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POLICE MAKE FIFTY RAIDS
THE WEATHER
Clearing today: probably fair to
morrow. Temperatures: 3 a. m., 70
degrees; 10 a. m., 72 degrees; 12 noon,
74 degrees; 2 p. m., 81 degrees.
VOL. XL NO. 44.
GOV. WILSON
SWATS BOSS
SMITH AT
POLLS
Candidate Casts Vote Against
the Man He Opposes for
Senatorship.
PREDICTS GREAT CRISIS
IN FINANCES OF NATION
Tells Students Big Business
Expansion Is Coming, With
Country Not Ready.
PRINCETON, N. J., Sept. 24.—Gov
i ernor Wilson carried to the polls today
I his fight against James Smith, Jr., who
is trying to be returned to the United
| States senate. He cast ballot No. 9 in
the Sixth precinct of Princeton for Wil
liam Hughes, Smith's most formidable
opponent, and before voting at the pri
i maries he arraigned Smith as the agent
of corrupt corporations.
In a speech before several hundred
Princeton students the governor de
clared that Smith was a non-partisan
boss, working only for the Interests of
his client, and that he was supported
whenever Governor Wilson had fought
him by Republican newspapers.
Governor Wilson came to Princeton
from Princeton Junction by automobile
and was escorted to the polling place
by 400 students, headed by a bass drum
and a snare drum, singing a jolly, rol
licking melody to "Whoop her up for
Woodrow Wilson.”
At the polling place they demanded a
speech. Governor Wilson told the boys
he would not be permitted to speak
within 100 feet of a polling place. They
promptly led him to the steps of the
Second Presbyterian church. There he
said in relation to business enterprises.
"College men have a particular lu y
' to perform. They must think straight
in the present crisis, for it is a crisis.
The boss merely as a political organize;
1. not dangerous. He is. not to be
feared, but the man we call boss is the
agent of those who wd»h to control pol -
files for their own interests
Predicts Crisis
From Expansion.
"The reason all this concerns college
men particularly is this:
■q want you fellows to realize that
when vou are studying politics, and
now particularly, when you are study-
I ing public finance you are studying the
most critical things that concern this
nation. The Democrats are going to
win in the first place” (wildly cheered),
"and when they do they are going to do
things that will take the shackles off
the business of the country. Then what
will happen? The banking and cur
rency system of this country is not
ready for the expansion of business and
If the business begins to expand rapidly
we may find ourselves in the grip of
one of the most tremendous crises we
have, ever had unless in the meantime
we correct our currency system, and
that is a job chiefly of education, be
cause most of the things connected
with the currency system are not gen
erally understood.
The country is jealous of the bank
ers— I think jealous of some bankers
with just cause—and it won't trust
them or take their advice. Nobody be
lieves in economists. Outside of the
economists and bankers there is no
li lv who has given it sufficient study
to expound it as it really is.
Therefore, the more college men
know about this subject the more they
understand the remedies and preach
,r, m the better for this country—and
!■ had better get on the job right
There is going to be business
expansion and this expansion is going
to be dangerous.
I have been saying that I am not in
i'rested in the personal side of the
' ’Mroversy. I am not interested in
't my opponents say about me. I
, 1 n t care a rap w’i<t they say about
The question is with regard to
>t we are going to do and how we
ar - going to do it."
wants guardian for
HUSBAND; ALSO DIVORCE
S T. LOUIS, Sept. 24.—Mrs. Ella Ro
twenty years old. has filed a di-
! " suit against Walbridge Romer
alleging that her husband is only
cteen years old. asked the court to
m a guardian to act as Romer's
1 ' t hnd in answering the petition.
The Atlanta Georgian
Read For Profit—GEORGIAN WANT ADS—Use For Results. <
MLLStHEIP
THEJIEAS
'SYSTEM'S'
FEEOEPS
Path Leads to Resort, Says
Leader in Men and Religion
Movement.
MANAGER WHO EMPLOYED
YOUNG GIRLS GOES FREE
Mother of Two Reed Sisters
Comes to Aid of Accused
Showman.
“These cheap theatrical companies
are just one of the recognized feeders
for the 'system.' The advertisements
for chorus girls, like some of the ad
vertisements for stenographers and
other girl workers, are often designed
simply to get the girls. The paths all
the same end—the resort.”
That is the opinion of Marion M.
Jackson, whose work in the present
campaign of the Men and Religion For
ward Movement is attracting so much
attention. Mr. Jackson was discussing
the case of Vessie Bostwick, Estelle
Reed and "Buster” Reed, three girls
found in the employment of the Em
pire Comedy Company, a five-cent
show in a Whitehall street motion pic
ture theater. While he had made no
investigation of these particular cases,
Mr. Jackson did not hesitate to declare
the theatrical company dodges a part
of the "game.”
"The records of the Federal prison
tn the euburbs of Atlanta will show one
case in point,” continued Mr. Jackson.
"There is a man serving a term there
now for working this theatrical agency
game. He lured an Atlanta girl to
Tampa, Fla., under pretext of giving
her employment as a chorus girl. She
landed where most of them land, but it
happened that a man with a heart met
her and saved her. She was brought
home and the "theatrical agent’ con
victed of 'white slavery.'”
Recorder Forced to
Dismiss Manager.
Recorder Broyles heard the case
against XV. F. Swaringen. manager of
the Empire Comedy Company, and dis.
missed it, as Swaringen was merely
charged with conducting an agency
without a license. The manager showed
that he was operating a company and
not conducting an agency, and upon
statements that the two Reed girls
were not under sixteen years old the
recorder was forced to dismiss the case
and set the manager and girls free.
The Reed girls were summoned as
witnesses to the charge that Swarin
gen was employing girls under sixteen.
Officer B. B. Posey, of the children's
court, swore that the girls' mother had
asked him to look after her daughters,
and had shown him records to prove
that the girls were but fourteen and
fifteen years old. Notwithstanding this,
Mrs. Reed stated before the recorder
that the girls were aged sixteen and
seventeen, respectively, and denied
that she had ever talked with officer
Posey.
The Bostwick girl, who is only four
teen years old, was not given actual
employment, although she had been
promised a place in the chorus by
Swaringen.
The Georgian's story yesterday of
the cheap theatrical companies and the
ends to which many of them lead at
tracted wide attention. Several per
sons stated that they had seen young
girls from these places driving away in
cabs and automobiles with young men
after the shows.
“The life of the girls in the chorus of
these cheap vaudeville and moving pic
ture houses leads to a life of shame in a
short time, and I would have the people
of Atlanta put a stop to such house for
that reason, but I also see that where
ten or twelve of these girls are being
ruined in the chorus, their appearance
on the stage is leading hundreds of
younger children to the same paths.
The morphine habit that society ac
knowledges is sapping the life out of
men an<l women is no worse, to my
mind, than the five and ren-cent thea
ter habit which out boys and girls have
contracted,” said Miss Margaret Laing,
probation officer of the children’s court,
today.
"The trouble, of course. starts at
home. The sordid home life of these
little child workers makes them desire
to get away from home for their pleas
ures. Their parents never take them
anywhere, but they do allow them to go
to places like these for amusement.
ATLANTA, GA., WEDNESDAY, SEPTEMBER 25, 1912.
Deaf Mute, Mistaking
Neighbor's Door for
Own, Shot as Burglar
Unable to Hear Challenge. He
Continued Working at Lock.
Dies of Wound.
CHICAGO. Sept. 24 -The body of
William Gray, a deaf mute, shot be
cause he could not henr a challenge
when he was mistak n for a burglar,
was sent to Lowell, Ind., today. Gray
died on a Monon train, on which he
was sent to Chicago in a vain effort to
save his life.
Gray started for his homo in Lowell
after a day out of town. Hi« home is
located between those of Mrs. Breese
Webb and Grove Lloyd. By mistake
he went to the door of the Webb home,
which is much like his own. Mrs. Webb
heard some one trying to unlock the
door. She screamed. Her screams
roused Lloyd, who went to a window
in his own house, saw the man tam
pering with the lock, thought he was a
burglar, and shouted.
Gray could not hear, and continued
to work at the lock. Then Lloyd fired
to frighten Gray. The bullet struck the
sidewalk and glanced, entering into
Gray’s skull.
PRISONER IN DASH
FOR FREEDOM AS
HE IS SENTENCED
John Jones, a mulatto, known to the
local police as a "bad man." threw the
criminal division of superior court into
an uproar today by a daring attempt
to escape from the bailiffs.
XX hile Judge Ellis was pronouncing
sentence upon Jones, the negro, who
had been standing before the bench,
made a dash for the door. Before
Deputy Sheriff Plennie Miner could
reach him. the prisoner was half-way
through th, court room, fighting his
way through the throng of loungers
When the deputy reached him, the
negro showed fight, and for several sec
onds a free-for-all. battle ensued, in
which bailiffs and spectators took part.
Jones was placed on trial early this
morning, charger] with having robbed
the residence of A. A. Manning, getting
$47 in cash and a revolver. The jury
brought in a verdict of guilty, and
Judge Ellis sentenced the prisoner to
seven years in the penitentiary.
SOUTHERN PASSENGER
TRAIN NO. 13 HIT BY
FREIGHT; 8 INJURED
COIII'TTA, GA., Sept. 24. Engineer
Joseph Lawler was badly hurt, a negro
cook in the dining car was scalded and
six passengers were bruised, when a
Southern railway southbound freight
train collided with fast passenger train
No. 13, northbound from Atlanta* in the
yards here at 9:30 o'clock this morning.
None of the injured is expected to die.
Engineer was at the throttle of
the freight engine. .
The passenger train, which left Atlanta
h w'.'' oc ' wk ' "as standing In the Co
hutta yards, having orders to meet the
a ’ POlnt ' The freight was
running a little behind time and. In an
m s ( ° rt .r ot t 0 <ielav ,he P assen ger it came
into the yards under a good head of
steam. Engineer Lawler did not see the
passenger until he rounded a curve a
short distance away. He was unable to
slow down in time to avoid a crash.
The freight engine and several ears
were derailed and the road was blocked
for several hours. It was necessary to
send the passenger train hack to Dalton
and detour it over the Western and At
lantic railroad to Chattanooga.
WOMAN SAYS STATE
OWES HER FORTUNE
ON A 100-YEAR NOTE
in New Albany, Ind., Is a young
woman. Mrs. Fred Zuber by name, who
believes she has a small-sized fortune
awaiting her in the coffers of the state
of Georgia. Officials at the state treas
ury are of an entirely different opin
ion.
Mrs. Zuber has written H. L. Cul
berson, treasurer of Fulton county, set
ting forth her claim. She says that she
is an heir of one Baker, a German,
long since dead, who lent the state of
Georgia a large sum of money on a 100-
year note. She wants to know when
this note is due.
State Treasurer Speer said today that
he had no knowledge of the existence
of this note, nor did any state official
remember anything about it.
HIGH COURT REFERS
SUIT TO FORCE STATE
TO LICENSE ‘MEDICS’
Officers of the Southern College of
Medicine and Surgery of Atlanta, seek
ing redress from the courts for the re
fusal of the state board of medical
examiners to license their graduates,
were referred back to the Cobb county
court by the state supreme court to
day.
The high tribunal dismissed the bill
of exceptions lodged at the capitol on
the grounds that action had not been
completed in the lower court. Officers
of the college had brought suit to force,
C. T. Nolan, secretary of the state
board, to recognize their graduates.
Judge Morris, of the Blue Ridge cir
cuit, overruled certain answers, but no
.'riislon was rindcred In Ids court.
ALL BUILDING
RECORDS IN
ATLANTA
BROKEN
September Alone to See $2.-
000.000 in Permits—Year’s
Total Will Be $9,000,000.
HEALY AMD HURT READY
TO BEGIN SKY-SCRAPERS
First Work on $2,000,000
Structures to Call for Expen
diture of $1,400,000.
City Building Inspector Hayes said
today that he was ready to issue build
ing permits for the South's two great
est office buildings—the William T.
Healy building and the Joel Hurt build
ing.
These buildings, when complete, will
cost about $2,000,000 each. The sec
tions to be constructed at once will
cost $700,000 each, according to the per
mits of the building inspector.
The $1,400,000 in permits makes Sep
tember the record building month in
Atlanta's hjstory. The total is already
$1,845,389, and Inspector Hayes esti
mated that the total will reach $2,000,-
I 000.
This month's record also insured 1912
as the city's record building year. In
cluding the two new buildings, the total
already is $6,542,550. Inspector Haves
estimated that the total for the year
will be fully $9,000,000.
Atlanta Far Ahead
Os All Southern Cities.
I he nearest approach to September's
figures is the record of April, 1912.
I hat month $1,135,396 in permits was
iecorded. April, 1910, Is next, with sl,-
111,17 i. The $9,000,000 record of 1912 is
approached by $7,405,950 In 1910, $6,-
215,900 in 1911, and $5,551,951 in 1909.
Atlanta already is far ahead of ail
other Southern cities for this year, and
when the reports for September are
' ompiied her lead will be greater still.
The Healy building, when complete
as a $2,000,000 structure, will cover the
entire block bounded by Forsyth, Pop
lar. Broad and Walton streets. Mr.
Healy is building only one-half of it
now, the Forsyth street side. The oth
er half will be built later, replacing the
old buildings on Broad street.
The building is to be sixteen stories
high, with a basement. It will be faced
with stone and terra cotta. The two
parts will be separated by a corridor,
for light and air.
In the building of this giant struc
ture. "Bill" Healy will continue his un
usual methods. Millionaire that he is,
lie prefers to do the actual superin
tending of the work himself, rather
than spend his time in pleasure or fol
lowing some other work.
Race Between Healy
And Hurt on in Earnest.
Only com tacts for individual parts of
the work will be let. Mr. Healy will
be found dally “on the job” until the
building is complete, just as he has
been since he started the excavation
with one negro and a mule three years
ago.
Mr. Hurt's building will cover the tri
angle bounded by Edgewood avenue
Exchange place and Ivy street. The
part he has begun work on will fit in
the point of the triangle between Ex
change place and Edgewood avenue.
The larger part of the structure is not
to be erected until the first part Is
completed.
The building Is to be seventeen sto
res high, with a basement. It will be
faced with cut stone, terracotta and
brick. The first floor will be used for
a bank, with offices on all floors above.
The contract for the construction of
the building has been let to the Realt.x
Construction Company, of Birmingham.
I hej are really* off in the most won
derful race known in Atlanta building
history. The contest between "Bill”
Healy and Joel Hurt in building sky
scrapers is no joke, but a serious prop
osition.
Mr. Hurt applied for a building per
mit first. Mr. Healy persuaded him and
the building inspector to hold it up un
til he (Mr. Healy) was ready to apply
for hfs, that they might both start even
This is the real start now. it's the
biggest sport even of many seasons.
Wagers ate being staked on which will
be finished first.
Quit Tools to Preach Simple Life Doctrine
7-YEAR PILGRIMAGE ENDS
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Wosloy Newbern, who has returned to Atlanta after a
seven-year tour of the xvorhl, preaching a simple life doctrine.
Atlantan, “Wandering Mes
senger of God,” Carries His
Creed to Earth’s Corners,
Wesley Newbern, who calls himself a ,
wandering messenger of the word of
God. is back in Atlanta, the home of
Ills youth. After seven years on the j
highways and byways of the earth. li<-
lias come home to preach his simple!
apostolic creed in tile streets of At-|
innta to all who may choose to listen. 1
XVitli his head bared to the drizzle,
clad in khaki and his foot shod only
In sandals, Newbern, looking for all the
world like a figure stepped from a can
vas of Tissot. Clime into the city by the
overland route from Richmond to tell
what he term< tills “Babylonian jun
gle" his doctrine of the simple life,
Newbern's clear eye. his steady nerve
and his < alm demeanor, strikingly no
ticeable at the first gem-c, he attrib
utes to his rigorous manner of living,
to the direct manner In which he has
dealt with things of the world. Tho
things of the spirit have been his. he
says since that day. seven years ago,
when lie was called from his bench In
Randall Bros' plant, to give tile world
hfs
Turns From the World.
I.ike the mendicant friars of the tnid
xlle ages, lie assumed poverty as a vir
tue, plain fix ing as a pleasure, and the
highways and city street- as the track
to'follow to reach the hearts of men.
From all tlie vagaries of the complex
modern world he has turned Instinc
tively, because, as he says, he is whole
of body as well as soul. This, per
haps more interesting tli in other things
Continued on Page Two.
750 MARINES ARE
ORDERD BY TAFT
TO SAN DOMINGO
ON BOARD THE PRESIDENT'S
I TRAIN, PHILADELPHIA, Sept. 24.
; President Taft tills afternoon ordered
, 750 American marines sent to Santo
Domingo to guard the customs houses
and foreign property. Tills action was
; taken following a conference w ith As
sistant Secretary of the Navy Beek-
I man Winthrop, who reported that the
I revolutionary situation in Santo Do
| mingo is very serious.
I The marines will sail from Philadel
phia on Thursday on tile transport
Prairie.
I’pon their arrival Santo Domingo
they will be scattered throughout the
Island wherever danger threatens.
Accompanying the marines will be
William Doyle, chief of the Latin di
vision of the state department, and
General Frank Mclntyre, chief of the
bureau of insular affairs.
The marines will be umbu‘ command
of Colonel F. J. Moses. Not all of the
troops will be recruited from the
League Island navy yards, but detach
ments will be rushed here from New
York, Annapolis and Norfolk.
The gunboat Wheeling is under or
ders to cruise in Dominican waters in
the event site is needed there.
SECOND WARD IN MOVE
FOR PRYOR ST. PAVING
The citizens of the Second ward will
hold a ma-s meeting tonight in the
Pryor Street school to launch a move
ment to get Pryor street paved as far
out as Slewart avenue. The street has
already been graded all the distance,
and the citizens will urge the city and
county officials to co-operate in put
ting down a good pavement on the
fleet.
ixm
2 CENTS EVERYWHERE
RESTRICTED
DISIRICI
WIPED
OUT
Chief of Police Serves Notices
on Fifty Resort Keepers
to Vacate.
1
FIVE DAYS ALLOWED
TO CLOSE UP HOUSES
Crusade Begun Only to Enforce
Law, Says Beavers, As
suming Responsibility.
Atlanta’s tenderloin is being
wiped out today by the police.
Chief Beavers, suddenly and
without the slightest previous in
timation as to his plans, began a
war of extermination at noon. In
company with Captain Latnar
Poole and Policemen McWilliams
and Paul West, the chief drove
away from the police station in
his automobile, and, starting with
Decatur street, began serving no
tices on the occupants of all illegal
and questionable houses they
must “close up" within five davs.
Similar notices are being served
on the owners and agents of the
houses.
If the houses are not vacated at the
expiration of the five days, immediate
prosecution of the owners, or agents,
and the women will be commenced in
police court.
"Every house in the tenderloin dis
trict and every questionable place in
the city must be closed at once," is
Chief Beavers’ mandate.
Lid Goes Doxvn
Tight on City.
This means that the lid goes down
on Atlanta today tighter and with
more vigor than has ever been known
before in the city’s history. In fact, it
is the first time that any city in the
entire Sottlh has so strongly felt the
hand of reform.
Ihe action of Chief Beavers came
with the suddenness of a thunder clap,
and its effect was cyclonic. As the
quartet of officers served notice after
notice, they left consternation and con
fusion in their wake, it all came so
unexpectedly that the residents of the
tenderloin were dumbfounded. Ex
citement reigned In every house. The
women knew they had but two alter
natives—obey the notice and get out,
or face the penalty of law tn the
courts. They could hardly comprehend
the sweeping effect of the crusade.
At 3 o’clock this afternoon formal
notice had been served on every ques
tionable house in the city. Including
the houses on Mechanic street. Decatur
street and Marietta street and those
scattered In other sections. The total
notices served numbered about 50.
As to the cause of the wholesale
extermination. Chief Beavers, when
seen by a Georgian reporter, smiled and
sa Id:
Simply Enforcing
Law, Says Chief.
“I'm enforcing the law; that's all.
The law plainly says that such places
shall not exist, and I intend to wipe
them out. Every Illegal house in this
city must be vacated and closed within
five days. There are no conditions. If
any such house is found in operation
at the end of five days, the owners and
occupants will be arrested, taken before
Recorder Broyles and vigorously pros
ecuted. There's no middle ground in
this affair—it's either get out or face
the music.”
The chief declared his action was
I not ordered by the grand jury or anv
other body or official, but that it is
based purely on his own personal de
cision to enforce the law on illegal re
sorts.
The law stipulates that no lllega’.
houses shall be conducted In Atlanta,
and not only holds the Inmates liable,
but also the owners and agents. It
specifies that such places shall • s
closed by order of the chief of police
Notwithstanding the unmistakable
