GRAVES, Editor. F. L. SEELY, Preoldent. Telephone Connection!. Subscription Rates: One. Year $4.50 Six Months ....... 2.50 Three Months 1.25 By Carrier, per week 10c Published Every Afternoon Except Sunday by THE GEORGIAN CO. at 25 W. Alabama Street, Atlanta; Ga. Watered aa second-e!« si matter April B, 190fl. at tba Postofle* a* Atlanta. Oa.. antler act of congress o( March 1 187k /" ' * ^ Subscribers failing to rscsive THE GEORGIAN promptly and regularly, and readers who can not purchase the paper where THE GEORGIAN should be on aalo, are requeated to communicate with the Circulation Manager without delay, and the com plaint will receive prompt attention* Telephones: Bell 4927 Main; Atlanta 4401. SMITH & THOMPSON. ADVERTISING r.I'PRKSENTA- TIVE8 FOR TERRITORY OUTSIDE OF OBORGI A. Eastern Office*: Western Offices: Potter Iilflg.. Sew York. Tribune B>dg., Chicago. OUR PLATFORM—-The Georgian stands for Atlanta’s Owning its own gas and elec tric light plants, as it now owns its Water worlds. 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 face in that direction NOW News-Leader and shall be prompt to judge Richmond In charity whenever Richmond la snbjectcd to the provoca tion which tempted Atlanta beyond Its strength. The Georgian calls the attention of Ita multitude of correapondonta to thaae facta: That all communication, must be algned. No anonymoua communication will be printed. No manuacrlpta will ba raturned unleaa atampa are Ineloted for tho purpose. Our correspondents are urgently requeated to abbreviate their lettera aa much aa potelble. A half a column will be read, whereaa a full column will be patted over by the majority <of reader.. 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 papers, North and South, touching this unfortunate' occurrence, the editor of tbe Richmond paper Is the harshest, the most uncharitable and In every possible way the most vindictive nnd most unkind. It Is difficult to understand how such an article could have been written by a reputable organ of any city •gainst another city. It Is even more difficult to under stand how such on article could have been written by a newspaper of a Southern city against the people of another Southern city. And It la almost Impossible to understand bow such nn article could have been writ ten by a newspaper published In the capital of Virginia •bout tbe people of the capital of Georgia. In reading over this remarkable expression It be comes perfectly evident to tbe 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 thnt the abuse la heaped with more personal venom upon Atlantn than upon the crimes of Its lawless element, which Is n legitimate subject of comment throughout the country. It (s Impossible to escape the conclusion thnt the writer la animated by something more than an outraged sense of public law and la fired, through nnd through by some bitter personal anlmiiR toward Atlanta. We find ourselves speculating aa to what this Intense personal an Imus can be and from what origin It has sprung. The editor of The Newa-Leader la a South Carolinan who was for a number of years our neighbor In Greenville •nd Columbia and has received a multitude of kind words ■nd well deserved compliments from Georgia papers for his virile style while he was n writer for the Carolina press. He has been so closo to us In proximity and In civilization thnt he certainly ought to have a better opin ion of Atlanta than he entertains and he certainly ought to know that a great many ot the things which he so wantonly charges against Atlanta are absolutely untrue. It would seem to right-thinking men thnt the historic relation* existing between Carolina and Georgia would have prevented the expression of such wanton bitterness and misrepresentation, it would appear natural that tho noble part taken by Georgia and notably by Atlanta’s great citizen, General Gordon, In the redemption of South Carolina from carpet bag rule would have softened the hearts of every Carolinan toward this city. And vrhat Is true of Carolina ought to be equally true of the spirit of Virginia and of Georgia. Richmond and Atlanta perhaps 'suffered most of any two Southern cities In tbe war between the slates. If Richmond Imre the brunt of the doges In the earlier part of the war, At lanta was left In ashes by General Sherman, and every where on every possible occasion the spirit of Georgia baa risen generously, lovingly nnd admiringly to every call that Virginia has made. It has not yet been three months, since Georgia, not particularly enamored ot ex positions, nor particularly enthusiastic over Industrial displays, rose to an appropriation of $30,000 to place this state In the Hat of co-operators with tho Jamestown ex position. And this was done everywhere to the ringing ■nd universally accepted declaration that Georgia could not refuse anything that Vlrglnln asked. The whole spir it of the Old Dominion has been so thoroughly and ten derly In touch with the thought and loving aplrlt of this Empire State of tbe South, that It passes comprehension how any respectable or representative editor who U In hta sound mind and sober sense* should have gone out of his way to surpass any writer In Massachusetts, In Maine or In New York In the Tlndtctlveness of his crit icism of Atlanta at this time when her citizens are so much overshadowed by recent events. This phenomenal outburst of wnnton bitterness Re quires an additional mystery when wertrecall that The News-Leader Is largely the property of John Skelton Wil liams, than whom no outside man of this generation has been better beloved In all Georgia and has received more cordial and eulogistic comment upon his personal and pro fessional character than he has had from the Georgia press. 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 so 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 dyspeptic, cherishing some personal grievance against this great city either for Its failure .to recognize his transcendent talents, or for Its crime In keeping at the head of the procession of Southern cities. We note with pleasure that neither The Times-Dls- patch nor Tbe Journal, Richmond's admirable morning and afternoon papers, have fallen In with the malicious and unworthy bitterness which has characterized the ut terance of The NewB-l-eader. We shall endeavor to aurvlve the opinion of The Saturday Evening. Aa the shadows fall ui>on 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 all respects a different and a better Sabbath which Is to follow upon the Saturday evening. The tragic and tremendous week through which we have passed has emphasized some permanent and essen tial lessons, and has established some facts that deserve a wide dissemination. First among these perhaps Atlanta would have It known that her representative citizens—the majority of her people—are opposed to mobs 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 tho thought moulding segment of this people con demn mobs and deplore lynchlngs. But whether they do or not, It la 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 Us remorseless wrath, and walked through a wassail of indiscriminate cruelty to avenge the white-skinned and helpless victims of a dozen criminals ot tho negro race. This mob Atlanta—the beat Atlanta—the real Atlanta —heartily condemns. If the mob could have found the real criminals or the single nest from which they came, there might have boon scant audloqce and scantier resolutions in the meet ings that condemned the reign of tho mob. But the blood of the Innocent cries to heaven, and the death of the guiltless Is a murder which Atlanta mourns and which murks the reputation ot the city and the state. Atlanta through nil the pulsea of her civic life thun dere to her children: “Never disgrace mo with another night like this!" And we know that In the wiser light which reflection has brought and comment has deepened, that the young men of Atlanta will respond “Never again!” With thla much said and with onr full condemnation expressed for tho lawless frenzy which took vengeance Into Ita own hands, let ua now gather from the ovents of this lamentable week whatever of optimism and comfort wo can find. In tho first placo wo are at peace again. The city Is normal, the factories are running, nnd the dollars are dancing over the counters of our merchants as merrily as before. In the second place the police Inform us that this city Is quieter and more orderly than they hare known It for n score of years. t Again our suburban towns are enjoying a aenae of security which has been foreign to them for a month or more. „ Abovo nil things our nobio women are feeling safer and more secure and contented than at any time within the last live years. In fact, they are safer and more secure. Cotton hns not lost anything In'demand or price by reason of Atlanta's tragic week. The comments of tho outside newspapers which have, from tho beginning, been pretty fairly divided, are grow ing more moderate and kindly every day. The negroes are politer and more considerate than they have been within the decade. It la a matter of com ment everywhere. The lesson of the preachers has Impressed the hearts of the young nnd they will scarcely riot any more. Hundreds of negroes all over Georgia have been dis armed of tho deadly weapons which wero an Invitation to disorder. The nwful nature of the white man’s vengeance when aroused beyond forbearance haa been given a lawless ob ject lesson which, bad as It Is, has not tailed to make Its deep and vast Impression. The superior equipment of the white man in arms, In ammunition, In organisation. In military. In Are com panies, In police system, In supplies, In numbers and In absolute control of all the avenues of force has been given a powerful and convincing oculnr demonstration. There are thoughtful men who boltove that the dem onstration of theso things by methods howover deplora ble, will give us for the next few years greater peace and security than we have enjoyed In the last ten. There are just as many thoughtful people who believe that the restraining Influence of recent events will within the next two years save ten times more lives In Fulton county than were lost In the riots of Saturday night and Monday. And there has not been even the suggestion of an assault upon a white woman since 7 o'clock on Saturday evening, September 22! Surely In the 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 be found In the Hat of compen sating benefits which have come to us out of the shadow of disgrace out of wlhch we feel that we have just emerged. If there is a silver lining to our cloud It Is Just as well to find it. We point the souls of the eorrowrul to the rifts which we have written above. one-twenty-fifth of the people of Atlanta came from the Northern or Western Btates. 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 tho South, not only of the Old South of heroic memories and splendid traditions, but ot tbe 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 so 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. Hearat he will bolt the nomination of, as fairly and regularly nominated a candidate aa his party ever had, and ot the bravest and beat Democrat that his party has nominated for governor In many years. Mr. McClellan has 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 efty than McClellan has ever done or ever will do In all the years of his 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 be did little or nothing to secure. He was elected by men whom be has criticised and mafly of whom he had 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 la by rea son of this record perhaps tbe 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 McClellnn' own count, to rebuking tbe fraud, the bribery, the stuffed ballot boxes and the corruption by which McClellan and many of bis predecessors bad been elected to the munlcl 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. If McClellan cannot make up his mind to smother fats personal venom to vote for a Democrat who stood for these principles and who has Just been nominated vol untarlly and without seeking, by an Immense majority of the Democratic convention at Buffalo, then Mr. Mc Clellan la perfectly welcome to go along with any Re publican procession that he chooses to follow. OPEN LETTERS FROM THE PEOPLE FROM THE PERSPECTIVE OF OUR NEIGHBORS. Atlanta a Representative Southern City. One Item In the dyspeptic and vindictive comment of The Richmond News-Leader upon Atlanta demands a brief comment of Its own. That paper declares that Atlanta is mado up largely If not overwhelmli.gly of Northern people and Is In 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 cltlxens. 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-twentieth, nor yet To the Editor of Tho Georgian: On the flrst page of your estimable paper appears an article, "Committee of Ten Seek Punishment of All Riot ers." This Is, on the face of It, absurd. Of course the logical conclusion that all law breakers should be punished Is correct. But to punish these rioters and offer rewards for evidence Is mere ly putting a premium on blackmail. Might as 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 oft the right. This riot In Atlanta Is the result of several well-known causes easily tracable to their correct source. Such things do not occur 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 arc forced together nn ex plosion results, a change, a clearing of strained conditions, a correction of existing evils, and new channels made 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 n 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, prevents Idleness, loaf ing and trouble. A working man, white or black, Is 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 nldermen ordered them closed. A few weekB ago they were licensing nearly every applicant for saloons In the face of the protests of the best people of Atlanta. They were shown that adulterated snake poison was sold, as good whis ky. They shut their eyes and turned down the preachers and the moral [Ma ple 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 bent knew trouble was brewing when they saw negroes buy ing thousands of ball cartridges, pis tola 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 who participated In this riot have been punished heavily: every citizen of At lantn will suffer and pay dearly for it. But tho boll has been lnnced to the bottom, the pus and corruption, stink ing. rotten pestilential hns been-turn ed nut In the open, seen by all, breathed by all, tasted by all and caused every one to lienve. Why cut off the doctor's hand because he held the knife and used It that rid your fair city of an In flnmmatnry 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 and paralyse for weeks every Industry, bring sorrow to every one and miseries untold? N. K. SMITH. Commerce, Ga. A HOME THRU8T ON MARALS, To the Editor of The Georgian: Will you allow one of your admiring readers, a Georgia woman, to ask a few questions, and also express a few opinions through your valued columns? While this nwful question Is before us, what must we do with the black brute? Let me ask. What are we go ing to do with the white brute? Cnn the color change the nature? How many colored girls of Georgia reach the years of maturity before they are In the tolls 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 linage, and I am quite sure that does not express the creature of today. Some one will say the negro does not know of, or care for n better life. Who Is responsible for this state of affairs? 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, hns himself fallen be neath their standing, Instead of lifting 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 horred by all who come In contact with him. A GEORGIA WOMAN. Washington, Ga., Sept. 28, 1908. ATLANTA AND OTHER CITIES. To the Editor of The Georgian: I 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 the mob to take things in their own hands to regulate Fulton county or Atlanta, but they did so, and many Innocent people suffered by their acts, aa always happens when riots break out. The people of At lanta sympathize with and are help ing the unfortunnte, 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. 1 do not blame the Atlanta pa pers for 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 have heard that the devil raised a mob In heaven and got dumped over board for It, so you see Atlanta haa plenty of good company. As there Is some good that comes out of everything, I think this Atlanta row will do more toward settling the race question In the whole South than any thing that has happened since the ne gro was set free 40 years ago, for It has given the Rtate and city officials all over the South a better Insight into the best way to handle the negro for his own good, as woll cs for the best in terest of the state; to treat them more like wards or children of the state, and protect them agalnrt themselves like the Federal government does the In dians, to prevent them from tanking up on cheap rot'ttn 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 thla riot Is, it will force the good negroes to separate from the sorry ne groes; the good negroes will have to come out find 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 as they have al ways been, afraid of the sorry negro, and where they would help hide anil shield them from the law. Tho time hns come right now for them to de cide where they stand. They must come out and take sides, nnd If . they go In with the white people to help make the sorry neyro good, wo will soon have no sorry negroes to bring trouble anil disgrace on their race, or cause the white people to raise mobs. The question Is up to the good law- abiding negroes lo decide, nnd let the white people know not only by talk, but by their acts on which side they stand. The white people are now plen ty able and willing to take care of and protect all the good negroes, f.s welt ns themselves, and always will be, and they will do It If the degrees 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 la to the best interest of the ne groes to have 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 mnn to help him mnke the sorry ne gro good, or make him move, or go to the chalngang. For the good of all, I am, yours truly, If they felt assured that the right per son would have charge of tho 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 at night? And for executive ability, I 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, the politician and offlee holder does not want them to be de ported, ns the jobs of 75 per cent de pend on the criminal negro: and aleo 90 per cent of the cost of running the state nnd the different municipalities are from the same cause. 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 Are. But there are plenty of good citizens In our Inrgo 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 Georgina: The Georgian In Ite movement to secure the open, setlvo co-operation of the tendere of tho negro race In the prevention of rape hns taken the right step toward tbe one practical solution of the rape problem—nud therein very considerably of tho race prob lem. When our white men were nil In the army during the Civil wnr, our black men protected us. 1 know thnt there must he chlvnlry In the breasts of free-horn, free- raised negroes, because I have found It In the brenntn of the slnve-horn. A little girl nnd a young girl wandering In the woods by lonely rondo nnd path*, If, nt any time, n deg's bark or n snake's hiss or a sudden sense of loneliness brought fear, and I heard the ring of n negro woodaman's ax, or the crack of a negro driver's whip, or lifted tip my face to see a black man close by, I felt that n friend wna near nnd that I wna safe. A great body of Southern women can any the same. The vicious negro who make* onr women afraid to walk nt large la a Jlliel upon tbe negro raen, nnd nn enemy to both races. We speak of doubling and trebling our county police force, etc. If our negro friends will Join hands with our white people In this matter, then the liotter chine of onr negro popiilntloo la In Itself n mighty eoiiatnhnhiry force. Let this movement which The Georgian hits started spread through the negro milks, nnd It will —. -- t l-efiv •- - - — 1 - | GOSSIP | not fie long I If n womnn mulil wnlk liremlth of any m The Ueortfln him ■trnclc the right rhoril. mill I nm rejoleeil to *$•$» th#» rcupuimp* lie- ermu are making. I rend with j>l«vi*iiri- the letter of the otlltnr of The lti«leiN*mlent, mu} of the notion of the negro inliilxtcrx anil liUMineMN men who proclaim their pur- >*e to ilo nil In their power to free our imeii from fenr nm) peril nml their rnee from the eruclent hint ever rant upon 1t. Negrihave reinnrkuhle enpneltv for irgmiiautlon. Their *ccret noeletlen' nml rhrtrltnble ordcri »how this. They enu turn title to g«nnl nocount In Imuirlng the And If wifteiy led, By CHOLLY KNICKERBOCKER. New York, Sept. 29.—The news which reaches here from Honolulu that Wing Ah Fong, the famous Chinese multl-mlotllonalre. Is dead In China adds a Anal chapter to one of tbe 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 wives of prominent men, nearly all Americans. Three’ became wives of officers In the United States navy, 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 China. He toon gathered a little capital and set up a store, dealing In crockery, silks and bric-a-brac. Near him lived a Portuguese sailor named Fayerweather, whose beautiful 15-year-old daughter, Concepcion, soon won the admiration nnd heart of Ah Fong. She was a mixture of Portu guese and Kennka, with a strain of English. In 1860 Ah Pong married her. The Chinaman prospered and grew rich rapidly. He was a favorite of the Hawaiian king, and obtained many ad vantages. His family Increased as rap idly as his fortune, nnd he became the fnther of thirteen beautiful daughters and the two sons. In 1880 he was re puted to be worth from $10,000,000 to 130,000,000. Fifteen years ago Afong suddenly began setting his business affairs In order. Then he settled Jl,o0o,. 000 on his. wife and sailed away. It was as If he was going for a visit. Rumor uald he had gone to China. But he never returned. one after another the girls were wooed nnd won for brides, the fart that they were half-Chinese falling to counteract the effect of their beauty nnd accomplishments on Americana and rich and Oriental and prominent. When each girl married she received from her mother a dowry of $160,000. The flrst to marry was Miss Marie Afong, ns the name had become. She became the wife of H. G. Humphreys, a well-known attorney of the Hawaiian capital. Then Carrie became the bride of J. A. Johnson, food Inspector of Honolulu. Etta was married to Cap- tnln, now Rear Admiral, Whiting, of the United States navy. Helen was married to C. B. Menshall, a San Fran cisco lawyer, who was drowned In the Golden Gate. F. V. McStokes, then collector of the port of Honolulu, mar ried Alice. A Mr. Hutchinson, of Hilo, Hawaii, married Beatrice. Alfred Magoon, a Honolulu attorney, married Nancy. Lieutenant A. J. Dougherty, of the Sev enteenth United States Infantry, mar ried Martha Muriel. Miss Melalnc became the bride ot James W. W. Brewster, of Elizabeth, N. J., who met her when he was serv ing as clerk to Captain Sfgsbee on the cruiser Hartford, during the Spanish- American wnr. Another of the girls was iharrled 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 hns or will 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 In Columbia College, from a Sixth avenue department store. It was Blen- mnn's ambition to teach English liter ature that led him to the theft. He was too poor to buy books. The Hornet, a big lee barge, from Maine, is the first craft to have a tombstone erected on Its deck. The stone was 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 atone there so that when at night I alt out on tho deck far away from every one I can think of her." Atlanta, Oa. T. J. EADY, THE QUESTION OF SEPARATION. To the Editor of The Georgian: As an ardent advocate of the cause of tho aeparntlon of the races, I was very sorry when I read your announce, ment that you had given up the race for senator from thla state, os 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 ns you have decided that you are more useful at home than In the senate, suppose you publish In your ex cellent paper s suggestion of a work ing man, nnd aa everybody has the fullest trust In your Integrity and honesty, I feel assured that a hearty response will be given to the sugges tion. The assertion bus been made that It would almost bankrupt the government to send the negroes nut of the United States, but If you will call for volun teers who will give from *5 to a certain amount of their earnings each year for the expense of sending them away. I cnn nssure you that The Georgian office will have to be enlarged to hold the money. I have interviewed several hundred real workingmen on the suh- .eet, nnd without un exception have I'ound them ready to give almost any amount for the purpose. As several expressed It to me. they would be willing to Bel! their homes and give the full proceeds for the cause. safety of onr tv. __ they swill do this. I luive nltritrs felt Hint the only wily to settle this |irohieui tvns to seenre the negro's eo-uperatlon, nud Hint If the right chord were atrtiek. tve would get It. I eotild not believe that thnt qmil- Ity In the old negro width tuiide him w'onumbnod's protector *•«» nhsolutely lack- tug In tile new. The lenders of the rnee. the call qf The Georgtsn, lire striking thnt ehurtl, nnd if this Imiveinellt throughout the South, the Inn nt vletimn. white nud black, of the lute riot In At lanta. nnd the Innocent victims or that which led to the riot, will not have suf fered nnd died In vnln. To the turn tHIS DATE IN HISTORY. SEPTEMBER 29. 1513-Full of Tournny, Belgium. 17W_ !«m i5mXvfi ro i5i. rra, " ,8ar ' born ' 1778—British raptured Amur I mu frigate Ua- —Kr»»i$oIi ft*«i.nihly ills**lived. 1803—Fjv»t| < rttbuIJp rliurrb in Hatton tlo<l- 1813—Detroit evacuated by Brltlih. nnd ICC-. I. , u Kv American**. lVB-Deiteral Nelwm nhnt.hy ijenernl 4e,J Dnvlw nt Lnulavillo. Kv. Dn»***« Isoiilae, of Denmark loot—Battle ship Connecticut Inumiied m New 5 ork navy yard. GEORGIANS IN GOTHAM. New York, Sept. 29.—Here are some »f the visitors In New York today: ATLANTA—G. Merrlwether, P. Syil- n< H*vivvnS* v, 5 H „ R Rockbridge. SAVANNAH-Mre. II. S. i lidding N H- C. Smith. D. C. Harrow. S ’ The portrait of the countess of Bris tol, by Galnosborough. recently report ed sold to n resident of Chicago by Thomas Agnate A Sons, ot London, tor $30,not), arrived In New York early this week with a declaration valuation of 110,060. The treasury department on henring from London what the pur chase price wns ordered the local ap- pralsers to advance the valuation to $30,00(1. The Increase In valuation was mode. The Increase may carry with It n seizure nnd confiscation of the goods by the government. When George Reagon, of Grand av enue, Chicago, left home for a pro longed period of intoxication last week, he eald he did not want to see hta 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 JtiBt been Imposed In different courts. After his father's fp rewell, young Rea gon, with Arthur Dearbon, aged 18, wa* arrested, charged with the theft of brass from the St. Paul railroad cars Reagon. Jr., was found guilty by the criminal court nnd sentenced to a year In the Bridewell. William Keough, of Cincinnati, start, ed out with the intention of getting married. He got as far aa Fifth street and Central avenue when the bride- clert said she had changed her mind and concluded not to marry. He ar gued, nnd then, according to the young woman's story, grabbed her purse and rnn. 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 esar'a 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 ths men and boys who shoot song birds In the public [tarks of the city. Justice McAvoy, In special sessions, yesterday sentenced Silvio Antlolto, 18 years old: to prison foe 30 days. He had been shooting thrushes, meadowlarks snd high pollers In the Bronx park. In Imposing the sentence the Justice said: "The city spends large sums of money every year for the protection and the preservation of the birds. U Is an outrago to slaughter them."