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VOL. XI. NO. 13.
11l LETTEHS
RELIEOUPON
TDIMPEAGH
PEAKE
William Flinn’s Paper Says
Pennsylvania Senator Will,
Have to Explain.
TO BE ASKED WHY HE
WAS GIVEN $25,000 FEE
Documents Printed First in
Hearst’s Magazine Cause of
Proposed Charges.
PITTSBURG, Aug. 19.—The Pittsburg
Leader, the official mouthpiece of Senate!
William Flinn, and the local organ of the
Washington (Roose v elt) party, publishes
the following:
Boies Penrose. senior United
States senator from Pennsylvania,
will have tn face impeachment pro
ceedings.
Hp knows this and that is why he
Is fighting so desperately to elect
assemblymen and state senators w’ho
wilh obey him and help tn keep the
scandal suppressed.
The charge upon which his col
leagues in the senate will try him
will be that of having accepted
money from a corporation to influ
ence his action as a public official.
The letters alleged to have been
written by John D. Archbold, finan
cial agent of the Standard Oil Trust,
to Penrose will be the basis of the
impeachment charges.
Legislature To Take
■Un Oil Letters.
These letters will he presented to
the state assembly when it meets in
January, for investigation, and. if not
contradicted, the legislature will be
asked transmit the facts to the
national congress with impeachment
proceedings to follow.
One of the letters referred to Is one
of a series published in the current
issue of Hearst’s Magazine, all writ
ten to Penrose by John D. Arch
bold and all referring *o legislation,
senate committee work and official
Investigations in which the Oil trust,
needed protection. The money let
ter follows:
26 Sfoadway. New York, Oct.
13. 1904.
My Dear Senator —In fulfilment
of our understanding, it gives me
great pleasure to hand you here
with certificate of deposit to your
favor for $25,000. and with aood
wishes. I am
Yours truly.
JOHN D. ARCHBOLD.
Hen. Boies Penrose, 1311 Spruce
street. Philadelphia. Pa.
Penrose To Be
Asked To Explain.
It is this letter, particularly, that
Penrose will he asked to axplain
when the investigation is opened.
He will he asked to tell what serv
ices he. as a United States senator,
rendered the Standard Oil Trust for
which he received $25,000, if any,
and why this monopoly, which was
then bitterly fighting against allow
ing the people to curb its power,
should give both money and good
wishes" to a United States senator
who was supposed to he represent
ing the people.
Another of the letters from Arch
bold to Penrose explains something
of the ' understanding' referred to In
the money letter.
Some ten years ago there was In
existence the United States indus
trial commission, composed chiefly of
members of the senate and lower
house. In its day it was an import
ant institution, having much the same
character as the committee that has
just finished the investigation of the
Steel corporation.
“Letter Sounds
Pretty Peremptory.’’
The chief business of this old Indus
trial commission was to investigate
the Standard Oil Company. The
chairman of the commission was
Senator Kyle. One of the members
was Penrose. Kyle died and Archbold
wrote to Senator Penrose:
We are very strongly of the
opinion that you should take the
chairmanship.
Lastly, and may we hope not
unfairly, we make it as a strong
personal request.
May I venture to ask for an af
firmative answer by wire?
That sounds pretty peremptory,
but It may be that the Standard OH
Company had a right to be per
emptory to Penrose, the right that
every master has to give orders to
a servant whom he pays, and pays
well. For In other correspondence It
is recorded that chairman Penrose
sent an advance copy of the commit-
Continued on Page Two.
The Atlanta Georgian
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• Pope Breaks Law of •
• Vatican; Visits His •
• Invalid Sister's Home •
• •
• ROME. Aug. 19.—For the first •
• time the unwritten law of the vat- •
• lean that the pope shall not leave •
• that institution was violated early •
• today, according to an article pub- •
• lished in the newspaper Messag- •
• gero. •
• 'The newspaper's informant stat- •
• ed that Pope Pius, dressed as an •
• ordinary priest, left the Vatican •
• shortly afte’r midnight, going to •
• the home of his invalid sister, •
• where he remained half an hour. •
• It has been a rule of the church •
• that the wearer of the triple crown •
• exiles himself from the world when •
• he enters the Vatican. The Mes- •
• saggero's story caused a great deal •
• of comment here. •
• Later an official denial of the •
• story was Issued from'the Vatican. •
• In this denial it was said that •
• Rosa, the sister whom the pontiff •
• was supposed to have visited, is •
• not seriously ill, although she suf- •
• sered a slight stroke some time •
• ,ago, which for a time caused anx- •
• iety. •
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THIS IS A TRUE TALE:
ICEBERG FORMS IN
STREET IN HOT SUN
Walter Taylor, city clerk, told a
story today of how the residents of
Auburn avenue were recently amazed
by the forming of an iceberg in their
street in the broiling sun.
It happened in front of th Pratt lab
oratory at the corner of Auburn avenue
and Courtland street. A valve on a
carbonic acid gas tank with
1,800 pounds pressure accidentally was
knocked loose. The tank shot across
the street like a skyrocket as the gas
escaped. It struck a tree in'front of
the Wesley Memorial church and
bounded into an iron fence on the other
side of the street. Then it. dived head
long into the gutter and began to whirl
around. It had just missed several au
tomobiles and persons standing in the
street.
When the excitement of the spec
tators had subsided sufficiently for
them to determine what had happened,
they found a long cylinderical body of
ice in the street. The escaping gas had
caused ice to form on the outside of
the tank.
GOVERNOR BROWN
EXPECTED TO VETO
MILITARY MEASURE
It is considered certain that Governor
Brown will veto the military bill designed
to consolidate the offices of quartermas
ter general and adjutant general.
When former Adjutant General Scott
was deposed by Governor Hoke Smith.
William G. Obear, then quartermaster
general, was appointed adjutant. Since
that time Obear has carried out the func
tions of both offices with the aid of two
clerks.
While the chief executive has given no
direct assurance that he would disap
prove the attempt to consolidate the two
offices his views on the subject are well
known. He does not believe that any
such an arrangement should he made by
the executive department and later con
firmed by the legislature.
BILL REPEALING DOG
TAX IS SIGNED; STATE
LOSES $175,000 YEARLY
Weary of being made the goat of the
political aspirations of a few members
of the legislature, Governor Brown has
signed the Oliver bill repealing the dog
tax. This measure, it is said, will take
$175,000 in revenue away from the
state.
It has been rumored at the capitol
since the legislature adjourned that
members of the lower house who voted
for a repeal of the tax have begged the
governor to veto the bill. It is said
that many of them voted for the bill,
believing fully that the governor would
disapprove it. to save the state the rev
enue. Voting the repeal the dog tax il
said to be an efficient vote getter in
the country.
SLAYER OF MOTHER-IN-LAW
GIVEN NEW LEASE OF LIFE
SAVANNAH. GA., Aug. 19.—With a
further continuance of the arguments
on the motion for a new trial granted
by Judge Walter G. Charlton in the su.
perfor court. Solomon Williams, sched
uled to have been hanged Friday for
the death of his mother-in-law, Annie
Rivers has been given a new lease of
life.
Arguments on the motion for a new
trial, which caused a stay of execution,
were scheduled for today, but matters
came up in the meantime making a
further continuance desirable, and the
date of the hearing has now been set
for August 24.
NO MORfFUNDS NEEDED
TO FINISH PANAMA CANAL
WASHINGTON. Aug. 19.—1 t was an
nounced at the treasury department to
day that the Panama canal will be
completed with funds now available in
the treasury ami that another issue of
Panama canal bonds will not lie nec
essary.
GERMAN EMPRESS ILL:
QUITS COURT FUNCTIONS
BERLIN. Aug. 19. Tito empress of
Germany Is ill. It was learned today
she has been ordered Jo abandon all
court and social function . Her place
will be taken by the crown princess.
ATLANTA, GA., MONDAY. AU GUST 19, 1912.
SLAYER GANG
PAYMASTER
BEARSOUT
JACK ROSE
In Conference With Whitman
Aboard Train. Sam Schepps
Corroborates Confession.
VITAL POINTS CLEARED UP.
SAYS DISTRICT ATTORNEY
I Am Satisfied—lt Will Mate
rially Strengthen Our Case,
He Declares.
NEW YORK, Aug. 19.—"1 am
satisfied. Sam Schepps has just told me
his story. It was enough to clear up
several vital points."
This statement was made by District
Attorney Whitman today on the train
en route for New York from Albany,
where Whitman met the party en route
from Hot Springs. Ark., where
Schepps was captured, after he had
held a conference of 30 minutes with
Schepps, the alleged “murder paymas
ter” in the Rosenthal murder case.
After Schepps had talked with Mr.
Whitman the prisoner was taken into
rhe dining car for his breakfast. In
his absence Mr. Whitman had an au
dience with the corps of newspaper
men who came to meet the Schepps
party.
Mr. Whitman said:
“When Schepps came before me I
said to him: 'Schepps, tell me your
story in plain language—no frills and
no jokes.' This he proceeded to do the
best he eould.
Corroborates Story
Os Jack Rose.
"I have secured all the corroboration
I expected. This is enough to clear up
several vital points and strengthen the
case."
Asked if Schepps corroborated “Bald
Jack” Rose's confession, Mr. Whitman
said: '
“Xes, Schepps confirmed it, so far as
I have gone with him. He corroborated
the statement that he had gone to
Harry Pollock’s home (where Rose was
hidden immediately following the
shooting) for Lieutenant Becker. He
would not admit that he paid the mur
derers for killing Rosenthal. He de
clared that he was not at the scene of
the murder. He did say, though, that
he had ridden in the ‘murder automo
bile' used by the assassins to escape
earlier in the evening. He told me he
went to Pollock's home with Rose to
see Becker. Further than that I did not
question him. Schepps is a talker and
loves to tell stories, so I've got to sep
arate the wheat from the chaff.”
Police Try to Get
Possession of Schepps.
A clash between Assistant District
Attorney Rubin and five detectives of
Deputy Commissioner Dougherty’s staff
occurred today when Samuel Schepps,
the Rosenthal “murder paymaster.” ar
rived at the Grand Central terminal.
The detectives had been given orders
from Dougherty to arrest Schepps on
sight and bring him to police head
quarters.
Rubin, however, refused to surrender
him. declaring that Schepps was a state
witness and not a prisoner. He was
hustled into a taxicab and when the
detectives insisted that the man be
turned over to them and tried to follow,
they were unceremoniously restrained
and the car whizzed to the West Side*
court.
1 he police can’t get him,” was Ru
bin's parting shot.
An earlier clash occurred at One
Hundred and Twenty-fifth street, where
the train was boarded by two central
office men who demanded Schepps.
Whitman told them he would indict
them if they tried to get the prisoner.
At the West Side police station
Schepps was arraigned before Magis
trate House as a vagrant. Attorney
Sandler, for Schepps. asked that the
case be continued 48 hours, but later
consented to a week's postponement on
request of District Attorney Whitman.
Accordingly Magistrate House con
tinued the heating until August 24. and
Schepps was taken to a cell.
RAILROAD COMMISSION
NOT A CAB-KICK BUREAU
(’hairman Murphey Candler, of the
state railroad commission, intimated to
day that the commission would like to
he relieved of the work resulting from
the popular theory that the state had
power to regulate the operations of cab
and baggage companies.
According to Mr. (’andler, Atlantans
seem obsessed with the idea that the
commission has jurisdiction over such
companies, and the office nf the board Is
i»eing cluttered daily with kicks on At
' tent a.. concerns.
MUZZLE YOUR WIFE!
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SHOP IS ROBBED OF
S7OO BY A BURGLAR;
NO CLEW FOR POLICE
Detectives sought vainly today to find
a clew to the burglar who, last night,
robbed the safe in Duffy's department
store, at Mitchell and Forsyth streets, of
S7OO in cash.
The manner in which the burglar en
tered the store is a mystery. Detectives
say it is possible thai he climbed on the
roof and entered through a skylight,
which was found open, or that he may
have, opened the door with a skeleton key.
He is supposed, to have worked the com
bination on the safe, as the door was
found closed.
A lot of clothing was scattered on the
floor by the marauder Nothing but the
money has been missed.
The robbery was discovered this morn
ing when the store was opened for the
day's business.
1,000 DEAD MENACE
LIVES OF FOREIGNERS
IN NICARAGUAN CITY
WASHINGTON, Aug. 19.—Lives of
hundreds of foreigners In Managua are
threatened by pestilence rising from
1,000 bodies of rebels which lie outside
the city walls, according to reports
from Minister Weltzekto the state de
partment today.
The bodies of the rebels lie where
they fell during the attack on the Nica
raguan capital and defenders of the
city were unable to bury them because
of the lite from the rebels hidden in the
hills.
88 COURSES. IN DINNER:
TONG MEN CELEBRATE
NEW YORK, Aug. 19.—Three hun
dred members of the Ong Leon Tong
society from all parts of the United
States met at their headquarters in
Mott street to celebrate at a dinenr
the five thousandth birthday of their
god. Kon Quon. The dinner was in two
sections, consisting of 88 courses.
A few days ago an attempt was made
io blow tip the god with dynamite, but
the idol was not damaged, although
the building was. A reward of $1,500
has been offered for information as to
the perpetrator of the deed.
JONES TAKES WAIT
OUT OF WAITER, BUT
HE LANDS IN JAIL
Henry Jones, a negro, of Pittsburg, an
Atlanta suburb, went into a restaurant
on lower Decatur street this morning and
ordered a small steak.
He waited five —ten —fifteen minutes,
and no steak.
He then calletf the waiter and asked
him the matter. The waiter made some
excuse and turned his back. Jones called
him again, and, while the waiter was
approaching, the customer pulled a shin
ing revolver from his pocket and placed
it in front of him.
"I am going to wait one minute and
no longer for that steak!” he said.
In just a half minute the steak was
in front of him. according to eyewitnesses.
He then ordered a cut of pie and a
glass of milk and they were In front of
him before he got the words out of his
mouth.
By the time, he had finished his meal,
however, a policeman was at Jones' elbow .
“Well.'' said Jones. “I got my steak,
anyhow—and without making any
threats."
The charge which he will have to an
swer is “disorderly conduct."
WOMAN OVERPOWERS
INSANE PRIZE FIGHTER
WHO FELLED 4 MEN
SANTA ROSA, Cal., Aug*l 9.—Miss
Margaret Lindsay, matron in the Se
noia county infirmary, today overpow
ered George Mowetb. a former prize
fighter, from San Francisco, who had
struck down four men. w hile in a fit of
insanity.
The crazed man split open the head
of one of the men attendants. While
the others lay unconscious on the floor.
Miss Lindsay grabbed Moweth by his
hair and threw him to the floor hold
ing him until he was placed in a
straightjacket.
WIFE. SHOT BY HUSBAND,
SENDS HIM LOVE NOTE
NEW YORK, Aug. 19. -Matthew
O'Callaghan, the wealthy cotton broket
who shot his wife three times at their
home, probably will be released Mrs.
O'Callaghan.)who is the broker's second
wife, is recovering. She wrote a very
endearing letter addressed to O’Cal
laghan tn his cell O'Callaghan is said
to have been intoxicated when be shot
at his wife unde' the impression that
she was a burglar.
SENATE DEFIES TAFT;
REFUSES TO RETAIN
COMMERCE COURT
WASHINGTON. Aug. 19.—The con
ference report on the legislative ap
propriation bill without the previsions
providing for the abolition of the com
merce court and the seven year tenure
for government clerks was presented to
the senate today These two provisions
caused the veto of the bill by the presi
dent.
The senate then amended the report
so that the abolition provision affecting
the commerce court still stands. This
means that the president will be called
upon to sign a bill identical in every
particular with the one which he has
already vetoed except the prevision
making a seven year tenure for govern
ment clerks.
TOWN LOT DONATED FOR
DEMOCRATIC CAMPAIGN
MONTGOMERY, Ala., Aug 19.—A
lot in South Birmingham, located in
what is known as the Mountain Lake
plat, was today donated by the South
Birmingham Heights Company to the
central executive committee of the Ala
bama Association of Wilson and Mar
shall clubs.
This lot is valued at S9OO, and the
proceeds of Its sale are to go to the
national Wilson-Marshall campaign
fund as a gift from the Alabama com
mittee. At a meeting of a sub-com
mittee and central committee today at
the state capitol it was decided to have
a full eeting of the committee within
the next ten days or two weeks to de
cide on the disposition of the property.
A FEW FACTS
Every person in the city of Atlanta
and surrounding vicinities who is
anxious for a business opening, a
new position, good help of any de
scription or who wants to buy, sell,
exchange or rent is looking in The
Georgian Want Ads each day for
such. He will read your ad if it is
there. Thai's the reason of the big
results The Georgian gives to its ad
vertisers.
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FASHIONS
HERE
Chairman of Board Calls Im
modest Dress Here a Fun
damental Evil.
‘MASHING’ LAID TO SHORT.
CLINGING SKIRTS OF GIRLS
Clergy and Social Workers
Join in Campaign for Re
forms in Styles.
Condemnation of the immodest dress
of Atlanta women, particularly of the
Peachtree street promenaders. will be a
striking feature of the report of the
vice commission. created by the city
council, at the request of the Men and
Religion Forward Movement, if the rec
ommendations of its chairman are car.
ried out.
Joseph A. McCord, the chairman, said
today that his idea in recommending
reforms is to deal with fundamentals,
find that immodest dress on the streets
is one of the fundamental evils in At
lanta. Although the commission has
held many public and secret sessions
Chairman McCord said he could not
speak for it. for no vote had been taken
on any feature of the report.
For two months the commission has
been making a close study and inves
tfgation of conditions here. All citi
zens were given the opportunity to ap
pear before it and present their views.
In conferences held to assimilate their
Information, the finger of criticism was
raised again the gay array nf women
and girls on Peachtree and other prin
cipal streets of Atlanta.
Street Dress Blamed
For Mashing.
The clinging, short skirts, the low
cut waists and extremely short sleeves
are to be condemned in the opinion of
the commission.
While some of the members of the
commission are at a loss to know what
tn do about it, because, they say, con
spicuous attire Is so genera! among
women, others believe that a formal re
port calling attention to the danger will
start a movement toward more Puri
tanical modes of attire.
The dress of the women is blamed
for much of the “freshness” of men.
According to press dispatches, a na
tion-wide war against the present tight
skirts and peek-a-boo waists has been
begun. And nowhere has a defender
arisen to declare that women’s scant
attire was due to excessive heat.
Mrs. Leonora M. Lake, of St. Louis,
tn a Chautauqua lecture at Columbus,
Ind., last week, declared that woman is
suffering from “fashionitis.” She said
that hailet dancers and acrobats are
more becomingly dressed and that the
present tight skirts give men reason to
make vulgar remarks.
Clergy Joins in
Campaign for Reform.
The Omaha Woman's club has an
nounced tnat in September a campaign
will be begun to persuade the mer
chants not to buy clothing which is ob
jectionable to the club.
“The big cry of annoyance on the
street and in public places from men
which girls are now making is largely
due to their foolish mode of dress and
manner,” declared Miss Mary F. Bal
eotnb, president of the Young People's
Civic league of Chicago.
She said that women should wear
longer and wider skirts, not too long
to touch the ground, but long enough
to conceal the ankles, and that the
waists should not be cut so low as to
expose the bosoms.
Bishop Austin Dowing of the Catho
lic diocese of Des Moines declared that
women's gowns are growing more im
modest every year.
'lt is because they are designed tn
a country which is frankly immoral,”
he said. “The French openly discuss
subjects which are not whispered in
America.”
Pope Pius started a movement for
■ more modesty in women's dress some
months ago by severely condemning the
present modes of dress. In St. Martins
Catholic church, in Baltimore, Rev.
Thomas Broydick declared that some
of the present fashions worn In the
churches were profane to the temple
of God, and Father Jackson in this
city barred wearers of hobble skirts
from his church.
The Seventh Day Adventists, in a
convention at Glendale. Cal., declared
that one could best he a true Christian
by wearing the simplest of frocks, dis
carding high - heeled shoes and large
hats and the tight-fitting skirts, and by
avoiding the extreme dress decreed by
Dame Fashion.
