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2 WWORK WEEK PASTOR'SLABOR SUNDAY TEXT Union Men and Their Families Will Spend Monday at Grant Park. Atlanta will enjoy it# Labor day this year. Even thing will be dosed Mon day i v ept the parks and the working men will take s. rest, instead of parad ing under the sun which usually works overtime on Labor day The churches will observe tile day by special services tomorrow, nearly all of th< leading minister- having an nounced sermons bearing on the occa sion. The official isibor day s- t mon will he delivered at the Har is Slie<’ Pres byterian church by Rev. .lyre A. Moore. 1 who will return from a vacation trip I ■.specially forjne ociSasion The union men and t tei families will ho'd their' injin ■ elehration a • Irani park, where a big basket picnic • ill be held. •Tln-te v ill be dancing, mueiv. a baseball, gajtie and addresses by S. B Marks, p esident of the etnte federation: (’arl Kar.-mn. president of the. Atlanta body, ami Jerome Jones, eo-tor of The Journal of Labor. City Hill To Be Closed. Tie t ity hail will be • los“d all day I and the council ine'*t4nfr.s will try post poned inn: Tuesday afternoon. M" the inaem and cou'n'i: and all ers can j it the “hos;i? of labor at their, picnic. The b. tike and most of the business housrs v ill be 1 losed all day. Housekeepers will have to ord< r early on Monday if they intend to have any dinner for their families, lor the gio cpis stores and rn»at markets are go ing to < lose promptly at icon. Here and there a •mail corner gro cery store or market niuy be open in the outskiits of the city, but the great majority of tile stares will observe the agreement to close They tire remind ing their customers today of tills fact. At tile Piedmont park lake there will be a special exhibition of aquatic sports and It is expected that the larg est crowd which ever visited : it' swim ming pool will take a «'lLs<. “fine Rest Day :n Si ven for All Workers" will be the theim upon which Rev Jere A Moor. past r of tie Har ris Street Presbytei inn i hui' it. will speak tomorrow morning at the Labor Sunday services. ManV other churches of various de nominations throughout the in.lion will take cognizance of Labor day. which will be celebrated Monday, and the pastors will preach upon subjects con cerning organized working men. Otti eial Labor day services will be held in the Harris street church, fidlowing .1 ‘ < tl.-qonr of the Atlanta laboring men in *“*el:oosing a particular church < oh yeai sot holding special services V special program following that | outlined by the Federal Council of | churches of t'hri-t in America will be j carried out under the direction of O •'.] Johnson, chairman of the committee Many Work S«ven Days. Statistics hav» been gathered in ths] pas few weeks by the pastor of H ar- I ■pis street chttr '• whi< 1 show that in | Xmerica more than 4 ttoo.ooo men. worn-j on and children have no rest on any | day In the week. In the South this] tendency is particularly strong, and the pastor will mak< thi« a part of his add less. Among the toilers in mills and facto ries. among the drug and soda clerks and railroad switchmen this regular seven days to the week is carried out, according to his statistics. The meeting Sunday, it is believed, will start an agitation among the At lanta laboring men to give every work ing man one day of rest in the week. The laboring men prefer that this day should be Sunday, but insist that all men should have one day of rest. Rev E. Dean Ellenwood. pastot of the First Universalist church, who lm< spent the summer in Chicago univer sity studying labor conditions in this country as a part of hi.s course, will make Labor day services the feature of his church worship Sunday morning. Hr will read Kipling’s poem. "The Sons of Mattlia." and will make the subject of his ■ < rmon “Honoring the Sons of Martha Engineer To Be a Speaker. "The value of organized labor to the world has impressed itself more strong ly to me as I have been giving it study." says Mr Ellenwood. “and I be lieve that 1 lie working mens unions ate stronger today than ever before " "What the Laboring Man Owes to the Church" and “What th. Church Owes to tin Laboring Man" will !>.■ the subjects of addresses Bunday morning at Grace Methodist church D .1 Eant. a locomotivt engineer will !><• j the first speaker, and J. T Derry as sistant commissioner of lommeice and labor, will be the second. Hon Walter McElreath will discuss the laboi laws: of Georgia The evening service a. Guidon Stoat Baptist church will lie dev ••tod to re ognilion of Labor day. ami the pastor. Rev. William M Sentell. who has 1 • ently returned from his va ation. will speak on an appropriate subject In many other churches where ' subject of organized labor is not th,, i feature of the sermon, pastor- have an nounced that they will give i t of j their time to the question of the m■• ds and purpose.- of the labeling man and it i s family. The Atlanta Georgian--Premium Coupon Th » coupon vt il be accepted at our Pr,n- um Pericr, 20 East Alabama at. n partial payment for any of the beautiful prem um gooda d aplayed there See Premiun Parlor Announcement on Another Pace L Special to Carry Dixie Bankers to National Convention DELEGATES WORTH MILLIONS I Dozen of Atlanta's Leading Financiers to Go to Big Meeting in Detroit. 1 A train load of bankc s f om the , S <uth ■■ n states wi: leave A; 'anta next ] Saturday for the annual conventign of the American Bankers association at I Detroit. There will be a hundred 01 Imo e leading financiers from Georgia, and Atlanta will send pe:haps a dozen members to the big meeting. Tiie men on that train will represent millions enough to build a ii:y about the size of Atlanta. Prominent among the Atlantans will be Colonel Robert J. Lowry, president Illi \ //fit. J|gi 1 Wk <*> jO T “ ) isK i" Mr U| ■ ”* I ’••nil H \.i 1 •" L| l IL uh. ■ h;i 11 pi tti exe,-uii\c I ::.L ; / mmKMB/ 1 1 1 ' llo'Cc s, 1 ’dWy 'glilllllis? li"ii \ l’< A 1 I ;of the Low i \ Natjona! bank and dean |of tiw bankets in Atlanta; Robert K. j Maddox, formet mayor and vice presi dent of the Aine i< .in National bank, and John K Ottley. vice president of I the Com th National, member of the dxecutiv’ ‘ommittee of the national association and chairman of the clear png hons.> division of that body, no ismal. honors to be awarded by a great organization like this. Mr. <Htle\ will delivo. an address to the convention as ■ hairman of the clearing house suction, and will also submit the repo » of the executive committee Ha\nes Mul'adden, of At lanta. edito of The Southern Banker and secretary of the Georgia Bankets association, will speak on a plan to eliminate uonfliut in convention dates. The convention will continue for a week, and two basebail games between Detroit and Philadelphia, with Ty Cobb as the headliner, are on the program BLACK CUTS THROAT OF NEGRO WOMAN IN STREET: VICTIM DIES The police today are searching for ti negro man who last night dragged Gertruib Hill, a negro woman, from u store at Fort and Houston streets and. in the presence of several pedestrians, cut her throat The woman died early todai in Grady hospital. The woman was separated from her husband, and the police are looking for him The woman lived with her sister at 166 East Cain street, and had I gone to the store to make a purchase for her As she started out of the store, the slater, who was passing in front, seized her. dr igged her just around the cor ner and inflicted the fatal wound. REV. C. B. WILMER HOME: TO PREACH TOMORROW Rei (' B Wilmer, rector of Si Lukes lEpis.opu; vhmvh. has returned from his vacation and will oecupi his pulpit Sundiii morning and night The lector "pt-nl : lie greater part of his vacation n< Kennebunk. Matn< Th. night I services, which have been omitted this suinm. t. will be resumed. J. C. Adolphus. Funeral services for J. C. Adolphus I old, of South Atlanta, w e:, i held this afternoon tt Nellie Dodd Me ! mori ii < l’.u:< h. Burial was at Antioch i Mi Adolphus leavea a > former!) was Miss Sara 1 1 son James •'. Adolphus. He wa born in Grano Rai ids, Mich., land South more than a quarter |"f a e<mtui) ago. jHE ATLANTA (TEOKGIAN AND NEWS SATURDAY. AVGUST 31. 1912.’ I I/M ' L£ife \ Al lop, Robert !•’. Maddox, American National. former mayor: below. Colonel Robert J. Lowry, president Lowrv \a j tional Bank, ex-president A. B. A. < Mrs. Frank L. Stanton Awarded High Honor WOMAN WINS FINE PRIZE In competition with the best adver tisement writers of the entire country. Mrs. l-'rank L. Stanton, one of the most clever and versatile writers in Atlanta, has been awarded second prize of 350. The contest was inaugurated by the Gotham Manufacturing Company, of New York, makers of men's wear, and the advertisement which was selected by the judges for second prize was placed by the Georgia Muse Clothing Company Tlie compliment to Mis Stanton is all the greater because of the national reputation of trie judges. The commit tee which looked over the many ad verftsetncnts and made the selection was composed of William C. h'reeman, advertising m inager of The New York Evening .Mail; Paul Block, Eastern representative of The Philadelphia North \m. ri» an. Kintz Wilflt n. New York repn • entativ. of The North American. !•’ C Frazer. editor of The 1 lab< rdashei. and George C. Burnham editor of The Clothier and Fui nishet. Honors of this kind, however, are not SLAVE. 108. REMARRIES TO MAKE IT •■REGULAR” NEW IORK. Aug. 31. A bridegroom 10S years old is tile record for the Paterson bureau of vital statistics. Ho is Timothy Griffen, colored, a slave of ante-bellum days He has just been married to Lucy Blackwell, aged 77, who has been his wife fol' 58 .'. ears, i But their marriage as .slaves was not 1 official, and the bridegroom wanted it I performed by a clergyman according ■ i to law. Griffen was 50 and his wife _’<> when j | they wt ri "mat ried" in 1860 on a Vir ginia plantation a.iortiing to slave ! . .'usto.v. by jumping over a bioomstici. 1 I held by the bridesmaid ami best man. . They have had nine children. new to Mrs. Stanton, for site was awarded a prize last yi-ar. and on many occasions her work in this line has called forth praise from national ex perts. Mrs Stanton lias been handling the advertising of various well known At lanta firms for several years past, and. \x Idle her work has been very favora bly commented upon by competent judges, very few were aware that Mrs Stanton did the work. Particularly was this true of a series of advertise ments run in Tin Georgian some months ago for tin Woodward I.umber Company, ahd the advertisements run fur the Cosmopolitan Life Insurance Company while that well known or ganization was being financed. When she began doing this kind of work, Mrs. Stantoa i alized that news, pope adv. rtisements had to be as in teresting to readers ami as attractive as ntvv s -toil.-, and she has Injected an element of human interest into her work, together with a typographical at tractiveness which has caused her ef forts to produce excellent results. GENIUS EXTERMINATES FLIES BY ELECTRICITY JOLIET. ILL. Aug. 31.—Millis Knickerbocker has invented a new way of killing (lies. He says it beats the swatter, or sticky tly pap. r. H. simply shocks them with electricity and then I drowns them in soapsuds. Knickerbocker's tlx killer consists lof a round groov. d pie. e of wood, i wound with German silver wire. The ! wire |s bound in spiral parallel The I wire-bound roll is placi d over a small .tin trough tilled with soapy water. As ! soon as a fly touches both w ires a eon jne.tion Is made, the victim is stunned und falls in the water. ’ CARS SPEED LIKE MUD, DESPITE ACCIDENTS Series of Early Mishaps Keeps Four Racers From Big Elgin Automobile Contests. I ELGIN. ILL.. Aug. 31.—With a rush I and a rdar. the racist cars, their en gines working to the very limit, their mufflers open and barking like gatling guns, were sent away today In the two big races of the Elgin meet. The two races were run simultaneously. Four of the cars were entered in both con tests, one of which required 30 laps and the other 36. A series of accidents before the race started forced the withdrawal of four cars, among them the big Fiat that was to have been driven by Teddy Tetz latY. the favorite. DePaimu's car, which was in trouble before the race, was repaired in time to get away with the others. cast Uace at Start. The lap rr<ord for the Elgin course kas lowered twice as the cars were on their first lap and again in the third lap. Mulford sent his car around the ; first time in 7:15. The previous low , mark was ,:19. DePalnta crossed the tape just after Mulford, making the cir cuit in seven minutes flat. In the third lap Bergdoll negotiated the S miles -’.499 feet in 6:5a, an average of 74.4 miles an hour. At the end of the fourth lap Bergdoll. in the Benz, was leading the free-for all. having made the four laps in 27:50. DePalma was second. Bergdoll was not entered in the Elgin race and De- Palma was first In it. Mulford in a KKnox was third in the free-for-all and second in the Elgin with Hughes and his Mercer third in the second event. Mercedes in Smashup. George Clark, driver of a Mercedes car and Fred Malone, his mechanician, were painfully injured and their car demolished in making the Hornbeck turn on the sixth lap of the free-for-all nice today. Malone was thrown front the car into the straw bales erected as butter at the turn, (’lark's head was flung' backward, striking the gasoline tank cap. inflicting a deep scalp wound. Both wrists were sprained. Both wheels were torn oft’ the car. Heat of Track Terrific. The heat on the course was terrific and the heat and speed showed their effect on the tires. It was a grueling contest for the drivers as well. At the end of the fifteenth lap, with the little race half done and the free for-all more thana third completed, the leaders stood: Free-for-All—Bergdoll. Mulford and DePalma. Elgin Trophy DePalma, Mulford and Anderson in a Stutz. Hughie Hughes, driving a Mercer, was forced to withdraw in the fifteenth lap. He broke a connecting rod bear ing. He stood fourth in both races at the time of the accident. His with drawal left eight cars on the track. The starter’s bomb was fired at 11:07 o'clock. A car entered in both the races was sent away and then the others left at fifteen-second intervals. 'I etzlaff-the famous Los Ahgeles driv er, in a trial spin today broke the trans mission gear of his big Fiat car and it was'hopelessly crippled. Tetzlaff was looked upon as the favorite in today’s Investigating Mishap. rite accident to Tetzlaff’s machine is .being investigated. The accident is i unique. He was running 30 miles an hour when the car slackened and came to a dead stop. Efforts to shift the gears failed and he opened the hood. Six bolts holding the differential gear to the differential had been sheared off. Whether they were the result of an accident or whether the car had been tampered with is the question that the investigators are trying to solve. The hood of the machine was sealed last night and apparently the seal had not been broken this morning. Tetzlaff himself said he did not think that any one had tampered with the car. At the same time he said he had never heard of an accident like that which occurred today. Jack Johnson, who drove an Austin racer to the track, offered his car to Tetzlaff. He said he would drive the car himself if the official would assign him Tetzlaff’s number. The officials said neither proposition could be ac cepted. Neil Whalen's big National did not start in the race. Engine trouble that developed yesterday put nis car out of commission. It was working so badly that he did not attempt to start today Both Falcars, one driven by G. Trus sel. the other by H. Hastings, developed tire trouble before the start and were withdrawn. The ears and the drivers for the events follow : The Racers and Events. Free-for-All—Distance, 36 laps (305 I miles. 204 feet); prizes, first. $1,750; second, $500: third. $250. No. Car. Entrant. Driver, t Knox Ralph Mulford I>. Mulford 2 Mercedes- W. H. Bertrand..C. Clark 4 Mercedes--!!. .1. Schreder.. R. DePalm 5 Fiat E •’. Patterson E Hearne 6 Benz- Erwin Bergdoll . E Bergdoll 15—Mercer ’’3s"—Mercer Auto. Co.. H. H. Hugos Elgin National Watch Company Tro phy- Distance. 30 laps (254 miles. 1.050 feet >. Prices: First, $1,000: second. $300; third. S2OO. No. Car. Entrant. Driver. 1 Knox "P"—Ralph Mulford. R Midford 2 Mercedes W. H Bertrand..G. Clarke 3 Mason Special .F. S. Dosenberg. M Roberts 4 Mercedes —E J Schroeder. R. DePalnia 7 Stutz—Stutz Motor Car Co.. G. Anderson 1-' -Stutz ideal—ldeal Motor C0...C. Men 14— Mercer "35" Mercer Auto Co.. S Wishart 15— Mercer ’’3s”—Mercer Auto co.. H Hughet The fact that Eddie Hea'ne was to * drive eJn the race increased the enthu- «••••••••••••••••••••••••• , • Rival Canal Planned • : Through Nicaragua? • : Is Rumor in Europe: • • • LONDON, Aug. 31.—A sensa- • • tional report that an Anglo- • • French syndicate is being formed • • to construct a canal through Cen- • • tral America to counteract the • • Panama canal difficulty over tolls • • for non-American ships was re- • 1 • ceived here today from Berlin. • • The origin of the report was • • unknown, but the telegram said it • • was the principal topic of conver- • • sation upon the German course • • it received little credence here, as • • no confirmation was obtainable. • • Inquiries in Paris elicited no in- • • formation there. • • According to the Berlin rumors, • • negotiations are already under • • way with Nicaragua with a view • • to building the canal across that • • country. • •••••••••••••••••••••••••a NOT TO ABANDON INTERURBAN IDEA Promoters Only Disappointed by State's Refusal to Permit Full Stock Bonus. Notwftlistanding the refusal of the Qeorgia railroad commission to author ize an immediate issue of $3,600,000 bonds and $3,600,000 capital stock bonus by the Atlanta and Macon Railway- Company (interurban), it is by no means certain that the project will be dropped. The commission, after a long and ex haustive hearing, granted the road the right to issue immediately $3,600,000 in bonds, but cut its proposed stock issue in half, reducing it from $3,600,000 to $1,800,000. The commission, while admitting the great merit in the proposition itself, went on record as saying that it could not see its way clear to authorize the full stock issue prayed for. The promoters of the railway are dis appointed. of course, that their peti tion was not granted as filed, but In asmuch as they already have spent more than $150,000 on the project, it is being assuiped generally that the abandonment of the scheme still is far from certain. The promoters say they had under taken to finance the road upon a plan frequently adopted in railroad con struction heretofore—bonds for actual construction and an equal amount of stock as a bonus to bondsmen. The railroad comission failed to see the justice of more than 50 per cent of the stock bonus petitioned for. Since the railroad commission’s rul ing many protests have come from those along the proposed line that the undertaking be not abandoned, and while the promoters of the road are by no means openly reassuring in their talk concerning the outlook, it has no where been stated authoritatively that the project will be abandoned. HACKS WIFE WITH HATCHET AND TRIES 3 SUICIDE ROUTES CENTRAL CITY, KY.. Aug. 31—C. O. Dutzinger, a tailor, went to th« office of Attorney James Stroud today, where his wife of three months was in consultation regarding a divorce, at tacked her with a hatchet, nearly cut ting her ear off and inflicting wounds in the head. He then rushed to his shop, and, find ing a piece of wire, twisted it around his throat in an effort to choke himself. Finding this means of suicide too slow, he began to cut himself with the hatch et with which he had wounded Mrs Dutzinger. In his efforts to kill himself he turned over a gasoline stove and the whole building was soon in a blaze. As the fire burned, Dutzinger lay down on the floor and would have burned to death had not the fire department arrived ju-t in time to pull him out. He is so badly wounded he can not recover and his wife is unconscious and not expected to live. sias mos the speed funs. Hearne at the last moment decided to drive the big reserve Fiat that Teddy Tetzlaff brought to the track. The crowds today were bigger than yesterday. By daylight the roads lead ing to Elgin were filled with automo biles on their way to the course and early estinuites placed today’s throng at twice the size of that at the track during yesterday's events. The course was in good Condition today. Hurried work done to correct the weak spots found after yesterday's struggle was undertaken and today the course was pronounced in first-class condition for the heavier cats and fast, er drivers. One Killed. Two Fatally Hurt. One man was killed and two other persons fatally hurt in a collision be tween an aueomobile and an electric train the Aurora, Elgin and Chi cago railroad, near Wheaton. 11l . today. The automobile was being driven to the Elgin races. The dead: H. B. Landon. South Elgin The injured: C. B. Landon, South Elgin; D. K. Landon. Syracuse. N. Y. The car was crossing the tracks of (tie electric line w hen its . ngine went dead, and it was struck squareh in the center by an oncoming train. Illi. 5. DIPLOMATS I; HAVE HANDS EDEL , I I i ; Cuba, Mexico, Panama.’ and ; Honduras Need Attention J Besides Nicaragua. , WASHINGTON. Aug. 31.—While tho , Nicaraguan situation as viewed by state , department officials is by far the most , serious foreign problem with which the , present administration has to deal, it , i became apparent today that there are , at least four other Central and South , American questions which are vexing , American diplomats and threaten to , develop into a crisis which will test the , resources of the I'nited States to deal , with. , The first and most important of these other Latin-American problems is the Mexican situation. Seemingly closed by the defeat of Orozco in northern Mexico ten days ago. the increased ac | tlvlty of the rebels along the Arizona and New Mexico frontiers is such that* Iwar department officials expect Ht least two more regiments to be introduced to the border. These are the Thirteenth cavalry at Fort Riley, Kansas, and the Ninth cavalry at Fort D. A. Russell. Wyoming. With these two forces avail. lable, the I'nited States would have the situation well in hand. Without them the rebels will continue their raiding of ranches and stealing of cattle be cause of lack of sufficient protection to 2,000 miles along the border. Cuba in Limelight Again. (.’uba, quiescent for three months, has j again come into prominence because of her practical refusal to punish Enrique Maza, the journalist who assaulted 1 Hugh Gibson, American charge d’af > faires at Havana, on Tuesday night. • The state department has formally de , manded Maza’s rearrest and punish b ment. and if this Is not forthcoming it will personally undertake to gain reparation through an indemnity from the Cuban government for injury to • the American diplomat. i The Panama situation growing out > of the demand of Minister Dodge for ( the resignation of the chief of police and his assistant because he accuses the pair of graft and of failing to pro tect Americans in Panama City, ap- . peared to be more acute today. The i chief of police has resigned, but his . assistant is still In office and the Pan ama government is showing symptoms of supporting him against the United States. Honduras Threatening. The state department will find itself with another troublesome administra tion on its hands. Honduras, the hot ' bed of Central American revolutions, is the fifth seat of rebellion which local diplomats set themselves to watch to day. After the Mena revolt in Nicaragua. Honduras appears on the verge of open 1 outbreak and the I'nited States may be forced to send marines there to guard American property. British Subjects in Danger. Following the receipt of a dis-patch from Minister Weitzel at Managua, giving a text of a communication from the British consul general at that point to the home office at London, where it is stated. that the British subjecs at Matagalpa and other points are in dan ger of being massacred, the state de partment today authorized Rear Ad • iniral Southerland, in command of the military forces at Corinto, to send ma rines to Matagalpa as once. • Minister Weitzel’s dispatch, which was delayed several days in transmis sion, said the British consul general was considering appealing for aid from London. HUNT FOR BLIND MAN WITH $60,000 TO GIVE AWAY FINALLY FAILS Half a dozen Atlanta blind men were accosted in«the streets today by various individuals who thought they had found Frank Fields a blind man said to have a $60,000 check to give F. G. Nichols, of Lineville, Ala. But none of them was the right man and none had anything like $60,000. so Nichols still is looking for Fields. A dispatch from Gadsden, Ala., today says a blind man answering the de scription of Fields in every way passed through that city today on a Louisville and Nashville train on his way to At talla. He would not tell his name, pre tending to be too deaf to understand questions. The conductor said the man was a passenger on his train to Attalla last Wednesday. A man closely corresponding to the description of Fields was accosted yes terday afternoon by an .Atlantan, but hs denied that he was Fields or had any such sum as that reported. F. G. Nichols, the Alabama hotel keeper who had been told that Fields was looking for him with the $60,1)00 check, anxious to give it to the Ala baman in return for kindnesses, still is in the city on the trail of his would-be benefactor. CHURCH BLAZES ITS WELCOME TO PASTOR IN AN ELECTRIC SIGN ’ eniral Church—Welcome” blazing out in an electric sign greeted Dr. G. L. Hans com, pastor of the Central Congregational church, on his return from his vacation at Greystone, Tenn The sign, which is said to be the only Hashing” electric sign on a church in the United States, was installed during the pastor s absence and. because of the fact that he always Insisted on making strangers welcome in the church, the worn welcome was made a prominent part of the sign. Dr. Hanscom will preach at the regu lar services tomorrow morning and aft ernoon An attractive musical service has been arranged for the night service Mr. Frank Cundell, the tenor, and Miss Alice Wright Bonnell, violinist, will be on the program. YOUR NERVES NEED Horsford’s Acid Phosphate Especially recommended for physical and mental exhaustion, nervousness and insomnia. •••