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SIB COSB DIDN'T
THINK OF LIVES
OFOWNING
Possibility of Saving Titanic's
Victims Never Occurred to
Duff Gordon. He Admits.
LONDON. May 20.—Prominent so
ciety people, including members of the
nobility, turned out again in full force
loday for the government's inquiry into
the Titanic disaster. The attraction
was the presence of Sir Cosmo and
Lady Duff-Gordon at the hearing, and
the iniroductimi of further evidence re
lating to their behavior at the time of
the disaster.
Among the members of the nobility
present were Prince Albert of Schles
wig Holstein and Prince Leopold of
Battenburg.
Sir Cosmo was recalled and ques
tioned keenly by Sir Rufus Isaacs, the
attorney general.
"I don't know what officer told me to
get into the lifeboat,” said Sir Cosmo
in answer to a question. "From what
I have learned since I believe that it
was Fifth Officer Lowe. I did not know
Lowe and I iiave been told that lie ap
proached my wife and asked: 'Are you
ready to leave. Lady Duff-Gordon ?' but
I did not hear this."
Sir Cosmo was questioned closely 'as
to when he had offered each member of
the crew manning the lifeboat a five
pound ($25) note. The witness was a
little vague on this subject. Referring
to his escape from the ship, he said:
Saw No Others Near
Empty Lifeboat.
"I simply saw an empty lifeboat, and
as I had two ladies with hie I asked the
officer in charge whether I could ac
company them. There were no othei
passengers near, so far as I could see."
Sir Cosmo said he did not bear an
order given on board the ship that th.
women and children should be sa\
ft ret.
While the witness was testifying
dispute arose between counsel as to th
nature of the questions, and Attorney
Henry Duke, counsel for the Duff-Gor
dons, served notice that he intended to
call Duff-Gordon to the stand to refute
reports which had been circulated about
her.
Witness pleaded fault)' memory when
naked whether he could hear the cries
of passengers in the water pleading to
be saved.
"it never occurred io me that we
could save anybody," began the wit
ness. When one of the lawyers angrily,
broke in -with "you considered when
you had saved yourself that all others
mighi perish" Do you think that
question fair?" asked Lord Mersey.
"This witness' position is bad enough
now'."
"I intend to press that question'," an
swered the lawyer, at which there wa
a burst of applause from the crowded
galleries.
Denies Trying To
Bribe Sailors To Row.
Mr. Harbin-on, a lawyer represent
ing families of some of the Irish steer- •
age passengers, wanted to know if any i
one in the lifeboat had given orde.rs I
or made suggestions wlyat to do. The
witness replied that one man gave or- |
tiers all night. Then Harbinson -wanted j
to know if Sir Cosmo’s offer of $25 (o
each member of the crew had any ef
fect.
"Why don't you put ypur questions
plainly?” demanded Lord Mersey.
"Here is what you want to say," and
then turning to the witness. Lord Mer
sey demanded: "Did you promise the
sen men rowing your lifeboat five
pounds apiece to row aw r ay from dr'own- I
ing people?”
Sir Cosmo's face blanched, but before :
he could reply Harbinson was on bis
"That is precisely what 1 wanted to
sav,” he cried.
"Then, W'hy didn't you say it?" quer
ied the presiding judge while applause
again rippled over the galleries.
Sir Cosmo denied that he had bribed I
the boatmen and be also denied insinu- |
ations that he had made arrangements I
with Ismay to have a lifeboat put at his
personal service.
Lady Duff-Gordon followed her hus
band on the witness stand. She de
clared that it was not a question of
choice with her about getting into a
lifeboat. She said a seaman picked her
up and pitched her bodily into the boat.
LOCAL GARMENT WORKERS
TO SPEND DAY AT FALLS
Factories in Atlanta employing mem
bers of the United Garment Workers of
America will close June 6 for one day.
.Nearly every man. woman and child
who is a member of the organization
will go to Tallulah Falls that day fora
picnic. A special train has been, char
tered for the crowd" of about 2.000 peo
ple, which is t<j the Terminal
station at S o'clock in the morning.
They will remain on the outing all day.
returning to Atlanta at 9 o'clock that
night.
Factor' owner- have been notified of
the outing and will close their plants to
allow employees to make the trip
TEACHERS INSTITUTE CLOSES.
DALTON. GA . May 20. —The county
teachers institute of Catoosa, held at
Ringgold, has closed. The institute
was conducted by Miss Celeste Par
rish state supervisor of schools. Among
the prominent speakers to address the
gathering were Professor M L. Brit
tain, state superitsti ndent of schools:
Professor .1. L. Bishop and Professor .1.
W Firor, of the State College of Ag
Hcultura
' Big Mr E. Conference
Is Working Overtime
To Elect 7 Bishops
MINNEAPOLIS, MINN.. May 20.
, With only eight days left in which to
■ wind up its business, the general con-
I ferenej? of* the Methodist Episcopal
church today began what was expected
to be the busiest week of tile session,
j Seven bishojts must be elected before
adjournment. May 28, the* secretaries
of the benevolent boards must be se
lected. the editors of the official church
papers named, the agents of tin- book
concerns chosen and three-fourths of
the wo: I: of the conference transacted.
Os the 75 reports oi committees so far
, received by’ the conference only eleven
b have been- acted upon. Some of the
( questions still to come up will call for
I lively- debate, and if the conference fails
I to dispose of all the business before ad
journment today- it Is believed the
> length of the sessions will be increased.
The sixth ballot for bishop, sealed
. Saturday night, is to be counted this
morning. It is expected that the result
• will be announced by noon. There was
much speculation among the delegates
as-to the possible effect the stand of
. the candidates for the bishop, ic on the
amusement question might have on
, their ob-etion.
, Nine of the twelve candidates voted
to eliminate the dancing clause of the
discipline. The majority of delegates
. voted for its retention.»
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GINGERCAKE HICKS DID IT
Clarence Herman Hicks is only ten
years old and black as a burnt singer
cake. and his whole attire wouldn't
weigh eighteen ounces or bring eight
cents at an auction, but he cost Atlanta
business men slo<* worth of time, de
layed traffic in Peachtree street twenty
minutes and nearly ruined the day's
business for a restaurant. And he did
it all by falling off a trolley car.
It happened right in front of the
Piedmont hotel at noon today. Clar
ence Herman wasn't a guest there, but
when his car reached the hotel Clarence
Herman decided to get off. and forgot
to ring the bell. He struck the asphalt
all in a heap and for a moment the half
Mozen who saw him thought he was
dead. Hut when they carried him into
the case the street and laid him
down on the floor his wails announced
that he was still very much alive.
$Bl Worth of Time Gone
In i xuetly 15 seconds after Clarence
reached the case the sidewalk was
blocked by 98 persons. Two minutes
later the crowd numbered 200. From
that time until the ambulance arrived,
which was fully ten minutes, the
throng increased instead of diminish
ing, for as fast as one man elbowed his
way out in disappointment that nobody
was killed, two others squeezed their
way in.
A man with a head for figures strug
gled out of the crowd around the doors
and began counting.
"At least a thousand men wasted five
minutes each, squirming in»<> that door,
looking at ti->- hot, st ing <!ue.-tions and
getting <>ut again," he said, "Some of
THE ATLANTA GEORGIAN AND NEWS: MONDAY. MAY 20. 1012.
INDIAN DOCTOR
HAD ND LICENSE
An Osage Indian, giving Iris name |
as Dr. G. L. Gray, of Oklahoma City.
Okla., wim recently came to Atlanta i
and opened offices in room 21. Inman
building, is behind the bars at police'
station in default of SSOO bond, and
must answer to Recorder BroyleS for
posing as a physician and practicing
here without a license. Detectives Co
ker and Hamby say Gray has admitted
to them that he is not a doctor, al
though at first he protested that his
business was perfectly legitimate.
Gray advertised himself as an Osage
Indian specialist, and is said to bav<
done an extensive business. Detectives
confiscated a lot of medicines in his of
fice, and. among other things, found a ■
bottle of green fluid, which, they say. I
is nothing more nor less than knockout
drops.
The arrest of tin? "doctor" followed
complaint by Fayn'e Almond. :r farmet
living near Oakland C ity, who one
of his patients. Almond says lie camo
to Atlanta with SSOO and that lie had
only sl2 when tite Indian specialist fin
ished with him. Almond was stopping
at the Bachelors Domain, and'was re
moved from there by Gray to the Gate
City hotel. Gray is said to have led t'm I
patient to believe he would bo taken to
his mother's home.
Judge Broyles today fixed Gray's bond
at SSOO, and set the preliminary hearing
for Saturday morning.
them are loafers, but there ate bankers,
brokers, lawyers and merchants in the
bunch. Average them up as being worth
50 cents an hour. There’s $Bl worth of
good time gone.
"The trolley conductor and motor
man lost five minutes each getting a
record of the’accident. and all the pas
sengers were delayed. Twenty-eight
automobiles stopped and the chauffeurs
•climbed out to find what the excitement
was all about. Oh. the total will run
to SIOO easily."
Then the ambulance came clanging
up to the case and rushed the boy off
to Fairhaven hospital, where the doc
tors said he wasn’t hurt, seriously. He'll
spend a day or two in a nice white bed,
and if the thought of the "student doc
tors" doesn’t scare him to death, he will
have a story worth telling when he gets
out.
THOMASTON SCHOOL CLOSING
THOMASTON. GA.. May 20. Rev.
Lincoln McConnell, formerly of Kansas
City, preached the baccalaureate sermon
yesterday and will deliver the literary
address on Tuesday at the Joseph 11.
Johnston institute commencement. Re
citals of the music and elocution depart
ments take place today.
LOWNDES COURT CONVENES.
VALDOSTA. GA.. .May 20.—The May
term of Lowndes superior court con
vened here today, with Judge W. E.
Thomas presiding The case of Cooper
against Moore & Strickland, involving
valuable lauds of the Harrell estate,
which was tried once and sent back to
Hu lower court for another trial, will
consume several days.
DEMOCRACY’S FAIR DAUGHTERS
MEET AT HARMONY BREAKFAST
Miss Genevieve Clark, daughter of
Speaker Champ Clark, at top, and Miss Lucy
... Hoke Smith, daughter of Senator Hoke
Smith, at bottom, prominent among debu-
(antes present at the Dolly Madison break
< rRC\ ' n W as hi u !?f on today
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crats Take Leading Part in
Notable Gathering.
\\ ASHINGTON May 21 Th. wiv- -
and daughters of Democratic leaders
assembled at a harmony, breakfast to
day in honor of the memory of Dolly
Madison. The guest of honor was Mrs.
Mary Cutts Craig, a granddaughter of
Mrs. Madison's young sister, Anna
Payne.
The decoration schemes and the menu
served in every possible way to revive
the "Dolly Madison” atmosphere. The
breakfast, the women of the na
tional Democracy declared, signified
the "unification of the Democratic par
ty.”
The guests at the party included de
scendants of presidents and vC presi
dents. Prominent women present were
Mrs. Woodrow Wilson, Mrs, Oscar ln
derwood, Mrs. Champ Clark. Mrs. Wil
liam Randolph Hearst. Mrs. Judson
Harmon. Mrs Henry D. <'lay ton. Mis.
Norman E. Mack. Mrs. Grover Cleve
land and others.
Prominent among the debutante
daughters of Democratic leaders were
-Miss l.ticx Hoke Smith, of Atlanta, and
Miss Genevieve Clark. daughter of
Champ Claik.
SOUTH GEORGIA HEN
LAYS A SERIAL EGG
BOSTON. GA.. May 20- An egg fn two
parts joined together by a tube an inch
long and about an eighth of an inch in
diameter is on exhibition at a local drug
store. The shell is soft, 'rhe yolk is in
one pari of the egg and the white in air
other. showing that it is one egg rather
than the joining of two.
The freak was brought in in town hy
Lee Watkins, a I a oner
M’CLATCH EY’S HOME BURNS.
MARIi/l'T A, GA., A!<»y Jo. The home
•if D. !•’. M< <'latch'a , of this city, read
ing < i< rl< of the house of n presenta
li ves», was badly damaged by fire when
an oil stove exploded. The loss is about
$1,50(1, with about SI,OOO insurance.
WINDOW BOXES FILLED
ATLANTA FLORAL CO.,
Call Main 1130.
Every citizen interested
in civic improvement and|
how to interest our boys i
should attend Atlanta Thea !
ter tonight 8:15. Free.
BIG INTERSTATE FAIR
PLANNED FOR ATLANTA
The Chamber of Commerce today
announced a plan for an interstate fair
to he ludil each year On the city's land
The profits of each season will be in
vested in permanent improvements for
the grounds and buildings, as is now
done In Toronto and Dallas. The fair
w ill be run on a larger scale than any
thing of its kind yet attempted in this
section and ail the Southern states will
be asked to send exhibits.
Not only agricultural products and
fine cattle will be on exhibit, but all the
various articles manufactured in the
South are to be shown.
Only permanent buildings will be
erected on the fair grounds and from
the profits of each season improvements
will be added and other buildings con
structed until the fair will reach pro
portions where it can draw visitors
from all over the country.
The plan for the fair is announced
in the first of the monthly bulletins
which the chamber has just sent out.
Industrial Bureau Coming.
To establish an industrial bureau, a
convention bureau, to hold an exhibit of
I' LIEBERMAN’S
ANNUAL TRUNK SALE
is saving dollars to trunk and baggage buyers. x
Red tags, marked in plain figures, show % saving on every piece of goods
in the house.
$22.50 Trunks . .$16.50 $1’8.50 Suit Cases $13.50 $16.50 Bags $12.50
$14.50 Trunks . SIO.OO SIO.OO Suit Cases. $ 6.75 SIO.OO Bags $ 7.00
-SIO.OO Trunks ....$ 7.50 $ 7.50 Suit Cases $ 5.50 $ 6.75 Bags 4.50
LIEBERMAN’S
The Hoose of Guaranteed Baggage Whitehall! Street |
Atlanta made products in the Audi
torium-Armory, to complete the work
of giving the chamber a home of its
own, to have Atlanta adopt a perma
nent park and civic system, to. foster
the educational advancements of its cit
izens and to hold here a Southern con
ference to secure trade with South
America after the opening of the Pan
: ama canal are other tilings which the
chamber is materializing now
The erection of the Auditorium-Ar
mory, the increase in the city’s terri
tory, tlie campaign for the $3,000,000
bond issue to provide water mains and
sewerage connections, are told of in the
first bulletin.
The clean-up Atlanta campaign of
this year. the. health conference held in
January, 1910, the $6,000 corn show, the
first boll weevil conference ever held in
Georgia, the Georgia Good Roads con
gress of 1907, the only manufacturers’
automobile show ever held outside New
York city, and numbers of other things
are mentioned briefly in an effort to
show what the ehamber has accom
‘ plished and what is the general outline
of the work.
IPLEDGE $250,D00
FOR uNimn
Presbyterians to Select Site
and Build School in Atlanta
Without Further Delay.
According to prominent Presbyterian
leaders today, the action of the South
ern Assembly, which is now meeting
in Bristol. Tenn . In dismissing a com
mittee on the establishment of a South
ern Presbyterian university should not
be construed as a discouragement of
the movement to build Oglethorpe uni
versity in Atlanta.
T. S. Clyce. moderator of the South
ern Presbyterian Assembly, stated this
morning that the Atlanta, papers had
misunderstod the matter.
"We are sorry that the local papers
have misunderstood the assembly ac
tion upon the overture of the Paris
Presbytery touching the establishment
of a university in Atlanta or some oth
er central point.” said Mr. Clyce. ’‘This
action of the assembly had no refer
ence to the movement on foot in At
lanta for establishing of the Ogle
thorpe university. That matter has
not been before the assembly at all.
I The action of the assembly does not
discourage that movement in the least.”
Over $250,000 Pledged.
More than a quarter of a million dol
lars already has been pledged for the
building fund of Oglethorpe university,
the institution which the Presbyteriane
of the Southern states will establish tn
Atlanta. Three admirable location’
have been proposed as sites from which
the committee in charge will make a
selection in a few- days
Actual construe tion. It Is believed,
will be begun within a few months.
Prominent business men all over "the
South have accepted seats on the board
of directors and will finance the insti
tution,
Jacobs Corrects Impression.
Recent assertions that the church
w-ould abandon the idea of founding a
university here were denied today by
Thornwell Jacobs, one of the best
known Presbyterians of Atlanta Mr.
Jacobs said
"A mistaken idea has been conveyed
by the press dispatches from Bristol.
Tenn., about the plans for the estab
lishment of a Presbyterian institution
here, which needs immediate correc
tion. The impression conveyed is to
the effect that the Presbyterians have
abandoned their efforts in that direc
tion, and will not establish a. univer
sity in Atlanta.
“The exact opposite is the case. The
action of the Bristol assembly merely
means the discharge of a committee
■ that did not find itself able to do the
| work that was desired by Atlantans
! Only one member of that committee was
I from Atlanta, and he left here shortly
Lifter his appointment. A local Presby
[tqrian layman offered. voluntarily,
SIOO,OOO cash, and other parties a mag-
I nifleent site, but the committee did not
I come here to investigate the matter to
find out what Atlanta would do, and
j did not even so much as meet together
| once during the entire year of its fife.
"Under such conditions the assembly
simply let the committee die at Bris
tol. ‘What complaint?’ No complaint,
everybody satisfied.
"Local Presbyterians knew in ad
vance what the committee's report
would he, and heartily approved its de-,
mise. After waiting eleven months so
something to be done and finding noth
ing, they themselves got busy.
"Briefly, the assembly’s committee
felt itself unable to do what was want
ed done. It was chloroformed by com
mon consent."
RIVERSIDE CLOSES MAY 2g.
GAINESVILLE, GA., May 20.—Riverside
Military academy commencement exer
cises will begin Tuesday night with the
competitive drill of the two companies
The annual declamation contest will be
held at the academy chapel Wednesday
evening. The graduating exercises of
the academy will be held in Brenau audi
torium Tuesday, May 28. The class con
sists of 25 young men.
BIG SURPRISE TO MANY
IN ATLANTA
Local people are surprised at the
QUICK results received from simple
buckthorn bark, glycerine, etc., as
mixed in Adler-i-ka, the German ap
pendicitis remedy. Jacobs’ Pharmacy
states that this simple remedy anti
septicizes the digestive system and
draws off the impurities so thoroughly
that A SINGLE DOSE removes sour
stomach, gas on the stomach and con
stipation INSTANTLY. It is the only
remedy which never fails.
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