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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-; , .A I Today’s Georgian I Ma'n Sheet 1 Section) 20 Pages. Saturday Magazine 10 Pages. ji 32 Pages Be sve that you get the special Sat: da magazine with YOUR copy of toda « Georgian. The Atlanta Georgian x Read tor Profit-—GEORGIAN WANT ADS—Use For Results 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 uimnut'o of ' a l-' / W' \t!an 1 a i flTl Ri I* g J rES?TISfi! 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 \ yjßMMMwfeary .yfrf I \j£ •4' Jr x " v. / -WKmBMI /■ I * A /' ) \\ w\ \ £&'■ L- $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