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the weather. Rain Tuesday night. Wednesday fair ,„d much colder. Temperatures Tues- (taken at A. K. Hawkes Co.'s Store): 8 a. m.. 68: 10 a. m.. 51: 12 noon, 50; - p. m., •*». The Atlanta Georgian "Nothing Succeeds Like—THE GEORGIAN” AND NEWS "Nothing Succeeds Like—THE GEORGIAN” SPOT COTTON. Atlanta, nulet; 9c. Liverpool, easier; 5.09. New York, dull: 9.30. Savannah, quiet; 8 16-18. Augusta, steady; 9V Galves ton, steady; 9hi- Norfolk, quiet; :• 1-18. Houston,, easy; 9>\. _ .Memphis, steady; Mobile ) 1-18. VOL. X. NO. 100. HOME(4th) EDITION ATLANTA, GA., TUESDAY; NOVEMBER 28, 1911. home(4th) edition price.- aaas He Will Soon Be In Our Midst “I Wish for the Triumph of Mr Pope Brown at the Polls,” Declares Judge. LETTER ANSWERS WHITE .eaders of Prohibition Cause Are Not Standing Aloof in Present Campaign. Men like Dr. L. G. Hardman and Judge Covington, the authors of tho prohibition law, arc standing aloof, and men like Judge Hammond. Judge Ross. Judge Anderson and Dr. N'unnally and many ether leading prohibitionists whom I might name refused to bo drawn into such a campaign." declares Hr John E. White, pastor of tho Sec ond Baptist church, In a card In Tues day's Atlanta Constitution, In which the minister endeavors to sustain a contention that prohibition Is not an Issue In tho present gubernatorial campaign. The Joe Brown followers are those endeavoring to sidetrack this Is sue even In the taco of the positive declarations of Pope Brown for the strengthening of the prohibition laws and Judge B. B. Russell for abolishing Iheni and substituting local option. Hut Judge Covington and other pro hibition leaders are not standing aloof, declare the Popo Brown leaders. In stead, they are actively supporting Pope Brown’s candidacy, especially Judge Covington. Volney Wlllll Pop, Brown’s campaign manager, has given out a letter written by Judge Covington at his homo in Moultrie last Wednesday, November 22, and ad dressed to W. P. Anderson, president Of the Fulton County Pope Brown club. This letter contains tho following posi tive declaration: I take this occasion here, however, say that with the present candidates and the present Issue, I wish for the triumph of Mr.. Pope Brown at the polls. I am constrained to say this and to authorize you to publish It for tho reason that many of my prohibition friends In the state have seemed to think that some public expression of my position Is proper." And tn a postscript Judge Covington adds this slgnllicant statement: "There Is no way to prevent the liquor question being a recurrent Issue la Georgia polities except for the pro hibitionists to register a vote that .will serve for ail lime as a lesson arid a warning to aspiring office seekers.” Full Text of Letter. Here Is tho full text of tho letter: "Dear Sir—Yours received. I con not say definitely whether I can address your proposed meeting. 1 will let you know soon. "I take occasion here, however, to that, with the present candidates and the present issue, I wish for the tri umph of Mr. Pope Brown at the polls, am constrained to say this and to uthorise you to publish It for the rea- ou that many of my prohibition friends i the state have seemed to think that owe public expression of my position i proper. "In 1907 the legislature of which I »'as a member made unlawful the man ufacture and the sale of intoxicating liquors In this state. This legislature met In its second session In the summer uf 1908, and In the meantime tho brew frs were offering for salo In various parts of Georgia so-called non-ititoxl- ating beers. Our-court of appeals had n the meantime decided, or given out hat they would decide, that the sale » such beer* was not violative of law. tho legislature, therefore, amended the lax act and laid a tax op such dcal- :tw, expressly negativing the Idea that “y intoxicating beers wero so taxed, tr licensed. That this was a mistake «as recognized by tho time the next eglslature met. In 1909, and the lead- hg prohibitionists fought the taxing or icenslng of such dealers, with the re mit that they were prohibited In all "sees except In cities of over 2,500 mpulatlon. Tipplns Bill Will Pass. The present .legislature, which was a session last summer. Is on the point f passing what la known as the 'Tip- Ins bill,' the effect of which will be to Continued on Last Page. ATTEMPT TO BRIBE Two Men Arrested After Pass ing Five Hundred Dollars to Talesman Lockwood. HAD AGREED TO HANG JURY MORSE’S LITTLE DAUGHTER CLASPED IN DADDY’S ARMS Detective Browne, Who Was in Hiding Near Premises, Saw Exchange of Money. \ THIS IS ABOUT THE SIZE OF ATLANTA’S THANKSGIVING BIRD. Mathewson, The Georgian’s photograph*!*, had an awful draam about the arrival of a giant turkey last night, and got up in his sleep and took a picture of it. If all Atlanta's turkeys were rolled into one it would be about this Thanksgiving Day Should Top All Attendance Records Ex cept Long Island Event. By PERCY H. WHITING, Savannah, Ga„ Nov. 28.—A warm rain and windy weather greeted tho tens of thousands of automobile raco fans as they turned- out thla ■morning for a day of tlme-kllllng. The last official practice for Thurs day’s grand prize was scheduled for to day and tho cordon of flagmen was thrown about the big seventeon-mllo circuit at the regular time this morn ing. Owing to tlio rain and wind, how. over, little work was done. Tho cars that were to tako part In both tho Van derbilt and grand prize camo thru tho former race In good order and need no further tuning. Tho other machines wero all In good shape a week ago. No practlco will bo held tomorrow, and Thursday morning at 9:80 the free- for-all cars get away for tho 400-mlfo race for tho grand prize. Tho road authorities examined the local course as soon ns yesterday's race ended and pronounced it In ex thousand convicts-i _ machines will work on It steadily until the grand prize starts.- Monday’s crowd around the Savannah course was so large that on Thursday there should be a • holiday outpouring that will top anything ever seen at an American automobile -raco. meet, with the solo exception,of those at the Long Island motor parkway.- ATLANTA’S TURKEY DINNER TRIFLE CHEAPER THIS YEAR MR. AND MRS. ATLANTA, Dr. To CUTTEM & SLIOEM, Caterers to the People. November 30—Turkey $ 6,000 Sauce and Fixings 18,000 Total $24,000 Please remit! Atlanta’s turkoy bill for Thanksgiving day will bo about 86.000, according to tho best estimate of the commission merchants. There will-be about 2,000 ordinary turkeys consumed at an aver age of 82.60 each; some four carloads of average-sized birds, mainly shipped here farm Tennessee. Hotels, high-class cafes and some of the near-beer Baloons that serve turkey dinners, will have shipped to them about 250 turkeys averaging 84 each. For these choice ones they pay 27 conts a pound, besides the express charges. The turkey bill is but one Item In the Thanksgiving menu of Atlanta, which Includes fat hens, chicken, oys ters, celery, cranberries, rabbits, chest nuts for stuffing and mountains of fruits and vegetables. It is not far from the truth to say that tho bill for the trimmings and dessert will be three times the turkey bill. More Eaten on Christmas. Three times ns many turkeys are consumed Christmas as on Thanksgiv ing day, according-to the commission men. There are but'two months of the rhen'tui lanta market. Mrs., Householder may go to market for her Thanksgiving-dinner this,year In -thcsglad - knowledge that nearly everything naturallyinBSOclated with tho last Thursday of November, In the edi ble line.,-Is a, bit-cheaper than a year ago. The contents of-her purso will go further, toward a bountiful repast, and when the day comes and she sur veys tho white cloth dotted with big' and little and medium-sized dlzhes, each holding It* savory burden,, and notes the ravenous, roving glances of the kiddles, this thought in her house wifely, economical mind will atand up add to her Thanksgiving cheer. Turkeys are from one to one nnd one- half cents per pound cheaper than last year, both dressed and on foot. Aver age turkey Is selling Tuesday at 22 cents per pound dressed and eighteen cents per pound on foot. The choice ones shipped to the hotels are bought In Tennessee at 27 cents per pound dress ed. There are plenty of turkeys, but the majority of them arc small. Ten nessee Is depended upon mainly for Atlanta’s turkey supply, for growers thero make it a regular business and know how to feed them. Denlers say that the north Georgia mountain peopla are beginning to raise them In quanti ties. Hens and chickens will be cheap enough. The former run from fifteen to eighteen cents, the latter from 19 to 24 cent*. - Rabbits are selling from 15 to 25 cents. Vegetables that have been home-grown are cheap. Those brought from Cuba, Florida, California ano other • centers are more expensive. The best oysters are selling at 40 cents a quart. Cranberries are a shade higher, averaging around fifteen cents per-pound."Celery prices are normal. Dr. Morris, Whose Car Killed Farrow Hall, Given Limit’by^ Recorder Nash Broyles. Had Dr. Morris - been driving at a rate of-eight miles an hour he. would have>heen within the law. .When he drove eighteen or twenty miles an hour he was without the law. Hence, he was an outlaw.” . . . As an accompaniment > to this ex presslon. Recorder Broyles on Tuesday morning vigorously applied the law to IV. O. H. Morris, a physlc an of Buck- head, whose automobile last Friday morning ran down and kill'd Farrow Hall, a contractor of X1S McAfee-st., at Forsyth and Luckfe-sts. Dr. Morris flnaj 8100.7E on !*» charge of vio lating .the city speed law. and was held for trial In the ztate courts on the charges of involuntary manslaughter and violating the state automobile law. The latter offense embrace* the charge that Dr. Morris drove reckleszly on a public highway of the state. Attorney W. A. James, counsel for the physician, announced that he woula appeal from the decision of the recorder in the city case of exceeding the speed limit. Bond waa later made tn all caae* and Dr. Morris waa yeleased, pending trial In the higher courts on the two ztate charges and the decision of these courts In the protested city caae. Attorney Harry Ethridge, a promi nent member of the Tabernacle Bap tist church, of which church Mr. Hall was a deacon, conducted the prosecu tion. In summing up the case Attorney Ethridge denounced Dr. Morris as being f-arge profits oft are realized from thing which Is advertised and If *" anything-that you don’t want don’t know what to do to realise E?® profit on it. Just write a little ad clearly guilty of criminal negligence in ties , an<J atur once with us you've the slaying of Mr. Hall, and pleaded a it a hundred purchasers have - - - - ■ •* * " — -um N it. USE GEORGIAN WANT ADS. that he be given the full penalty of the law. He also vigorously assailed reck COLD THANKSGIVING -Another, Icy wind Is swooping down upon Atlanta from the Northwest, the third one for this month. The weather man says that the sky will be clear Wednesday, but that the cold wave will be upon us, the Indications’being that tho mercury will drop to 24 by Th day morning. . So far the lowest temperature In the wake of'the wave has been four de grees below zero, at Sheridan, Wyom ing, Tuesday morning. The tempera ture has already started dropping, go ing to 44 at 2 o'clock. But the real cold is not expected to arrive until Wednesday afternoon and night. becoming dangerous for people of At lanta to be In the streets. In his statement to the court Dr. Morris had said that he attempted to stop hfs machine and avoid the acci dent but was unable to do so, and also expressed deep regret over tins Uagedy. As to this, Attorney Ethridge dramat ically exclaimed: “Dr. Morri* says he Is sorry, and no doubt he is. But like hts effort to op his car, hit regret comes too late.” Witnesses testified that Dr. Morris, who was in a. two-passenger car, waa driving entirely too fast at the time of the accident, one witness estimating the speed at eighteen miles an hour and another estimating It at eighteen or twenty miles. Mr. HalPhad Just start ed across Forsyth-st. at Luckie, when struck, and the evidence showed he waa knocked a distance of several feet. It waa also shown that the car ran about 16 feet beyond the point where Mr. Hall fell befQre It was stopped. Dr. Morris explained that he may have be/n going "a little fast" before he reached tha corner, but that he slowed, hi* car at that point. He said that when he saw Mr. Hall start acroes the street he put on hlz brakes and that Mr. Hall stopped. Thinking Mr. Hall less autoists generally, declaring U Is had stopped to let him by, he said, be - - -A-.,;,- ~ STRAINEDBY A SPEECH While Intended To Be Pacific, Lord Grey’s Remarks Gave Offense to Germany. Loe Angeles, Nov, 28.—Three men sic nrroHted today in an alleged Jury bribery plot In the McNamara case. The men are: Bert Franklin, former ly a deputy United States marshal, now running a private detective agency, em ployed by the attorney* for tho de fense; Captain White, a juror In. an other department of the superior court, and John T. Lockwood, a Juror drawn In the panel that reported to Judge Bordwell today. The arrests were made by Detective Samuel Browne, attached to tho district attorney's office, and by a number of his deputies. Browne alleges that the two men, Franklin and White, had bribed Lock- wood to hang the Jury In the Mc Namara case. He asserts that $500 had been paid by Franklin to Lockwood and that White, showed him $3,600 more which was to be paid a* soon as the work was done. The three men 1 were arrested after. It Is alleged, the entire transaction had been witnessed by Browne and Ills de tectives, and the men, with the money In -their possession, were hustled away to the Jail. They were taken* to JalL Photo by Mathewson. MISS JENNIE MORSE AND LITTLE ANNA. Anna, the thirteen-year-old daughter of Charles W. Morse, arrived in Atlanta Tuesday and went to the poet hospital to see her father, for the first time since hie conviction. Her aunt. Miss Jennie Morse, also of Bath, Maine, and her brother, Ben, accompanied her. CITY PAYS DOUBLE FI So Reports Electrician Turner at Meeting of Committee on Lights and Power. In a report to-the council committee on electric lights and power. City Electrician R. C. Turner states that Atlanta la paying a 100 per cent higher rate for the electric power for schools, hospitals and other municipal build ings than itiany other cities are pay ing. He urges that a new contract bo made with the Georgia Railway and Electric Company, or - that tho city build a private plant. The report was read fit a meeting of the committee Tuesday morning at which Preston Arkwright, president of the Georgia Railway and Electric Company, and Engineer W. R. Collier, were present. Mr. Arkwright Imme diately went Into a discussion of the claims of the city electrician, but ns only two of tho committeemen were present consideration waa postponed until a meeting of tho committee Fri day afternoon at 8 o'clock. However. Mr. Arkwright made the point clear’that Atlanta was being charged the same rate as private cus tomers, and that the rate* were ap proved by the railroad commission. "I don’t want the insinuation that the city Is being discriminated against to go unchallenged," he said. Wants New Rate 8yztem. The city electrician’s proposition was Anna,’a School Girl, Sees Father for First Time Since His Sen tence Began—His Son and Sister Arrive Also—But a Brief Visit Is Permitted by the Attending Physicians. , For the first time since he was sen tenced to serve fifteen years in the Federal prison in this city Charles W. Morse, the former Now York banker, looked Tuesday upon the face of his daughter, Anna. The girl—a slip of a lass of thirteen, 1th deep blue eyes and hair that hangs in a luxuriant braid well down to her waist—stepped up to her father's cot in the post hospital at Fort McPherson fifteen minutes after sho had arrived from her home in Bath, Maine, on tho Birmingham Special, and next Instant aa in a flood of tears. Behind her stood her aunt, Miss Jen- nlo Morse, who had accompanied her, and Ben Morse, the sick man’s son, who had Joined tho party at Baltimore. They had been met at the station by F. L. Seely and whisked to the hospital In his car. For an instant not a word was spoken. Then Morse, half raising and utterly unnerved, took tho girl In his arms and called her again and again by name. gut a Moment’s Visit. Early in the day It was seen that the patient would not bo strong enough to enduro a prolonged visit even from those dearest to him, and It was ar ranged that the members of the family should remain but a few moments, so after the greeting they left the hospital and went to the Piedmont, whero they wllMive during their stay In Atlanta. Later Tuesday, if the patient is.strong enough, they may return to the hos pital, but under no circumstances will they bo permitted to tax tho strength of Morse. Major David Baker, tho post surgeon, who has charge of tho cas<\ is fully alive to the fact that the leaat undue excitement will retard the recov ery of the sick man, and the members of the family aro equally anxious that ho shall not be overtaxed. Slnco Morse was transferred from the prison to the hospital and placed under the care of four experienced nurses sent on from Washington at the direction of Attorney General Wieker- Hham. he ha>* repeatedly called for his daughter. Jfls greatest desire was that she come to Ids bedside, ami when Major Baker decided to allow his pa tient to see whom ho wished, the girl was sent for. It was a bit over two years ago that Morso last saw tho girl. Ho was then out on ball, awaiting the reopening of his caso In New York, nnd had gone tn his old home in Bath to obtain needed rest. Ho had given Instructions that Anna bo kept wholly ignorant of his misfortune, and this order lmd been carried out to the letter by members of his family. How tfla Secret W*e Kept, Not only did the family refrain from telling the girl what nil wero aware she would eventually discover, but ihm Continued on Last Page. 175 NEW CITY STREETS. COLONEL T. E. SCREVEN IS DEAD, AGED 82 YEARS that the city be given one rate for all Its 'buildings. He explained that having all the business lumped to- gether would give the city a much low er rate according to the schedule of rates of the electric company. It was arguing this point that took up more thun an hour at the meeting. At present the city has 65 different contracts with the. company, each standing on Its own merits. The con tention of Mr. Turner Is that the city should have one contract, nnd Instead of being a retail customer of the com pany get a wholesale rate. In reply, Mr. Arkwright said that giving the city one rate for all Its cur- rent would be discrimination, and he explained how the rates were classl- London, Nov. 28.—While Intended to be pacific In It* nature,: the speech de llvcrcd in the house of commons yea- terday by Foreign Minister Grey on Morqccan negotiations among Great Britain. Germany and France, has tended to draw more aharply the lines existing between Great Britain and Germany according to diplomat*-who were willing to discus* the speech to day. For the first time in many year* the leader* of contending political factions In Englaml stand snoulder to ahoulder on a recognised policy. All are back Ing up the Speech delivered by the for eign minister, and special attention I* being called to the fact that no public utterance In a decade has resulted In such a display of patriotism as the Grey address. Press opinion, as stated today, up held the policies of the foreign minis ter a* representative of the wish of the people of the empire. The expla nations furnished In the speech have satisfied the curiosity of the English eople on some chapters of England’s Iplomatlc negotiations hitherto secret. released his brakes and started ahead again. At this. Mr. Hall, the doctor said, walked right In front of the car. He was of the opinion Mr. Hall did not zee him at all. , installation. He said that no Indi vidual was given one rate because he happened to own several buildings, and that It tvould be dlicrimlnatton that the railroad commission would not ap prove If the city was given one con tract for all It* institutions. Councllmen John E. McClelland -and J. J. Greer were the only members of the committee present, nnd Mr. Mc Clelland finally made the point that the contract with the electric company did not expire until March, 1918, and that he did not feel at liberty to un dertake to abrogate that contract with, out Instructions from council. Mr. Tur ner called his attention to the ruling of City Attorney Mayson. which Is that all contracts automatically come to end at the end of each year, by a provision of the charter. Csergisrr Cut It 20 Per Cent. The contract the city now haa was made In il*07 as the result of a cam paign by The Georgian for the city to build Its own plant. The contract then resulted in a lowering of the electric power rate about twenty per cent to all individuals, as well a* the city. It was made for five years, and tho one council can not legally bind another. there Is a moral obligation that the contract will be abided by untn Its expiration. Mr. Arkwright finally stated to the committee that It would be Impossible fqr his company to make on* rate:to the city for all Its plants. Mr. Turner then produced a contract recently made by .New York city, in which a low wholesale rate was made to the city. "The way they got theirs, tho," said Mr. Turner, "was to buy a tract of land and prepare to build a generating plant of their own.” Mr. Arkwright smiled and said that he did not think It would be wise for Atlanta to build a plant. He continued I Continued on Last Page, Population of Atlanta Will Run Over 160,000, According to Figures in Revised List. The addition of about 176 ne» streets will bo the feature of the new 1912 At lanta city directory, how in course of mmpletlon by Joseph \\\ .Hill and his staff. These are streets opened'by sub division promoters and neighborhoods i h it an; ••xtondi ntf till* city, and tlndr official creation’marks os well as any-* thing elBe the wonderful growth of At lanta.' 7* . * 1911 directory, published ber, was 166,470. The new directory will put It beyond 160,000, but Just what the actual*figures will be Is.impossible to aggregate, until about December. 10.V Tho. new directory covers not only, tho city proper, but ail It’s suburbs—' eomprehendlng Greater Atlanta.,* In se curing the names Mr.;Hill's staff rode to tha . end of all the car lines, except tho Marietta, and walked' back,/ thus covering8160-square,miles of territory. a’s 4912 * city, directory* will not Officer of Hampton’s Legion and Member of Famous Family Is No More. Colonel Thomas Edward Screven, South Carollnan nnd veteran of the sixties, died Monday afternoon at his residence, 69 Crew-st. He was In lib. eighty-second year and had .been 111 but a'short, time.- 'Friends anil rela tives had.been summoned nnduvero at his bedside: when' he passed away. -. Colonel Screven was educated for the legal profession and was one of th* first to.enlist from, his native state, lie entered the Confederate service tain of Hampton's legion. Beaufort dis trict troops, and was one of the most gallant and daring-of that state's troop*. ' The cavalry of-Hampton's legion was later organized ns tho. Second South Carolina regiment, with M C. Butler ns colonel. On the death.of Major Hamp ton, Captain Screven became major and later colonel-of the same regiment. When General J. E. B. Stuart chose AtlarUa’fll912 - city directory, will not his soldiers for the celebrated dasli be ready for distribution-until Decern- th ru Pennsylvania he selected tho Hcc- ber 16, when 1,600.copies, an average <>nd South Carolina cavalry. At that of about one.to each hundred of pop- time Colon-1 M. C, Butler was colon. 1 ulatlon, will bo fresh from the printer. ar >d Thomas E.‘Screven waa lieutenant The 1910 directory gave the Atlanta colonel, district a population of 206,427, having ' After the war Colonel Screven re-en- 78,270 names In the book. A multiple lered the practice of law and was elecl- of 2 1-4 .was .used-to,obtain the total ed Judge of the Beaufort district. Later population. The-llll directory showed h ® was compelled to resign on account 209,002 population.In tho district. or failure of,hi* eyes,.due to exposure Features that are observed by Mr. during the war. Hill are that the names of at.least 500 As a result-of the Impairment of his people, union labor devotees, were 1m- vision he was kept from active parth-l- posstble to obtain. This, for the rea- patlon In his chosen profession and wm son that a non-union printing firm Is forced to retire Into private life, publishing tho book. These 500 per- Colonel Screven was a man uf mod- sons refused to stive their names. !*»t and retiring disposition. He united Another bunch of reticent people met I the hignest sense or honor and by the name collectors are the tax- dodger*. "Many men told our name collectors to keep their names out of the direc tory, as they did not want to pay th* 21 school tax," said Mr. Hill. "Some of these taxdodgers were observed to have numbers of children of school age and enjoying all the city’* fire, police and other protection, yet they want to dodge taxes. We laughed and obtained their names anyway. "The longest name In the city direc tory has now disappeared. This was tho Greek who has changed his name to George Moore. The old name was i-m i ng to remember." ■ Mr. Hill Is now preparing a new map of Atlanta, which will oe up to date. Thomaa B. Wilson, assistant city engi neer, drew It and the Rand-McNally Company, of Chicago, will print it. It will measure 39 by 42 Inches and will Include all the new streets anil commu nity set lions , stabllslu character the genial nnd kindly gra<- of the old-fashioned type of Souther gentlemen and charmed those wit whom he came In contact. Business Days Before 21 CHRISTMAS Shop Early and Avoid the Crush ■ 1909, _