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ATLANTA GEORGIAN
ATLANTA. GA., FRIDAY. NOVEMBER 30, 1906.
DUTCH'. • ,n Atlanta TWO CENTS.
I- IVALrEi. on Train* PIVH CENTS.
PRES-SPENCER To BE BURIED IN NEW YORK;
HIS SON CONSIDERED AS POSSIBLE SUCCESSOR
FIRST STEP TAKEN FOR MUNICIPAL OWNERSHIP
Funeral of Mr. Spencer
Takes Place Sat
urday.
WARRANT IS OUT
FOR THE OPERATOR
AT BLOCK STATION
Flagman Sent Back to Warn
Oncoming Train Failed
to Prevent Crash.
Sew York, Nov. 30.—The selection of
a iucceanor of Samuel Spencer as pres
ident of the Southern and Queen and
Crescent road* was generally discussed
in Wall street today. It was conceded
that in the selection of a new head for
the system the voice of J. P. Morgan
would have great Influence. In fact,
it is said that any man that is named
by Mr. Morgan will be elected to tho
position.
It his been suggested that If. B.
SpeiKn, son of the late president of
the system, will succeed his father In
the presidency, but this Is not given
much credence In the financial dis
trict. it Is pointed out that the young
..t-ii. jY.rsFAY.j
r man, while'capable‘ amP’fridTusFrfou#.
! lacks the experience necessary In the
handling of so big an undertaking.
Was General Manager.
Young Spencer went to work Imme
diately after leaving college with the
purpose of learning railroading from
top to bottom, and he proved an apt
pupil. Soon he was made superintend
ent of the Burgln division of the
Southern roqd. Later he was made
general manager of the St. Louis and
Louisville lines, but whs soon promoted
to be general manager of the South
ern railway, with headquarters at
Washington.
Only a few days ago he was made
sixth vice president of the road, with
charge of purchasing and construction,
and It was quite evident his father was
training the ypung man for tho position
of president.
GENERAL SCHUYLER’S BODY
IS TAKEN TO NEW YORK,
.New York, Nov. 30.—The body of
General Philip Schuyler, who, with
Pre*M?nt Samuel Spencer and five
others who was killed in the reur-end
»ol!i:«ton on tho Southern railway near
Lawyer*, Va.. arrived ut the Pennsyl
vania station early today. The re
mains were in charge of Mr. Craig, ot
dm Southern railway.
Arrangements for Mr. Schuyler's fu
neral have not yet been completed, but
•dr. Craig, who was unsigned to the *sul
duty by Vice President Findlay, of th •
Southern, is attending to the details.
road to fix’blame
FOR WRECK AT LAWYER8.
Washington! D. f\, Nov. 30.— 1 The
Southern railway has started a rigorous
investigation us to responsibility for tho
deplorable wreck ut Lawyer*
Gunksgivi ig morning, which resulted
in the death of President Spencer and
i>>s hunting trip gue*tH.
It fa xtutctf that the fault rests-solely
with an oierutor. cither the one at
i-iu-yera or t | 1e one ut Rangoon. i>. J.
Maddox, who was at the key at the Int-
l **r place, has disappeared and u war-
‘••nt is out for his arrest.
3pencer’s Funeral Saturday.
Fite bodies of Qeneral Philip Schuy-
L*i. of New York, and Charles J>. Fisher
•’■nd F. T. Redwood, of Baltimore, were
at to their homes early this morning.
'J'^at of President Spencer was taken
l '» a local undertaking establishment.
T.'m funeral will be held tomorrow.
The body of President Spencer
“moved to his mansion on Massachu-
“tts avenue, Washington, where tho
immral will be held.
Mr. Spencer, according to present
* mna, will be burled In New York.
A careful search of the records of
fill way disasters reveals the fact that
thin was the first instance In the coun
ty’s history* where a railroad presl-
•i*nt was killed In a wreck on his own
lint*.
Flagman Went Back.
This official statement regarding the
*>*ok was Issued by General Counsel
; v F. Thom, of the Southern, this morn- .
«ng:
'When Mr. Spencer’s tmin hod pro-
“ *ded below Lynchburg about * or 10
'"Ues the defective coupling broke and
'rain parted, a* soon a# tho nccl-
NOW IN CHARGE OF THE SOUTHERN
W. W. FINLEY.
PINNED UNDER WRECK,
NEGRO PORTER BEGGED
PITEOUSLY FOR HELP
30,452 GEORGIANS YESTERDAY
— Our Thanksgiving gift to the
little street boys—giving them all the
Georgians they sold yesterday free-
put $106.40 into the pockets of the
kids if they only got 2 cents each for
them (they sold 5,320 papers.) Some
people paid 5 and 10 cents for some
of them-so they must have made
about $150.00.
Were glad, aren’t you?
Reports of Other Cities
Revelation of
Economy.
EXPERT TO INQUIRE
IN LOCAL EXPENSE
ATLANTA MAN’S STORY
OF AWFUL WRECK GIVES
VIVID PICTURE OF SCENE
.. J'iktve me,. uJi • wMis-fuUt*:.
Please save me!”
Pray, boy, pray. The fire Is driv
ing us away.”
This was the tragic conversation that
took place between a negro porter on
the wrecked Southern train and United
States Marshal A. C. Lea, of Shreve
port, La.
Pinioned down by heavy timbers of
President Spencer’s demolished private
car, and with the deadly flames gradu
ally encroaching upon him, this negro
hogged piteously for Marshal Lea and
ither passengers on tho train that dealt
out dentil to save him from torture
(hut he saw leaping upon him.
Marshal Leu arrived In Atlanta Fri
day morning and he gave u graphic
account of the’wreck" Friday afternoon
at the Piedmont, where'lie is stopping;
until lie leaves for ills home In the aft
ernoon. Ho was returning from Wash
ington with his assistant, George \V.
Duson, after taking severui United
State# prisoners to Cheltenham. Md.
When the collision occurted-Marshal
Lea was asleep in the same car on
which A. L. Cuesta, of Atlanta, was a
passenger, and with other# he hastened
to the burning coaches.
There he found this negro pinned
down by debris and in the early inorn- _
ing light, the writhing face of the ] with their loot
negro, distorted by fear and pain, made
ghastly picture. Illuminated as Itjfortni
-imvy-UwJwt* which hold him a pris
oner.
Pleaded for Lifo.
•“.Save tne, oh save me, white folks.
Please.save'me,’ cried the poor negro,
as we worked like fiends to pull him
out. And us we worked the flames
drew nearer and nearer and the heat
became almost unbearable. I soon saw
tbut the Imprisoned negro was-doomed,
and as ho made a last appeal, I told
him he had better pray, for wo could
do nothing for him.
“Much as 1 hated to do It. I, with
the others, was forced from this work
of rescue, and as we retreated the flames
swept over the unfortunate negro, and
with one despairing cry, he perished.
It was terrible.’’
Marshal Lea said that the negro train
hands who were not killed or Injured
were too demoralized to be of any serv
ice. He said the work of F. M. Curtis,
of Jamestown, N. Y„ mentioned In the
press dispatches, was of the heroic or
der, and that he was due all praise. lie
also declared that A. L. Cuesta, of
Atkmtu, worked heroically In rescuing
the Injured, ulthough he did not know
his name until told.
While Marshal Lea did not see any
of the ghoulish work done by negro
porters and some passengers, his as
sistant was un eyewitness to something
d this sini. H«» saw.a white man pick
up » roll of money and also saw un
it her going through a grip. Hut In the
excitement both managed to get away
A. L. Cuesta Was in Train
Which Plunged into President
Spencer s Car and Was First
To Engage in Work of Rescue
Amid Flames and Debris.
was by the dailies that w<
toward the unfortunate prisoner.
•'I triad with others to get Mils ne
gro out, but strain ns we would,” said
Marshal 'Lea, "we could not lift the
It was truly a day of thanksgiving
• me,”'concluded Marshal Leu, "and
leaping fas lung as 1 Hve I wilt be thankful for
escaping with my life. But never can
1 erase from my mind the picture of
that negro as he gave ills last cry when
tin* flames enveloped him.”
EVERY WHEEL ON SYSTEM
WILL STOP TURNING AS
BELL TOLLS FOR FUNERAL
While tfifMfliill* of’I lie
•ral of Pi
I 8p.
•«l. it I
little ||
•V«sl Hint
ffifa big sjaCetll Will i
minutes or longer the day of
fuiienil ns ii murk of n-jwei for Hie
memory of urn* -of tin* world’s greatest
railroaders. ■ .
The Idg ihrobMliC ioeolil
passenger and freight train-
wherever lie) might Im»PIh
iiiinr of the tlllierill. Wlielhi
fields of Hie Solltll. Ill the pilSf
Him- Uldg> mountain* In Virgin!;
the brinks
hour of i
a tribute t
dent.
Stop III 1
olives of Imlll
will In* stilled
II to lie ut lue
■ry train official, frm
•oudiietor to the port
piece of ere|H* ns n tok* !
the esteem III which Pr
wn« held. Til.* iiuh-IiIih- " v,,r
enflr- system, and I he huudnds of offle.s
itecessnry In Hie trnnsaeiion of business for
the thousands of mile* of rails, will is*
rfo»o«f t<t the ftuhlh- during the tunersI.
President Mpciirer wit* known iM>raonnll>*
to many «*f the minor employee* of »be e»mi-
nanv and was a general favorite among
!fl!°Tb“ engineer- “f th.' rns.l from Week-
Ingiou to Atlanta ami St. fjouis km*a
him. and nowhere was Hie shoek felt more
tlmii among these men in the ranks of the
Houlhern road.
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§ OOTHAM MILK TRUST «■
O TO PUT PRICE UP. O
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O Sew York, Nov. 3«.—Another O.
O step toward 10-cont milk was O
O taken today. The mirk trust Is O (
0 determined to force the retail 0|
O price up from t» and s cents
0 s and 10 cents. These new
0 rates are to he put In for
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itie of tho first to recover from the women and children up the steep em-
effects of the wreck which killed Pres- t bnnkment.
1H0.0 OI „t th*. Southern Immediately after the collision Mr.
Idem Samuel Spencer, of the wJMni L^ H nd another man-he saya he
laliway, wan an Atlanta man, and for- never learned his name, hut the man
getting his own bruises, he plunged ( was quite stout—went to where K. A.
amid the debris and did what he could | Merrill, private secretary to President
to alleviate the sufferings of other*. j Spencer, was lying, with* debris piled
This Atlanta man I* A. L. fueeta, of j |nan WHB f oun ,j r | R |, r at the
LaFrance avenue, Huge wood, and sen- | engine, and ulthough lie was rescued a
lor member of the big cigar manufac- , few- minutes after the trains came to-
turlng firm of Cuesta, Bey & Co. gother ha wa# severely burned, so rap-
Whan I he enalne of the fast aecond i thf> Are, which caught Imtne-
M hen the engine, or tnt, last _«econu dlately, make progress. His hair was
train plunged Into the eai that ton- j H j nRtM | nearly off and his liagiil# and
and * his | f HCe w * ...
by Special Committee
City Gas Plant Discussed
of Council.
talncd President Spent'
friends, Mr. Cuesta hud Just risen from | rill
the berth in his state room and had ! other
started to wash for breakfast.
As he reached to turn on the
blistered by the flames. Mer-
arrled by Mr. Cuesta and
the state room occupied by
Mr. Cuesta und there he was cared
for.
At that time no physicians had ar-
A. L. CUfcS I A.
First survivor of wreck to roach
Atlanta and tall story to Ths Geor*
qian.
roe FIVE HOURS
he was told of tile wreck. And it wo# rived and Mr. Cuesta Imd the burns of
in a startling manner he got this in-1 ihe private secretary treated with Home
f-rmotlon. Tho «!-,«■ .tat ^
covered a I Intsch llglit fell crashing on UM p OH sible under the circumstances,
the head of the Atlanta man, und he; Mr. Cuesta returned to the wrecked
was thrown headlong through the door I private ear und again took up his
of his state room and landed in a | search for victims,
heap. This same stout man who assisted
Almost at the same time other pas- Mr, Cuesta at the beginning agnl i
sengers In this car—It was only a short helped the Atlanta tnun and the two
distance from the engine—jwered from , delved Into the wreckage to extricate
their berths and anxiously inquired ; the body to which a protruding hand
what bad happened. belonged.
Instantly realizing that a disustei Like Trojan# did th** Atlanta iuuii
had occurred, Mr. cuesta got into tin-
rest of ills clothes and lefl the cai
fact, lie was one of the first to i
the injured, for at lit.- time of th*
Union he was the only passenger
was not asleep.
A Ttrribie Sight. „
And it was a terrible sight that met, n,.. Humes,
his eyes when he stepped frotu his
coach. The wreck o*-furred at a point
where there was a steep embankment
on each side, and piled in tills .-tit was
the wreckage of President Hjiencef’s
private car. Mr. Cuesta went ar once
to where the ••nginc of his train wus
piled high with debt is. and with two
other passengers lie hel|s*d remove the
negro porters, one of whom liud ills
eye gouged out.
•’The Impact.” said Mr. Cuesta ut
WRECKED ENGINE
Special* to The Georgian.
Montgomery, Ala., Nov. 30.—The
fourth section of No. 13 run into tho
third section of. No. 13, both Louis
ville and Nashville freight truins, while
and his helper work to extricate this i the third section was tuking water ut
In body—for Mr. Cuesta says he Is niiio i Castlelmrry early this, morning, and
nil I that life was extinct—but it was .i j Flagman Melville MclJouald, .»f l)e-
’•d- | useless fight. The flumes viiich stuit-j Kiinlak Springs, iiu.. Is fatally and
>ho! 0( f fmmeilhttely after the Impact en-(Fireman Tate and Engineer Frazier
melted up»n them inch by inch and seriously Injured.
they
forced to give this body t<
• his home Friday morning, "split Pres
l blent Spencer’# ear In half as clean as
. If cut by a kr.lfe, und on each side of
our train were the dead und dying und
wounded. On the left was a man about
35 years of age. with a clean shav
face und refitted features.
PIERPONT MORGAN.
Who«« Hands Rosts Selection
Samuel Spencer's Successor,
dead. On that side, too, was Frank j
T. Redwood, the Baltimore ngm who
tttet death.
"One of the most touching sights I
have ever seen, und one I hope never
to sec ngalr,” continued Mr. Cuestu,
"wus when Dispatcher Davis died. We
took hint from the wreck and put him
In a field, along side the track, ami
while he was conscious, he seemed to
know the end was near. I could not
stand the sight, and 1 turned away to
search for more wounded.”
Women Wsra Calm.
Mr, Cuestu says that notwithstand
ing the horrible state of affair*, the
women and children In the train which
dealt death were calm und then* was
no screaming or crying. Tin- passen
gers hurried fium tin- train and Mr.
Cuesta and several others assisted the
8p«nc*r’t Body Burned.
That litis v.uh tin* bmly of President
Hfs-ncvr Mr. Cuesta feels certain, hut l
wus impossible to extrlcute it. Pile I
high mi It were fr'uvy timber# of tli -
wrecked roach und they bad nothing
with which to work.
Finally the flames were in control
mid wen* injddly eating their way bn
the oaggug.
did the terrible work. Then it
that the roudmaster of that section
the Southern came upon the scene and
with a imps of volunteer# tried to ex
tinguish the flame# by u bucket bi|.
gade. but the fire only increased. Hee-
h» wna ,n g that the entire train was about to
*— ft.A tl.lu ill I'rtllinl
Injured men were brought to
Montgomery for medical treatment.
An unknown hobo wa# also serious
ly injured.
McDonald remained under the over
turned engine five hours. He wa# un-
coiincI-ium when brought here today.
C. J. Warner.
mh la I to The Ooorglan.
Rome, Ga.. Xov. 30.—«’. J. Warner,
Id und highly inspected citizen of
•ouch of thetrain wiili h j this city, died ut his home in Boat
|| mi " Koine Wednesday iilicht nt 7 o’clock.
He Hits 7 4 yearn of nue nml had been
In feeble health for nome time. Tho
deceased leaves, h-slde his wife, two
sons, Edward Warner, ot Atluntu;
Charles Warner and Miss Lula Wur-
ner. of Rome. The funeral services
will he held this afternoon ut 3 o’clock
at St. Peters Episcopal church.
insuiinnl, this bund of volunteers
lhr,w' out the bugguirr in the vur mid
managed to save most of it.
The ear In which Mr. I’uestn wan rid
ing was about 100 feet from the engine
ami where the private secretary to
President Bpencer WI1H found. And
right In front of Mr. t’uesta’s state
neon were found l-resldent Bpeneer's
various railroad inisses.
"This shows,** said Mr. I’uesla. "how-
far the engine of his llutu shored arid
plough' d along after tin Illsfon with
Its burden of dea.1. dying und Injured
before It finally slopiieb."
Private Secretary Merrill mid Mr.
I ’uesta that he had no Plea how he got
out of the car and he prncllcully knew
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0 New York, Xov. So.-The death 0
O Sunnier Bpencer, president of the O
O Southern railway, had practically 0
O no effect on the price of that stock O
O as. quoted In Wall street today. O
O From b close of 3< T-S on Wed- O
O nesduy the stoek declined T-S |»r O
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O morning. -As usual. It wns traded O
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The special council committee on mu
nicipal ownership of the gu and elec
tric lighting plant Friday morning
unanimously adapted a resolution
recommending tho appropriation of |S0u
for a thorough Investigation of the
practicability of the proposition.
This wna the first active step taken
by tho city ofltclals looking towards
municipal ownership of the plant, nml
«ho fact thut not it member of the
committee looked upon.the appropria
tion w/rh disfavor Is taken by th>
advocates of municipal ownership us
an evidence -that council realises Just
how strong the sentiment for a city
lighting plant la In Atlanta.
Tho 1500 Is to be spent In making
careful survey of the streets; an In
spection as far ns can be had of the
present privately owned plant; as es
timate of what It would cost the city
to build a plant; an appraisement of
»'hat tho actual value of the present
plant Is; what the cost of production
would be In n municipal plant, taking
Into consideration all local conditions;
what gas and electric light could prolU-
ubly he furnished to patrons for bv
the city; how much the city would
save If Mho furnished her own light In
stead of paying IIOO.AOO to the present
i private company.
Goes to Council.
| The resolution will be Introduced In
council Monday. It Is highly probable
that the report of the committee will
lie adopted with little or no opposi
tion.
The contract will be let to an Atlanta
firm of electrical and mechanical en
gineers, It being generally understood
that this firm will lie the HaM-IItges
Company, which aided tho committee
very materially by securing reports of
it large number of lighting plants, pri
vately .ttid municipally owned, all over
the country,
Mr. Roland B. Hall, Jr., of the Hall-
Rises t 'oiniuiny. attended the meeting.
He submitted the report of his Inves
tigation. which proved to be thorough
and accurate. The report showed so
plainly the advantages of municipal
ownership that the committee devoted
only a few minutes to discussion lie-
fnre adopting the resolution.
Jlr. Hull submitted a compilation
from government atatlatlcs resulte from
the operation of twenty gas plants ap
proaching the slse of the one In this
city. Fifteen of theso twenty are under
private management and two are mu-
ntrlpally oiiernted.
This tabls showed that the plant that
produced gas tha cheapest was a mu
nicipally-owned onei that this plant
told gas ths cheapest of the twenty,
and yet reaped ths greatest return on
the investment
The other of the municipslly-owned
plsnte produced gss cheeper then sny
of the eighteen privately-owned plants,
with the exception of one. whose cost
of production was the same; only one
private plant furnished gas at cheap,
and none cheaper, and yet it had reaped
more than 12 per cent profit on the in
vestment.
Coat of Gas.
The first plant produced ftas for 15.5.1
licr thousand feet, and sold gas for it
per thousand, with a 25 per cent dis
count for cash, and yet reaped 16.2
l>er cent on tho return investment. The
second munlclpally-uwned plant pro
duced gas for 58 cents per thousand
feet, sold it for $1, and reaped a return
of 12.4 per cent
None of the privately-owned plants
in cities the slse of Atlanta produced
or sold gas a* cheap as the flrst, and
only one as cheap as the second. Yet
both reaped targe returns.
The municipal ownership committee
meeting was attended by Alderman
Key, chairman; Alderman Qullllan,
t’ounctlmen Ellis. Terrell and McEach-
ern.
"We can't Judge altogether by tbe
experience o* other cities," said t’oun-
cIIman Terrel'.
"Lieal condition* will have to enter
largely Into our discussion of the prop
osition. We must consider the price of
coat of labor, the peculiar condition of
our streets and other matters. Thera
m wide discrepancy In the v-t ot
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