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‘Atlamla SmMtteefclM Scmr nat 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. killslelf in fFt of 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 1 f • dr gb fl 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. BREAKING GROUND FOR $97,000 ANNEX TO THE GRADY ilk jß''' ■ -f • fISB I flg * ' : .WflM .■ I i .gJfIfIBSSWRI 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. j!W lill-ttoaE ni # . .S’; IV/// ■ '"’■l i, ■ ' . . 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 / 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 I I - 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 an. - * • . Kt. 20.
