The Atlanta Georgian. (Atlanta, GA.) 1906-1907, January 11, 1907, Image 1

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The Atlanta Georgian. Night Edition VOL. 1. NO. 130. ATLANTA, GA., FRIDAY, JANUARY 11,1907. GIVEN UP FOR LOST, SHIP PONCE IS SA VED Vessel Towed Into Harbor of Hamilton. Bermuda. VESSEL REPORTED BADLY DISABLED Craft Leaves Porto Rico Christmas Day and Suf fers in Big Gales. Washington, Jnn, 12—The misting ship Ponce, of the New Tork and Porto Hico line, has arrived at. Bermuda la great distress. —The Punce ts one ef the regular pet „..-er ships of the Now Tork and Porto Rico Steamship Company, ply ing between Ponce and New Tork. Un der ordinary circumstances the trip takes seven days. On her last trip the vessel left Ponce on Christmas day. carrying seven pas- aengers and a working force of 53. In cluding officers and ptewarda. She was alghted by a sailing vessel north of Porto Rico on her second day out. The captain of the sailing ship spoke to the Ponce and asked to be reported In New Tork. At that time all was well on the steamship. Then the cap tain of the steamer Admiral Farragui „ ... . arrived in thf jwrt of Philadelphia jASyUS^BotmudA- Saturday with the news that hr had , ( .nkcn to a disabled steamer 300 miles ,,ff the Delaware capes. The ship re fused atd. A broken shaft was the cause of the Ponce’s delay, according to the latest dispatches from Bermuda. The steam er was towed to an anchorage at Mur ray's landing by the tugs Gludlsven and Powerful. PONCE TOWED INTO PORT BY A TRAMP STEAMER. New Tork, Jan. It.—The Maritime Register describes no such vessel as the Waddell, which Is said to be the vessel which towed the Ponce Into Hamilton harbor, and It Is believed that in a cable mix-up the name was mis spell*^ " . denars! Manager Mooney, of the New Tork and Porto Rico. Immediately ca ll# said; ■T hava no doubt that the Ponce'a machinery- brake.-down In the galea whtrh hava prevailed, and that the drifted until picked up by the tramp steamer. This has been my ronten- ivmgh to cause apprehension. There was enough food on board to laet the 8TEAMBHIP PONCE. passengers and crew for regular ratlona alt the.time they have been out. but I have no doubt all were put on re duced rations when the commander saw that a long delay would be espe- rtenced. “I gather In the brief cablegram that the Ponce and the tramp steamer could be seen from land as they entered the port of Hamilton, Bermuda. That Ja. one of the moet treacherous harbors In the world, filled with coral reefs, and It lakes a good ship several hours to en- £0000000000000000000000000 O PEACH TREES BLOOMINQt O O WARMEST JANUARY KNOWN. O O Special to The Georgian. O 0 Ltxella. Oa., Jan. 11.—The O O peach crop Is an uncertain propo- O a sttlon here; the bude are swelling O O and a few blooms are open. A O O severe freese would ruin the O O warmest weether^for January in O O the nfemory of the oldest Inhabl- O 0 tants of this section. O OOO00OOOO00O0OOO0O00O00OOO LIEUT, WOODWARD WILL COME DOME FI Lieutenant Clark Howell Woodward, son of Colonel Park Woodward, man ager of the' Atlanta waterworks de partment, has been ordered home from the Philippines. He will secure a leave of abeenoe on his return and will visit his relatives In Atlanta. Lieutenant Woodward has been In long -Ihe-Phlllpplnee-for three years, command of a flotilla of five ships. He Is a first lieutenant, having been nine PRISONER AWOKE RAVING MANIAC UNCLE SAM IS RACINC WITH DEATH ‘ Washington. Jan. It.—A diplomatic race against death has been entered Into by the state department The cen tral gure In the race Is President Cas tro, of Venesuela, who, according to late and reliable Information reaching Washington, la fast passing sway; the object of the race la to compel the Venesueten government to liquidate the five Important financial clalmk against It by American parties. The urgent need of haste In the ac tion has Just come to the attention of the state department because of the threatening attitude of the opponents of President Catetro. who. It Is be lieved. are preparing to open up and overthrow the government. If posalble. Immediately after hla death occurs. Races Placed In a police headquarters cell Thursday afternoon drunk but eane, 8. Samuels, of Macon, awoke Friday morning a raving maniac and the police have been unable to do anything with him. Samuels was found drunk upon the afreets and sent In. He soon went to sleep and the next heard of him was Friday morning when he was found to Duchess of Monts belle be Insane and In such a condition that ‘ bU trial before the recorder, was tm possible. He has a ticket to Macon, and the police think he belongs there. He will be held and probably tried on % writ of lunacy. on the flagship Brooklyn during the battle of Santiago harbor. CREW STREET CHILDREN WATCH GEORGIAN MADE Visitors See Every Detail of Making a Daily. BIG PARTY COMES DURING BUSY HOUR Linotypes and Press Absorb Attention of Teachers and Pupils. Crew Street school put up It* book* I closed Its desks with a rattle and bong Friday afternoon, about one hun- ■''•‘d and fifty boys and girls In the seventh and eighth grades laughed and ■ ittrd over anticipation of a treat In *’->re. For I Yew Street school wa» Invited to visit The Georgian to see a modern •P'aepaper made, and every boy and * ;rl In the school waa Interested. American boys are bom machinists, and they like to see people do things. And you will find that American glrla but little behind in their love for u n’hlnery—It Is not until they .grow '•Ider and have other Interests that they forget how they liked to watch the » heels go round. Mist Aurelia Roach le principal of •he school, and her atelatanta are Misses Ella W. Bmllle. Lena Guthman. Martha Andrews and Nina Fuller. There are really four grades, for each I' divided Into "A" and "B" divisions. “bey came trooping through the i jsiness office and up the etalrs Just *< the busy hour—though most ell h ura era busy In The Georgian shop. • hey didn’t waste much time In the • .Uorlal or local rooms The polished de.k* and the rattling typewriters. * her* a staff of reporters w ere grind- ;ng out late news were all very well •h 'heir way. but the rattle and click hf the llnot; CREW STREET SCHOOL. of the Seventh and Eighth G The Georgian at It* Modem Plant Friday Afternoon. GEORGIAN'S VISITORS The teacher* nn«l pupil* «»f the *»»v’- enth and eluhth ftrurie* at the Crew street *t*h<»«>l are a* follow*: KIOUTIt flltAht: A. MUh Aurelia lloarh, Prtnrlpnl. MIm Kill W. HnillUe. AwNtunt Principal Mint Teacher Eighth A. Allle Prater, Fannie l*efkofr. f*»hi» (taker. (leaale Nell Uuffertjr. .Hnale I Helm. Altnee Wnnle. Ma Kearner. Fannie Ftnkleateln, Clalra Holloway, Otiaale Fraaer. Maud Jacka. Max lllachherf, Walter I la wee. Lee Keane. Cerf Kahn. Louie Tlneley. Harry McCorhle. Clara melnhetmer. Utailya Punann, F.tbef We I ah. Margaret Kuabtoo, 8KVBNTH ORADK A. Mlaa Isena Qathman. Teacher. Mrrtle Hpller, Harah Mendel, llalay fain. Kllxabeth IVrcival, Mary Kate Dayldaen.Carrle Porter, Minnie Kvana. Ruth Rainey. Addle Fraaer. I uvulae Head. IU,Vnab lierahon, Katharine lllpley. Mildred tildleh. Mattie Helle Ripley, .ItHiephlne IjowenatelDLoulae Taylor, us ui« i»uir -••** »•—| l ounle Martin, Mltb Well. In the componln# room , Mathea. Mabel Weiiimr*. KIUIITH ORADG II. Mlaa Martha Andrawa. Teacher. I.wil.i llranrh. Kltaalwth gullllan, Ilettli* lleniiftt, Kthe| Unt||Fa», Ida B«»roeht»ff. Mande Hhnrman. Hlanrhe IbittiuthHui, Father Kaufuiau, Arline Frieefc. Mary Parker. Fret- la Frtwli, Ouorge linker, h’uler departraant. Watching tha Linotypaa. Did you ever stand at the elbow of an eipert linotype operator and watch Continued an Page Four. Ilaehel llndaa. Ted Ikunnwar. * arn» Lee Holloway, l.eater KlnatHn. IIi-msIi* Kemptou. Alfreil l^evlaou. Marte G>ake. I.erla l.*rjr, Ur-r.l '*?*' May Hugarman, Ulllle Muae. Wiley Suttou. Hennto Matka. Morris Wood, Hara Mark#. Fred Whitehead. l*aura Oxford. HKVBNTII (HlAltR A. Waltac? llrooka. Union Pound. Julian Roberta, Harold Ungers, Julius Tetirnbaum. Philo llolroiube Louie Koplln, SEVENTH GRADE B. MIm Nine Fuller. Teacher. Ethel Me* Adams l/mle* Gullit. jtnle Cooper, Ella Dut’ont, Msy Erses, Flora Mar Frost l.lsals Goldberg, Mary Oleas. Mary Grubbs Finny lllrsowlts. Rnth Jackson, Imogen* Jennings. Mails* Manning. Nellie Kelt Mati.lon, Frsnees Walls. SEVENTH GRADE II. Mortis llarwahl. RtehsM Hchwali. ( larear* Crocker. Charles Smnlllas Ham lllrtenwlts lien Smnlltan. leoaard Hunt. Vletor Victor. Job. Westmoreland, Ralph MrCorkle. l-*wl. William. Mist Luoy Vaughan. The funeral ssrvtccs of Miss Lucy Vaughan, who died Tuesday morning, ware conducted by Dr. J. B. French Fri day morning In the chapel of Barclay * Brandon. The Interment was In Oakland cemetery. New Orleans New Orleans, Jan. 25.—Here are the rrtulls of today’s races: F1B8T RACE—Prince Ahmed. 7 t 3, won; Collness, 4 to 1. second; Kal serhoff. 8 to 5, third. Time 1:00 3-5. SECOND RACE—Bedside. 20 to 1, won; Sir Vagrant, 8 to 1, second; Re- fined, 1 to 2, third. Time 1:28. THIRD RACE—Marvin Neal. 15 to I, won; Dr. McCleur, 15 to 5. second Evle Green, 6 to 1, third. Time 1:41 4-6. FOURTH RACE—Juggler. 5 to 1. won; Peter Hterllng, 8 to 5. second; Ztenap, 1 to 2, third. Time 1:39 1*6. FIFTH RACE—Colloquy. 7 to 6. won; Clamor, even, second; Charlie East man. out, third. Time 1:06 1-6. Entries for Saturday. New Orleans. January 11.—Entries for Saturday: FIR8T RACE—Five furlona: Katie C. 8 110 Belle of the 8outh 110 Ada Rice Ilo Kankakee lHr LIntllta 110 Masker 110 Villa „.ttO~ 110 It# b .11# ..no ..iid ...no chase, wMIwi SECOND RACE—Steeple short course: Uncle Sam ....r......127 curat ......... ltd Plttkln 130 Incantation 336 Naughty H. 136 Twenty 8hot 157 Fred Mader 117 — Henry A. Bchroeder 157 tfarefoot 142 t 'omnmndant ....’. 146 Woodland ....,,..143 T. G. Scarborough 148 Canon Ball 161 lotngfnrd James 153 THIRD RACE—Three frlongs, purse: Quern Melba 10, Lady Hapeburg 109 Notaaulga ...... — 10, lloaom Friend 103 Ruby Wick 109 Mammy Dink 109 Klarney 109 Lattice 109 Rebel Queen 109 English Gracious 109 ■“My Love 109 Edna Motter —.—109 Zlephen 112 Dick Rose 116 Coincident lie FOURTH RACE—Mil*, the Tulnne selling stakes. 11,000 added: K1 Fal 90 Flaglny 100 Columbia Gtrl . — . .110 We* lo: Abe Meyer 102 Goldie 105 Orly II 107 Lady Esther 107 Judge Post 98 Athlete 109 Henry Watfaraon 109 Envoy 110 FIFTH RACE— Htven ; furlongs, handicap. Meadow Breese ion Devout 102 Emergency 104 Athlete 97 Juggler 117 Phil Finch 119 SIXTH RACE—Mile and a quarter, Belling KEEP HE A VY TRAFFIC OFF PEACHTREE ST, CITY ENGINEER FAVORS PLAN JO SA VE PEA CHTREE City Engineer Clayton Is strongly In favor of retaining Peachtree street usa boulevard and protecting the new pavement from Injury due to heavy traffic. In speaking of the proposl- lion to relieve Atlanta's show street from the congestion of traffic and damage to pavement caused by the heavy dray* and trucks, he said: .‘'It's a mighty good thing. “Heavy traffic should be kept off Peachtree afreet aa much as possible. It's the only way the asphalt pave ment can be kepi In the proper con dition. end It's the only way to make” Peachtree street look like a fashion- R. M. CLAYTON. able, thoroughfare. Atlanta should have a . boulevard. Just like even- other large city I have visited." Heavy Wagons Ruin New Asphalt and— Destroy Street. MAKE BOULEVARD OF PEACHTREE City Officers and Experts Favor Plan for Pro tection. 9 Ik Peachtree afreet, Atlanta'a, paved with asphnlt, to bo turned j over a train to heavy traffic, to be 500 WITH LANTERNS ENGAGE IN SEARCH FOR MISSING CHILD Special to Tbe Georgias. Newnan, Oa., Jan. 11.—Yesterday afternoon about 4 o’clock the two-year- old boy of Mr. and Mra. A. G. Hendrix, of this city, was missed by his parents. A search about the premises failed lo locate him. The family called In the neighbors, who lent assistance, but without avail. The mayor waa notified and the city police repaired to the home to aid In the search. They were followed by a large crowd of men. Aa the report cir culated, the hunting party Increaard until nearly five hundred people, with almost aa many lanterns, were In ■such of the little darling. ton pickers In the field, and when tired, sal down and fell asleep. This morn ing he le ts happy as ever. About.lO o'clock, tti, efforts were re warded. when’ he wee found by Chief of Police Shackleford, about a mile from home, soundly asleep In the grass on a terrace. The boy was very cold and wot by falling daw. Tenderly he wa* carried home by aa happy a crowd aaevsr tvehlun Geor gia'* soil. Mayor Burdstte carrtad hlm to his mother, who was overjoyed and grate- 0 3 ‘ it O It Is thought he followed eome rot- Ooooooooooooooooooooooaooo o o O RAINY DAY 8KIRTS O O COMING IN FASHION. O O 0 O Rack to the good old summer O O lime and gum shoes. Of course O O straw hats won't be In style, but 0 0 there Is promise of a crimp being O O put In the coal bill. Good chanre, O O too. for the umbrella man to get 0 O rid nf old stock. But officially 0 0 speaking. It It handed out In this 0 O fashion: O o “Rain Friday night and Satur -day. with rlttog temperatui Translated. It means w warmer. O The temperature*: O 7 a. m 8 8 n. m 9 a. O 10 a. m. O II a. m. ; ..48 degrees 0 O 13 noon 43 degrees 0 0 - T p. m. — —. .. -.33 degree* O m. .. — .. . .64 degrees O 60000000000000000000000000 toru up and made mmiphtly, or are the powera that be ifoiug to nee t« it that the gtreet i» protect ed and kept in a condition which will warrant tho pride of every; citizen f Three times within the past 15 year*, the people of Atlantta have been forced to pay taxes to pavo Peachtree street, because the pavement waa not protected from any and every kind of wagona, which could have.gone on a side , street jiiif an Well. ' T There'* no one who will deny thRt Atlanta should have a boule vard. aa nearly every city of any air.e in the country has. Nor is there anyone who will deny that Peachtree is the street beat suited for that purpose. The city fathers have awaken- t etl, it seema, to the conclusion j that Atlanta, now a metropilig, not a wide place in the road; sj j city and not a village; must have j at least ouc boulevard, and they 1 • realize bIno that the people ara) vrf jroing to oontioui piyip* { the paving of a street, just because steps are no ttaken to keep it ia f proper condition. •store atrett Committee. A resolution by Councilman Harman, j ; keeping heavy traffic- off tho street sx- I capt In casts uf necssslty. has boon referred In Ih* street* ■•ummltls*. and i~—i Continued sn Fags Four. ATLANTANS BEGGARS - FOR MRS. SAGE’S MONEY Mrs. Sage Received Letters From Many in This City. SENDS SMALL CHECK TO ASSOCIATION Blllsr Brown ... Lady I’horndv lolc Lsninn Girt ... t'urHUs ........ .ll*lg*r*on .... Hafety Light .. Mr. Jack Merry Pioneer Pommies Nine Illg How Padre Lady Ellison . Goldway Horse Radish ■ Atlas Polly Prim .. . Society Hud . Fox Meads ... Granada Telegrapher .. Erla L«* Arthur Gumsr Canyon Wea Bssrher Consideration .110 Judge Hart Oeing ts Washington. Attorney General John Hart will Irave Saturday for Washington to rep resent Ihe'stats In Important legal mat ure before Ih* supreme curt next Monday Judge Hart expects to con clude hi* mission and start horns Mon day evening. Investigation Shows Beg gars Did Not Need Charity. Letter* from Atlanta peopli* beRglng for mine ofc the late Rumi-II 8*irr\« many million* from Mr*. Kn*e didn't gt t them anythin*, hut It ha* renulted In the Aaaoelnted fhnrltle* of Atlanta bHnir remembered by the widow of the Wall Mreet mitjrrffife. Herretary J. C. Logan received »n Friday a check for SZ.’> from Herretary \V. Frank Perron*, nf the charity Or ganisation Horiely of New York, and In the letter that accompanied the check the fact wan told that the money came from Mr* Huge. And thi* little donation *•«* th#» re- nult of the published ntiitementn some months ago that Mrs. Hiigr Would give aw,ay her husband'* million*. After that atory was published, letter* by the thousand* poured In on the dead finan cier** widow. Hhe received on an aver age of fifth a day. and they all asked for a slice of the millions. About that time Secretary IsOgan. of the Atlnntft A**»>clatod Charities re ceived several letter* from the Charity organisation Society of New York, asking that Investigations he made of certain Atlanta people. He didn't know w) y the New York *4H*|et\ wnnted to kn*»M )Ve merely investigated, and while he looked Into several cases, he never found a ca*e where help wa* needed. All of the people were In hum ble circumstances, hut they were liv ing In comfortable circumstances. Wanted Sliee ef Fortune. He now learns through the letter re- reived with the check, that the people he Inveallggted were aome of the thou- Continued on Pag* Four, The Hague. Jan. 11.—Thn." hiinilml persons perished nil the island nf Tana and a sen, vs lire missing because of a tidal wave which swept over some nf the Dutch Hast Indian islands, anuth uf Achin. Forty persona were drowned on the island f Himal and repnrtx from other ihinnda state that the loss of life is large. WOOD ALCOHOL ENDS LIFE OF TWO New York. Jan. II.—Two men were found dead In a bed In a little hall* room In a lodging house at 222 Kant Kleventh street last night. one of the men wa* a printer. Nchumaa McManuea, aged ih year*, hut the Identity of the secand man 1* not known. A bottle which contained wood al cohol waa found In the room. H08SEVELT IH IN DORSED IN BROWNS VILLE AFFAIR Nashville. Term., Jan. II.--The Ten nessee house of reprsenlstlvss unsnl- Prifresor Andrew M' Houle, of tha Virginia Polytechnic Institute at > Blacksburg, has been elected dean of . ■he new Unite Agricultural College at Athens. Professor Houle has the offer under consideration, nnd will give his answer lo the trustees within the next ten - days. Hr waa at the capital Friday morning and railed vn Governor Terrell and Commissioner of Agriculture Hud. eon. While he would make no statement n* lo whether or not he would accept the offer, the trustee*, who elected him at the meeting In Athena Thursday afternoon, nre very hopeful that he will accent. It I* under*to<Kl that th* salary was fixed tt 35.000. The plans for the building and tha exact locatlnn on the campus at Athens was nit definitely determined of th* met ting of the trustee* Thursday, hut another meeting will be held In Feb ruary, when all such matters will hs decided upon. Architect Carina Peabody, of Net? York, n nephew of Hon. Oeorge F. Pea. body, was st the rspllnl nlso Friday. Mr. Peabody attended the 'mealing In Athens and will draw ihs plans fur the building. MRS. GINNIS’ BOND FIXED AT tSJMO. B peels I to The Georgian. Blue Ridge. Ga.. Jan. II.—-Mra. Quinn, wife of Colanel W. A. Guinn, who was killed Dee. 3, has bean placed under a 35,090 bond for her future appear- sne* In court. The trial of all lha accused was con tinued until next Monday at 0 o'clock Mrs. Guinn Is cool and unconcerned and stoutly dsnlss her guilt. She la the daughter of Ihs late H. T. McCoy, formerly a vary wealthy resident of veH 4» dismissing thsnsgro snkHsre McCoy’a. Tsna. She and her husband connected with the rioting at Rrnwnn- vine, Tesas. The resolution requests (he Tonnes- seen representatives In congress to sup- port the President In (his case. CONSUL AMADOR" QUITS HIS POST New York, Jen. 11.—Dr. Raoul Am ador, youngest son of the president of Ihs republic of Panama, has re tired from th* oust of consul general for several years have been estranged, he having made on more than one occasion ugly charges against her at' lo her relation with other men. Some time previous lo his asaastnatlon hs was poisoned and came very near dy ing from Its effects. In New oYrk for th* Itlhmtan republic. It Is announced today. This step hsa by the suits Mrs. Bertha K. Grteh brought against him.