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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.» 1 i m t iW-JHL JH HMf B A (QI IF A. / WRjr?' A ~ •*> i •• M. ~ //AwiMBX j ; ' a / /Jk\ w /mMBSw " w/ / 'ffirawk V « I flak& ■ /1 |!l I\ \ / • ■■ 1 SIOO Worth of Good Time Gone 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 > Lt' / • a «_»- * ijlMa MMf ‘ Y : -*" . aHi' I ‘ ■> ) V/ Debutante Daughters of Demo 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. 3