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VOL. VIII. NO. 249.
HOME EDITION
ATLANTA, GA., SATURDAY, MAY 21, 1910.
HOME EDITION
PRICE- In Atlanta, TWO CENTS
r 1\LVC. 0n Trl | 0 , FIVE CENTS
A Gift to Atlanta
Some Products of South Georgia
Yerkes Astronomers Say Visi-
* tor Is Now Entirely
Inactive.
)>? AbJUlanza.
MONUMENT TO SAMUEL SPENCER.
Unvailtrf by the tiny hands of President Spencer's little granddaugh
ter, this memorial, a tribute from thousands of employees on tne Southern
railway, was unveiled on the Terminal plaza Saturday afternoon.
SPENCER STATUE,
EMPLOYEES' GIFT
1
Tribute of Thousands of Word
ing Men to Former Presi
dent of Southern.
IUDGEA. P. HUMPHREY
SPEAKER OF THE DAY
WESTERN STATES:
GLOWS IN THE WEST
LIKE A HUGE STAR
Tramp of Skies Is Sorely Puz
zling Scientists by Its Queer
and Entirely Unexpected
Actions.
* TAIL IS STILL THERE. 4-
-I- DECLARE CALIFORNIAN8 *
+ +
4- Loi Angol.i, May 21.—Spinning +
4* cl»ar In the bright moonlight, Hal- 4-
+ lej-'a oomot glistened with a fan- +
4- aha part tall on Ita Drat appearanco 4*
4- In the neat, accordIng to the re- 4-
4- porta today from the Carnegie oh- 4-
4- aervatory on Mount Wilson. 4*
4* The train waa vlalble thru aev- 4-
4- eral degrees. An hour and fifty 4-
4- mlnutea after the aun let the cum- 4*
4- et dropped below the horizon. Ar- 4-
4- cording to Director Hall, the romet 4-
+ la proved to have left none of Ita 4-
4* tall In the earth's atmosphere.
Oklahoma, Kansas and Mis
souri All Suffer Very
Heavily.
OKLAHOMA REPORT SAYS
5 KILLED. SEVERAL HURT
A little nirl v Unloosed t!i« cords and
the veil fdl back. 'dfs?lri*lnc;ttte heroic
bronze figure of a man In witting pic
ture. a man denfgnated by the llwcrlp*
tlona an "a Georgian. . a c'onfederate
eoWler. and the flrat president of the
Southern Railway Company.”
It wh* the statue of the late Hamuel
spencer, which was unveiled Saturday
afternoon at 2 o’clock at the plaza In
front of the Atlanta Terminal atatlnn
Paula Valley, Okla., May 21.—Torna-
doe« and hall ntorma,which caused five
death*. destroyed many bulldlnga and
wrought havoc to farm producta In this
vicinity laat night, bounded thru parta
of Oklahoma, Kansas and Missouri, do
ing thousands of dollars worth of dam
age; and today efforts are being made
_ f to learn what damage has been done to
the presence of a large assemblage, j many towns which are without tela*
hlch ini’luded hundreds of employees , g^pj, 0r telephone service to the outer
mi officials of the Southern road from " J: w ' . hat __
ri.rv canic .>,1,1 hronnii ,11 the Mpvire. wo rid. Houses and Mtn* w ere wrecked,
every rank and branch of the service.
The little girl was Violet Spencer, Sam
uel Spencer’s four-year-old grand-
•laughter, the daughter of his son, Hen
ry R. Spencer.:
The occasion represented the culmi
nation of the efforts of 30,000 employees
*f the road to honor the memory of
their president and co-worker and to
■how to the world in some measure
degree of loyalty and affection they
f’»r him. ’
Gift of Employees.
The suggestion for tne monument
•sine fmm the employees soon after
Mr. Spencer’s death In .November,* 1901,
*nd It was the employees, and the em-
j'loyees alone, that built* It, each con
tributing according to the amount of
id* salary. No outside contributions of
any kind were’ received.
following, the unveiling, the statue
,v «s presented as a gift frqm the Houth.
rr n'? employees to the city, of Atlanta
«nd the state of Georgia.
•I. *S. B. Thompson;* Prealdent Finley’s
assistant, presided at the exercises. He
*«* introduced by J. \V. Connelly, spe-
*’isl agent, of Washington, D. „t?., who
wax the chalrmat) of the committee of
employees who raised the mohument
funds.
The presentation speech was msde
b> President W. W. Finley, .and the
monument was. received by Mayor R. F.
Maddox for the city and Governor Jo
>f *Pb Brown for the state.
The chief addresa of the occasion was
delivered by Judge Alexander P. Hum
I'hrey, 0 f Louisville, Ky., general coun
""i fnr the Bouthern at that city. H«
on the life and character of Mr.
Sp*n. or, with whom he had been Ulti
mately acquainted since they were stu
dents together at the University of Vir
ginia.
The opening prayer was offered by
Bishop i\ k. Nelson and the henedlc-
! , in was pronounced by Rev. John FI.
"hits, pastor of the Second Baptist
'hurrh.
Great Terminal Planned.
The feature of President Finley’s ad-
was his announcement that work
* ar#*at freight terminal adjacent to
present passenger station would be-
an early date.
*«ld that the freight terminal was
• P*rt of the plan that former Preel-
, m Spencer had in mind when he pro.
J*- J*d the Atlanta Terminal station,
*ml that since Mr. Spencer’s death that
"••rk had been postponed only because
,h * flnan. fnl depression and because
r more pressing construction work on
l-arts of the system.
President Finley said that It gave
mm peculiar pleaairre .to be able to
announce on this occasion that the
Continued on Page Twelve.
. ■no rtmwm. * ut,
* n >>«4 for th. Mar, bat It »«• been In
*£•f*atUy ana I f.el that 1 ean't da
7". -• v,rT •rraffhTBw.
rnaamld. Oa,. May 17, 1910.
fences were blown away, many cattle
and horses were Mlll-d and crops were
benten Into tha earth by tha rain and
hall.
It la thougth that many more persons
than have boon reported met their
death. In th. atortn, the moat .ever*
which ha. vlalted this aecllon of the
country - In many yeara. In Oklahoma
the tornadoes traveraed the aectlona of
Garvin, McLean and Pontotoc rountlee,
klllln, one person, dangerously Injur
ing save rat others and practically dev
astating a large rural area. The village
of McCarty, eleven miles aouthweat of
here, was almost . entirely destroyed,
stores, a school house and many resi
dences being demolished, - Mrs. Oeorge
Dewberry, wife of a minister, was
killed. - A . little girl living two and a
half miles from Pauls Valley, who had
sought shelter |n a atortn cave, was
dangerously Injured by timbers pene
trating the roof of the cave. A thlr-
teen-year-old daughter of Robert Clark,
living In the same neighborhood, was
aleo Injured.
The town of Maysvllte was reported
to hove been blown away, but commu
nication with that point can not be es
tablished today, and the report la un
confirmed. Considerable damage was
done at Paoll, seven miles north of
Pauls Valley, and an unconfirmed ru
mor aaya the town was blown away.
An early report from Madlll. that one
man waa killed and aeveral house,
wrecked. Is denied. The McCarty tor
nado destroyed practically everything
on 1.000 acres. It originated three mllea
east of the village, traveled In a north-
eaatern direction and .pent It. force
near Paula Valley.
HEAVY DAMAGE BY HAIL
AND FLOODS THRU TEXAS
San' Antonio, May 21.—Heavy dam
age to crops and toss of at leaat one
life were reported today as the result
of a terrific storm which swept south
ern Texas last night. Hall here brokrf
Windows and partially ruined crops In
the outlying country.
Altho the telegraph and telephone
services are crippled. It I. known the
oil field, suffered much. At South Lake
fifteen houses were destroyed. A boy
mas killed and four others hurt at
Middletown. Two days steady rain has
flooded nearly every river.
Tha comst should ba visible to At
lanta Saturday evening shortly aftar
suna.t. It will apptar in iha northwest.
Chicago, May 21.—Halley's comet, the
greatest scientific enigma of the age,
I. a tailless comtt now. Thru some
mysterious, unexplained cause this
strange,, terrifying and erratic flying
mass has.suddenly become Inactive. It
has ceased throwing off gaa and mln-
uta particles of, solid matter, but
whether for good and all time nr mere-,
ly. for the time helng Is «. question
which the learned scientists at the
Yerkes observatory at Williams Bay.
Wls., do not attempt to answer. They
aay- frankly they do not know.
The great forty-inch telescope at the
observatory whs trained last night on
the western sky, and exactly at 7:to
o'clock the comet waa sighted thru
the finder .'of'the big telescope. It was
twenty- degrees above the horizon, of a
reddish yellow tint, not bright by any
means—and was-without the sign of a
tall.
Thru the finder It* appearance waa
that,of a star of the fourth magnitude.
As tne darkness feint became brighter
and shone like a star of the second
tude. It was visible to the naked
Phe comet disappeared from view
at 8:35 o’clock and set at 9 o'clock.
Several spectrographs and photographs
of the comet were made. The spectro
graphs showed that the comet was In
active: that It was throwing off but
little gaa and that the cyanogen from
which It waa thought by some that
danger might.conte had almost disap
peared.
• "Thefaet that the tall of the comet
has disappeared Is not startling," said
Professor Edward O. Frost, of the ob
servatory. "Raturday night the comet
may he a* bright as ever and the tall
a* long and a* luminous as before the
head made the transit of the sun. To
night the comet was shining only by
the reflected light of the sun. To my
mind the fact that It h.s ceased to be
active at this time I. significant. What
that significance I* I ran not say just
now."
The romet last night wss 14.300.000
miles away from the earth, according
to calculations of the sciential*. To
night It will be visible, If condition*
are favorable, for two hours and forty,
five minutes, and will »et at S:«0
o'clock. Eastern time.
ST. LOUIS OBSERVERS SAY
COMET DID HAVE TAIL
St. Louis, May 21.—The first appear
ance of Halley's comet as an evening
star was a distinct success, according
to the reports of hundreds of observ
ers today. With a head larger than
Venus, and described as of the second
magnitude. It remained In view .for
more than an hour. Observers here
say Ita tail spread fan-shaped over
forty degrees, thus differing from the
Williams Bay astronomers.
"It was the most gorgeous spectacle
I ever saw." said the Rev. Father Mar.
tin S. Brennan today.
From now on for a few days we will
be nble to see the comet better each
night, (ho It Is growing dimmer. It
will rise higher each night, however.
HH-i x .
CIGAR SMOKING RECORD t
4- LOWERED BY CHICAGOAN *
4- Chicago, May 21.—Walter W. 4-
4* Soeigel today holds the long-dls- 4*
+ tance cigar smoking record. Imst 4*
+ night ■ he broke the one recently 4*
+ established by William McLendon. 4 1
+ of Washington. Soergel. a teleg- 4-
4- rapher. smoked a cigar of ordinary 4-
+ length ITS mlnutea and SO seconds •>
" without relighting. The previous v [
record was 94 minutes and 30 sec- 4*|
4- onds. 4*
hp
LADY BOUNTIFUL IN EMPIRE STATE OP 80UTH.
• The picture shows various producta of the soil in southeast Georgia, On the teble oan be seen baskets of
Georgia peaches and tomatoes, end on the outer edge is a spsoiman of the luscious Georgia watarmalon, famous
throughout tha country.
RECEIVES VETO OF
Question Will Be Submitted to
Annual Conferences in
the Year 1913.
CHANGE LAWS GOVERNING
TRUSTEE MEMBERSHIP
Asheville N. C., May 21.—Tlic Gen
eral Conference of the Methodist Epis
copal Church South. lute yesterday
adopted a resolution that the bishops
In 1913 submit to the annual confer
ences the question: "Shall the name of
the church he made 'Methodist Episco
pal Church In America?"'
Tills was adopted after the bishops
veto of the action-of the conference In
rhunging the name,
Tha conference today amended the
disciplinary law which forbid! the
election of men on the boards of trus
tees of colleges who are not MPtho-
dials, so that 27, per cent of the board
may be elected outside of the church
mambershlp.
'This waa done to legalize the election
of William K. Vanderbilt and several
other millionaires as trustees of Van
derbilt university. The election of these
incn - last yoar was an Incident in the
Vanderbilt wrangle. The ratification
of their election I* carrying out the
compromise effected some days ago.
The committee on appeals elected la
i follows: Rev. J. M. Harms, of
Texas: T. D. Ellis, of south'Georgia:
H. B. Reams, of Tennessee; B. U.
Thompson, of Oklahoma; Judges J. M.
McMulloch. of Houth Carolina: E. C.
O'Rear, of Kentucky, ami M. E. Law-
son, of Missouri.
In an effort fo complete tha business
of the session possibly tonight, ths gen
eral conference transacted considerable
routine business this morning. Dr.
Napthall Luccock. clerical, and ex-Gov-
ernor Handley, of Indiana, lay frater
nal delegates from-the Methodist Epis
copal church, took their leava thla
morning. ' ,
On leaving both expressed gratifica
tion at the spirit of friendship exist
ing between the "sister churches.” and
said they hoped the day was not far
distant when the churrhes would be
united.
The board of church extension re
ported Unit It had decided to allow Dr.
Georges. Saxton, of Texas, to ho en
gaged exclusively In raising money for
representative church In Washington.
Dr. R. B. Gilbert was made vice pres.
Continued on Page Twalva.
DESIGNER OF STATUE
OF SAMUEL SPENCER
BY FIAT OF TAFT?
Administration Afraid To Risk
Further Sensational De
velopments.
“GOOD POLITICS” TO
CUT THE HEARING NOW
Hall County Man Stands For
Principles of Campaign
of 1906.
WAS IDENTIFIED WITH
HOKE SMITH POLICIES
FINLEY GIVES OUT
PLAN FOR A LARGE
FREIGfMIINAE
Southern Now Ready to Com
plete Its Great Enterprise
For Atlanta.
TELLS OF PROJECT IN
ADDRESS AT PLAZA
Original Idea of Samuel Spen
cer, Monster Terminal Sys
tem, Will Be Carried Out •
in Near Future. , \
Mammoth freight terminals will ba
built on tha property east of tha Ter- j
mlnal station, the terminals which At- !
lanta has been striving to secure for
many years.
The exart date of the commencement
of building operations waa not given
out, that they will be begun In the
Immediate future Is assured. Several
hundred thousand dollars will be ex* >
pended on the work.
The announcement waa made, unex-.'
pectedly. In the addresa of President
W. W. Finley at the unveiling of the
Speneer monument. Mr. Finley eald:
"This passenger station Is only a
part of the great terminal scheme
which Mr. Spencer had planned for At
lanta and whleh will Involve tho utili
zation of adjacent property for devel- ,
opment of a great freight terminal. The
only things that have prevented the
carrying out of this plan In Its entirety
have been the later development of the
necessity for providing facilities for In
creasing the raro'lng capacity of our
line! and the business depression which
made It necessary for the company to
postpone this and other projected Im
provements. It Is peculiarly appropriate
at thla time to announce that tlto Imme
diate completion of this great project
In Ita entirety, so dear to the heart of
Mr. Spencer, has been authorized."
Hearings Under Way Sixteen
Weeks—Testimony Covers
5,000 Printed Pages, and
Case Has Cost $15,000.
t*
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HOLD SPECIAL REHEARSALS
FOR BIG FESTIVAL CHORUS
A special rehearsal tor the women of the great festival chorus will
be held Monday afternoon at 4 o'clock at fable hall under the direction
of Albert Gerard-Thlers. Regular rehearsals will be held Tuesday night
at fable hall and Thursday night at the Auditorium.
!h addition to the hundreds previously named the follow big have
volunteered for the chorust
Robert Hamilton. 42 Oglethorpe.ave.
J. Taylor,Thornhill. 237 Whitehall st.
Washington, May 21.—It-Is said to
day that the administration advised the
speedy termination of the Ralllngar-
Plnchot Investigation and that this ts
the reason why Attorney Vertrees so
suddenly ended the caa* yesterday. It
was.realised that the case had dragged
along far enough and that It would he
"good politics" to stop It abort rather
than continue the risk of any further
"sensational developments" and the
possibility of the Introduction of other
collateral evidence Involving perhaps
the deparUflent of Justice and against
Which tha Republican members of the
committee had fought bitterly.
The hearings before the committee
began January 2< and have thus been
In progress for practically . sixteen
w eeks. The committee has.heen In ses
sion,for 40 days and about 30 witneazea
the have been- heard. Approxlmately
5,000 pages of printed testimony hare
been taken. It la estimated .that the In
vestigation thus far. ■ exclusive of the
salaries of the members of the commit
tee, hake cost about. 315,000. There la
an. appropriation of 323,000 to be paid
out of the contingent fund of the two
houses available to meet the expendi
ture. ,
The cese will be argued before the
committee on next Friday and Satur
day. It in the general opinion, that no
final action will he taken In the matter
before next December—after the No
vember elections.
STATE COMMITTEE
TO MEET ON JUNE 4
Chairman Hewlett A. Hall, of the
slate Democratic executive committee,
thru Its.secretary. Benjamin M. Black,
burn, secretary of the executive de
partment, has Issued a formal call for u
meeting of the slate Democratic exec
utive committee for June 4.
This called meeting of the committee
will take place about noon of June 4 al
the New Kimball. Matters pertaining
to the comlng.whlte primary In August
will ba discussed and final details ar
ranged. A definite date for the primary
w ill he selected and w ill probably be set
for August 15, 16 nr 17. Thls commlt-
tee Is composed of three delegates from
each congressional district, eleven from
I the state at large, the chairman and the
•H.. H - Perry. "7 m». Is the
latest entrant In the Georgia guberna-
torlal race. Sfr. Perry, who has served
several lerme In the house of represen
tatives and who was prominent In his
advocacy of 'a number of Important
measures' In recent sessions, declares
that his candidacy la baaed, not on par
ty linen, but on -tha “clear-cut progrra.
slv* principles of the campaign of 1996."
The Hall county representative has
been considered, thru his position on
various measures In the legislature and
hla attltuda In past campaigns, as be
Ing a “Hoke Smith man" and in aympa
thy with the pollrlea of that •faction In
Georgia politics, the In hla announce
ment he drops all factional differences
and urges only that Georgia keep
"abreast of the times." His formal an
nouneement follows:
"To the Voters of Georgia:
"I respectfully announce for governor
at the white primary this year. My
only apology or reason Is that It Is dua
the state - that seme one should make
thla race on the clear-cut Issue of the
progressive principles of the campaign
of ltd*. I have .consistently contended
for these In the assembly for the past
el*l\t years, and .heen acllve, In support
ing such as have, been embodied In (aw.
In this rritlcal year of American poli
tics when, without regard to party lines,
the great spirit of Democracy through
out the I’nlon Is stirring with a new
Impulse forward, It will not do for
Georgln to he a• laggard and remain
branded before the world aa reaction
ary. It ought not to be said she Is not
abreast of the wave of reform that
means redemption and freedom. If 1
can not he elected I can at least keep
the flag flying. It la-no time - fnr minor
questions. There le only nhe Issue:
Government by the people and for ‘the
.people and not hy and for specyrinter-
ests. On. this. I submit my '.candidacy
and-Jeave the result to the will of God
and the votes of a patriotic people.
"H. II. PERRY.
"Gainesville. Ga.. May 29, 1910."
ANNOUNCES HIMSELF
IN GOVERNOR’S RACE
secretary.
DANIEL CHE8YER FRENCH.
Famous sculptor who modeled
lie monumeul to Sauiuel Spencer.
Notices of Sunday Ser
vices in Atlanta churches I
appear on page 16.
Hundley and Jennison Call
Each Other Names—Former
an Adviser in Matrimo
nial Troubles.
Three telegrams sent by \Y. r. Hund
ley to Mrs. Irene Jenrlsnn at the Man
hattan hotel In New York city last No- 1
vember played an Important part In
the hearing of the case In the superior-
court Haturday morning before Judge t
George L. Bell, In which Mrs. Jennison
wants her husband punished for not
laying her 315# a month aJImnny as he
tad heretofore agreed to do under tha .
sanction of the court.
The hearing has been going on for.'
two weeks. Mr. Jennison Is resisting
the claim for alimony on Iha ground of
Mrs. Jennlson'a alleged relatione with,
Mr. Hundley, whleh Mr. Jennison claim*
that he found out after he agreed to the
monthly alimony.
By the telegrams Reuben Arnold, of
counsel for Mr. Jennison. Bought to
show that Mr. Hundley hail an appoint
ment to meet Mr». Jennison In Naw
York and that he did *o meet her.
Mr. Hundley stated that two of the
telegrams to Mr*. Jennison were about
hla lease of the Aragon hotel and one
about some Insurance papers of which
he knew nothing. Mr. Hundley said
that lie wrote ell of the telegrame, tho
two were signed by the name of J. I.
Anderson, hla attorney, with the lat-
Continued on Page Twelve.
HON. H. H. PERRY.
Hall county man whu Is latest
entry In campaign for governor.
Want Ads
One C,nt a Wort.
On yesterday the
Atlanta papers carried
Want Ads as follows:
Georgian 539
Journal... 367}
Constitution 182] ° y
To h«Ip tboio who tro oat of t peti
tion or who deilrt n better one. The
Georgian prints went tdi under the cue.
elftctiton ^Situations Wanted’' free.
Want Ads published by
all the Atlanta newspapers
for the week ending May
14, 1910, a period of six
working days: The Geor
gian carried 2,787 PAID
Want Ads; Journal, 2,154;
Constitution, 1,055 Want
ads.
The Georgian prints no
Sunday paper.