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IMMENSE FOREST RESERVE BEGUN IN GEORGIA Court to Settle Title to 32.000 Acres. Nucleus of Tract. Next Month. When Judge W. T. Newihan of the Federal court ■hears on .lune 10 next the case of "The United States versus 32,000 acres of land, N. W. and Andrew Gennett and others,” and rules that ail Maims against the ten thousand titles involved are settled, it will mark the beginning of a tremendous forest re serve in north Georgia, the conserva tion of a tract equal in area to an aver age county, and the establishment of a ■ government forestry service with a chief inspector and a hundred forest lingers. And it will mark the climax in the fortunes of two young Southern men who have in one year built up a fortune of a clean half-million dollars from a nest egg of a few thousands Gave Up World For Health and Fortune. The story of Andrew Gennett and bis younger brother, Nat, is the story of the typical young American with nerve, brains and willingness to stick to it. It is the story of two city boys, slight in build, inexperienced in their chosen work, who gave up clubs, the , alers and girls and went to the woods for their fortune—and found it. The case which comes up next month in the Federal court is a “friendly" suit, designed to establish the title of purchasers and sellers to a tract of 112.000 acres of forest land in the mountains of north Georgia, most of it in Fannin county, with a part in Union. Gilmer and Lumpkin counties. It has been bought in the past two years by the two GennettS. and lite titles have been cleared by intricate tracing of ancient grants. the settlement of myriad claims and the winning of many suits at law. The government has ailed upon more than 1.000 persons to come forward on .Tune 10 and estab lish any claim they may have to any portion of these lands or “forever after hold their peace." None of the thou sand is expected to appear, and the suit is a mere formality. But when it is over the nation, through the forest bu reau of the agricultural departm nt. ■will pay the two Gennetta $225,000 for ■■• their tract of 32,000 acres, The depat I rnent contemplates the purcita. c of ml ■■'r tracts in the same >•<•■< ti. *<>,>.■ from the Gepnetts and some frnm <>im >wners. which will bring the 1 ' ■ reserve Up lo 200.000 me. a : about the size of Toups vmin; which part of the land is sit ua: >•<!. The land is full es st ■ < ii.-. it.; i..> ole water power for lie future. ,n will be held as the "Savannah a-m <,f ■ h«' Xpualachiaii forest rest rvc." It: timber will be cut cully as tiie fmcsl needs i binning, the covering of the y ound it ill he preserved by the pre written of forest fires and the moisture of the mountain soil retained in order •jjj-'.f Georgia streams may be regulated at’d not become freshets in the winter and dry sloughs in the summer, when is most needed. It will be a part of; he. g,>at work of forest conserva- Tbi which Uncle Sam is carrying on m.: ngbout the country. Success Didn’t ’Come at First. But the "human interest" side of re forestry purchase is found in the iruory of the two young men who ■oil it. ' ndre'.w Gennett is 37 years old and Xml W. Gennett. is only 33. Andrew ;if graduated from Cumberland tini el=ity, in Tennessee, and admitted to lie bar. The younger man entered the lumber business in a small way. join ng- a firm in Nashville, their home. 800 l were slight in build and Andrew’s iieaitb was failing under the strain of office work and confinement. Tfrie brotltters were not poor, even In ho»“ days They had a capital of sev . ra ' thousand dollars left them by their fa*t»er. They decided to go into the oo<ls. where they might find health at least, and perhaps wealth as well. They fouirl both. They began operations by the pur oafs- of a tract of land in South Caro t.u. c.-tu blishing a sawmill ami going - ;m ly into the timber business. Hard hick struck them from the first. Tfite first deal we made was the itursJiaslc of 25,000 poplar trees," said \nclrew Gennett today. “We found aft ■ rwas’d. there were only 1,700 trees in •te tXiur.'t. We lost $40,000 directly and bectMjs: involved to the tune of $70,000. Then., when we had all our timber in the vtl’er and ready to float out to the mills the expected high water didn’t , i,me It looked like we were busted’ ight there. But the water came at ust atrtd we climbed out of the hole. We liuvei.fi been stung very often since : lien." 1 Bought Tract , For Speculation. The two young city men have lived ie lilh of the lumberman frft ten years. They cleaned out several timber tracts in the> Carolinas, and two years ago : hey iapvaded the mountains in north Georgia. Here they purchased more tan Ml 000 acres of timber lands, more with a. view to future enhancement of vainest than for immediate operations. The £[C>vernment had its eye on the tract, but its agents arrived on the scene only to find that the two young timber' .operators held the titles. They began negotiations more than a year ago, aiMi the deal which will be closed next month will mean a profit of many thousands to the Gennetts. for they bought cheaply and the government I pays wetll. When the sale is made they will haoe a clean half-million, all gained 4u ten years from a capital of a IL S- Treasurer Guest Os Honor at Opening Os CoL Maddox Home i Colonel Robert E. Maddox's new I I country home, Woodhaven, will be the i scene, of a dinner tomorrow night at; which the guests will include Lee Me j ''lung, treasurer of the United States, j and 24 prominent bankers from cities ■ of the East and South. Colonel Mad-' ilox will give the dinner in honoi of! Mr. McClung, who is a former resident . of Knoxville. Tenn, and a boyhood I friend of the Atlanta banket. Colonel Maddox will be host also ai luncheon at the Capital City club to-, morrow afternoon at 1 o’clock, at with I a number of Atlantans will be invited to meet Mr. McClung. The treasure’ and the visiting bankers will arrive in parlies tonight and tomorrow on their, way to the convention of the Georgia ■ Bankers association at Atlantic Beach j Colonel Maddox is president of the as- ; .soeiation. Mr. McClung and Bradford! Knapp, of the national bureau of plant industry, are. to be among the princi pal speakers at the convention. CLEVELAND MAN HEADS SONS OF REVOLUTION! BOSTON. May 22.—Two hundred de - j egaU's to the congress of the National ! Soviet.' of the Sons of the American] Revolution in Fancuil hall elected i James M. Richardson, of Cleveland.! Ohio, president general. \ i ' wlill fl IHk JE 'X uml uh? 7 \ \\ \ a k Jr *ll V « ■jO JBL, 4 Miss Smlyp Weinberg above and .Miss Thelin.. --il are iwo of the Atlanta juris who will dance at the (•ornnieneeineiit of Miss Harina’s school Thursday night. The photographs show Ihetn in the costumes of the Spanish dance. 1 few thousand invested by two strangers in a strange business. "1 have been itt Atlanta several weeks.” said Andrew Gennett. in his office in the TJmpire building, "and al ready i am feeling the call of the woods. 1 am restless in the city, ill at ease. I can’t breathe the air which rises from asphalt streets; I can not sleep in the close rooms of the hotels. When this deal is closed I’m going back into the woods—back to buy more tim ber lands, to live in the open again. Nat is up there now. wearing high boots and flannel shirts and riding through the forest, and I’m anxious to Join him." "You boys have made a wonderful success," suggested a friend, enviously. Call of the Woods Must Be Obeyed. Mt. Gennett smiled, but there was a trace of sadness in the curve of :he lips. "I suppose so," he returned. 'I ought not to complain, for we have made more than we could have expect ed. and gained health as well as money. But sometimes I think we have losl a great deal, too. We have lost the con tact with our fellows, the acquaintance of women, the polish which 'Cm.- from close association with the people of one’s own type. We feel mighty lonely in the woods sometimes." "You might retire now and win back all of those things," suggested his friend. The smile was whimsical this time. "I’m afraid not." said the young woodsman. "The mountains are calling —the smell of fresh cut timber, the trout streams and the saddle are too strong a lure. Um afraid we couldn't come back to the city to stay. The woods gave us all we asked, and now the woods ate claiming ourselves in return. We’ll have to stick to the mountains." CLAYTON TO HAVE WATER. CLAYTON, GA.. May 22.—Clayton is to have a waterworks system The water will be brought in pipes from springs in the nearby mountains. It will be itiiicd to the town by gravity, no pumps being necessary, fHE ATLANTA GEORGIAN AND NEAVS: ATLANTA MAIDS TO DANCE AS SPANISH GIRLS AT GRADUATION E PG ) I’ // // 1 i TITANIC OFFICER LEMS SINK Pittman. Lauding Ismay, Didn’t Rescue Drowning Women for Fear of Swamping Boat. LONDON. May 22. —Society women shuddered and wept at the Titanic in quiry today when John Pittman, third officer of the ill-fated White Star liner, vividly described the scene of horror when the vessel went to the bottom of the Atlantic. Pittman was in charge of lifeboat No. 5. He told how the screams of drown ing men itid women rang out over the water, gradually growing fainter as the victims became exhausted and sank. When asked why he did not return and save some of them, the witness simply said: “We were afraid of being swamped." Pittman's boat was only 200 feet away when the Titanic sank, he said. Says Ismay Did Weil. He praised the acts of J Bruce Ismay, managing director of the White Star line. He said that Ismay was the first to order the boats lowered, but that he went to Captain Smith to se cure authority for this action. It was given. “I said. '<,’ome along, ladies.' when I returned." said the witness. Ismay helped the women in.” He said that he recognized Ismay from a description that had been given him. For your convenience. Want Ads will he taken over the telephone and bill will be sent at expiration of ad. No matter what you want or have to sell, a Georgian Want Ad will do the work, thus saving vou time and money, SET ' ig. ■ \\ k * f j «/ / \ \ ’ A || ‘/ / I Kft—- / -OT A- -1S P// // jf|ißSr /. // - ,v BRKfißßKrflr >// // x\/ / / / jfllpi rw-I. ——- - I Seventeen to Get Diplomas From Miss Hanna's School Next Thursday. Seventeen young Atlanta giris will receive diplomas from Miss Hanna’s school. 368 Peachtree street, tomorrow at the Gland opera house when com mencement exercises will be held. The feature of the program will be a Span ish dance. .» - For several weeks the students ItAve been, piacjlring assiduously for this dance and the net-results are said to be i such as would anake a born Andalusian I grow nick with efivs. Costuming and ! scenery';calculated to throw the propel | atmosphere afourtd the affair will be in i evidence. There will be other unique attractions and several' musical numbers. The young girls who will be graduated are fitted in the arts and languages with something of domestic science thrown in for good measure. Miss Hanna looks upon the season now closing as the most successful from every standpoint in the history of the school. Envious Drakes Join Sapp's‘Champ'Ducks In Laying Big Egg Crop DALTON, GA.. May 22 —lndian Runner ducks have frequently established records as egg producers, and now R. 11. Sapp, a local breeder, comes forward with another. He has 24 ducks, and has recently been getting 25 ?ggs each da>. Yesterday the ducks surpassed their former efforts, and he collected up 26 eggs. Mr. Sapp can account for this in only one way and that is that two of the drakes have begun laying AUGUSTA PUTS ELECTRIC WIRES UNDER GROUND AUGUSTA. GA.. M’y 22.—Electric light, power, telegraph and telephone wires have been placed underground and the network of overhead wires in the business portions of the city has disappeared, it lias required nearly a year to put the underground and the cost has been $750,000. J. G. White & Company, operators of tlte Augusta-Aiken Raihva.v X- Electric Corporation, have spent $1,500,000 here during the past year in improvements and will spend $2,000,000 additional tn erecting a power plant on the Savan nah rive: eight miles above Augusta HARVARD UNIVERSITY IS GETTING PROSPEROUS CAMBRIDGE, MASS . May 22.—Ac cording to a statement just issued. Har vard university has stocks and bonds valued at $17,362,797. The total of its productive funds is placed at $25,000.- 000. which gives it an income of $2,500,000. Its holdings in stocks and bonds have increased about $1,250,000 during the last year, and it owns some of the choicest real estate in and around Bye ton, . A LDN ESI) AV. Al A Y 22. 1912. PROHIBITION TO BE ISSUE AGAIN I Anti-Saloon League Begins to Sound Prospective Candi dates for Legislature. MACON. GA.. May 22.—T0 a specific and official inquiry directed to them by the Georgia Anti-Saloon League re cently, the prospective candidates for tiie legislature in Bibb county have re plied that they do not favor the pres ent state-wide prohibition law on the statute books of Georgia The replies of the candidates were mailed to the league's headquarters in Atlanta today. It is given out that the Bibb county candidates do not wish to go on rec ord as standing for straightaway anti prohibition. nor the return of the old fashioned open barroom in Georgia, but they do admit, and are willing to have it made an issue, that they favor va rious modifications of the present law, especially the enactment of a “local option” feature. The Bibb county aspirants for legis lative honors understand tltat the in- I quiry directed to them was merely the first of a series of inquiries to be di rt: ted to other candidates for the legis lature throughout the state, the entire : scope of the inquiry to cover approxi mately the whole state, from one end to the other. The Bibb county candidates infer . from the inquiry directed to them that the Georgia Anti-Saloon League is get ting ready to precipitate the prohibition question upon the state in the forth : coming campaign particularly with re spect to the legislative candidates. The entire proceeding has started much speculative talk among local poli ticians. WIFE’S NEW WHITE SHOES START A DIVORCE SUIT ANDERSON. IND., May 22. A pair of white shoes were the cause of the disruption of her family, according lo a divorce complaint filed by Mrs. Mary Monahan against Martin Monahan. Mrs.. Monahan said she purchased a pair of white shoes in order to appear favorably before her husband, and that he made insulting remarks about the shoes-and the wea.ets in general of white shoes, and that a ouarreb en sued, as a result of which they can no longer live together. EXCAVATION AT PANAMA IS NEARING THE FINISH PANAMA*, May 22.—The total amount of excavation on the Panama canal luring the year ending May 1 was 30,736,364 cubic yards, which leaves only 26.836.494 cubic yards to be ex cavated. The Gatun locks are 93 per cent fin ished, Pedro Miguel 92 per cent and Miraflores 61 per cent. The total amount spent on the canal so ta is $251,376,491; fo> fortifications. $669,156. HAVANA FEARS BLACK REBELS Revolt Spreads to Four Prov inces—Troops Leave Cities to Mercy of Uprising. HAVANA. May 22.—The negro re volt in Cuba is becoming more serious daily and has now spread over four provinces The government today or dered all available troops mobilized for quick service. Early today a battle was fought be tween 80 rurales and 100 negroes un der General Estonez in Oriente prov ince. Two rurales were wounded. As a result of the number of troops sent out of Havana today into Oriente province protests were made to the government that this city would be helpless if the negroes revolted. They have threatened to arise in arms in Matanzas as soon as the gov ernment troops are withdrawn. The negroes of Santa Clara province, I under the leadership of • Colonel Ar mentros. are threatening to destroy foreign property and the government feats that if they gain in strength the United States will deem it necessary again to intervene. President Gomez has learned that the revolt has been carefully planned for several months and the insurrectos are armed with modern weapons, indicat ing that they are well supplied with money. Reports that the revolution funds came from American sources are being investigated. NOTIONS OF PEOPLE ABOUT HYDROPHOBIA NEARLY ALL WRONG CHICAGO, May 22.—Most of the I popular notions about mad dogs are called fallacies, In an article by Dr. ' James Gordon Cumming, director of j ihe Paateur Institute of the Univer ■ sity of Michigan, in The Journal of | the American Medical Association. That rabid dogs always froth at the i mouth, that dogs develop rabies from | lack of water, that dogs are more llke i l.v to contract rabies in hot weather han in cold, that dogs afflicted with I hydrophobia are afraid of water, are some of the popular notions which Dr. Cumming declares are all wrong "VVe find only in the human subject the dread of an attempt to drink wa ter,” the physician says. “A rabid dog will attempt to drink water even though the act Induces a spasm of the deglutitory muscles." A rabid dog seldom froths at the mouth, according to Dr. Cumming, ■whereas in a canine with fits there 1s profuse frothing. The “dog-day theo ry” is disproved, he says, by the num ber of winter cases. BISHOP FOR NEGROES ISSUE IN CONVENTION OF ATLANTA DIOCESE MACON, GA., May 22—The question of whether a negro bishop shall be se lected to work among the negro com municants of the Episcopal church will be decided this afternoon at the annual convention of the Atlanta diocese. Bishop C. K, Nelson, of Atlanta, is In favor of a negro bishop. The question will also be discussed at the meeting of the Women’s auxiliary of the Epis copal church this afternoon WHAT SHALL BE DONE IFT. R. AND BRYAN RUN? WASHINGTON, May 22.—Here is a story that was enjoyed keenly by mem bers of both parties in the house and senate cloak rooms: It is related that a man called on his neighbor armed with an imposing look ing document. "Bill," said the caller, "I want you to sign this petition." “What is it’” his friend asked sus piciously “Well." was the reply, “ft looks as though Roosevelt would be nominated at Chicago and Bryan at Baltimore. This is a petition praying that the country be restored to the Indians.” ATHENS DOCTOR INTERNE IN RICHMOND HOSPITAL RICHMOND- VA., May 22 —Dr. Ed ward Bancroft. Jt., of Athens, Ga.. who has just been graduated from the Uni versity Colege of Medicine of this city, has secured an appointment as interne at Sheltering Arms , hospital, a local institution The appointment holds for a year. Dr. Louis Garrard Roberts, another graduate, from Columbus. Ga,, did not ask for a hospital appointment. He will probably settle in his home city and begin the practice of bis profession at an early date. TROOPS WOUND 60 AT POLITICAL OUTBREAK BA DA JOS. SPAIN. May 22. —Serious fighting, in which many were wounded, resulted from a political meeting at Valencia today. Troops called to sup press disorder caused by royalist agi tation in Portugal fired on republicans and royalists. Sixty persons were wounded. FARMERS UNION MEETING. WRIGHTSVILLE. GA„ May 22 Lawson E. Brown, president, and E. Cabaniss, vice president of the Georgia division; R. L. Barnett, secretary and treasurer and the Kentucky division, and T. W. Carter president of the Mis sissippi division of the Farmers union, addressed a large gathering of John son county fatmers and business men in the court house here, NO EARLY TRIAL FOR IRS. GRACE She Must Stay in Jail, But Man Who Slew Wife Recently Gets Hearing. —— | Mrs Daisy Grace wifi not get a trial in the superior court this month on the charge of attempting to kill her husband. Eugene H. Grace, in their Eleventh street home on March 5, but Robert L. Clay, who is charged with the murder of his wife on May 12, will be given his trial next week. Mrs. Grace was indicted by the grand jury before that body considered the Clay tragedy, and was held in the coun ty jail because she hadn’t the ready cash as security for her bond. She has been detained in jail ever since then, and fully expected her case to be. set for trial this month. it Is customary for jail cases to be taken up before bond cases. Mrs. Grace was unable to give bond, and her case was the same as other jail cases In preparing his calendar for the next term of court. Solicitor General Hugh Dorsey left the Grace case off and brought the Clay case, to the front. , Mrs. Grace was detained In jail while the former grand jury held forth and adjourned, and her case was never brought to its attention, while other cases of the same nature were taken up and disposed of and have now been forgotten. Clay is quietly a watting the approach of trial. "Give me a. cigarette" are the only words that have passed his lips since he was transferred to the Tower a week ago. He refuses to answer any questions, or to pay any attention to callers at his cell, spending most of his time standing In the center of the floor and gazing blankly at the prison walls. Jail officials believe he is feigning in sanity. Clay Is in a cell on the fourth floor, directly underneath the gallows room and the death cells. UNIVERSITYPLANS" FOR ITS MARRIED STUDENTS CHICAGO, May 22.—Married stu dents at the University of Chicago re joice In the announcement that dormi tory privileges, heretofore enjoyed by' the unmarried students, who live in halls on the campus, are to be extended to them in the form of accommodations In a building of two, three, four and Hve-room flats, managed under uni versity direction. The announcement, which was mad® in the program of courses for the sum mer session, is expected especially to benefit summer students. many of whom come to Chicago for graduate work, bringing their wives and families with them. For the benefit of such students a building has been remodeled into apartments. PICTURE DEALERS SOLD TONS OF “OLD MASTERS” LONDON. May 22.—James Casti glione, a picture dealer, has been con victed of perjury and sentenced to six months imprisonment. He was an em ployee who helped to dispose of tons of spurious old masters. Robert Por teous. another picture man, who had been convicted twice previously ftor perjury and fcr procuring others to commit the crime in the picture game, was sentenced to twelve months im prisonment. The modus operand! for the gang was to auction old masters which had been manufactured for Castiglione as pic tures which had been seized by the sheriff under an order of court. Ths sales attracted great attention, and the pictures realized big prices. The fraud Ipis been going on for a number of years. NEW GERMAN DIPLOMAT GETS A RECORD SALARY BERLIN, May 22.—Baron Marschall Vonßiebersteln, the new ambassador of Germany at London, will receive a salary of $37,500 a year, which is a higher salary than is paid to any man by the German government outside of the compensation which the kaiser re ceives. It is more than that which is paid to the imperial chancellor, who heretofore has received a salary next to that of the emperor. The Constantino ple post paid $30,000. Vienna. Paris and Washington each pay $80,000; Rome and Madrid each with $25,000, and Tokio with $20,000. The ministers at Pekin and Teheran each receive $15,000; those at Bucharest. Brussels, Athens and Lisbon. $10,500. GENERAL BOOTH PLANS TO COMEJO AMERICA LONDON, May 22.—Commander Eva Booth, leader of the Salvation Army in America, has arrived here to arrange with her father. General Booth, the American tour he expects to make this year. No definite steps will be taken, however, until after General Booth un dergoes an operation for the removal of a cataract from one of his eyes. The sight of one eye Is destroyed, but his physicians say they will be able to re store the sight of the other. WIRELESS TELEPHONE WORKS OVER 160 MILES ROME. May 22.—Wireless telephone messages have been transmitted for a distance of over 160 miles from Monte Marie to Magdalena Island. They went through with such success that a change of voice in the reader of a. newspaper extract was Instantly de tected. The experiments were the most successful yet known. 3