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VOL. X.
GOVERNORS MEETING
WILE OPEN TUESDAY
WITH MINT JULEPS
Executives of Many States,
Who Will Gather at Frank
fort to Study Problems, Will
Have Chilled Cups
MANY VISITORS ARE
EXPECTED TO ATTEND
Opening Session Will Be De
voted to Business Session
and Sprigs of Mint and Va
rious Other Trimmings
(By Asaociata* Ptmi
LOUISVILLE. Nov. 28_-Those exec
utives who come from the dry states of
the south to attend the governors" con
ference in Kentucky this week will be
given an opportunity to forget “blind
tigers” and prohibitory legislation over
silver goblets containing old-time Ken
tucky mint Juleps, if they so desire. Word
came out of Frankfort today that before
the luncheon will be given them Tuesday
Immediately after the opening of the bus
iness session in the state capttol. experts
in the art of chilling a silver cup and
serving a Julep at Just the right temper
ature would be at the disposal of the
governors. Some 30-year-old whisky,
which already enjoys more than a state
wide reputation, will bd used in the con
coction, and only the choicest sprigs of
mint In the Blue Grass state will form
the trimmings.
WILL CONVENE TUESDAY.
The conference will open in Frankfort
Tuesday morning. The day will be de
voted to a business session and a lunch
eon. and in the evening Governor and
Mrs. Willson, of Kentucky, wUI bold a
recaption to the visitors to the executive
mansion. Governor and Mrs. Willson
have extended invitations the for
mer governors of Kentucky, now living,
as well as to their families.
Among those who are expected to at
tend are former Governors Simon Bolivar
Buckner. Jan. B. MeCreary. W. O. Brad
ley, J. C. W. Beckham, and his mother.
Mrs. Julia Beckham, and Mrs. Luke P.
Blackburn. Mrs. Julia Beckham enjoys
th* distinction of being the only woman
in the word who was the daughter of a
governor, the mother of a governor and
the sister of a governor. She was the
daughter of Governor Wickliffe, of Ken
tucky, and a sister of Governor Wickliffe,
of Louisiana Her nusband was a mem
ber of the Kentucky state senate and at
one time president pro tern, of that body.
The governors Will divide their time
between Frankfort and Louisville. leav
ing for Ijoulsvtile Wednesday and hold
ing the concluding session in this city.
LIST OF VISITORS. '
Among the governors, ex-governors and
go*ernore-edect who are expected at
Frankfort, are:
Gov. Richard E. Sloan and wife, Ari
aona; Gov. John F. Shafroth and wife,
of Colorado; Gov. Frank B. Weeks and
wife, of Connecticut; Gov. Joseph M
Brown and wife, of Georgia; Gov.-elect
James H. Rawley, of Idaho; Gov. Thom
as R. Marshall and-wife, of Indiana; Gov.
Walter Stubbs and wife, of Kansas;
Gov. Eben 3. Draper, wife and daughter,
of Massachusetts; Gov. Edmund F. Noel
and wife, of Mississippi; Gov. Herbert
Hadley and wife, of Missouri; <3ov. Ed
mund L Norris and wife, of Montana;
Gov. John Franklin Fort and wife, of
New Jersey; Gov. W. M. Kitchen and
wife, of North Carolina; Gov. Judson
Harmon, of Ohio; Gov.-elect Lee (Truce,
of Oklahoma; Gov. A. J. Pothier, wife
and secretary. Rhode Island: Gov. Martin
F. Ansel and wife, of South Carolina;
Gov. W. H. Mann and wife, of Virginia;
Gov.-elect Francis McGovern, of Wiscon
sin. and Gov.-elect Emett O'Neil, of Ala
bama.
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3ESPAIR, OUT OF WORK
James Claiborne, 54 Years
Old, Shoots Self in eHad at
410 Edgewood Ave
Despondent because of the loss of his
position and on account of a short spell
of sickness. J. H. Claiborne. M years of
age. shot and killed himself in the bath
room of his home at 410 Eldgewood ave
nue. between 7 and 8 o'clock Monday
morning
Despite the fact that several mem
bers of the family of William R. Clai
borne. a brother of the dead man. were
in the house at the time of the suicide,
the noise of the fatal shot did not pen
etrate the walls of the bath room, and
the body was not found until possibly
an hour after death, when Henry Clai
borne. a nephew suspecting that his un
cle had been taken 111. went to the bath
room in search of him and found his
dead body with a gaping bullet wound in
the right temple.
W. R Claiborne, the brother, states
that the dead man had been despondent
since the loss of his position, two weeks
ago. as a bookkeeper tn one of Atlanta's
social clubs. On account of his advanc
ed age. he had ytperlenced some trouble
tn securing another Job.
Mr. Claiborne was awakened about 6:30
A’Clock by his brother. At that time
he remarked that he was not feeling
very well. He did not leave his bed for
about a half hour, and then without
aresatng he went to the bath room. As
the body, with a pistol lying beside It
was found nearly an hour and a quarter
later, it is not known exactly at what
time he fl red the fatal shot.
Immediately upon the discovery of the
■l-wd body, the brother notified police
headquarters, and Call Officer Roberts
went to the scene, where he remained
until the arrival of Coroner Paul Done
hoo. who will hold an inquest. From the
nature of the wound it is presumed that
the man died immediately.
All Quiet on Border
LAREDO. Tex., Nov. 28.—There were
no developments along the Mexican bor
der today. Everything is reported quiet
and business Is again normal.
She Is in Atlanta
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MBS. FX.OBZMCZ MATBRICK,
Who spent fifteen years in London pris
on. She is working for prison reform.
METHODISTSWILL
MEET IN COLUMDUS
ON AIEXIWEDNESDAY
Matters of Vital Interest to
Plans for the Next Fodr
Years Will Be Determined
by Annual Conference
PRESIDING ELDERS
WILL BE APPOINTED
Quadrennial Committees and
Boards of South Georgia
Conference Will Also Be Se
lected at Important Meeting
(Special Dispatch to The Journal.)
COLUMBUS, Ga., Nov. ffi.-Wlth what
it is believed will be a record-breaking
attendance, the annual South Georgia
Methodist conference will meet in this
city Wednesday for one of the most im
portant sessions held in its history. All
of the quadrennial boards . and commit
tees will be appointed at this
while five presiding elders will receiver
tranefivs and new appointments will be
made.
Realising the arduous task that is
awaiting the conference, the various
conference boards and committees will
hold their meetings Tuesday. The ten
presiding elders of the conference have
already convened, meeting at Mcßae
on October 35 and 76, when they confer
red as to the nominations of the new
quadrennial boards and committees.
The 44th annual conference will be the
guests of St. Luke's church, but the
First Baptist church and St. Paul's will
be used as auxilliary places o? meeting.
The churches of Columbus have also
extended a cordial invitation for ladles
and members of the visiting ministers
and laymen to be their guests.
The conference will be presided over
by Bishop H. C. Morrison, of Leesburg
Fla. Dr. Bascom Anthony, pastor of
St. Luke’s ehurch, will be the host of
the conference. He will also be assist
ed in the entertainment of the visitors
by Rev. T. B. Stanford, presiding elder
of the Columbus district, and the other
Methodist pastors In the city, who are
as follows: Rev. T. G. Lang, of St.
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Ta» above-picture shows laborer* brtak'ng ground on the first day’s work on the erect on cf the C-ZOvS annex . »
th* Grady hospital provided for by thi s.cent bond Irene.
Th* annex will hav* three connections w.tj the present btuxdtng. It wll face on Butler street. 03 does the main
building. The offices and moln entrance will remain -a the old building. The annex will be erected oy Sonaldßon U
Pearson, A -urn to oo nt root ore, who also have the work on several oi the new school buildiurs.< TLo corner ston*
of the the utw building will b* laid before January 1. Photo by Edwards.
ATLANTA. GEORGIA, TUESDAY, \OVEMBER 29, 1910.
PARLIAMEHT IS
DISSOLVED; DECKS
CLEARER FDR VOTE
English Liberal Government to
Let Country Prescribe Pre
rogatives of the House of
Lords at Polls
KING’S SPEECH IS
NOTABLE FOR BREVITY
Regrets Failure of Conference
on Plan for Reformation of
Upper Chamber--Refers to
Fisheries Question
(By Associated Press.)
LONDON. Nov. 28.'—The second parlia
ment. in the reign of the late King Ed
ward VII., wh'ch met on February lb
last, was dissolved today in pursuance
of the program of the Liberal govern
ment to go before the country bn the
question of the prerogatives of the
house of lords.
The king’s speech was notable for its
brevity, the only reference to the con
stitutional crisis being a colorless ex
pression of regret that the conference
between the leaders of the opposing con
trolling parties had faHed of an agree
ment over the reformation of the upper
chamber.
The longest and most interesting para
graph which immediately followed an al
lusion to* the death of his majesty’s
father, dealt with the recent arbitra
tion of the Newfoundland fisheries dis
pute with the United States, and read:
“I confidently hope the questions con
nected with the north Atlantic fisheries
between Canada and Newfoundland on
one hand and with the United States
of America on the other, which have
been the subject of controversy for near
ly a century, have been -at last finally
settled by the award/of The Hague tri
bunal.
“It is the Cause of special satisfaction
that it had been found possible to solve
by arbitration problems of such an In
tricate and difficult nature, and the
award has been received by both sides
in a spirit which must tend to increase
good will.”
POPE IS INTERESTED.
ROME, Nov. 28.—During an audience
which he gave today to Most Rev. Fran
cis Bourne, Archbishop of Westminister,
the pope showed much interest in the
approaching*-British eleottffiis.
inquired especially regarding th*
probable results both ki connection with
the house of Jords controversy and the
question of home rule for Ireland and
the likely effect of the matter upon tho
situation of Catholicism in the United
Kingdom.
The proclamation of dissolution sum
mons a new parliament to assemble on
January 31, 1811.
Paul's; Rev. H. C. Jones, of Rose Hill;
Rev. W. B. Blevln, of East Highland;
Rev; H. Stevens, of Nd?th Highlands,
and Rev. H. C. Ewing, Broad Street.
Five of the present presiding elders of
the South Georgia conference, who are
ten in number, have already served their
full terms, and will be either given
other or changed to pastoral
work.
The five elders who will be given new
appointments are Rev. Osgood F. Cook,
of the Macon district; Rev. K. Reed,
of the Cordele district; Rev. J. B. John
stone. of the Americus district; Dr. A.
M. Williams, of the Thomasville district,
and Rev. E. F. Morgan, of the Mcßae
district. Besides ’all of this, the plans
of the work for the next quadrennial
must be adjusted according to the leg
islation of the last general ’conference
at Asheville, N. C.. last May. j.
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THAT IS THE QUESTION!
TEMPEBITURE FALLS'
BECAUSE OF STORM
Clouds Will Blow Away and
Real Touch of Winter Be I
Felt
Out of the west Is coming a cold wave'
aided and abetted by. a storm that has,
been cavorting about in the east for!
nearly 24 hours.
The storm in the east and the cold ,
in the west ar* pulling opposite to ;
each other with the east getting a I
little th* best of the cqntest. That is
going to make a lot of cold air whisk
down on Atlanta as it goes through in
the wake of the storm.
From summer heat to near ice is the
story of 24 hours in Atlanta. Sunday
was more like July than the latter part
of November, with lightning quivering
in the clouds after the sun had set.♦hen
came the transformation. Out of the
west came the cold air and down went
the temperature. Monday morning at
7 o’clock the temperature registered 56
but by 10 o’clock it had dropped to 45
and was still falling.
“I look for a fall down to at least
25,” says Director von Herrmann. “In
the far west at some places the temper
ature is as low as zero' while early
this morning it was as as 30 in
srmc places in Texas.
ATLANTA WOMEN WANT
TO FLY WITH THE AIR MEN
AT JOURNAL’S BIG MEET
Os course the ladies may fly.
It would be a cruel blow to Atlanta's
reputation for ohtvalry if the ladles were
not accorded tbeyflrst posittanjarnd choice
in every event of fnrportanc*.
During the great aviation meet that
was recently held at Belmont park. New
York, a number of prominent women
made voyages through the air with the
world-famous air men.
This feature of the daily flights proved
especially interesting, not only to the
ladles who were fortunate enough to ac
company the daring mah-birds, but to
the thousands of spectators who gazed
in admiration at-the sensational spec
tacle. 1
When the air men come to Atlanta! and
fly for the people of the south at th*
great aviation meet that is to be staged
at the speedway by The Atlanta Journal
on December 15, 16 and 17, the ladies
will undoubtedly be offered the chance
to emulate the example of their sisters
In the east.
Not only have the women Invaded the
field of aviation as man's companion, but
at least one woman has already Invented
a machine that has proven a success and
has made at least one successful flight.
This is Miss Grace Todd, of New York,
who is even now working upon another
invention that ahe Insists will revolution
ize aerial navigation.
< From this it will be seen that the
ladies are not to be left behind in the
matter of flying, and when the great trio
who compose the Curtiss Exhibition com
pany come to Atlanta to fly for The At
lanta Journal, it is more than likely
that m>ny of Atlanta’s women will
embrace the opportunity to accompany
the daring Ely. the intrepid Post and
the dauntless McCurdy in their voyages
into the upper air.
As the time for the great aviation meet
of The Atlanta Journal draws nearer, the
interest of the public increases in in
tensity and volume. Letters are pouring
into the offices of The Journal in an end- |
less stream, asking for more Information i
regarding the gathering of the air kings.
The fact that the meet Is to be con-1
MINISTERS WILL PRAY
BUT NOT WITHOUT FOOD
Atlanta may have a general gospel
campaign in the spring with all de
nominations united In a battle with sin.
The foundation for such a campaign was
laid Monday morning in the Sunday
school room of the First Baptist church.
I when Rev. Benjamin P. Robertson, of
I the Central Baptist church, made a mo-
I tlon to set apart a day for fasting and
r prayef prior to beginning the campaign
Lfor the cause of right. This will be done
Llwter with the word faasting displaced
| by- “conference.” \
. The word Tasting caused considerable
t Sfscussion, and it was evident that some
{ Os the ministers present did not look up
'on the idea of doing without breakfast
(’and dinner and then going supp-rless
I to bed. with high favor, but they were
i all united in the movement to have the
• gi and -gospel meeting in the spring.
Dr. Russell Owens, pastor of the Capi-1
’ tol-Avenue Baptist ehurch. said a few |
’very pointed and timely things relative,
Ito a general revival that came simply j
fas a regular stqjed yearly meeting with- j
rout the real spirit to betjk It up.
J “It-Is ail right to talk about taking
th* kingdom,” lie said, “but we should
I go b*yond that. I heard a lady ask
one of m? congregation if she knew her
pastor, and if he talked with her. She
answered yes, and then the other said
> .-hC had not seen her pastor to speak
! with him in four years. Now a man '
, should not get so far up Into the church |
.{steeple not r be üble to meet with:
meiu'oe’s of ills? ....'1:. It U also a good I
i thing to cpea.t of getting more Baptists
'into the church, but what sort of an 1
! atmosphere arc -v? to give them when
they come hi? Sometimes we will hear
-* ATLANTA, Ga., Nov. 28. ♦
♦ Atlanta Journal, City. ♦
*- My Dear Sire: I jun very much *-
*• Interested tn the aviation meet 4-
♦ which is to be held here in the
♦ near future. ♦
I understand that semi of the
♦ ladle* will have a chance to ride ♦
through the air with some of our ♦
♦ great Inventors.
♦ It would be a great pleasure to ♦
♦ me to take a trip with one of them ♦
♦ If possible. ♦
♦ Yours truly, ♦
♦ MRS. H. R. CONRAD. ♦
duoted on the "popular price" plan has
found high favor with the people. The
public wants to see the air men fly, but
they feel that they cannot afford to pay
exorbitant prices, even in these piping
times.
The Atlanta Journal realized this when
it planned to stage the big aviation meet
here, and fixed the price for admission
at 50 cents. Nowhere in the world has
a great gathering of the bird-men been
thrown open to the people a-t such a low
figure, and it is but fitting that Atlanta
should-be the pioneer along this line of
progress as along all others.
The six-event program for each day of
the meet will present every form of sen
sational and dazzling flight known to
man. The trio of celebrated men who
will operate the famous Curtiss bi-planes
at the aviation meet of The Atlanta
Journal during the holidays, are tl\p most
skillful bird-men of the age. The won
ders they will perform will be such as to
send thrills of excitement through the
gathered thousands that are fortunate
enough to witness their sensational
flights.
The Atlanta Journal’s aviation meet
will b* in every way the greatest event
of a like character ever held in the south.
No one can afford to miss It.
( a ybung lady say she is ready to be
I' crucified and then she goes right out
and p'repafes for aj Jiridge whist party.
Wril, she is not ready. This thing of
I getting religion once a year, does not
Igo far enobgh. We need the spirit all
I the time. .But once a year we have a
, great revival. The father cries over his
boy and the mother over the daughter,
and, the rest of the time is fixing her
up "for all sorts of entertainments.”
Dr.'John E. White, pastor of the Sec
ond ' Baptist church, said he saw great
danger in trying to force prayer. He
said- he fearrd shams and thought an
effort in the direction of prayer should
be entirely voluntary. “I well remember,”
said Dr. White, “of coming here to an
all-night prayer meeting, and, to save
my life, I could not get my mind off
the fact that I was sitting up all
night.”
“Did you stay?” asked a brother-min
ister. i
“No;” replied Dr. White, amid laugh-
1 ter, “I did not.’-’
( “Don’t let us advertise odr day of
■ prayer and confidence. L*t us get to
j getlier without any publicity, but let us
I get up and worje.”
I The opinion of the meeting was in
I favor of a united pffort among all
churches in the spring.
Kills His Friend
WEIMAR. Tex., Nov. 28.—Henry Tie
| mann. one of the wealthiest farmers of
I this rection. todaj- shot and killed Fred
| Fot-elyos, Sr., his aged friend and neigh
: ' or. Tie mann asked Fore.yos to look aft
<‘rr his stock during his absence. Return
! lag home for something he had forgotten,
1 he saw a man he supposed was prowlirtg
about his barn, and opened Are with fatal
results.
SUGAR TRUST MADE
DEFENDANT IN SUIT
; FOB DISSOLUTION
Government Attacks Trust as
. a Lawless Combination, and
Asks for Relief by Injunction
or Receivership
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HAVEMEYERS ARE GIVEN
MENTION IN PETITION
Received Stock of the National
Sugar Refining Co. as Gift
and Bought and Sold Other
Securities
(By Associated Press.)
NEW YORK. Nov. 28.—The federal
government today began one of its most
important actions against great corpor
ations, which are said to have violated
the Sherman anti-trust law. Henry A.
Wise, United States district attorney,
filed in 'the United States district court
for the southern district of New York a
petition asking for the dissolution of
the American Sugar Refining company
and 29 other corporations, which com
pose the so-called sugar trust. The peti
tion charged an Illegal combination in
restraint of trade and asks from th*
court relief in whatever form may be
necessary, including a receivership if
deemed advisable!
The 30 companies composing the sugar
combine have an aggregate capitalization
of 8230,000.000 and control a large per
centage of the output of sugar in this
country. The combine is able, the gov
ernment alleges, (o fix prices arbitrarily.
The petition charges that for years the
companies have violated the law and
have oppressed competitors and ground
them out of existence. Railroad rebates
and custom*? frauds are mentioned as
deuces which were employed to raise
the combine to the commanding position
which it occupies today.
RESULT OF LONG STUDY.
The present suit, which it is estimated f
will be in the courts for two years be
fore a final adjudication is reached, is
the result of many weeks of preparation.
District Attorney Wise made his investi
gation under the directions of Attorney
General Wickersham and spent several
days in Washington last week in con
ferring with the attorney general on
the final plans.
The suit is expected to rank In im
portance with those of the government
against the Standard Oil company and
the American Tobacco company, which
are now pending in the supreme court.
Opposed to th* government in the
struggle will be some of the most abl*
corporation • lawyers of "the country.
James M. Beck, former assistant (United
States attorney general, and now coqn
sel for th* American Sugar Reflnthg
company,' will lead the attack Upon the
government’s position.
One of the allegations is that the late
H. O. Havemeyer, of New York, long
head of the sugar combine, received $lO,-
000,000 common stock of the National
(Continued on Fag* IS.)
MRS. WtIMH
1 VISITOR IN MTi
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Woman Who Spent 15 Cruel
Years in English Prison Is at
Piedmont—Tells of Work
Mrs. Florence E. Maybrick, who was
unjustly confined in English prison
for 15 years on the charge of murdering
her husband in London, and whose case
stirred up the whole country years ago
until her pardon in 1904, is now in At
lanta and will be at the r.edmont hotel
for several days. She is on her way to
Birmingham, where she will deliver a
lecture on “Prison Reform” to the High
school. '
Mrs. Maybrick is an attractive little
woman, whom time and fate seemed to
have dealt with kindly after all. To look
at her and hear her talk, one would hard
ly ■ believe she had gone through the ex
periences she has. She is a native of Mo
bile, Ala., and her grandfather was Da
vid Chandler, who was born and reared,
In Atlanta.
WORKING FOR PRISON REFORM.
Since her freedom, Mrs. Maybrick hart
devoted her life to bettering the condi
tion of state and city prisons, which sh<»
describes as medieval In the majority of
cases. The federal prisons, she thinks,
are perfect. She refused to discuss At
lanta’s tower, but wants the Atlanta
women to see it for themselves.
When Mrs. Maybrick arrived in Ameri
ca for the first time, she was flooded witll
letters from prisoners all over the coun
try, begging that she do something to
help them. She couldn’t resist this ap
peal. and has visited practically every
prison in the country, and was most gen
-1 erously given permission by the wardens
j to talk to the prisoners.
I She is alone in the world. Her mother
l died last year. She has made her living
by her lectures and many articles sold
1 magazines.
Mrs. Maybrick says that only about
I one-Kaif of the prisons in the united
| States make any effort towards reform.
The main <dea of the other half is to
punish the unfortunates.
FINDS PLACES FOR PRISONERS. K
After every lecture, Mrs. Maybrick al
ways requests any man in the audience
who would like to help a prisoner, after
his release, to please give her his name
and address. In this way she has helped
to find places for hundreds of criminals.
She has had men on her list in all wallui
of life that are willing to employ- ex
convicts.
An unusual case came to her •'ne day
when she asked a millionaire manufactur
er, who employed 3.000 men under him, it
he would give a released prisoner some
thing to do. He flatly refused, and staged
to Mrs. Maybrick that he had no sym
pathy for any . criminal, as he believed
they got just what they deserved. > • ' g
"A short time afterwards,” said Mrs.
Maybrick, "I met him coming out of a
federal prison, and with tears in hlsr eyes
he told me he had gone to see his ovtj
son. who had just been convicted of em
bezzlement and sentenced for 15 years.”
This is only one of the many experi
ences that have befallen this little wom
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