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"Situations Wanted" Advertisements FREE In The ATLANTA GEORGIAN The Atlanta Georgian. VOL. 1. NO. 187. "Situations Wanted’ Advertisements FREE in The 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. 00000000000000000000000000 § OOTHAM MILK TRUST «■ O TO PUT PRICE UP. O 0 o 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 0 Jnnuurv 1. etall 0 Continued on Page Nino, 00OO00000OO0O0O0O0OOOO0OO0 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 Continued on Page Thirteon. OOOOOQ90000000000090000000 O O O DEATH OF SPENCER 0 O HAS LITTLE EFFECT O O ON PRICE OF STOCK. 0 O O 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 O cent ii, the opening trailing this 0 O morning. -As usual. It wns traded O O In very lightly. O 0 0000000090000 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 0000090000000 Continued on Psge Thirteen.