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VOLUME XII.
ATLANTA, GA., FRIDAY, MAY 30, 1913.
NO. 71.
SHROUD FOUL PLAY
Mrs, Sarah C, Stevens and
Her Adopted Daughter, Nel
lie, Identified in Two Bodies
Nearly Incinerated
On a secluded hillside two miles be
yond the federal prison on the McDon
ough road, the nearly incinerated and
totally unrecognizable body of Mrs.
Sarah C. Stevens, forty years old, was
found among the ashes of her house
early Wednesday morning. Beside it
lay the body, equally as charred, of
her adopted daughter, fourteen-year-old
Nellie Stevens. Her son, Wade Stevens,
aged nineteen, was nowhere to be found.
A quarrel is alleged to have occurred
between him and his mother Tuesday
afternoon.
The home was burned completely
at some unknown time during Tuesday
night. William Stevens, the father of
the household and a Confederate vet
eran seventy years old, was in Chatta
nooga at the United Confederate Veter
ans’ reunion.
Tjie son. Wade, has not been seen
since 6 o’clock Tuesday afternoon, and
only two bodies have been found among
the blackened ruins, both of which have
been identified satisfactorily as those
of the mother and the daughter by the
coroner and by the former county phy
sician of.DeKalb county, Dr. Frank
Eskridge.
Beside the bodies were found the
metal pieces of a single-barreled shot
gun. It had been discharged. It lay
between the two bodies with its butt
pointing toward the side of the ruins
where the door had stood.
With Wade Stevens under arrest by
an Atlanta city detective in Chattanooga
and due to arrive in Atlanta Thursday
afternoon, with William Stevens, head
of the household, home from the Con
federate reunion and unaware until he
arrived in Atlanta that he had suffered
any greater loss than the burning of
his house, and with two negroes, one an
Indian half-breed, both of whom had
worked at the Stevens house, suspected
by Mr. Stevens and some of the neigh
bors, the mystery of the death of Mrs.
Sarah C. Stevens and her adopted
daughter, Nellie, and the burning of
their bodies in their home on the Mc
Donough road Tuesday night seemed to
have cleared just a little Thursday aft
ernoon.
Wade Stevens, whose arrest was or
dered by the coroner’s jury of DeKalb
county Wednesday afternoon for sus
picion in connection with the myste
rious death and burning of Mrs. Sa
rah C. Stevens and Nellie Stevens, her
adopted daughter, was arrested in
Chattanooga Thursday morning by
-C*-*.-Detective John Black,' of Atlan
ta, and the detective reported to Chief
B avers over long distance telepnone,
that the youth was anxious tq -return
t' Atlanta..
A telegram from Chief Beavers to
Detective Black Wednesday .afternoon
h^-d the foregoing result. The detec
tive was there, as were numrous oth
ers from various southern cities, with
an eye o. on fpr notorious crooks who
would flock to a big gathering like
th old soldiers’ reunion.
Detective Black did not recount the
details of the capture, it seemed, but
merely informed the chief that he had
r» rested Wade Stevens, and that Wade
seemed anxious to come back at»once
when he heard of the tragedy, and that
they would catch a train down from
Chattanooga some time during the
early afternoon, arriving here perhaps
before dark.
BELIEVES SON INNOCENT.
That he believes Wade, his own son,
did not kill Mrs. Sallie C.. Stevens, his
wife, and Nellie Stevens, their adopted
daughter, was one of the first utter
ances of William Stevens, the stricken
husband and father, immediately after
he arrived Thursday morning from the
Confederate reunion at which he had
been mingling once more with his old
comrades-at-arms in Chattanooga.
Mr. Stevens stated further that he
was convinced that Wade was in Chat
tanooga Wednesday morning at about
the hour when a passing dairyman on
the McDonough road near Atlanta no
ticed the smoke from the ashes of the
Stevens home.
The landlady whose guest he was at
1166 Roswell avenue, Chattanooga, but
whose name he did not remember, told
him Wednesday, said he, that she had.
seen Wade at 6 o’lock 'Wednesday morn,
ing passing on the opposite side of the
avenue in front of her house. Wade
was with two other boys, she told Mr.
Stevens. She knew Wade because he,
Wade, had stopped with her previously
on a visit to Chattanooga.
The landlady’s given name is Mary,
remembers Mr. Stevens. His 'elder
son, Ed Stevens, son by his first wife,
lives there, and Wade has stopped
there for that reason.
Mr. Stevens stated further that Wade
drove him to Atlanta in a buggy last
Sunday and on their way in Wade told
him that he, Wade, might be in Chat
tanooga before the reunion was over.
Mr. Stevens asked to see the bodies
of his wife and adopted daughter. The
gruesome sight of the charred remains
moved him profoundly, but he manifest
ed little emotion outwardly. There was
strong pathos in the scene—the seventy-
year-old veteran of a fearful war, look
ing down upon the almost incinerated
^remains of two whom he held dear.
“We’ve all got to. die some time,*’ said
he, “but it's mighty awful to have to
die like that.”
Mr. Stevens arrived at 10:50 o’clock
Thursday morning at the Union depot,
but was missed there by the newspaper
men and officers who were awaiting
him. A few minutes later he appeared
alone at the undertaking stablishment
of H. M. Patterson & Ron on Forsyth
street.
At 11:35 o’clock Mr. Stevens started
for the ruins upon which he left his
home standing, on McDonough road, two
miles beyond the federal prison.
SUSPECT SEEN.
Someone in Red Oak, Ga., called the
Atlanta police headquarters Friday
morning and said that a mulatto negro,
answering the description of the alleged
half-breed Indian employed by Mrs.
Stevens, was seen walking along the
railroad tracks in the vicinity of that
town early Friday morning.
\The city police claim that the negro’s
name is Dan Walker, and that he is well
known to them. He is just a mulatto,
who has the apperance, they say, of
having Indian blood. Notices have been
sent to Palmetto, Newburn and other
points on the road to lookout for such
a party.
Five Witnesses Testify for
Roosevelt in Libel Suit
Against Michigan Editor
(By Associated Press.)
MARQUETTE. Mich., May 29.—Five
witnesses for Colonel Theodore Roose
velt, including a relative; a former
member of the Rough Riders regi
ment; a former locomotive fireman; a
newspaper man and a former judge,
testified today in Colonel Roosevelt’s
suit for libel against George A. New-
ett, the Ishpeming newspaper owner.
Each of the witnesses asserted that
the colonel was only a moderate user
of intoxicants.
The substance of the testimony as
given by Phi.ip Roosevelt, a young
son of the colonel’s cousin; Charles
Willis Thompson, a New York news
paper man; Andrew A. Abele, a former
locomotive fireman; Edwin Emerson,
a Cuban Rough Rider campaigner, and
A. Z. Blair, a former common pleas
judge of Ohio, was:
That during his capaign in Cuba
with the Rough Riders Colonel Roose
velt drank only black coffee and wa
ter and never liquor of any kind.
That during his political campaign
the colonel drank champagne occasion
ally and never to excess. That while
Colonel Roosevelt kept a large and va
ried supply of wines at his home, he
never indulged in them immoderately.
“He kept a regular gentleman’s cel
lar,” Philip Roosevelt said.
Colonel Roosevelt, as usual since the
beginning of the hearing, listened with
the keenest interest to th e witness’ de
nial that he frequently “got drunk”
as charged In the editorial published
by the defendant.
•Charles Willis Thompson, of New
York, for nine years a Washington cor
respondent and since 1908 a political
writer for a New York newspaper, tes
tified first.
“As Washington correspondent,” he
said, “I used to go to the White House
to see Mr. Roosevelt. I saw him usual
ly alone, some times in the morning and
some times in the afternoon, usually In
his office, but some times,' when, in or
der to lose not a minute in his work,
he received visitors while lying in the
barber chair. I never detected the odor
of liquor on his breath, never saw hiiff
in the slightest degree under the influ
ence of liquor and never saw his man
ner in any way changed from its ordi
nary one.”
“Ever go on any trips with him?”
“I was with him on his 11,000-mile
swing ;^ound the country last year,
which lasted a month. I afterward
joined him at Mercy hospital, Chica
go, when he was shot; stayed there until
he went to Oyster Bay, went there with
him and stayed there until election.
Two weeks after he was shot in Mil
waukee he went to New York on two
occasions to address large mass meet
ings, and I went with him and reported
tbPOftV: *
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FOB POLITIC!!. CflPITflL
New Party in Japan Displeased
With Cabinet’s View of .
Anti-Alien Law
TOKIO, May 29.—The executive com
mittee of ex-Premier Count Katsura’s
new party today issued a statement de
claring that the present cabinet could
not be relied upon to settle the Cali
fornia alien land ownership questions
and adding that the party had decided
to adopt its own propaganda with re
gard to the dispute.
Negro's Head Stops
Ten Story Flight of
Brick Which Smashes
(By Associated Press.)
WASHINGTON, May 29.-William
Moore, a negro, was annoyed by a head
ache today, when physicians expected he
would have been occupying space in the
morgue. He stopped a brick yesterday
after it had fallen ten storihes and was
traveling with the velocity of a cannon
ball. When it hit Moore on the top of
his head, it broke into bits. Moore sat
down suddenly and apparently was a
subject of the coroner.
Workmen on the building trom which
the brick dropped sent for a physician.
When the doctor arrived Moore sat up.
CUBAN MILITIA ARRIVES
TO HONOR MAINE VICTIMS
(By Associated Press.)
NEW YORK, May 29.—The protected
cruiser Cuba arrived early today, bear
ing representatives of the Cuban gov
ernment, army and navy to pay trib
ute here to the memory of the United
States sailors who perished when the
battleship Maine was blown up in Ha#
vana harbor, fifteen years ago.
By special permission from the state,
as in such a case, the Cuban forces
will be welcomed ashore under -arms
tomorrow to participate in a parade
preceding the dedication of a monument
to the Maine’s dead.
The welcome of booming guns from
twelve dreadnoughts of the United
States North' Atlantic fleet awaited the
visiting warship when she proceeded
from the quarantine station up to the
Hudson river anchorage under escort
of the gunboat Yankton, to be boarded
later in the day by an official reception
committee and to send ashore her own
delegation to pay respects to Mayor
Gaynor.
In addition to three special envoys
and the usual naval force, the cruiser
brought a battalion of coast artillery
and a military band to participate in
the parade. The men include both
whites and blacks, discrimination as to
color having been ruled against by
President Menocal.
The Cuba is an American built cruis
er. She was launched at the Cramps
yards in Philadelphia on October 11,
Cuban independence day, 1911, at the
same time as the Cuban training ship
Patria. The cruiser is small compared
with the great fighting machines among
which she found herself in the Hudson.
She is a 2,200 ton vessel, 265 feet in
length and with 39 beam. Her arma
ment consists of four six-pounders,
four three-pounders and four one-pound
ers, and her complement is 105 men.
DETECTIVES SEEK
F
COimS TO IY
They Declare That They Are
Anxious to Get at the Truth
of the Murder Case, Regard
less of Who Is Guilty
Little if any credence is placed by
the city detectives in the theory of the
officials and employes of the National
Pencil factory that Mary Phagan was
killed by James Conley, the newro
sweeper, and that his motive was rob
bery.
The detectives have accepted as true
Conley’s second affidavit, in which he
swears that he wrote the notes found
by Mary Phagan’s body, and that he
did so about 1 o’clock on the day of
the murder, at the dictation of Super
intendent Leo M. rank, who is now un
der indictment by the grand jury.
However, they are somewhat puzzled
by the discrepancies in the time of cer-
tai noocurr|nces as sworn by Conley and
testified at the coroner’s inquest by
other witnesses.
Harry Scott, the Pinkerton detective
wha is working with the city detectives
on the Phagan murder case and who
developed the iact that Conley could
write, notwithstanding his denials, de
clares that the shortest route to a com
plete solution of the mystery is to bring
the negro Conley and Superintendent
Frank face to face. He says the negro
insists that he is anxious and willing
to confront Mr. Frank with his story,
and that if Mr. Frank and his attor
neys agree, they (Conley and Mr. rank)
will be brought together to discuss the
truth or falsity of the negro’s declara
tions.
Thursday afternoon the detectives
will put Conley through another vigor
ous interrogation, and it is said will
question him as if they are convinced
that he committed the murder. Failing
to bring out any further incriminating
admissions from him. they will, it is
said, dwell upon what appear to be the
weak points in his second affidavit.
SURE HE WROTE NOTES.
The detectives are satisfied that Con
ley wrote the notes, which he admits
writing. They consider the handwrit
ing of these notes identical with speci
mens written by Conley Wednesday,
photographs of which were reproduced
in The Journal Wednesday afternoon.
No doubt is entertained by the de
tectives concerning Conley’s admission
that he was hiding in the pencil factory
on the morning of the murder, for they
claim to have corroborated thoroughly
from ojther. witnesses certain iqci£.ents
which occurred at the factory that
morning, as detailed by Conley. The
negro must have been there in order to
observe these incidents, the detectives
assert.
That portion of Conley’s latest state
ment which the detectives so far have
been unable to corroborate, and in
which the negro's declarations directly
conflict with the testimony of inquest
witnesses concerns his alleged visit to
Superintendent Frank’s office on the
day of the murder.
OBSERVED TIME—12:56.
Conley swears that, after remaining
in hiding on the first floor just back of
the stairs for nearly two hours, he was
summoned upstairs to the office by Mr.
Frank, who whistled for him to come
up; that, as he passed the clock on the
way to the office with Mr. Frank, who
had him by the arm, he noticed it was
exactly four minutes to 1 o’clock; that
no one was in either the outer or inner
office at the time; that almost imme
diately after he and Mr. Frank had ar
rived in the office and the latter had
closed the doors leading into both of
fices, footsteps were heard, and Mr.
Frank bundled him into a wardrobe in
the inner office and went out and con
ferred with two ladies who, Mr. Frank
told him, were Miss Corlnthia Hall and
Mrs. Emma Freeman, employes: that he
overheard the conversation between Mr.
Frank and these ladies, and that Mrs.
Freeman s^aid she had come for her
coat, which she had left in a dressing
room upstairs.
THEN HE WROTE NOTES.
Conley swore that when these ladies
left the office, which was within a min
ute or two after they arrived, Mr. Frank
followed them out and was gone for
about a minute, after which he return
ed and closing the doors of the offices
let him (Conley) out of the wardrobe
and dictated the two notes to him, say
ing he wanted a .sample of his hand
writing; that Mr. Frank was very much
excited at the time; that he kept run
ning his hands through his hair and re
marking in an undertone, supposely t‘o
himself: “Why should I hang when I
have got rich relatives;” that after the
notes were written Mr. Frank pulled
out a cigarette box and handed it to
him; that when he opened the box he
found it contained $2.50; that he called
Mr. Frank’s attention to this and the
latter told him to keep it, saying: “You
are a good boy; I am going to send these
notes to my mother in Brooklyn, N. Y.,
who is rich and who will probably send
you something.”
Read of Walker Case
Took Bichloride But
Is Cured By Doctor
(By Associated Press.)
DETROIT, Mich., May 29.—Thomas
McCabe, a Detroit engineer, who swal
lowed ten grains of bichloride of mer
cury a week ago, has recovered. A so
lution of bicarbonate of soda, injected
into his veins by Dr. Andrew T. Sher
man saved the life of the engineer.
When he took the poison he declared
it was because B. Sanders Walker, of
Macon, said death from its effects was
painless.
“I believe if this preparation is used
in such cases a large percentage of
them will .be saved,” said Dr. Sherman.
“The injections can be made in any vein.
I made eight punctures in all, the in
jections being given every five or six
hours. Fourteen drams of bicarbonate
of soda in three pints of normal water
solution was used.
“The thing of most importance is to
be certain the solution is absolutely
aseptic; otherwise the patient would be
killed by it.”
After swallowing the poison and suf
fering intense agony, McCabe decided
he wanted to live and aided the physi
cian in every way possible.
TALLULAH SUIT GOES
10 HANOS OF JURY
Verdict Will Probably Be
Given Late During After
noon-Debate Limited
BT SAM BEI
Journal Staff Correspondent.
CLAYTON/ Ga., May 29.—The suit
of the state of Georgia to eject
the Georgia Railway and Power compa
ny from the Tallulah river gorge went
to the jury at 2:30 o’clock • this after
noon.
Argument in the case opened yester
day afternoon and. was continued this
morning. The attorney agreed to
limit debate to four hours oli each
side.
The argument was opened for the
state yesterday afternoon by Edgar
Watkins. He was followed by Alex
King for the power company and W. M.
Harris for the state.
H. H. Dean opened the argument this
morning for the power company and
was followed by R. C. Ellis for the
state, and Luther Rosser for the power
company. Attorney General Felder
concluded the argument for the state.
Exhaustive discussion of the filed
notes of the original survey was pre
saged by the argument made by R. C.
Ellis, attorney for the Tallulah Falls
Conservation association, who contended
trtat these notes and not the plats of
the survey formed the real and legal
basis for the title to the land in the
gorge of the Tallulah river.
Because of discrepancies which he
declared existed between the notes of
the original surveyors and their own
plats the notes must, in the present
instance, be taken as final. These notes,
he strove to show, established that the
ancient processioners went only to the
brink of the gorge and gave little or
no intimation of any attempt to pro
ceed to the river bed.
In closing its testimony, the Georgia
Railway and Power company introduced
the deeds of the original land grants is
sued in 1818-1820 and depositions from
a score of former owners of the land,
setting forth that the boundaries had
always been considered the river bed.
J. A. Reynolds, a Tallulah Falls sur
veyor, also testified.
Reynolds told of making complete sur
vey of some of the disputed land sev
eral years ago to establish the lines
of land owned by Mr. Moss and Mrs.
White at Tallulah Falls. Reynolds said
he had run his lines to the river bed as
the boundries.
Interest ih the case, which has lagged
perceptibly since Monday, was revived
in a measure this morning by the at
torneys’ arguments. True to their rep
utations, the Rabun mountaineers came
to hear the- speech-making when they
•could not be lured by dry-as-dust tes
timony dealing with* land lines and the
rottening stumps of ancient pine trees.
COST HIM JUST $5 TO
BLOW SIREN WHISTLE
(Special Dispatch to The Journal.)
MONTGOMERY, Ala., May 29.—The
police department and Dudlow Elmore,
city recorder, have started a co-opera
tive campaign against automobile
speeders. The first victim was Henry
Sims, negro chauffeur, who was fined
$lc for speeding and $5 for using a
siren whistle when it was not neces
sary.
Former Banker Held
SEATTLE, Wash., May 29.—J. R.
Moore, formerly connected with the
Bankers’ Trust Corporation, Ltd. of
Victoria, British Columbia, was ar
rested here last night on a warrant
issued in that city, charging conspira
cy to defraud.
. Orchards Suffering
(By Associated Press.)
CHICO, Cal., May 29.—Orchards
and alfalfa fields of this district are
suffering, serious damage from an in
vasion of grasshoppers.
PLATE PLINT FOR 0. S.
Secretary of Navy Points Out
Saving of $3,000,000 on
Powder Plant
(By Associated Press,)
WASHINGTON, May 29.—Secretary
Daniels, in a statement issued today, by
way of justifying his contention that
the government could save money by
manufacturing its own armor plate,
pointed out that a saving of more than
$3,000,000 has been made in the last
thirteen years during which the navy
department has operated a powder fac
tory.
Mr. Daniels declared the government
was now manufacturing powder at 37
cents a pound, which was as good or
better than that for which it paid 60
cents a pound to outsiders.
TARIFF
FOR U. S. SHIPS
EMPLOYES OF GOVERNOR
FOSS GO OUT ON STRIKE
12,000 Employes of Mills in
Mass, Controlled by Foss De
mand Increased Pay
(By Associated Press.)
BOSTON, May 29.—Twelve hundred
employes of the B. F. Stuartevant com
pany and the Becker Milling company
at Hyde Park struck today. Both com
panies are controlled by Governor Eu
gene N. Foss.
The strike, which was voted last
night, is to enforce a demand for a 20
per cent wage increase and improved
working conditions.
Flag and Sword of
Commodore Perry
In Daniels' Hands
WASHINGTON, May 29.—Former
Representative Perry Belmont in lend
ing today to Secretary Daniels the sword
which Commodore Oliver Hazard Perry
used in the battle of Lake Erie a hun
dred years ago, took occasion to speak
a word for an increased navy. The
sword, as well as the flag which Perry
transferred from the Lawrence to the
Niagara during the battle of Lake Erie
will be displayed at the centennial cele
bration to be held at Erie, Pa., July
10 next. In presenting the relics to Sec
retary Daniels Mr. Belmont said:
“I feel that these mementoes, as well
as the traditions of the navy, are safe
in your hands and that your care of
the banner with the historic words
‘don’t give up the ship’ means that
you will not give up the battleships.”
New Alaskan Mail
SEATTLE, Wash., May 29.—The first
dispatch of mail for the interior of Alas
ka via the Yukon river was sent north
last night, eight tons of accumulated
matter being forwarded to Skagway,
Alaska. At Skagw’ay seveal more tons
have accumulated. When the first
mail is sent down the river, with the
opening of navigation on the Yukon,
twenty tons will be ready for distribu
tion among the inland stations.
Heirs Win Suit
CHICAGO, May 29.—The 200 heirs of
the twenty-seven sailors who lost their
lives in the sinking of the steamer
Tioga in the Chicago river in 1888 have
won their damage .suit against the
steamship company after twenty-five
years of litigation.
New York Chosen
QUEBEC, May 29.—New York was
chostn as the next meeting place of
the supreme council of the Royal Ar
canum at yesterday’s session of the
council.
Senate Will Drop Five Per
Cent Differential on Imports
in American-Owned Ships
(By Associated Pr*»s.)
WASHINGTON, May 29.—Senator
Simmons, chairman of the finance com
mittee, definitely announced, after a
conference with President Wilson to
day, that he proposed 5 per cent differ
ential on Imports in American owned or
controlled vessels would be dropped
from the tariff bill in the senate on ac
count of protests from foreign coun
tries.
Senator Simmons also declared that
objections of foreign nation* to the
clause to compel foreign merchants to
submit their books to an American
agent in cases of disputed, valuation,
would be met. In both cases the state
department holds that protests are jus
tified. The president upheld that view.
Chairman Simmons also took up the
president’s questions of equalization of
duties on raw materials and manufac
tured products, among them wheat,
flour and pig iron. Mr. Simmons de
clined to discuss the president’s views
on those points, saying no decision had
been reached, but that he had sought
Mr. Wilson’s ideas and would transmit
them to members of the finance com
mittee.
UNDERWOOD OPPOSES.
Chairman Underwood, when asked
about the probable action of the house,
should the tariff bill come back with
an amendment to eliminate the 6 per
cent clause, said that personally he fa
vored retention of the provision as one
of the ways of building up a merchant
marine.
“I believe in discrimination in favor
of Aiperican ships,” said he. “Foreign
nations discriminate in favor of their
own ships and I do not see why we
should not.’ 4
Mr. Underwood djd not Indicate, how
ever, whether there would be any ef
fort to retain the provision if the ad
ministration raised strong objection.
Senators on the subcommittee of the
finance committee working on the cot
ton schedule of the Underwood bill are
said to be ready to recommend some
increases in the house rates.
More than a huhdred witnesses from
the New England and southern cotton
sections are reported to have favorably
impressed the senators with their ar
guments that some of the cuts were
too great.
The committee also is expected to
recommend some changes in the chemi
cal schedule, among them to be the
free listing of certain dyes used in the
manufacture of cotton which the house
bill has Included in the dutiable list.
Senator Stone’s subcommittee is still
working over te wool and metal sched
ules. Few changes are looked for in
woolen manufactures. Some reductions
are known to have been decided upon
in the steel schedule. Srtuctural steel
will be reduced, while pig iron and
ferro-manganese probably will go to the
free list.
MRS. PANKHURST IS
ILL IN JAIL AGAIN
(By Associated Press.)
LONDON, May 29.—Emmeline Pank-
hurst, militant suffragette leader, has
taken no food since she was rearrested
and taken to Hollqway jail.
She is said to be in a very weak
state owing to reduced vitality conse
quent on her previous “hunger strikes,”
which lessened her powers of resist
ance. According to suffragette leaders,
her release may be expected at any
hour.
OLD HEROES MARCH
TO THE STRAINS OF
ti
M
Remnant of Great Army of
600,000, Now Aged and
Gray, Pass Though Steets
of Chattanooga Thursday
(By As.ocU.ted Freu.)
CHATTANOOGA, Tenn., May 29.—*
Proudly bearing tattered battle flag#
dimmed, by powder smoke and time, th*
gray-clad survivors of the Confederate
army today marched through street*
walled on each side with cheering thou-
sands. Standards borne by cavalry-
men almost encountered overhead arche*
formed by entwined, Confederate and
United States flags.
Nearly 1,000 of the gray-halred vet*
erans were mounted on .the prancln#;
horses of the Eleventh United State*
cavalry, tendered by Fort Oglethorp*,
officials and offering another mute testl- )
monlal of the burial of the bitterns** 1
which characterized the war betweon th*'
states. ,
Hundreds of applauding spectator*,
who witnessed the Impressive wight,
were moved to tears by the flood ot)
memories it aroused.
No division appeared in a semblance,
of Its entirety. Only a few stanch!
survivors were left of the more than'
600,000 soldiers who represented th*
Confederacy In the fiercest struggle of :
modern times.
FIRMAMENT RENT WITH CHEERS..
From the moment General Bennett,
H Young, commander-ln-chlef of the U.
C. V.'s, appeared accompanied by hi*,
staff, until the last detachment of vet- '
erans passed, the firmament was rent \
with shouting and applause.
General Young’s staff was followed!
by the Eleventh U. S. cavalry band, th*
survivors of the trans-Mississippi de
partment, the department of northern
Virginia, the department of Tennessee.
Forrest’s cavalry corps and 1,000 mount* <
ed veterans.
Interspersed among the different com
mands were sponsors of the divisions of
the United Confederate Veterans, in
eaoh Instance followed by aged soldier*
riding In automobiles. The Richmond
Howitzers, Pelham Guards, of Macon,
Company D, Alabama national guards,
and two companies of Tennessee state
militia acted as official military escort*
to the veterans.
The ranks of the veterans riding In
automobiles were swelled from time
to time by those who had believed them
selves eyual to marching in the parade,
but who were unable to stand the try
ing ordeal.
MANY FELL FROM RANKS.
Many of these staggered along bravo-
ly attempting to maintain step with
their more vigorous comrades. When,
they weer forced to fall out ready
hands were extended by the veterans in
the automobiles and amid renewed
cheers from. the spectators they were
hauled aboard to continue the march
under less trying conditions.
The trans-Mlsslsslppl department was
headed by Lieutenant General K. M.
Vansandt, of Fort Worh, Tex., com
mander, and his staff. Following In
close formation were the Texas brig
ades In numerioal order headed by
General Felix Robertson, the Arkansas
brigades led by Geenral Thoms Green. '
the Missouri brigade with their com
mander, General J. Will Hall, the Okla
homa brigades under command of Gen
eral D. H. Hailey and the Northwest
and Pacific brigades led by General J.
P. Reins and General William C. Har
rison, respectively.
Next came Lieutenant General Theo
dore S. Carett, of Norfolk, commander
of the Army of Northern Virginia.
Brigades in numerical order and their
commanders In this section were: Com
mander General Stlth Bolling, Mary
land: Commander General A. C. Trlppe,
of Trlppe, N. C.; Commander General
Julian S. Carr, South Carolina; Com
mander General B. S. Teague, West Vir
ginia; Commander Charles S. Peyton.
Lieutenant General George P. Har-.
rison, of Opelika, Ala., commander of
the Army of Tennessee, rode at th*
head of the state divisions In that see-'
tlon. Alabama brigades. headed byj
General Harvey E. Jones, and Florida
brigades, under General W. B. Part
ridge.
DAVENPORT LEADS GEORGIANS.
Georgia brigade with their leader, 1
General H. A. Davenport; Kentucky
brigades, commanded by General W. R.
Haldeman; Louisiana brigades, led by!
General Patrick Henry, and Tennessee
brigades, under command of Robert C.
Crouch, composed the brigades and
commanders In the Army of Tennessee. 1
What was considered one of the most
Impressive and Inspiring speotaoles In
the parade formed the rear of th# pa
rade. One thousand mounted veteran*
preceded by a cavalry corps of the lat*
General Nathan Bradford Forrest, who
won the name of the “Wizard of the
Saddle," during the war between the
states, composed this creation. The
cavalry corps was mounted on Its own,
horses and Is said to be the only organ
ized corps of Forrest cavalrymen In the
country. General H. A. Taylor com
manded. u-
Three Sets of Twins
Born to Witnesses
In One Court Case
Believes Son Killed
(By Associated Press.)
WASHINGTON, May 29.—George
M. Steele, a clerk in the postoffice de
partment believes that George Steele,
nineteen yars old, who, while driving
with his sweetheart last Sunday near
Todelo, Ohio, was held up by a high
wayman and killed, was his son.
Steele asked the police today to inves
tigate.
(Ey Associated Press.)
SCRANTON, Pa., May 29.—Thtee sets
of twins which the stork delivered In
a South Scranton neighborhood Tues
day night have clogged the machinery
of Alderman James Molr’s court. The
mothys are Important witnesses In a
slander suit which the alderman was
to try, and In their absence yesterday,
he continued the suit Indefinitely.
All the parties to the suit live In the
same block. Mrs. Joseph Savage
charged she was slandered by Mrs.
Joseph Slidage In the presence of sev
eral women of the neighborhood, among
whom were Mrs. Ellen O’Boyle, Mrs.
Hanna Boyd and Mrs. Margaret Stan
ton.
It was to the latter three that the
stork was so generous.
GIVES $150,000 FOR
MEMORIAL TO WIFE
SAN FRANCISCO, Cal„ May 29.—As
a memorial to his late wife, John M.
Keith, an octegcnarian oil operator of j
thisstate, has given $160,000 to a fund
for the construction of a medical re
search teaching hospital at the Univer
sity of California.