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VOn. VIII. NO., 246.,
HOME EDITION
ATLANTA, GA., WEDNESDAY, MAY 18. 1910.
HOME EDITION
PRICE:
LITTLE MARGURITE ANDERSON
IS KILLED UNDER TROLLEY CAR
How Comet at Rate of 25 Miles
A Second, Will Pass the Earth
Mother and Tiny Victim
MRS. D. A. ANDERSON AND LITTLE MARGURITE.
The 7-year-old child who was orushsd under a trolley ear on Georgia
avs. near her home Wednesday morning and who died as she reached th,
hoipitsl.
OF THE GENERAL
EDUCATI
Chosen to Succeed Dr. Ham
mond on First Ballot
in Conference.
Aaheville, N. C. f May 18*—The elec
tion of Dr. Jamea E. Dickey, prealdent
of Emory roll ego, Oxford, Ga., aa aec-
retary of the general board of educa
tion of the Methodist Epiacopal Church
Pouth by the general conference here
today is considered a deserved con1j>ll-
m*nt to the popular educator. This
fieoretaryahlp Is an office of great in
fluence In the church and of alllrhtly
less Importance than the bishopric
itself, as it will give him an Influence
In all the colleges under the oar* of
the general board.
The election of* eonneotlonal officer*
n as resumed at today 1 * session -of the
reneral conference. Dr. W. W. Pin
son. of Louisville, Ky., was elected sec-
retarv of the board of missions, suc
ceeding Bishop-elect Lambuth.
Dr. w. F. McMurray, of 8t. Louis,
Continued on Last Pag**'
CAN NOT ALTER
Ml DECISION"
—HON. HOKE SMITH.
Issues a Statement That His
#■ -
Announcement Last Satur-,
day Was Final in
the Matter.
Hon. Hoke Smith’s statement last
it'inlay that he could not for per-
nai reasons make the race for the
•v^morship this year was followed
lay evening by the following, post-
Iteration that KIs announcement
P“ final:
I have received during the past two
many letters and telegrams from
• »*nt parts of the state urging me
to nmnsider the announcement that I
f i not be a candidate for governor.
I arn deeply grateful for the kind
xpr^R^ions of my^.friends, but before
rowing the statement last Saturday I
the subject serious thought. Th»*
r *‘ aj, "ns which caused me to decline t*»
# nt*r the race are such that I esn not
a,t 7 the decision then made.
H my friends fully understood those
t* ’ ns they wo.pld not criticise my ac-
<nd I sincerely hope they-wlll at-
: 8 r - no blame to my course, ag It dis-
tr ' "•»* me very much to know I can
r •» as they wish.”
T A statement was given out Just
A the former governor left for
) ’ * Georgia, where he will deliver
* nidresses on education themes.
’ iv he win go to St. Simons to Join
'*mlly, who have a cottage there,
understood Mrs. Smith's health Is
CHOSEN FOR SHE
OF NEWTHEATER?
That’s the Report Wednesday,
Tho Stevens Won’t
Talk About It.
Daughter of “Gus” Anderson
Well-Known Manager at
Daniel Bros.’ Store.
Klaw A Erlanger's new theater will
be located In the triangle formed by
Edgewood-ave., Ivy-aL and Exchange
place, according to what appeara to be
good authority Wedneaday.
It la known that B. D. Stevene, tha
representative of Klaw A Erlanger,
now In Atlanta, haa been making an In-
veatlgatlon concerning this property.
It la owned by Joel Hurt, who haa
considered for quite a while the prob
ability of building a theater there. An
Investigation of the theater laws of
Atlanta were made Wedneaday morn
ing by repreaenattlvea of Mr. Hurt.
Another evidence which points to
this location la It, adaptability for the
ater purposes, being near the center of
the. business section and so surrounded
by. street, that adequate entrances
could bo made.
It I, said that Mr. Hurt will either
build a theater for Klaw A Erlanger
or sell the lot to them.
Mr. Btevena did not leave for Macon
Wedneaday morning, aa had been
planned, owing to the fact that he
hourly expected new, from New York
confirming one of tho ,everal proposi
tion,' which have been submitted by
him to. hi, principal,.
The delay doe, not mean that At
lanta will not have a Klaw A Erlanger
house. Several proposition, have been
submitted and tt I, now up to Mr. Er
langer to decide which will be the moat
advantageous When this Is done,
building operation, will bo commenced,
and the new theater will 16* completed
In time, for the opening of the next
season. Mr. Stevens would not admit
That a site had been recommended by
him.
Margurlte, the seven-year-old
daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Gua Ander
aon. 62 Garden-st., was run down by
Georgla-ave. street car No. 63 a few
feet west of the East Georgla-ave. and
Garden-at. crossing ■ Wednesday morn
ing at 8 o’clock and so badly Injured
that she died a few minutes later aa
she waa being removed from an ambu
lance at the Atlanta hospital.
The car waa In charge of Conductor
J. H. Camp and Motorman H. C. Kll
Patrick, both of whom were relieved of
blame for the accident by Police Ser
geant Brown and Bicycle Policeman
Dodd, who Investigated 1L
The little girl was on her way to a
neighborhood etore to get a loaf of
bread when she was killed. A Georgia
avs. car had Just passed, going east
This prevented her from seeing the In
coming car going west, and she ate
out on the track directly In front <
Before the horrified motorman could
bring his car to a atop both tha child’s
legs had been crushed to a pulp and
she had sustained other Injuries from
which It was seen at a glance there
could be no recovery.
Motorman Picks Up Child.
With tears streaming from hit eyes.
Kilpatrick pulled the limp little form
from beneath tha machinery which had
tom It ao cruelly and carried the little
? rl rl to tha store of P. D. Ramsey,
ew feet away, the store to which the
little one waa going when her Journey
waa ended so tragically.
Mr. Anderson, her father, who la In
charge of the bat department of Daniel
Brother*, wag notified of the acclde/it a
few minutes after its occurrence and
hastened home In time to catch the am
bulance on its way ouL He accompa
nied the vehicle to the scene of the ac
cident and reached there In time to get
a smllo of recognition and a farewell
klaa from his baby before she became
unconscious. Mrs. Anderson Is almost
prostrated with grief over the aecli
Little Marrurite waa In the flrat
grade at the Slaton school.
Tha remains were carried from the
Atlanta hospital to tha undertaking
parlors of Greenberg. Blond 4 Bloom
field and prepared for burial
Har Fathar Wall Known.
Sadness pervaded the atmosphere In
the Peachtree-at. retail district when
tha news of the fatality spread. It
wa» but a few minutes after the oc
currence until buelnesa men and cualo
mere heard that “Gus’’ Anderson’s baby
had been killed and hundreds went Into
Daniel Brothers’ store to express In a
few worda their sorrow at the loss that
had coma to a friend. Mr. Anderson
has been manager of the hat depart
ment In Daniels’ for years and I, one of
the oldest salesmen In point of service
In Atlanta He numbers hla friends by
the hundreds.
GEORGIA EDUCATOR
HONORED BY METHODISTS
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' f rhl* Issue. a call for volun-
,r, ‘ r *lng*rs fur thr Audlto- +
r; 'm chorus for the concert on
•imp 9.
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AS A PROBABILITY
Believed That Smith Support
ers Would Give Support to
General Wright Should
He Enter the Field.
JAMES E. OICKEY.
I*n*sid<nt of Emory college. Ox
ford. ila. chosen secretary of the
general educational hoard ot the
Methodist church by the conference
in Asheville.
Now that It la definitely settled that
former Governor Hoke Smith will not
under any circumstances be a candidate
for governor In the cnmlnfc primary, the
possibility of Comptroller General W.
A. Wright becoming a candidate for
gubernatorial honors la more pro
nounced.
The political situation In this state la
unique, and any clear-cut forecast of
what will happen between now and the
August primary ta practically beyond
, the power of the moet astute politician.
, Former Governor Smith haa eliminated
{himself, hut this only clears the sltua-
I tlon slightly. Judge B. B. Russell has
I let It become known that he will he an
! pntry, hut his formal announcement Is
not yet forthcoming and he can >-t
, withdraw gracefully.
Governor Brown 8ilont.
Governor Joseph M. Brown Is as gar
rulous aa the Sphinx when It comes to
the discussion of matters political.
What he Intends to do Is unknown to
anyone except himself and hla closest
political friends and many of these dis
claim any knowledge of his Intentions.
He was asked Wednesday If he had
anything to say. He replied that the
people of the state seemed to he get
ting along very well, “anyway, what's
: the use of stirring them up with poll-
; tics?*’ -
As to Comptroller General Wright,
the belief Is general that should he en
ter the rare the aupportera of former
Governor Smith would rally around his
banner. A public servant for 10 years
In a position which In Importance
ranks next to that of the governor, he
has always given a good acrount of
himself as an official of efficiency,and a
diplomat In the handling of delicate .it-
Continued on Last Pag#.
This diagram shows tho relativo positions of Halley’s comet, and the
earth during their approach, passing nnd parting. The orbits
of the earth and the comet are shown, the earth moving from
left to right and the comet, slantingly from top to bottom, being
nd the earth. They will pass each other
They will pass at a speed of 43 miles a
Wednesday • evening.
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COMET HO!
CELESTIAL IMP
_ IGHT
Passage Thru Tail Will Prob
ably Begin at 9:50, At
lanta Time.
HIS TINY HANDS WILL
UNVEIL MONUMENT
New York, May 18.—The earth and
Halley’s comet collide tonight. Thnt
la. they collide aa much aa their orbits
will allow them—the visitor’s tall, mil
lion! of ml'ea long, tickling the earth
aa It passes by. According to the con
sensus of scientists, the passage thru
the tall will begin at 10:50 to 11:20 p.
m. (eastern time). Estimates of the
time needed for the passage vary from
one to aeven hours.
Tha earth will brush aside 18 trillion
eublc mile, of the tall, weighing alt
told perhaps half an ounce.
The nearest perfect vacuum man has
ever seen Is denser than tho tall where
the earth will hit It. according to tha
sclenUats who are reassuring the public
that no harm will rome of tha meeting
Throughout the world elaborate prepa
rations for tho study of the comet at
close range have been made. How many
thousands of teleacopea and cameras
will be employed tonight no one can
tell. Certain It la. however, that no
cornel planet or star waa ever before
subjected to such scrutiny. There la
llttla time to loae either, for the comet
will whla by with a speed many tlmea
that of a bullet out on Its great orbit
Continued on Laot Page.
BERRY GRANT.
Four-year-ohl son of B. M. Grant,
who will draw aside the veil when
the memorial to L. P. Grant, his
grandfather. Is dedicated at the
park In a few weeks.
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How the velocity of the comet compares with the speed of a cannon ball, flying machine and
railroad train.
COIF TO BLAZE
IN WESTERN SKY
ON FRIDAY NIGHT
Tail of Halley’s Now Arches
107 Degrees or Two-Thirds
Way Across Horizon.
Comet Upsets
Wire Service
Chicago, May 18.—The comet ha« un
dergone remarkablo change* slnco Sun
day morning when it was last observed
at the Yerkea observatory at Williams
Bay, Win. Not only has It become
more curved, but It has mummed enor
mous* proportion*, the tall apreadlng
over an arc of 107 degree*, according to
the professor's measurement*, reaching
from the Eastern herlxon clear past
the zenith and Into the Western *ky,
•overing nearly two-third* of the dis
tance from horizon to horizon—one of
the longest comet* ever observed.
The earth may already have entered
the flr»t far outlying mints of the tail,
but will not reach the visible portion
till after the transit of the comet
from 9:04 to 10:04, Chicago time, this
evening. After an hour the head of
the comet will be directly between the
earth and the *un, nnd the astronomers
a* Hawaii nnd Japan hope to *ee the
nucleus, like a black dot, outlined
against the sun's bright disk.
Owing to the curvature of the talL
however, the earth will nyt reach the
body of the iomet till perhaps an hour
later.
The comet will be Invisible tonight
and tomorrow evening only a part can
be seen, but Friday and Saturday It
will be a magnificent spectacle, unless
the full moon Is too bright and dims
Its luster.
“The comet Is truly a marvelous
spectacle and surpasses all cornets seen
during the last forty year* or more,”
said Professor E, E. Barnard today.
“The sky waa unusually clear and w*
were abb* to observe It for three or
four hours. The he*
waa invisible owing t<
Electrical Disturbances Over
Wide Area Make Telegraph
Work Quite Trouble
some.
Naw York, May 18.—Electrical dl»-
turbance*, attributed to tha approach
of Halley'a comet t<^ it* point naareat
th* earth, today reaulted In confusion
In telegraph service. The wire* ap
peared to he badly affected. Reporta
from a wide area told the same »tory of
trouble and considerable delay
caused.
Meteor Smashes
Thru Skyhghi
Topeka, Kan*., May 18.—A meteor
weighing about a pound fell thru the
skylight of the Hhawnee building Into
tho office of the Shawnee Fire Insur
ance Company today, splintering the
d*sk of Clerk Harry Morgan, within
ten feet of J. \V. Going, secretary and
general manager of the company. There
were about 60 persons In the room at
the time.
enormous
uremont*.
width wa>
about twh
but the tall extended the
length, according to meas-
»f 1 «7 degrees. It* maximum
fi degree*. As a degree Is
o the diameter of the moo*
its size can readily be imagined
"In brightness the tall surpasses th*
brightest put of the milky way. One
can only guess at the brightness of
the head, bur probably It would equal
of the comet*or stirpa** any of the brightest star*
Its nearncs* to or planets.”
COMET MAY PEEP
FROMTI
IGHT
Thousands of Atlantans Will
Stay Up To Try It,
Anyway.
It I# barely possible that Atlanta may
catch a irllmpse of the comet aa tha
earth goes thru the tall Wednesday
evening.
At the local weather bureau It waa
said Wedneaday morning that while tha
prediction for the evening waa cloudy,
one might poeslbty get a peep at tha
vagabond of the waste! between cloude,
as It were.
Innumerable comet parties have been
arranged hy cltlxene all over town, and
If the comet geta by without being dis
covered In the act. It will not be for
lark of watchers.
Weather Observer VnnHerrmann
says he has been Invited to attend so
many parties of thla sort that even If
were triplets three tlmea over he
couldn’t go to all of them.
Many of the factories around Atlanta
where negroes are employed In great
numbers had difficulty In keeping their
laborers at work Wednesday; and a
derided sense of uneasiness seemed to
prevail In other quarters, too.
The fact that the most eminent sci
entists of the country have ridiculed
the Idea of the comet harming us when
meander thru Its train has brought
relief In all but the circles of ths ||.
literate, and even here the fear Is not so
pronounced aa It was said to he when
the comet Journeyed this way 75 years
ago.
StMl Btrtke OS.
Betklskeni, Fa., May li—Ths .Irik, a) th.
M.thl.h.m 8tv#1 Company*, slant *11 d.
lar.d oS today by tka striker.. Tt ha. been
la .Sect three and a half month..
IIAPEi
FIRST OF SEASON,
>TI
Musella Sends in Forerunners
of Promised Splendid
Crop of Fruit. / '
Georgia's first peaches of 1816 camp
to Atlanta Wednesday. They were
grown at Musella, Ga.. and shipped to
Bell Brothers, wholesale commission
merchants, on Broad-at.
They aay at the Georgia Fruit ex
change that tha prospects are for a
banner peach year. The crop will not
be a record-breaker -a to quantity, but
the quality will be unsurpassed In Geor
gia's history.
• The year 1816,” nay. H. D. Marks,
assistant manager of the exchange,
"will produce about 4,260 cars of
peaches, which Is a good average year. :
The largeet crop we ever had waa In
1808, when 8.170 cars were shipped. The
year 1809 produced a small crop, only
2,650 cars.
"Where we will win this year, tho- I
he continued, ‘‘will be In the quality, i
The growers have learned the sclenca ;
f the game. The use of the spray and ,
runlng effectively have been extensive. '
.1 will prove such good results that thla
year’s peaches will be the finest ever i
seen In the state.”
Tho express shipment of peaches haa
already begun. In a few days carload
lots will bo In motion.
"Where do we ship our poaches? Aa
far North aa Toronto. Canada, and aa i
far West as Kansas City. As soon as
the Texas, Arkansas and Missouri crops
come on. however, we are crowded out
of tho markota west of tho Mlaalaalppl.
But. anywny. we are the biggest-east of
California."
Tho Broad-st. commission merchants
say strawberries are getting plentiful
Tho north Georgia crop 1s now romlng
on, and tho good thing Is they are get
ting cheap. The careful buyer can find
them at ten cents per quart, retail.
86 on account of aubKripUon
OMrgtan. I can’t get along without It.
Yours truly.
MSS. A. It BRAKSOK.
Tort My.n, Fl»„ lay 11, 1810.
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