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THE WEATHER.
Fair tonight and tomorrow. Tem
peratures: 8 a. m.. 80 degrees: 10
a. m., 85 degrees: 12 noon. 86 de
grees: 2 p. m,. 87 degrees.
VO IA X. NO. 256.
ROMANGEOF
KAISER TOLD
BV BRIDE’S
MOTHER
Introduced to New Orleans
Beauty by Traveling Sales
man While on Trip,
WAS W GIVE SIGNAL
IF HE DIDN’T LIKE HER
Son-. Insist They Knew of
Marriage, and Father Also
Says They Did.
y r-»- nptvyyg r* Ma. 25.—The
„« • □ ’ T-'afser v=a!th- 4»!»n’a jeweler,
Mrs. Rn’b Wintz. formerly
..»»hur in th= t-t-.t-i Grun*wald was
told for rhe firs’ time today by Mrs. A
p nti.- moth*'- ■ f *’l° brid* It Is a
un; iu« -torr -.f y’ at first sigh*.
t;« present Mrs Kaiser was first
.■ ; -.hur gt th* Grime”,aid and then op.
cat' d a manicuring and hairdressing
c-e.jhlish ''irnt ..f her own at Tu-
lane a\»nu* fa r aws’ from the busi
n- je.-tion •Ho' 1 ' ’he met was wooed
an .’ ■on b- the ’-i'-h Atlantan Is told
mm-* entrrtaininsb b’ Mrs Kaiser’s
mother
T'lptl Widow’
Wa&n t- Ready
t ■-< nt daughter and Mr Kaiser
n-r- • .tarried list Monday,” said the
mother "Mr Kaiser wanted it on Sun
fT-, he. as online, and come he
did f-i.it Huth couldn’t get ready that
qifck and the < oremony was post
poned a da; But ii 'as the funnest
tiling ’he -.l' they am‘ ’weet
hea rt;
M Kai.-cr had been traveling in
i alifcrnia with Mr Ftrouss. a diamond
sal’:-'.an Mr. Ftrouss had introduced
him to man.' pretty women, but Mr.
Kati e ,->• Ip on them with a cold
p y
iWfipts Prettiest «
Little Woman in World
Then Mr strou- aid 'Just wait un
til wr get tn New Orleans and I'll tn
tr.-„iu' -■» you tonite prettiest little wom
an in the world- a nice little widow
and I know sh* v.ill charm vou.’
thev came on tn New Orleans,
n ,,.. Mr. Strout's arranged this little
dinner part', .'.nd Mr. Strouss said:
• Now, if you don't like her. just
make t sign - say by drawing your
hand i" your forehead—and I'M
find some ■ :v u-e to get vou away as
soon ' possible.’
“But Mr. Kaiser didn’t draw his hand
au-T- his forehead, for he seemed to
like Ruth 'cr\ well. And soon that
admiration deepened into love, and he
lia he' ii coming to New Orleans reg
al.nil. Yc~ he sent Ruth a beautiful
diamond ring.
And that -a rich man she’s mar
ried. too. Why. I’ve heard he owns his
own buildings in Atlanta, and one of
Hum is as big a:- iht Maison Blanche
hr i-e. And lie has his own automobiles,
and would have brought one of them
here, oniv they're going to Atlanta. Sat
urday night.’
'Che Georgian has received a tele
gram from Mr Kaiser in New Orleans,
saying that he matritd with the full
ktiowlcdg' and approval of his
dren. after a t onsultatfon a week ago.
Mr Kaiser -ays his sons were pre
vent, d from acompanying him through
Piessurr of business. but went with him
to the ’rain when he left Atlanta.
Mr Kaiser's sons insist that they
of their father's plans to be mar-
■ 1,, New Orl ans hut no represen-
tative of the family was at the wed-;
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Ambulance Bearing
Patient Runs Down
Woman at Five Points
Hurrying across the corners at Five
Points today with a woman patient,
the Grady hospital auto ambulance,
driven by F. M Trammell, ran full tilt
into aged Mrs. J. B. Northcutt and
hurled, her to the pavement in sight of
several hundred pedestrians.
Mrs. Northcutt, who lives at Ac
worth and was In this eitv on a visit to
Mrs. G. S. Hull at 265 Simpson street,
was walking with her hostess and her
eight-year-old granddaughter. Virginia
Stewart, down Peachtree street toward
the lower town. Trammell, at the
ambulance- wheel, was hurrying from
the station to reach the hospital with
his patient in time. but. he had slack
ened speed at the crowded Five Points
just as Mrs. Northcutt and the child,
hand in hand, started out from the
pavement. Mrs. Hull plucked frantic
ally at the other woman’s arm, bu'
could not draw her back before the
hood of the ambulance hit her and
threw both Mrs. Northcutt and the lit
tle girl to the pavement The child
arose, screaming but unhurt Mrs.
Northcutt lay stunned where she had
fallen.
both Mrs Northcutt and the little girl
to the pavement. The child arose,
screaming but unhurt. Mrs. Northcutt
law stunned where she had fallen.
Dr Schwartz leaped from the rear
of the ambulance, picked up ’he semi
conscious wpman. lifted her into the
ambulance beside the other woman and
told Trammell to make all speed to the
hospital.
Haman Skeleton Dug
Up by Graders Hints
At Unknown Tragedy
With skull fractured, and the bodv
apparently buried without either a cof
fin or a box, a skeleton, supposed to be
that of a white man. was unearthed in
front of Tech High school on Marietta
street today by convicts who are grad
ing a* that point to widen the street
Police and county officers believe that
the find brings to light an unsolved
tragedy
Convicts were digging away the em
bankment of the school yard -w hen one
of them shoveled up a human skull As
they continued to dig the entire skele
ton was found Intact. C F Collier,
foreman tn charge of the convict squad,
was called to the spot when the negroes
first discovered the bleached bones He
took charge of the grewsorne find and
notified police and county officers
Close examination of the bones indi
cated they were those of a white man.
The skeleton will be turned over to
Captain T. J. Donaldson, superintend
ent of the Fulton county chaingang,
who will have it buried. The police
are trying to recall any disappearance
mystery that could be connected with
today's discovery.
Make-Believd Suicide
Theory of Police in
Pistol Shot Mystery
Whqn police forced the door of the bed
room of Mrs. Walter F Knight. 47 Mark
ham street, today, to investigate a pistol
shot, they found Mrs. Knight lying on
her bed crying. X revolver la> nearby
It was at first thought Mrs Knight had
shot herself, hut an investigation showed
her so he unharmed.
The mystery was increased when Mrs.
Knight denied to Policeman Askew, the
first to reach her, that she fired the pis
fol or knew anything about the shot The
l-arrel of the weapon, however, was found
10 be warm, and the officer extracted an
empty shell.
The police are inclined to the belief that
it was merely a “make-believe suicide,''
to frighten Mrs. Knight's daughter, with
whom the mother is said tn have had a
quarrel.
The daughter nearly was prostrated
when the police reached the scene, for she
firmly believed her mother had taken her
life.
Free Rheumatism Cure
For Police Offer of
Indian for Court 0, K*
"Doctor" G. L. Gray, the Osage In
dian specialist from Oklahoma City,
who has been in the limelight of late,
told Recorder Broyles today he would
guarantee to cure every policeman on
the force who has rheumatism, if the
recorder would only agree to give him
a recommendation boosting’his medi
cine The court, referring to Gray as a
quack, ijaid he wasn’t on the bench to
test the efficacy of medicines, ond
turned down the proposition.
He then ordered the Indian medicine
man held for trial in the state courts
on the charge of practicing medicine
illegally, fixing his bond at SI,OOO.
J. H Miles, proprietor of the Ivy ho
tel, and John R. Crawford, formerly of
Dawson county, appeared in court and
declared Gray had swindled them in an
Oklahoma land deal Judge Broyles
took no action in this case advising
the complainants to go before the grand
jure or take out warrants.
Two of Gray :- “patients” told of his
treatments. Gray denied that he had
practiced medicine as a physician but
admitted that he has an Indian rheu
matism medicine which he is trying
get on ths market. It was this medi
cine with which be agreed to cure the
police free of chatge.
ATLANTA, GA.. SATURDAY. MAY 25. 1912.
BOARO PLANS
TO RID PARK
DE GIRL'S
GHOST
Commission Head Urges Plow
ing Land With Salt. But
Scheme Is Opposed.
SPOOK HAUNTS WATER
SINCE WOMAN’S SUICIDE
At Least So Many Aver, and
Draining and Creation of
Sunken Garden Is Urged.
So many witches and ghosts flit and
moan about and generally haunt Spring
vale nark that T L Bond, of the Atlanta
park commission, has today seriously
advised his colleagues to drain the lake,
plow up that stretch of land and sow
it with salt to drive away the evil spir
its. while W. L Percy and J H. Por
ter head petitioners who want the lake
made over into a sunken garden
Perhaps the board will adopt Mr.
Bond's suggestion Anvway. its mem
bers are investigating his emphatic
claim that hobgoblins can’ abide a
salted field and if their probe shows
that ghosts do really cavort o’ nights
about that park, as many folk there
abouts avow, nobody need wonder at
seeing a plowman plodding his wa’
through one of the fairest strips of
land in all Atlanta- nor marvel if, sud
denly. the saline trust. Increases its
prices.
Girl’s Suicide
Brought Goblins
I p to that time some years ago when
a very good looking voung woman hung
herself to a tree that overhung its mir
roring lake Springvale park was one
of the most loved recreation spots in
Georgia. Nestling in the heart of In
man Park, it smiled up at the lording
terraces at its sides and flowers laughed
out from the grass that mantled its
bosom. Down in the vale a clear, cool
lakelet rippled in the sunbeams between
the weeping willows that fringe its
banks, and it was all so beautiful that
bevies of little children played there all
day along with squirrels and th* birds
of many brilliant hues.
By daylight Springvale park sefmed
veritably the haunt of all the good
fairies. Then the girl came there,' de
spondent, and killed herself above tflie
lake, and after her came the ghosts and
ghouls.
It is still quite well remembered that
she was a poor girl who had journeyed
to Atlanta from some outlying town in
a desperate hope that she would find
work here and a chance to earn the
honorable living that she craved. She
found no work, and after many days
when the last of her money was gone
she made her way one evening to the
dark pond of water in the heart of
Springvale and took the life that she
thought hopeless.
Children See
Phantom Shapes.
Next day, when they found her
swinging from the tree limb, quite dead,
frightened children who hovered fear
fullj about cried out that they saw
her phantom floating in the lakelet be
neath the tree. Os course, that was the
shadow of the girl's body cast upon the
water, but if. was terrible enough for
little ones, and for weeks after that no
children went to play in the park.
Then residents of the Inman Park
district caught the morbid infection.
Many said they heard the whippoorwill
singing in the park at dusk and that its
cry sounded 'ike the wail of a spirit
damned. One or two, more timorous,
began to tell about that those cries
were not the whippoorwill's calls at all,
hut the plaints of ghosts that might be
seer flitting dimly about above the
shrubbery through th* late hours on a.Il
dark nights.
Tlie more practical residents there
about; laughed these tales to scorn, but
thev also had their complaint, and ’hey
took it to the park ■ ommission with a
demand that the Springvale lake be
Continued on Page Two.
“THE GATES OF SILENCE”
zT Serial Story of l.ove, Mystery and Hate, with a
Thrilling Portrayal of Life Rehind Prison Rars
BEGINS IN MONDAY'SGEORGIAN
Hundreds Take First Dip of 1912 at Piedmont
GIRL OPENS BATHING SEASON
Piedmont park today saw its great
gjjL-yw’opening since it was made a swlm
— mlng place. Beginning early, hundreds
A, n zy’Tjx ■ ">wrl. <l the lake Bv 9 o’clock more
I: han ) !H 'l O' .-.-rd within ’hr
If i lte : ?l'm zor., m tfir waters.
cgfew This .n-iuUm e i .-nt up through the
df My jf*cnr~r nn “Vr-n'l
MISS VERA THOMAS ’
\ll r;t <>ll v o \ll iPt .1 I. t' 1'! rt L I\
oii i. tvlinye grneefii! ditc mt..
the Hi! t. :•< of Pmidninnt hk' M
-Uiirjgo tills mnrnitig nt •< t-L |
the t'orms! opc-mns of the
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MERCURY ST 07
Breeze Shields Atlanta From
Withering Stin - The Records
Show Worse May Days.
Today is the hottest day of the year
At noon the thermometer registered
87 degrees and the city streets gave
forth a sweltering heat that had been
missing during the cool days of the late
spring
Hot as it is today, a glance over
weather records gives some comfort A I
year ago today the thermometer rcgls- |
tered 90 degrees. On May 26. 1911. a :
year tomorrow, the mercury peeped
down at humanity from 98 degrees.
Tomorrow, according to all predic
tions. should be about as hot as today—
certainly no hotter. The pleasatfl
breeze which today made life bearable
and the heat less stifling is due to
continue through Sunday, bringing rain
with it by Monday.
The normal temperature for May,
further investigation of the books of
Forecaster VonHerrmann reveals, is 72
degrees: so this weather is somewhat
above the average. The hottest day of
the year before today was May 6, when
the thermometer registered 81.
"Parks and woodland groves, or
maybe the lake at Piedmont for me
tomorrow.' said Mr Cityman when
asked for an interview on what he
would do Sunday afternoon. The
weather man promises an ideal day—
no rain and enough heat to makg the
breeze fee! good when strained
through leafy trees.
PENN BREWSTER CHARGED
AS AID TO JAIL BREAKERS
JACKSONVILLE, FLA . May 25.—Penn
H. Brewster. Jr., a well known attorney
here, and son of Penn H. Brewster, a
prominent lawyer of Atlanta, was arrested
today by Sheriff Bowden and is confined
in the Duval county jail, charged with
carrying tools to the jail, with which
eleven prisoners sawed their way to lib
erty last night Politics is said to figure
in the case.
Brewster was taken to the prison and
positively identified by John Perkins, a
negro, as the white man wdio railed at
the jail and delivered a package to Will
Everett and Kid Rice, two negro pris
oners.
Brewster denies the charge
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$70,000 Church To Be
Erected by Atlanta
Christian Scientists
Followers of the Christian Selene’ taitlt
in Atlanta will erect a magnificent Hiurch
building at Fifteenth street and Peachtree
at a cost of $70,000 I*llo. lot ba - al-
ready been purchased Plans for *he
structure are now being prepared by Vr
chitect Edwadr E Doughert'
The building up of this fund was ac
complished onl'. after extreme diligence
on the part of ’he church members In
cluding all the officers, rhe Atlanta men'
bership amounts to 250. with M;- yf Not
man. official reader at the h“t>d
The location of the hureh places it in
what is now the bear’ of ttlanta s most
fashionable residential section Inc lot
was bought for $16,000
hot days of summer. Tomorrow will be
a gala day in spite of the fact that the
pond will be open only at certain hours.
From 5 a tn. until 8 a. m only women
and girls will be allowed the plunging
privilege. The hours for men and boys
will be from 3 p. m. to 7 p. m.
At precisely the moment that the
world In its course struck the hour of
5 Piedmont park was thrown open to
the. swimmers of Atlanta An ample
delegation was there waiting with
bathing suits under arms and eyes on
the springboard calculating distances
Miss Vera Thomas executed the first
dive. It was almost an Annette Kel
lerman dive, and a group sitting around
to witness lust that exhibition ap
plauded
With due appreciation of the fact
that she was about to make history.
Miss Thomas approached the spring
board. With one foot she tested its
resiliency, and finding ft quite springy,
she ventured to walk out On the tip
end she paused and regarded the calm
water beneath Jt was entirely placid
and seemed to lure her on. for without
further preliminary sha made an up
ward leap and executed the sweeping
are most beautifully
Mias Thomas' example led others out.
and soon the waters were filled with
' bobbing, floating, floundering, scream
ing shapes The waters swirled and
laughed at being so sought after and
the bathers laughed with It. tn a wild
steria of wet jo’
From this time forth Piedmont park
will be crowded.
HOME
EDITION
Pkll'lt’ OB Trains. FIVE CENTS.
r Atlanta. TWO CENTS
CANDLER IS
DELEGATE
BYFLIP
OFGOIN
Toss Ends Contest Between
Judge and McCullough at
District Meet.
TOM WATSON’S NAME
IS NOT BROUGHT UP
Felder Is Delegate-at-Large.
Randolph. Janies, and Davis
Others Chosen.
The toss of a coin decided the selec
tion of the fourth delegate from the
Fifth district of Georgia to the Demo-
national convention this after
noon Three delegates had been chosen,
but the counties tied on the choice of
the fourth, between Nym McCullough,
of Fulton, and Judge John S Candler,
of DeKalb There were county cau
cuses and repeated consultations. The
deadlock continued in spite of an im
passioned address by Judge Candler.
Then Mr McCullough suggested that
thev toss for ft.
“I ll meet you half-way," cried Judge
Candler The rivals advanced to the
center aisle, and Chairman Frederic J.
Paxon was umpire of the ggme. Carl
Hutcheson tossed a half-dollar high in
the air. It fell, and the chairman bent
over ft.
Heads It Is and
Judge Candler Wins
Heads'" he cried "Judge Candler is
• hosen."
The caucus of the delegates from the
fl’-» counties making up the Fifth dis
trict named the following, after an
hour’s session behind closed doors, in
w hich the contest between Candler and
McCullough and the entire elimination
of Tom Watson's name were the only
features of Interest. The caucus named
the following
Delegates from the Fifth District—•
Hollins N. Randolph Fulton: John S.
Candler. DeKalb: Joe S. James. Doug
las. Frank C Davis. DeKalb.
Dele.gate-at-I.arge from Georgia—
i Thomas B. Felder.
For Elector from the Fifth District—
Nym McCullough.
McCullough Wins
Elector Indorsement
The name of Fred Lewis was placed
before the convention to be indorsed
for presidential elector, and Nym Mc-
Cullough and Joe S. James were also
nominated and then withdrawn. Mr
Lewis seemed the unanimous choice of
the caucus, but Judge Candler raised ar
objection. He said it was not in the
province of the district convention to
indorse an elector. The matter was
tabled, but after other elections were
over and adjournment about to b«
taken. It was brought up again, and
Nym McCullough indorsed as an elec
tor, this to be ratified by the state con
vention next week
The counties making up the district
split over the ejection of the fourth
delegate, tieing their unit vote. Here is
how they stood:
For McCullough—Fulton, 6 votes;
Campbell, 2 votes—total, 8.
For Candler —DeKalb. 4 votes; Rock
dale. 2 votes: Douglas, 2 votes —total. 8.
It was only after it seemed the dead
lock could not be broken that the coin
was tossed and Candler declared the
winner, and it was after this that Mr.
McCullough was given the Indorsement
for
Half of Delegates
Fail to Attend
As forecast In earlier editions of The
Georgian. Frederic J. Paxon w’as made
chairman of the caucus, which opened
at the Kimball house at 12:30 o'clock.
Brooks Brown, of DeKalb county, was
chosen .secretary, and the convention
got dow n to business. Not half of the
delegates were present. Fulton was
well represented and DeKalb sent half
a dozen, but Rockdale had only two
delegates, and '“ampbell and Douglas
were but'slightly represented.
Delegates from the' five counties of
th* Fifth congressional district over
flowed the Kimball house corridors to
day for the district caucus, which
opened at 12 o'clock, and which will in
dorse four district candidates to the
Baltimore convention of the Democratic
party indorse a de!egate-at-!arge rep
resenting the Fifth district, and an
elector and alternate, one of whom will
aid in casting Georgias official vote