j^Nothini Succeeds l ike The Georgian”^ THE ATLANTA GEORGI AN
r
: a
Nothing Succeeds Like The Georgian” I
ON RAILROAD BILL
Senate Leaders Working to Se^
cure Passage This Week.
Cummins Amendment
Brings Hard Fight.
Washington, May 24.—The light In
the senate over the administration's
railroad bill was resumed today.
The leaders will make another
determined effort to press the measure
to a Anal vote by the close of the week,
altho It Is said there has not as yet
been any agreement reached either with
the Democrats or Insurgents which
Igentleman prisoner wants
$25,000 FOR LOST LIBERTY
nr
Horace Gray Sues Express Co.
For Having Him Locked
Up in Marietta
Jail.
Ight accomplish that end. fslw linprlsoeinSt
the contest will come on Senator I Aoh™nthlnI h«
After haring been completely (oat from
the public cyo for about a year, Horace C.
Gray—"Talkative Horace**—now cornea forth
ami again flashes Into the limelight.
Thla shrewd stranger, whose remarkable
ntoriff and confessions rrentM aiich a stir
In police clrclea In Atlanta an/1 whose brief
but epectnciilar career behind the bars here
devi*|o|»ed a dramatic sequel In Marietta, la
appearing thla time In an absolutely new
and different role. Gray la now seeking a
golden pnnni en /or "mental anguish"—a le
gal etlmnlant for crunhed spirits and wound
ed feelings.
The ‘‘gentleman hwu^ht suit
alleged
hs "csl . - - . - -
... Mnrlrfla against tils Southern .
Compnny for ICSyOflO damages for
. . . . . . Altho nothing bss been heard hers of Gray
Cummins' amendment, which provides K |„,,. his sudden release from the Marietta
that Increases In rates must be np- Jill, nfter he had been sentenced to a term
proved by the Interstate commerce j of seven years. It Is reported that he Is now
commission before becoming effective. fIn Montforaery.
By a skillful parliamentary move the
Iowa senator has placed the amend
ment In auch a position that n direct
vote upon the Issue can not be prevent'
ed. If the regulars can kill It they be
lieve there will be comparatively
•month sailing thereafter, as they are
ready to accept modifications of the
hlle It Is probaMe that Senator La-
Follette and some of the other pro
gressives will desire to talk, the regu
lars will refrain from participating In
the debate In order to facilitate flnnt
action upon the bill.
Continued from Page One.
Grand Patriarch E. A. Raughan. of At
lanta, who heads the grand encamp
ment, and Mra. Agnea Dickson, of
Fitzgerald, president of the Rebekah
state assembly, are the presiding of
ficers of the convention, and with many
other high officers of the grand en
campment. the grand lodge and the
Rebekaha, reached the city Monday
night and held executive conclave that
night.
The program for today's session fol
lows.
9:00 a m.—Grand encampment of
the l O. O. F. of Georgia meeti
new auditorium.
Business session during tha morning,
adjourn at 11:10 for lunch,
4:00 p. m.—Baseball on campus. Uni
versity of Georgia vs. Bewanee or Vir
ginia
1:10 p. m.—Outdoor performance of
Shakespeare's “As You Like It,” on
State Normal school campus, given by
students of the school.
9:10 p. m.—Encampment degree con-
test, at Deupree hall. Subordinate
work and prlsea offered by city of
Athens.
9:10 p. m.—Dance In honor Rebekah*
and Odd Fellows at auditorium.
Every' train today brought In hun-
dreda of delegates, large numbera com
ing fmmithe cities of Atlanta, Macon,
Savannah. Augusta, Columbus, Rome,
Brunswick and other places, while
practlrally every county will be r#|
aented when the grand lodge Is con
vened Wednesday by Grand Master
John P. Davis.
Four degree teams will contest In
second degree work tonight, a prise of
1100 being offered for the winner In the
subordinate degree work. Three Re
bekah team* will contest and two en
eampment team* will enter the rnntest
and four nr five cantons Bill compete
In the prise drill of Wednesday. Suit
able prises have been offered for the
winners In etch event.
The enrampment will complete Its
work today and after the election of
officers for the ensuing year tonight
will adjourn, the members remaining
for the convention and the grand lodge
sessions.
R r.__ — — - - -
I conviction nnd after ho
had I loon given the lerm of seven years, hla
fnther. * wealthy man of Mississippi, be
rime Interested In the essr and. at his own
•xpenw*, brought government officials new
from Nebraska to prove hla ton Innocent.
Had a Pine Alibi.
Thla wna 'lone bv showing by these offl-
rlala th.lt Horace or ay waa In Jail In Omnbn
nt tjnc time of the Marietta crime and that
LESS THAN HALF PRICE
TOMORROW
For Lingerie Dresses, Lingerie Waists,
Silk Dresses and Tailor Suits
Beginning tomorrow morning at 8 o’clock and continuing till every gar
ment is disposed of, we will offer the Greatest Values in
Ladies’ Ready-to-Wear ever known in the South.
These Values are Illustrative of What We are Offering in
All Departments:
One-Piece Silk Dresses, $ i c.98
eating prisoners In Marietta Jail.
Now he Is plaintiff Instead of de
fendant.
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Grny'a Innocence and released him on a
email bo Ad, which wna taken to mean that
the cose had been (brown out of court.
The Marietta charge waa brought against
Gray nnd he wna removed to the Cobb
II be
poll
Atlanta police station Gray confeaaad that
confession canned the government authorl-
county" Jail Vfter'he'had heen heid' ln“ theitira to"!./ buss, but tle poatoffic* Isijwc-
Atlanta police ntntlon for about three weeka ]rors of \\ n It hill district .wired back_ that
on ‘‘anaplclon.** Nothin* waa ever found
ngainst him here to warrant the docketing
of n definite charge ....
The trial of Gray In Marietta, hla conrle
tlon, hla eentenee of seven yearn, and the
aubaeqtient showing that led to. hla release
formed one of the moat remarkable criminal
proceeding* ever known In thla section and
attracted wide attention. Despite the many
startling atorlea related hr Gray, he always
stoutly pmteated that hf waa Innocent of
the Marietta charge.
th**y didn’t went Gray, altho they confirmed
hla statement to the effect that the aafe waa
blown and at about the time mentioned by
Gray.
The prisoner at another time confessed
that he had Invented a wonderful electrical
machine for the tranaferrlng of signatures,
but this machine waa never found. By rea-
aon of hla strange atorlea. whether they
were true or merely creations of a lurid lm-
nation. Gray figured conspicuously all of
time he waa locked up here.
HUNDREDTH BIRTHDAY
CELEBRATED BY WOMAN
Dublin. Ga.. May ft. The celebration to
day at Big Bandy church of tha 10ith anni
versary of the birthday of Mra, Betsy Hll-
Iaw. of Wttktnson. is nttraetlng a great deal
of attention nnd a large crowd la present.
Zenua Fordhsm. her brother, aged 9b. and
Mrs. Martha Rawls, aged R2. both of this
county, are present. Of this remarkable
family one died at 60. another between the
ages of 60 and TO. Others died at various
•get between 75 and 90.
There were fourteen members of the fam
ily.
Scores Are Dead. From Water
Spouts and High Winds.
Railroads Crippled and
Service Interrupted.
TO BE AGREAT EVENT
Edwin Lemare and Florence
Hinkle, With Chorus of 500,
Appear Next Tuesday.
Paris, May 24.—Mora than a score are
dead throughout Francs ss «hs rasult of
tsrrlflc storms, water spouts snd winds
of cyclonic Iforce that for Ihros day*
have swept ths country. The properly
damage Is eatlVnated at several million
dollars. Storms continue today with
unabated fury after raging all night.
Railroads are crippled and wire com
munication la tied up in some quarter*.
Coming on top of a long spell of bad
weather, heglnntng with the rains that
caused the Paris flood, the latest storm*
have played Havoc with cropa. A
Thonen-Lea-Balns, according to ad
vices received today, many are home
less as a result of the waterwpout which
late yesterday washed away the town
hall, killing three persona. The depart
ment of the Mnrne hn* suffered heavily,
•specially about Rhelmt, which was
swept by hurricanes. The situation la
even worse In the department of Tarn.
NURSES OF WESLEY
COMPLETE COURSE
Th« graduating exercises of the
Wesley Memorial Training School for
Nurses will he held Tuesday night In
Wesley Memorial church. The addreaa
will be delivered by Judge John S. Can
dler; the diplomas, by Dr. W, E. Qull-
llnn, and. the class plna, by Dr. Wlllla
Jones. Those who will receive diplo
mas are Mias Naomi Roberta, Miss
Ha>dee Johnson. Miss Mary Cotton,
Miss Scott Hunter nnd Miss Mary Mc
Connell. The exercise* will commence
at 9 o'clock and the public la cordially
Invited to attend.
LET US RECOMMEND
a Blue Serge
There’■ no better fabric for general
wear in the summer than these de
lightfully cool half-lined serges. Our
showing at this time includes the
prettiest weaves we have ever,had in
our store. They are strictly pure
wool and made to withstand the
rough usage of summer wear.
$18 to $40—SUITS—$18 to $10
Here Is a reversal of the old order
of things. In Atlanta the last day of
May Is to be of greater moment than
the flrat. And with good reason, too,
for of the making of Maypoles to mark
the flrat there Is no end, but It will
be a long time before Atlanta will have
occasion to celebrate the lest as she
will thla year—with the formal Intro
duction to the public of such an or
gan as that the Music Festival, has
Installed In the Auditorium.
And the Introduction of the organ
will serve to Introduce to Atlanta mu
sic lovers two artists of world-wide
reputation In their separate lines.
Edwin H. Lemare, the organist en
gaged for the concert. Is known not
only as the most brilliant exponent
of "the king of Instruments,” but as
a composer aa well.
"There are probably few organists
today ao well equipped technically aa
Mr. Lemare for obtaining orchestral
effects from the organ,” lays The Lon
don Times. ”Hls technique is like that
of a Kubelik or a Godowsky: he la an
excellent Improvlaer, and a large num
ber of compositions from hla pen tes
tify to hla skill as a creative musi
cian and to hla facility.”
Mlsa Florence Hinkle, the beautiful
young soprano who will alng a group
of snnga at the concert, has added
many new leave* to her crown of lau
rels thla season, the busiest and pros!
successful of her career. She la being
aougnt by a great many of the most
prominent clubs and musical associa
tions of the country and has had to
decline many engagements because, un
fortunately, not being omnipresent, aha
could not sing In two places at one
and the-same time.
Another feature of the concert will
be the mammoth chorus of 600 voices,
trained by Professor OerardtThlers.
The profile from the concert will go
toward paying for the magnificent or
gan.
Box seats, at $1 each, are now on
sale at the Cable Plano Company and
at the nfllera of Phillips A Crew.
Parquet and parquet circle seats will
be sold for 60 cents, and seat* In the
balcony may be had for a quarter.
These are on sale at the Cable Plano
Company. Arno Music Company. Phil
lips A Crew, George Muae Clothing
* ipany. Cole Book Company, and
Havnea Jewelry Company.
Worth up to $35, at
Magnificent model* In Women's Dresses and Costumes of imported
pure silk pongeaa, satin foulards and Imported taffetas, in (tripos and
checks. Styles include beautiful embroidered effects, many elaborately
designed by hand. Latest overskirt effects. Handsome styles with lace
yokes and pipinga of contrasting colors, many with lacs bodies*, net
yokes and combination sleeves of net and oversleeves.
The most exclusive models evar shown In Atlanta.
In natural, tan, white, gray, wistaria, mulberry, egg blue, electric
blue, rose, fancy strip* offsets, navy blua and changeable affects.
One-Piece Silk Dresses, $ i i .75
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Worth up to $30, at
Fascinating Dresses for street and evening wsar. Vary newest mod
els'of pongee silks, satin foulards, figured foulards, messallnea, Import
ed chiffon taffetas and soft liberty satins.
Braided styles with embroidered net yokes, all-over embroidered
designs and combination affects In sunburst plaited styles. Some richly
designed with steel beads and handwork embroidery. Others with lace
yokes and sleeves with jist euffa. Very attractive style* with gold-mesh
lacs yok* and euffa to match.
New shades of sky blua, rose, wistaria, navy, alaetrio blua, steel
gray, tan, olive, mode, pink, reseda, burgundy, black and white, navy
and white, shepherd checks and all black.
Sale pries, $11.75. Worth up to $30.
One-Piece Lingerie Dresses,
Worth $8 and $10, at
Pretty one-piece Lingerie Dresses of soft mulls, batiste and Per
sian lawn, consisting of panel embroidery styles, embroidery and lace-
trimmed effects and dainty styles of eyelet embroideries, as wall as
charming tunio designs. Dresses daintily trimmed with tueka and me
dallions of heavy laea and embroidery. Sale price, $3.93. Values worth
$8 and $10.
$^>.98
95c
$*7-95
Fine Lingerie Waists,
Worth up to $3, at
Fifty dozen Handsome White Lingerie Waists,,representing all ths
newest ideas created for this season’s wear.
Fresh, beautiful styles trimmed with lacs medallions, *r!eh eluny
bandings, handsome yokes of batiste medallions, Irish lace bands and
German val laco insertions: othars with attractive lace and embroidery
fronting* in many clever designs.' •
Dutch neck styles, with short sleeves, and high collar atylas, with
long sleeves and cuffs.
Lingerie Dresses,
Values worth $18 and $20.. £
One-piece Lingerie Dresses, in the newest styles for Summer wear.
Consisting of importdd batiste, soft mulls and dainty French lawns. De
signed In a large variety of styles, with trimmings and insertions of im
ported laces, wide Irish lace bandings and Irish lace collars. Exquiaite
styles, with insertions of French val laca, imported German val* and
medallions of Irish lacas and Point Venice lace, with bodices of fine
embroideries. Elaborate skirts to match, showing tha newest designs in
overskirt* and tunics. ,
Made with transparent yokes, soma with Dutch collars, others with
high naekai long or three-quarter sleeves: all daintily trimmed.
Not a garment in the lot worth less than $1B; the majority worth
$20.
Women’s and Misses’ Suits,, $
Worth $25, $30 and $35, at
Women's and Miteaa’ Tailored Suits of fine quality matariala. In
cluding chiffon panamas, imported diagonals, French serges, storm
sergee, imported worsteds, cream serges, cream and black sargas, alto
new diagonal wales.
Plain tailored models, Russian blouses, braided effects, axoluslve on*
and two-button effect styles, and newast styles in plain tailored effects
Latest style plaited skirts: coats lined with satin duchsstt, ptau de
oygne, plain satina and taffeta silks.
Choice of now tan, ashes of violet, old rose, wistaria, several shades
of green, blue, taupe, electrio blue, navy blua and plain black.
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.95
Samuel Gans Company
59-61-63 West Mitchell Street
Block from
Terminal Station
STRIKE A WOMAN? NO, NOT
THO SHE WALLOPED HIM
Buehl-Meador Company
62-54 Peachtree-at., Cor. Walton.
(Atlanta Agents lor “Peck” Clothes.)
\ .
Every Lodge in City Sends Del
egates to the State
Convention.
The first delegation of Atlanta Odd
Fellows left Monday night for Athens
to attend the annual state convention.
Delegations from ever)- lodge In the
city left Tuesday. The principal busi
ness that will come up before the
state conclave will be the entertain
ment of the sovereign grand lodge
which gathers In Atlanta next Septem
ber.
Refute to Return to Work.
Wilkesbarre. Pa., May 24—The 7.0(10
striking miners of the Pennsylvania
Steel Company, ordered back to work
by the conciliation board, refused to
return to work this morning and in
dues* omar men to sulks.
The tedium was broken In the re
corder's court Monday afternoon when
Mrs. Lucy Flynn, of 113 Pulliam-at.,
was arraigned before Judge Broylea,
charged with administering condign
punishment to her bigger half—Mr.
Flynn. During the proceedings the lat
ter stood for the moat part silent, Ms
big ahouldera'dronplqg dejectedly, while
hla little wife 'fesaed up to all aho
had dono to him, and In the most ani
mated and naively assured manner told
the court why. Now and then a sheep.
Ish grin would overspread hla broad,
good-natured face, wrinkling a week's
growth of reddish beard.
It appeared that there waa also a
niece In the case, who took port In be
stowing the drubbing—of.whlch the un.
happy, victim showed numerous and
sanguinary signs. The two women had
taken It turn about on the victim, one
relieving the other when she became
exhausted.
What the origin of the trouble was
did not seem clear, but so far as could
be .found. It was the fault of that
"harmless" near-beer. The happy fam.
Ily were partaking of this anomalous
beverage and Mr. Flynn—ao Mrs. Flynn
said—consumed more than hla share.
This. Mrs. Flynn averred waa tha causa
of the whole trouble—that Mr. Flynn
took too much, tho Mr. Flynn didn't
seem to think ao.
The recorder, when he heard about
all this very literal and. It would aeem.
rather painful punishment, asked why
Flynn had not defended hlmaelf. Mean
time. with hla eye. he measured the
respective slsea of the man And the
•he waa only giving him "what he
needed.” and In this opinion the culprit
appeared to concur. That hla chastise
ment had been thorough can not be
doubted. The officers said they found
him "meek aa a lamb.”
GA. BURBANK WORKING
TO DEVELOP COTTON
Continued from Page One.
varietlee, while this year he hae 66
acres and will investigate 41 varieties.
To Increase tha Bolls.
"The first great possibility I see In
cotton Is that of Increasing the yield
from 100 to 600 per cent, with the same
fertilisation and cultivation now used,"
said Mr. Hastings. “This Is to be done
|iy Increasing the number of bolls on
the plant. Even In the most prolific
varieties now known there la a tre
mendous percentage of plants that do
not come true to their prolific quality:
In fact, fall far below the profit line and
are cultivated at a lose. The problem
on which I am now chiefly at work Is to
see how far these unprofitable plants
may be eliminated, ao that the whole
Held may beat- approximately as pro-
Jlflcally as the best plant In it."
’ Mr. Hastings calls tha*' unprofitable
plants ••thieves,” because they steal
from the farmer hla labor and the ex
pense of planting and cultivation. The
two accompanying Illustrations show
the difference between the “thief" and
the prolific plant.
Both are of the same variety atfd
grew In the same row only a ftw feet
from each other and under the same
ty appeared on the Judicial counte-1 conditions of soil and cultivation, and
nance. Hla honor smiled—right out In I yet No. I. the “thief.” makes about one)
court. I bale to twenty acres and would bring
But Mr. Flynn solemnly
that
a woman. u »«i«» b»h*« ■»*•*■* . _
declared. He spoke In a sober, matter. J rate of 2 1-2 bales to the acre and
nf-fact tone and seemed quite shocked; would bring Its producer 1200 an acre,
that the court ehould suggest the pos-1 and yet both were produced at the same
slblltty of auch a thing. | coat. ...
Of course. In view of this chivalrous. No Stable Figures
attitude. Judge Broyles could not think • Another very peculiar thing about
of fining the wife and not the man. sol cotton, noticed by Mr. Hastings. Is that
he gave each 616.76. I none of Its seven nr eight real varieties
In conflrmatlon of Flynn's protests-1 are anything like stable. The whole
tlons of passiveness, the arresting olfi-, thing Is In a chaotic state, giving the
cera testified that they had seen Mra. | Investigator the widest Held Imaginable.
Flynn boxing her lord and maater'a J The first thing then to be done Is to Int-
jaws In tha patrol wagon on the way to • prove existing varieties and then to
the station house and that ho made no j originate new one* to meet existing
resistance. Energetic little Mra. Flynn I conditions.
calmly admitted all. but declared that! Not only are tha varieties unstable
and exhibit marked differences, but In
dividual plants also show tho greatest
divergencies.
Last year Mr. Hastings studied the
peculiarities of 800 Individual plants and
noted this amaxlng fact, that one plant
produced 63 per cent of lint cotton and
67 per cent of seed, while others, hav
ing approximately the same number of
holla and being In other respects very
similar, produced only 17 per cent of
lint, or produced as high as 49 per cent.
"We noted." said Mr. Hastings, "this
lint difference peculiarly last year and
so far as I know we are the first to
observe and to announce it. It Is one
of the curious things that we have dis
covered about this most curious of all
plants."
Mr. Hastings la likewise breeding
plants for disease resisting qualities,
for earllnesa of bearing, for big boll
production and for the quality of sred
yield. He finds that the ramlflratlonn
of each development are almost end
less.
He Insists that he doe* not expect to
produce marvels In some magical way.
hut Intends to devote the greater part
of hla life’s activities to breeding rntton
for Its highest efficiency.
"The almost barren or 'thief plants,
he said, "are costing the South In wa.«i»
of labor and fertiliser each year 12'"’.-
090,000, and Georgia alone 635,W>n,9im
And this Is the Jeak Mr. Martins*
hope* to atop by a lifetime of Investlc t-
tlon.
X. i wair in iwrmy acres luia noma onng
at Mr. Flynn solemnly protested J Ite producer 64 an acre, according to
he wouldn't “lift hla hand against last season's prices, while No. 2 comes
Oman.” Not if she killed him, he {true to variety and is yielding at the
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