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
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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.
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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.
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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
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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,
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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
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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.
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| 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.
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