The Augusta daily herald. (Augusta, Ga.) 1908-1914, January 11, 1910, Image 1

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Newspaper Page TextVOLUME XV., No. 11. D[ JMIOH GIN. Hi WHITER FOUND ' 118 IS FATHER li MUSHIER !l I CIIiCISD BiISS HOUSE Girl Takes Blame for the Entire Escapade. Declares She Wants to Go Back to Her People. Called Cohen Her “Sweetheart Father.” CHICAGO. —“Oh, I’m so glad it’s all over. I want to go home! I want to forget this.’’ Roberta Buist de Janon, the $lO,- 000,000 Philadelphia heiress, sounded out this wail Tuesday after a night in a police station. A full knowledge of the seriousness of her escapade—of her flight with the waiter, Ferdinand Cohen, of their travels up and down the land, and their final capture here after the search prosecuted with all the force of Robert Buist’s fortune and the jealousy of Cohen’s aban doned wife had failed in results for nearly two weeks'—seemed to have come to the slender school girl. They were found Monday night in a board ing house. And she herself shouldered the blame. Cohen was willing, and he, too, placed the responsibility on her. Cohen spent the night in a police cell at the Chicago avenue station and the girl was kept in the Harri son street annex. , Tuesday prepara tions for their removal to Philadelphia were made. Cohen has consented to return to Pennsylvania without fighting extra dition. The girl’s composure, which was so noticeable when she and Cohen were found in the furnished rooming house, posing as Robert King and daughter, was not so apparent Tues day. The tragic, even sordid, end of her romance, had upset her, and bit by bit she seemed to he realizing that her companion was not the hero she had imagined. Wants Her Father. “I don’t want to die now,” she said Tuesday. “Oh, I wanted to when I threatned suicide, I guess. But I want rto go live with my father in New York, or my grandfather in Phil adelphia.” Word was anxiously awaited Tues day by the girl from her father, Fer (Contlnued on Page 3.) BUIST FORGIVES ERtnUGHTEB Millionaire Seed Dealer Will Push Case Against the Waiter Cohen. PHILADELPHIA, Pa.—Henry F. Walton, attorney for Robert Buist, the millionaire grandfather of Roberta de Janon, who is under arrest in Chi cago with Ferdinand Cohen, the wait er with whom she eloped, announced to day that jjvery effort would be made to have Cohen placed on trial as quickly as possible on the charge of having abducted Roberta. Dispatches from Chicago state that Cohen and the girl have waived ex tradition. They are expected to reach Philadelphia Wednesday morning and indictment against Cohen will at once be asked, and his trial may take place within a few days. Buist denied hlmsßlf today to all in terviewers, but intimate associates say he is determined to prosecute Cohen without mercy. Mr. Buist is ready to forgive his granddaughter, take her back to his home and treat her as he always has done, but he is bitter against the waiter. The day Roberta eloped with the bald-headed married man three times her own age Mr. Buist had adoption pappr3 prepared which would make the girl his sole heir. He had Intended leaving his estate to her mother, Mrs. Ferdinand do Janon, who died five weeks ago. “Roberta was unduly Influenced by a man of cunning and did not realize the step she has taken,” he repeated to friends today. Mrs. Cohen, the waiter’s deserted wife, who left her home suddenly at 11 o'clock Sunday night, well dressed and supplied with money, has not re appeared in Philadelphia Up to the time of her disappearance she plead ed poverty. Where she got her good clothes and roll of bank notes has not been explained. MR. W. H. GODWIN AT COURT IN ALBANY Deputy Clerk W. H. Godwin of the United Stateß Court Is in Albany, Geor gia atending to court duties at the ses sion which is now convened In that city. The court In Albany Is known as the Pastern Division of the Southern Dis trict of Georgia of which thee Hon. ESmory Speer is District Judge. Mr. Godwin will act as clerk at the sesions of the court, and it Is not known how lon’i. he will be absent from Augusta. iO . ■„ . THE WEATHER ♦ Conditions favor fair weather ♦ and slowly rising temperature In ♦ this section tonight and Wed ♦ nesday. MINISTER SITS THE PDEIEST INSULTED HIM Spanish Officer Recalled From Washington. Other Ministers Angry at Taft’s Reception Plans. WASHINGTON, D. C.—The Mar quis de Villalobar, Spanish minister here, has been recalled. Word to this effect was received in Washington Tuesday. The action follows his complaint to Madrid that he had been insulted at a White house reception where ministers were divided from ambassadors by a velvet rope. The incident at the White house occurred last Tuesday. The minis ter left in a dudgeon after he had been told by an attache that he could not pass into the space reserved for the .higher diplomatic officers. He protested at the first order, and the case was carried to a high official of the reception, and finally to President Taft himself. The latter refused to allow any infringement on the new ly-adopted rule. Other ministers felt as keen anger, It is said, but refrained from express ing it with the openness that marked Villalobar’s actions. The plan of roping off the different grades of representatives was adopted for the first time at the reception Tuesday. The blue room was divided and the ambassadors were carefully herded from the ministers. It was after he had paid his re spects to the president that the Span (Continued on Pag* 3.) Legislative Recommendations As To Carolina Asylum Out Soon COLUMBIA, S. C.—The asylum In vestigating committee report and re commendations to the legislature will be given to the press now in a few days, and shortly afterward will be laid on the desks of the members of the house and senate. On account of the sensational revelations which came out in the reports of the several public examinations of witnesses last summer the report, which will be ex haustive and lengthy, will Ire read with great , interest by the members of the legislature, as the matter is sure to be the subject of spirited de bate in both branches, and it will be read with almost equal Interest by people generally over the state. The committee will not make any recommendations about changing the personnel of tho present administra tion of the institution, but will simply report conditions as the committee saw them. Want Races Separated. The committee will recommend dis mantlement of the present asylum plant,. Architect G. E. Shand’s report to the committee reveals that It will cost about $350,000 to properly re model this, and will suggest that in Its stead two Institutions be estab lished, one for whites and the other for colored patients. The new plants will cost a total of about a million mum MEETING SIR ISSOCU In the superior court room Tues day morning the annual meeting of the Augusta Bar Association was held with Major J. C. C. Black presiding. The meeting was well attended and nothing but routine business was dis cussed. The election of officers resulted In the former officers betfig retained for another year. Among the offtreits present at the meeting Tuesday were President J. C. C. Black, Secretary Geo. T. Jackson Jr., and Treasurer Bryson Crane. The association elect ed Messrs. John Cozart and E. Foster Brigham, two young local attorneys, as member of the association. At the Bon Air hotel Tuesday evening commencing at 8 o’clock, the annual dinner of the Bar Association will be served. The diner is under the direction of the executive commit tee, of which Mr. C. Henry Cohen is chairman, and promises to be a most enjoyable afTalr. The speaker of tha evening will be the Hon. A. G. Pow ell, of Atlanta, one of the judges of the Georgia court of appeals. Judge Powell Is known throughout the south as being one of the ablest judges In this section and the members of the local bar feel that they are truly for tunate in having him with them. It Is expected that there will be seventy, five persons at the banquet AUGUSTA, GEORGIA, TUESDAY AFTERNOON, JANUARY 11, 1910. All Will Live As Millionaires , Says Edison Thomas A. Edison, the great in ventor, who has just predicted that within the next two centuries the or dinary laborer of today will be able to live like the millionaire of the present time, owing to the results of scientific agriculture and automatic machinery. Mr. Edison for some time past has been engaged on the inven tion of moulds fOF- the making of con crete houses. He says when this is completed the- humblest artison will be able to live in an entire dwelling for the same rental he pays for mea ger room accommodations now. ► SPOKE OF DEATH ► AND THEN EXPIRED. . ► NEW ORLEANS, La. —A spe- . ► cial from Ca.mpti, La., says: < ► “And ye know not the hour < ► nor the day when the Son of < ► Man shall come,” said Theodore < ► Sa.vler, 60 years old, lu a talk < ►to a Sunday school class last , ► night, and then he dropped dead. < ► Death attributed to heart falh . ► ure. , ► and a quarter, but the present plant can be disposed of for about half a million dollars or more. The 360 acres of land going with the present plant and belonging to the state Is worth about $400,000 alone. The commltt« thinks other land equally as good fit the purpose can be bought for fro» S2O to S3O an acre. The committee is advised by a number of experts that the proportion of land to patients for proper and economical administration should be an acre to the patient. The tvhite asylum should accommodate about 800 patients and the colored about 900. There are now only 1,528 patients. The present main enclosed grounds with buildings occupies about 60 acres. It Is suggested that one building, which could bo remodeled at a cost of about SIO,OOO, might be used as a third institution for feeble-mind ed patients to advantage. Care of Patients. Where these two new institutions should be located the commitee does not say. This is left to the legisla ture. The report will carry a letter from Chan-man Wilson of the state board of health making certain recommenda tions as to the care of patients, and a letter from Dr. Wynes, the celebrated alienist expert. Dr. Wyne’s letter en dorses the scheme for separate care of white and colored patients. VETERANS LATE IN FURNISHING NAMES On account of the delay In the vet erans furnishing their names and ad dresses as requested. Judge A. R Walton the ordinary of Richmond county, has not been able to forward his pension list to Atlanta. The recent report of the state pen sioner telling that a large number of the reports were made out wrongly does not include Judge Walton’s. His report as has been stated lias not been turned in > and were it in the hands of the pension commissioner it would certainly, as always, be correct. The pension roil of Richmond county will probably ho forwarded to Atlanta during the middle of the month, and payments are expected in February. Acording to the ordinary a large number of corporations and insurance j agents have failed to tak e out the special tax as required by the state law. The tax collector will probably take the matter up with the negligent ■ ones In the course of the next few days. WHOLE FAMILY BURNED. DUBLIN—Six persons—a whole family—were burned to death to day at Lisburn. The victims were David Fagan, his wife, and their four children, who were trapped In their home. SISOLIIEPOH, SOLO SMS WERE HAMPERED Pauihan, the Frenchman, Was 'Wise and Procured Good Fuel and Took the Prize. LOS ANGELES, Cal.—The Ameri can aviators who are participating in the international aerial contests here, sent up a general wail Tuesday against John D. Rockefeller's chief wealth-producer-gasoline. Glenn H Curtiss declared he had been pre vented from “extending himself” ow ing to the poor quality of the fluid furnished. Charles F. Willard also laid his inability to negotiate the circuit of the course to poor gasoline, which heated his engine to such an ex tent that he was compelled to de scend, and Chas. K. Hamilton, who made a flight of only a short distance uttered a similar complaint. Pauihan Was Wise. It seems th (great French bird man,” Louis Pauihan, stole a march on the Americans, and incidentally pulled down the first prize—ssoo— he previously tested the qual ity of Ills gasoline and secured the best the market afforded before he attempted any flights. The Ameri cans will follow his lead hereafter. Tuesday’s program for heavier-than air craft begins at 2 o’clock, when the elimination contest begun yester day will be finished and all machines which expect to compete for prizes must qualify. At 2:30 the starting and landing contest will be held. Seven machines are entered including all the French and Curtiss machines; at 3 p. m., the first American demonstration of a Bleriot monoplane will be giv en, the machine used being the one which crossed the English channel. At 3:30 test flights for all altitudes will be held, and at, 4 o’clock the dirigibles will race. A sash prize event of SSOO will close the day’s ex hibitions at 4:30, the prize to he awarded to the machine making the best general showing. Seven contest ants have entered this event. Cortlandt Field Bishop, president of the Aero Club of America, vlce prekldent of the International Aero nautic association is here and will represent those organizations at the meet and will certify to any records which may be made. Pauihan Praises Curtiss. M. Pauihan, the daring little French man air-king, who easily won the first honors, declares that ho Intends to break the height, distance and du ration records during tho present meet and that he will make France proud of him. "It is not so much the prizes as the sport of the thing that attracted me to Los Angeles,” ho said. "I fly and forget everything else. When I watched Curtiss in his great speed, I could not but admire him. He is a true sportsman. I know Curtiss will do his best. lie will eclipse himself in this fine meet and his name will be cabled to Paris and all over the world. What will I do? Ma foi, France will be proud of me, I hope, as America will he of Monsieur Curtiss. All Europe Interested. “The people of Paris and, in fact, all Europe are watching this compe tition with keen interest. Madame Pauihan has gone up with me seve ral times and will go up again some time this week. She just loves to fly. I may take another lady with me, In addition, or perhaps a gentleman, but I cannot take more than three, in cluding myself.” Society turned out again Tuesday by the thousands. The new thrill, has so fascinated some of the ‘society belles that more than a score have begged M. Pauihan to take them for a spin in the sky and he says he will accommodate a few of them. At 10 o'clock Tuesday morning two balloon ascensions were made from Huntington Park camp. SEC. E. S. JOHNSON GETS INTERESTING LETTERS Secretary B. S. Johnson, of the Chamber of Commerce, received two interesting communications bv Tues day's mail. One was from a party re siding in Los Angeles, Cal., who wish ed some information concerning Au gusta, and the other was from the sec retary of the Hawaiian Improvement committee in which was described the great floral parade which will take place In Honolulu next, spring. Enclosed in the latter letter were a number of stamped postal cards of an artistic design which Mr. Johnson was asked to send to some prominent Augustans. Mr. Johnson has complied with the request. MR. N. K. BUTLER IS SECRETARY OF TJ. C. V. At the annual meeting of Camp 435, United Confederate Veterans, Mr. N. K. Butler wa elected secre tary and treasurer of the camp. Her Wedding Was Postponed Through Death I -; • y I *V , - - t ,v- Miss Caroline A. Drayton, , a daugh ter of J. Coleman Drayton, whoso marriage to William Phipps, the first secretary of the American embassy at London, lias had to be postponed because of the death of the late D. (>. Mills. The American ambassador had to leave London to attend the funeral, leaving Secretary Phipps in charge, and he will have to remain in London until Mr. Wiiitelaw Retd’s return. MILL OPERATIVE BECOMES MILLIONAIRE PROVIDENCE, It. I.—A fortune of $1,050,000 lias fallen tn Mrs. Alice May Pickup, 24 years old, a mill operative, under the will of her father, who died In Swed en, apparently poor. THE REPUBLICAN PARTY IS FACING SERIOUS CRISIS WASHINGTON, D. C.—Oil all side* in Washington the opinion is held that tho republican party Is facing a crisis and a serious one. Tho state of feeling between what tiro known as regular republicans in the Senate and House, on one hand, and insurgents, or sell' .st led progressives of the congress, on tho other is in tense. The Taft administration has not taken a definite stand as between the two factions, but predictions are being made that it dh.not long defer a declaration, and It Is felt that it will throw Its In fluence to the side of the regulars. More than the personal fortunes of President Taft is Involved in the situa tion. The future of tho party itself is held to he concerned. It is a house divided against itself, or, more literally with sole application to congress con tltlons, two houses, each divided against itself. Then there is the other house the Whlto House to he reckoned with. The Insurgent movement is wide spread in the west. Its advocates in the national congress are seeking to ob tain recognition and victory by combi nations with the democrats. They have gained some •advantages in the house of representatives by such combina tions. All this is at the expense of harmony. That President. Tuft has undergone some change of opinion in regard to who Fire his friends Find who are no among the republicans in congress generally believed. He is reluctant to take Flfb-s in the congress Mil nation, but it !s realized that, party reason: and a sense of loyalty to those who art standing by him may compel him lo do THREE ATUmS KILLED IN WRECK ATLANTA, Oa. Three men were killed and two others injured, when an automobile collided with a street car Monday. The automobile, was wrecked and the car badly damaged. The accident occurred on Peachtree road, as a result of an attempt of the chauffeur to pass another automobile going in the same direction at a high rate of fcpeed. The dead are William W. Garner, twenty-one; JVank George twenty-one; Harold K. George, nine teen. Injured, are W. H. George, father of the dead brothers and F. K. Cable, the chauffeur. DAILY AND SUN DAY, $6.00 PER YEAR. ANOTHER LIQUOR ELECTION IN THE SIX WET COUNTIES IS RECOMMENDED BY GOV. ANSEL WATSON’S REPLY REALLY FUSSY, SAYS 1. T. ELLIS Phil atlelp hi a n Makes Written Answer to Geor gian’s Refusal to Dehate Foreign Missions. ATLANTA, Gq.—Dr. Marlon McH. Hull, has received a letter from Win. T. Kills, of Phlludelphfn, dealing with Thomas Watson's refusal to debate on the subject of foreign missions, when challenged by a committee of Georgia laymen to do so. Dr. Hull < gave out the letter, which is as fol lows: ‘‘Knowing the inside of this episode, you doubtless have enjoyed the humor of it as much as 1 Ueally, your high and mighty Mr. Watson should know that, you laymen first asked several ecclesiastical dignitaries to debate with him, and that they refused to have anything to do with him. Of course, you would have to beware of the law of libel in publishing: any of the characterizations of him made by ills fellow Georgians. Then it was that you came to a newspaper man, who persisted in the charitable view, despite all the warnings from Geor gia, that the rampageous Mr. Watson is a decent fellow, who lias simply been talking out of abysmal ignorance, and so should be given a chance to get right, or else be set right. Now, after you had solemnly notified me that you wanted me to be fully aware of the risk of scurrlldus treatment I ran by getting down to Watson’s level for him to refuse to stoop to my level —It Is really too funny. 'T’vo had to explain to personal friends, when mentioning the expect ed trip to Atlanta this month, that this Watson who objects to foreign missions, is not the Englishman who wrote “The Woman with a Serpent's Tongue.” You know that up in this part of the* world your self-complac ent Mr. Watson does not make so very much noise. He is recalled by close readers of the news as a Populist who was brought Into passing promin ence by once being made Mr. Bryan’s running mate. Curiously enough, during that campaign, while in con versation with Mr. Bryan, I recom mended to him that, he read Watson's “Life of Jefferson,” of which he had never heard. “Despite all of the wordy Mr. Wat son’s debla.tterat.ing against ►missions his shiftiness, sophistries und spac iousness—l have held to the convic tions that at heart lie is an honest man, and in open debate would abide by the traditions of scholarship Find honor, of which the biographer of the great Jefferson cannot bo ignorant. Even yet. In spite of this palpable attempt to dodge a facing of facts, (for nobody knows better than he that Mr. Bryan will not honor !dm In tin* way he suggests), I tbit/; that your demagogic Mr. Watson h not so black as he Is painted by some of the Georgians who have written me. “When your message came to me that your exalted end aristocratic Mr. Watson refused to debate with an ordinary newspaper man, 1 was reading Hvon Herlin’s new book, ‘Trans-Himalaya, Adventures and Dis coveries in Thibet. After reading your communication, I took up the book again and turned the page, where l opportunely came to these words. Perhaps they are a sufficient answer to your moflest Mr. Watson. “Home young coxcombs, to whom nothing is sacred, and whose upper (Continued on Page 3.) “MY BUSINESS IS DIFFERENT” "That Ik all trim anil I believe It, but my business Is different.” How many times have you hoard that expression, and with an air of finality on the part of the speaker that you felt that a rejoinder would no effect? Rome people pfiory In the fact that tjo lr business is different from others and “therefore can’t he advertised.” Even some manufacturers have the excuse hanxlnx up, ready for Imme diate use, admitting. In all frankness, that advertising Is good for others, but not for them, because their "busi ness is different.” Would you like to know the names of some of these people? We wouldn't like to embarrass them, hut you would tie surprised at the list of them. "My business is different,” rlnjfs out from the sanctum of the bix Koy, who immediately proceeds to send out “di rect” (to the waste basket) Jltera.turc, telling his customers why they should advertise. South Carolina’s Governor, in Annual Message, Asks Consideration of Another Election. Makes Many Recommendations As To State Colleges. COLUMBIA. Governor Ansel’s third annual message lo the legisla ture read In both branches of the leg islature, which convened Tuesday, is a characteristic Ansel message, short, conservative and free from radical suggestions or recommendations, and in very simple language. It Is very mild, much too much so in the view of t hose who have been laboring many years for some important changes, ll was received in silence and (here was 111 tie comment upon it. It is only fifteen printed pages long. There is nothing striking or out of tho ordinary about tho message, which was to be expected. It is al most wholly a renewal of recom mendations made last year. The Liquor Question. Of course the most Important rec ommendation, al least the one which received the most attention, is that referring to how Ibis legislature should handle (lie liquor question. Af ter dryly stating the facts concerning the August elections the message says: “As to the dispensaries In tho six counties which voted in the sale of liquor, [ desire to renew my recom mendation made in my message in 1908, low it, That not more than otto county dispensary be allowed In any county where liquor Is allowed to lie sold, except in those counties where (here are cities exceeding 25,000’ (Richland and Charleston counties). This Is In Iho Interest of temperance. I firmly believe I lull If another elec tion is held in the six counties in (lie coining year most of them will vote the Httlc of liquor out. I ask your earnest consideration of the question of providing for another election in these h)x counties lu the near future. Message Summary. Briefly summarized the remainder of the mo r Age is: Borrowing of ha 1 f a million dollars was necessary last year to meet cur rent expenses. Recommended that half million extra be added to the state levy to gradually get. tho state back on a cash basis. Renewal of recommendation that inquisitorial plan be adopted as a cure for lax dodging. Nothing Is said of Comptroller General Jones’ recom mendation tlint a state tax commis sion of five members be provided to equalize returns. Attention directed to the report of the state sinking fund commission, which shows cumulative sinking fund for redemption of state bonds $700,- 8511.58, ordinary sinking fund $79,- 208.47, sinking fund for Insurance of public buildings $51,928.90. A good work for all Ihe stato col leges and the industrial school and commendation of their heads takes up two and u half pages. Tho Citadel board of visitors request for $30,000 for another dormitory story la In dorsed, adequate appropriations for the Industrial school at Florence rec ommended, and a bill which the state colleges will submit Tor such changes In the law wlfh regard to scholarships In the state colleges as will make col leges will have Introduced to make ex aminations for beneficiary scholar ship examinations uniform Is com mended. “Winding Up.” Tho dispensary winding up com mission Is thanked for Its services, nnd tho governor reports that It has i turned In $275, 000 to the state treas i ury with more to come when tho cases in court are neclcd, A $30,000 supreme court building for the Sate house grounds is asked. The governor fights shy of discus sing ttie asylum situation. Ho asks careful consideration of the investiga ting commission’s report and con -1 tends himself with slating tho num (Contlnued on Page 3.) It Is to be hoped that hi* business is different, What stronger argument could be devised to prove that that person or firm should advertise? ft’s the business that's different that advertising really h' lps most. A carbon copy campaign of adver tising never did smack of sincerity. It has only been the pioneer that has made any kind of success in advertis ing. "My business is different" is a very, very frank admission that "I" should advertise, and forcibly implies that "I" haven't the nerve to do it. Not even the nerve to take the medicine "I" recommend for others! if your business is just like the other fellow's, Just hang out the sign "Me, Too." Hut if you really have, a business that's different and you know it’s dif ferent, in proportion that you find it is different it would seem that you have the more reason to advertise it. —"Signs of the Times."