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CHARGES RIFE IT
TEACHERS' MEET
Great Bitterness Between the
Western and Eastern Mem
bers Over Presidency.
CHICAGO, July 11.—Bitterness in the
National Educational association, which
developed over the tight for the pres
idency has not disappeared with the
flection of E. T. Fairchild, of Kan
and today there were open threats
split in the organization. Friends'
', f jfjss Grace Strachan, of New York.
,’h,, was defeated for the
discussed the advisability of organizing
an Eastern association and leaving the
present organization.
These suggestions came after the
presidential election had been held and
were followed by an exchange of
parges between Miss Strachan and
jtisAlargaret Haley, of Chicago.
' nis’s Matilda C. Ford, one of Miss
Strachan's political managers, precipi
tated the row when she charged that
jp.s Halev had tried to intimidate her
the convention hall. Then Miss Ha.
ley made public an affidavit, which she
had prepared but had not Intended to
ufse . The affidavit asserts that Miss
Haley was present at a meeting of
sonl e of the New York teachers, when
Mist, Strachan's candidacy was first
discussed. She said she told the New
York teachers that the Chicago teach
ers thought Miss Strachan's candidacy
at this time ill-advised.
Discussed “Pulling Wires.”
Then, the affidavit asserts, the New
York teachers asked a number of ques
tions about political conditions in Chi
cago and suggested that if Mayor Har
rison could be forced to tell Mrs. Ella
Flagg Young, superintendent of Chica
go schools, to support Miss Strachan
the Chicagoans might change their
views. They also discussed the ad visa
bllltv of getting a letter from Mayor
Gaynor to Mayor Harrison, and “get
ting a line on" some member of the
board of education.
Miss Strachan's reply was decidedly
torrid. She said that in San Francisco
Miss Haley and she had been appointed
members of a committee to investigate
teachers' salaries. The committee em
ployed a secretary at $1,500. Her
charge, flatly stated, was that Miss Ha.
ley wanted the place, but Miss Stra
chan opposed the idea, and it tvent t?
some one else.
Up and Down
Peachtree
This New York Hotel
Partial to Southerners.
"They certainly look after the South
ern guests in one New York > jtel,” said
the Atlantan who returned from the
East this week, but who says he is too
modest to have his name in print. “Let
nW tell you what they did for—or to—-
me.
"I arrived at this hotel at 1 o’clock in
the afternoon and registered. At 6:30
o’clock the telephone girl called up and
remarked:
'"1 just wanted to tell you there are
a number of Atlanta people in the
house and perhaps some of them are.
frknds of yours. There's Mr. Harold
Hirsch. General and Mrs. A. J. West
and Miss Clifford West, Mr. B. R Pad
gett and Mr. Bob Malone. Bishop John
E. Gunn, of Natchez, Miss., is here,
too. He used to be in Atlanta, you
know. And Mr. and Mrs. Ralph Van
Landingham, of Charlotte, who used to
live in Atlanta, have a suite, too. I
thought you’d like to know,’
That pleased me, of course, as I
didn t owe any of them money and
didn’t have to dodge. That evening I
found a note from the manager on my
table saying he would call on me and
tender any courtesies I might desire.
Sure enough, he called, chatted pleas
9nlabout the South, and asked if he
vuld serve me in any way. Next
tnoining I found the Atlanta newspa-
I’fts waiting on my table, with the
news from home.
I rouble? Os course it’s trouble, but
bet it pays. It made me feel right
at home, and I’ll be a booster for that
Particular hotel from now on.’’
The Dime; Or What '
Happened to Masho.
It "as a few hours before midnight
d,t • the streets were nearly deserted.
' <,j ng woman turned into Marietta
® reet ’ " alkin * weßt She was dressed
I e, b. but was unusually pretty. She
larriPd a heavy suit case.
1 the corner of Marietta and Broad
a U tshily dressed young man with
an< ta ' ke ti loudly to a group,
II "aved for emphasis a hand cov-
showy rings.
th. , ' le young woman with
' ls ' approaching the “sport"
min. inJ' 11S ''* 'aether. advanced with
her. ste Ps, smirked and spoke to
■ouki 1 . ’ r ' me - mndarn.” he said, “but
ih ee ,r " u allow me the gracious priv
sw,’ ' a,rylng your suit case?”
him m P !>llPd dPad 3till antl looked
Smi|| n ' r ', on '. hpad to foot. Then, un
ed 1,i.„ .'u " ithout a word, she pass-
un< r-ru. c" > suil casp - He looked a bit
stro i ", ,ut ,aki ng it started up the
her side.
"Y f .' Q °.. he ventured
like the ', answered tersely. “If you
J., np tain.
"Silence.
ty a , rp you B°lng my pret-
His 1r asked in sudden boldness,
"filch answp r was a low laugh in
anr| souw. rs " as much amusement
rive., , ' !;" n< ’ Pr n. Presently they ar
th" ~ ,,e house - She quickly’ took
fn I, I fr °m hint, took a dime
th"n >, ~l n ' p . passed It to him and
• ri , r nl mto the house.
*.tn< ' " ul( l-be masher still nas the
Woman in Love Cannot Be a Detective
SOME TIPS FOR GIRL SLEUTHS
Oh. Yes. and Female Sherlocks
Must Be Able to Hold on
to a Secret.
Is it any wonder the woman detec
tive is such a rarity?
Mrs. Hattie Barnett, Atlanta’s expert
woman detective, and the only one in
the South, declared in a most interest
ing talk today that befo: ea woman
can be a real sleuth she must side
track love and ail of its attendant
beauties and joys, relegate sweethearts
to the dismal, blank realm of the for
gotten, and be able to keep a secret.
Mrs. Barnett declares she has proved
she can do both. She's had 23 years'
experience as a detective.
And Mrs. Barnett adds that these
two highly unromantic and unappeal
ing essentials practically mean the
elimination of woman from this some
what spectacular means of livelihood.
“There's not one woman in a million
who can become a detective,” she said.
Must Learn to Keep Secrets.
The barring of love and the keeping
of secrets are not the only require
ments for-a woman detective, said Mrs.
Barnett, but they form the combined
uppercut that brings the knock-out.
For instance, the detective instinct
must be born in women. Mrs. Barnett
says.
“I don’t think there's any doubt but
that many women have the natujai
born detective instinct, judging from
their success in catching up with their
husbands and finding out what is go
ing on in the community all about
them," said the detective.
Asked how she managed to oveicome
the love obstacle, Mrs. Barnett smiled
and said:
"Well, it’s a very simple story, in
the first place, I don't want you to get
the idea that I have a stone heart and
that I'm incapable of love. No, at all.
I have a big, warm heart, and there is
in it ample room for affection. I simply
have a sign over this affection com
partment, which reads. "CLOSED.” 1
have loved—l won't say how many
times —but 1 know that love and de
tective business will not mix.
"I fell in love—violently so—after 1
had been left a widow and had be
come a detective, but I soon found that
it was interfering with my business. I
was not long in making a choice. I
simply starved out my love.”
She says that a woman who is sen
timental and in love is too easily in
fluenced to work among criminals and
attempt to ferret crime, if a woman
has a sweetheart, Mrs. Barnett says,
she will confide in him. give away her
plans, and spoil her game. Her mind
would be so full of mush, too, that she
would be totally unable to think and
calculate clearly and shrewdly.
Must Have Lots of Nerve.
“Outside of all these requirements,”
continued Mrs. Barnett, "a woman de
tective must have unusual ability, a
plentiful supply of good, common sense,
car loads of nerve and tact, must be
possessed of discernment, must possess
a big store of legal knowledge, must be
industrious, and. above all, must be
refined. I would lay special stress on
the word 'industrious,' for it is out
of the question for a lazy woman to be
a detective. She must be up and about
all the whole.”
Another important factor in the mak
ing of the woman detective, as urged
by Mrs. Barnett, is the confining of
her work solely to one of the two sexes.
She must either work exclusively for
men or«for women alone.
Mrs. Barnett’s specialty is men. In
reply to a question as to her reasons
for working solely for men, Mrs. Bar
nett smiled significantly.
"I have two mighty good reasons,"
she said. “For one thing, women are
poor pay. In the next place, sleuthing
for women Is very unsatisfactory. Nine
times out of ten when you work up a
case for a woman and show her the
evidence, it'll be wholly rjifferent from
what she expected, and she’ll proceed to
make things hot generally. She’ll be
rnean you. declare you are the cause
of the whole trouble, order you away
and refuse to pay you. I've been there.”
Doesn’t Work Divorce Cases.
Mrs. Barnett is also "hands off” w hen
it comes to working divorce en-es.
"It’s unpleasant work, and then I
don’t believe in meddling in family
troubles,” she says. "I leave that fol
someone else.”
As to her work. Mrs. Barnett said
it had taken her from high society to
the slums. On many occasions, she
said, she had been forced to adopt dis
guises, frequently appearing as an old
SCALES ON FISHING POLE
TO ROUT THE SKEPTICAL
COLUMBUS, IND.. July IL—Leon J.
Cox, clerk of the Bartholomew circuit
court, is an ardent fisherman, and he
has at last rigged up an outfit that will
help him greatly in the future. In the
past he has often gone fishing, cast his
fly and hooked a big one only to have
it get away. He told friends about the
weight of the fish that got away, but
they have been skeptical.
Now Cox has bought a spring bal
ance weighing up to fifteen pounds. It
is a small affair, but has been tested
and found to be accurate. He will at
tach this to his line near the pole, and
when he hooks a fish the jerk will cause
the balance to register the weight of
the flsh. Hereafter <'ox will be able to
tell the weight of those that get away
as well as the weight of those cap
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THE ATLANTA GEORGIAN AND NEWS. THURSDAY, JULY 11, 1912.
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Mrs. Huttie Barnett. Atlanta’s woman detective, who says
a girl sleuth must forswear affairs of the heart and learn to
keep secrets. In this picture Mrs, Barnett is shown searching a
hat for a clew to a criminal. She once traced a fugitive by the
number on his hat band.
WANT TO BE A DETECTIVE?
YOU MUST SIDESTEP CUPID
To be a detective, a woman must sidetrack love, have no
sweethearts, and he able to keep a secret.
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Therefore, not one woman in a million can become a real
detect ive.
Women in love get their heads so full of mush they are
unable to think and calculate clearly and shrewdly.
The woman sleuth must possess a natural detective instinct,
earloads of nerve and tact, and be industrious. ' A lazy woman
is unfit for the job.
Any woman can starve out love if she will. I found I could.
The men are leading the women of this day in uprightness.
—MRS. HATTIE BARNETT, Detective.
woman, sometimes as a nurse and
house maid, again as a book agent, and
in a variety of other roles.
Mrs. B irnett has worked in New York
and several of the other big cities, and
has brought numerous criminals to jus
tice. Several years ago she ferreted
a murder through the simple clew of a
hat number. In his haste, the murder
er dropped his hat. There was no
name, nor initials, nor other mark of
identification in the hat, but from the
number on the band Mrs. Barnett took
her cue and solved the mystery.
Actress Tried to Shoot Her.
Her strenuous work has brought her
several thrilling experiences. Once in
Mississippi a stranger shot at. her in
a railroad coach, pretending afterwards
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MAMMOTH CAVE. KY.. July 11.—In
■ a seventeen-foot boat with an attach
able gasoline engine, two Columbia
. university students —George Wilfred
i Stumberg, of St. Charles, Mo., and
Paul Ogilvie, of Los Angeles—have
. completed a journey from 108th street.
New York city, to the Mammoth Cave
landing, on Green river, having tra
versed the Hudson river, Erie canal.
Allegheny river. Ohio river and Green
river on thetr trip.
AGED DIPLOMAT TOURED
EUROPE ON A BICYCLE
■ WASHINGTON, July 11—Second As
sistant Secretary of State Alvey Adee
has just returned from his annual bicy
cle tour through Europe. He covered
a distance of 1.800 miles. He will be "0
years old in November.
that the weapon discharged accidental
ly. In a Cincinnati hotel, a woman
poured knockout drops in Mrs. Barnett's
ice water pitcher. The detective, how
ever, saw the act. Twenty-four hours
later Mrs. Barnett had closed her case
and the woman was in jail. It was
only a short time ago that an actress
attempted to shoot Mrs. Barnett in the
latter’s home, which was then in Luckie
street. Mrs, Barnett seized the pistol
took it away from the actress and kick
ed her out of the house.
Summing up the results of her ex
perience. Mrs. Barnett said:
"The men are leading the women in
uprightness. Women are far more sin
ful and are doing more injury to so
ciety.”
HIS BET ON RAIN BRINGS
BANKER A $30,000 HOME
. OKLAHOMA CITY, OSLA.. July 11.
There are mighty few men in the world
1 who would stake their fortune, or the
greater portion of it at least, against
the uncertainty of its raining. But that,
is what Daniel W. Hogan, president of
the Partners National bank of Okla
homa City, did last year. As the result,
he has commenced the erection of a
$30,(>00 residence in the exclusive sec-
' tion of the capital city.
When the glooms came riding down
upon dust clouds and the burning sun
of July and August turned the pasture
a crisp, lifeless brow n last year, Okla
homa farmers were forced to sell their
live stock. Daniel Hogan, banker and
■ capitalist saw his chance. He bought
'• cattle. He mortgaged those and bought
more cattle.
No rain came and it looked mighty
( bad'for Hogan. When it seemed that
the crash was Inevitable, the rain came
. Hogan not only saved himself from the
shoals, but wheh be sold his cattle he
' was many thousand dollars “to the
good.”
FRANCE IN DREAD
DE BREAD FAMINE
People Hungry and Desperate
as Speculators Coin Necessi
ties of Life Into Gold.
PARIS, July 11.—" Let us smash the
infamy! Let us smash the infamy!”
This is the shibboleth which has been
resounding through the legislative and
municipal halls of Paris during the past
few. days. The, infamy referred to is
the coining of the necessities of the
people into gold by speculation; espe
cially in wheat, flour and sugar.
It is calculated that there will be a
bread famine in Paris by July 12 and
the municipal council of Paris recom
mends the communes of France to buy
up the surplus of wheat, flour and
sugar, so that their people may not be
charged famine - prices by speculators.
This follows closely the doctrine
preached recently by the Socialist lead
er, M. JaureS, w hose advocacy of a sim
ilar purchase by the nation for the
benefit of the people was recently pre
sented in America.
From the whole discussion in the
chamber, senate and city council it is
quite clear that speculation is the en
emy of the people. Georgeu Berry, dep
uty for Paris, a man whose name stands
for civic virtue, says:
Lower Tariff the Remedy.
"At Toulon. Bordeaux and Limoges
the municipal councils ask how long
'hey will be able to give bread to the
population. Thus we may have a short
age of bread all over France any day.
We must not shut our eyes so as not to
see, nor close our ears so as not to
hear. The situation is all the more
serious because in France bread Is the
basis of all sustenance, and for a ma
jority of the population is half their
food.
“Those who do not lower the barrier
of tariff and let In wheat to feed our
people forget the lesson of history.
While our people are crying for bread,
they do not offer them stones, but
they are practically saying with Marie
Antoinette, ’Why not give them cake?’
“Why should people be allowed to go
hungry as long as bountiful Mother
Earth produces cheap wheat in Aus
tralia and elsewhere? Free the latter
from tariff and you will liberate home
grown wheat from unruly speculation
and save our workingmen from starva
tion. Unless a remedy be found, I
foresee the direst consequences for the
tranquillity of my country. The old
Romans at least gave bread and cir
cuses to the people. We, the heirs to
the Roman civilization, should have
been able to improve on that during all
the long cerkurles which have since
elapsed. Insread of which, speculators
—the lineal descendants of the money
changers whom t’hrist ejected from the
temple—have got us by the throat.
"Paris is threatened with such a
shortage as we have not seen sTnee the
siege and the commune.”
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Speaker Holder probably warded off by
immediate and emphatic diplomacy Tues
day something of a scene in the house,
when he decided right off the reel that the
"ayes" had it upon the question of ex
tending the use of the hall of the house
of representatives tomorrow evening to
Hon. Thomas E. Watson, for an address
upon public Isspes of the day.
When the resolution had been read, the
speaker put the question to the house in
due and ancient form, and while the
"ayes" responded nobly, there was a vo
ciferous chorus of "noes” playing a close
second. The division was rather narrow
apparently, although the "ayes" seemed
to have it. The speaker inflicted a re
sounding whack upon his desk, raised his
gavel menacingly as if about to whack
again, and said, “The ayes have it!”
Far, remote, and distant W’as it from
anybody to dispute the ruling, in the cir
cumstances, and so much eloquence and
not a small degree of bitterness was
warded off for the time being—and that
was right, perhaps, in view of the fact
that the Tippins bill was up for consid
eration, and there was evidence of sul
phur in the air, anyway.
There are members of the legisla
ture on record as favoring the Tip
pins bill who love it almost so ardent
ly as the average rich man loves his
poor kin.
Mr. Converse, of Lowndes, enjoys quite
a reputation as a word slinger among his
legislative colleagues.
In addressing himself adversely to the
Tippins bill on Tuesday, the honorable
gentleman released a vocabulary that
clothed his ideas in grand, gloomy, and
peculiar dignity at times, but went pret
ty well over the heads of some of his
hearers, nevertheless.
"Converse is a splendid orator, and
speaks with persuasive and compelling
emphasis," said a member down in front,
"but w’hen he begins handing out those
jaw-breakers, I have to do mental gym
nastics to keep up with him. When he
began speculating today, for Instance,
about 'incompatibles prescribed by some
austere psychological physicians,’ I threw
up my hands. I honestly didn’t know
what he was talking about—believe me!"
Somehow, the notion abides that the
Honorable Hoke Smith was neither
shocked nor surprised that his un
confirmed appointments were permit
ted by the Georgia senate to remain
unconfirmed.
A writer in The New York Sun calls
down Clark Howell for referring to the
late Frederick Douglass as "a little black
man.”
This writer avers that Mr, Howell didn't
know what he was talking about when
he described Douglass after that fashion.
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holding that the famous negro was, In
reality, a "giant mulatto.”
Mr. Howell is also accused by this same
writer of clipping the final "s” from the
Douglass end of that party’s name.
All of which must make Mr. Howell
, sad indeed to think upon!
So far, Colonel Theodore Roosevelt
seems to be a bull moose at large in
, his own china shop exclusively.
James J. Flynt, of Saplding, has
. thrown his hat in the railroad commis
sionership ring, specifically alongside of
I Judge Hillyer's.
That makes two hats for the judge's
; distinguished consideration —Mr. Flynt's
; and Mr. Trox Bankston’s.
That collection should afford somebody
i a fine opportunity for a study of hats,
particularly as to the psychology thereof.
I One might easily picture them thus:
i Hillyer, silk hat; Flynt, derby; Banks
ton, sombrero.
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At one time, amalgamation of Un
derwoodites and Wilsonites in Geor
gia might have seemed as impossible
as mixing oil and water, and yet they
are blending beautifully in some local
ities nowadays.
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After dragging along for a time and
arousing no Interest whatever in the
breasts of "the various gentlemen of the
third house” who at legislative times in
Atlanta most do congregate, the "lobby
ing book” seems suddenly to have leaped
into great favor, and surprising has been
the rush of late upon the part of effected
ones to register.
When the book was opened, four per
sons confessedly interested in pending
legislation, immediately walked right up
and registered. Following that fine get
away, there was nothing doing In the
registering business until-within the last
few days.
There are now upon the book some
two score or more of names, many of
them familiar enough, too, as those
things go.
The book for the registration of lobby
ists is a product of the great “reform”
movement inaugurated in Georgia a few
years back, and evidences of which may
be found Scattered all through the stat
ute books, If one but look.
It is generally thought to be a good
thing, and it certainly was planned to
meet a worthy purpose. So far, however.
It contains the name of no person who
would be suspected of dishonorable or
questionable purpose around and about
the capitol, whether his name appeared
in the book or not.
The idea that these registered “lobby
ists” are required to wear big badges and
green feathers in their hats is an error.
They dress, and, in the main, act like
ordinary human beings.
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