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SICKLES REFUSES
TO RECEIVE WIFE
Veteran Spurns Reconciliation
Even Though Mate Pawns
Jewels to Pay His Debts.
e NEW YORK, Sept 1S There nil
be no reconciliation between M.ije
'General Daniei E. Shold*-- an.l his wif*
This was learned yi '*tes da* when
became known that the genera ;• fusel
to see the w oman who had pie g*d li* r
jewelry to prevent th*' sale at audio:
of her husband.’.* pe-smai property
Mrs Sl* kies, accompanied by her
eon, Stanton, called at N*> 23 Fifth
avenue, the home of tlcnernj Si* kies
on last Thursday afternoon. Sh- was
emilinc as she rang the front door be'.
A few hours before she had affected
the liquidation of het husband’s deh;
(amounting to $8,200) to the Lin. ...n
Trust Com pan'
Her face lighted ns th. door to be
husband’s home opened She wa
Stopped by the but!*: Th* smile left
her face as she was told that she nius:
not enter; that th* t* were orders to the
effect that neither she nor her son
should be admitted.
Barred by the Housekeeper.
These orders had been issued by Mi s
kEleanor Earle Wilmerding, housekeep
*er for Gem al Si. kl*s Th* aged wife
asked to s p e Mis- Wilmerding, but tin
•latter sent out word that she could not
be disturbed. With tears in het eyes
Mrs. Sickles returned to h* apart
ments in the fi"tel Marlton From
there her son Stanton telephoned to
John Reilly, of No. 170 Broadway, his
atto ney.
When Mr Reifiv appeared Mrs.
Sick'* 1 ’ to d him to Inform the genera'
of the liquidation of the $8.2 * debt
“It is my earnest wish," she said, ' that
he pc told not to worry about the am
tlon tomorrow, because the debt has
been paid "
She explain'd io th* lawyer that she
(did not want him t*f toll Mr Silkies
|how the money bad been secured. "Just
tell him 'hat there I- no m e.l to worry
that everything is all right.”
Mr. Reilly obtained admittance to th*
Sickles home >l. was not known as
the attorney for Stanton ShTCi-s Miss
Wilmerding ce. l ire*] that she "kn w
all about it” when th*- law ye- Inform* *)
her of the good news h* brought for
General Silkies Their conversation
was stopped by the telephone bell. Miss
■Wilmerding answered It
"Isn’t it fin*!” etii'd the housekeeper
“One of the general s old soldier friend*
has come forward and paid the $8,200
to the Lincoln T ust."
Insists That Truth Be Known.
Jgiwyer Reilly, when Informed that
the tarty at the other .nd of the wire
was the genera "< counsel. Daniel P
Hays, who had called up from Pleas
• antville. expressed a desit. to speak to
him. This was granted.
"It is untrue, Mr Hays," he said,
“that an olii soldier friend paid Gen
eral Sickles' debt it was paid by
Mrs. Sickles, his wife, who pawned her
jewelry to get the money 1 tell you
this because I think it only just that
you should know."
When Reilly had begun speaking
over the telephone to Mr. Hay s, Genet.. |
Sickl. s had silently entered the loom
He heard everything that was sail
Outside in the hall Mrs. Sickles ano
Stanton, her son. also heard it. They
followed Mr. Reilly and had succeeded
in passing the servants. As M Roll!
began speaklm- to the general Miss
Wilmerding cried to him to -top. that
it would "kill him." Then crossing over
to the general’s side, she said: It - all
a 11. she did not j«ay it it wa« paid
by one of your friends."
Mis Sickles, hea ing this, cried on:.
“Mr. Reilly! Mr. Reilly! Does he know
—does he know it is all right?"
"It's all light. Mrs. Sickles I’ll be
there in a moment." replied Reilly, an i
left lhe room.
JAIL TUN NEUS FOUND:
IT WAS DUG 75 YEARS AGO
BOSTON, Sept 18. A mysterious
tunnel just discovered under the street
in Court Square, is thought to have
been made br p Ison rs attempting to
escape from jail cells of thi ee-quarters
of a i-entury ago In the old court house,
recently demolished, to make way for a
city hall annex Workmen removing
the last stones of the foundation of th*'
court house found the entrance to the
tunnel, six feet liblow th. .-tieet level
The hole was three feet square and
led from that part of the court house
which in former years hid h* . n used
for ceils There was nothing to show
that the tunnel had ever b* . n walk.l
up. which strengthened the belief that
it had been made s. eretly by prisoner-
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ATLANTA
SEARCHING SIDELIGHTS
ON GEORGIA POLITICS
"■ 1 ■ 1 " ■ •
By JAMES B. NEVIN.
in th** office of the Georgia commis
sioner of agriculture in the state capi
tal hangs a picture of on* of the most
Hl
JAMI-a & KE-rrw
. luxuriant, sweep
ing. impressive
. n 1 alfalfas*. t u*
s*’t "f whiskers
that ever adorned
a human being
Behind the
wb skers. a man—
v*ty much of a
i man, f<>r the mat
. ter of that —i«
very cleverly con
* •-<*led almost.
The whiskers
ar* the ultima
Thule of dignity
They 1 mpress vs;
i Hot .- migiltily and
lingeringly .
One rarely secs
such wh inks r s
now adays. nor were they seen at nil in
ket s in question flourished in the late
.b's, and they belonged to Augustus
Octavius Bacon, now United States
senator from * loot gia!
\\ hen Senator Bacon was coming
regularly to th* legislature from Bibb,
he brought those whiskers with him
every year. No session of the legisla
ture in the So’s would have been con
sidered a finished product minus Ba
■ on and his familiar facial adornment.
Th*- reason why Senator Bacon's pie
tur* whisk* rs am! all, hangs in the de
partment of agriculture In Georgia is a
very pretty story, for the senator never
was a commissioner of agriculture, an
oil inspector, ami anything like that.
When h* was speaker of the house
and Io- was speaker five terms, of two
V. -O'S *■;**. h the question of establish
ing i department *>f agriculture came
h* foi tii*. house, and there was much
opposii lon toil. *-
I In speaker favored it. however, and
threw all the powerful influence hethen
wielded in the house to its establish
ment
When she matter came to a vote, the
toll call showed a tie, and Bacon, being
speaker, voted tn favor of the bill, thus
breaking the tie and making the de
partment of agriculture a living thing!
So great was the appreciation of the
friends of the measure that Bacon's
picture was given the first and most
conspicuous place of honor In the new
agricultural department, and there it
has remained ever since.
< >n she fourth of next March, Senator
Bin on w ill begip his fourth term in the
senate of the Unite*! States. No other
man in Georgia ever was honored by a
fourth election to the senate, succes
sive or otherwise. Indeed, there have
been few instances in which more than
two terms were awarded.
With the passing of “Uncle Shelby"
Cullom, of Illinois. Bacon will he al
most. if not quite, the dean of the
senate. z
Says The Albany Herald:
Governor Brown is mi lawyer,
but that he has a legal mind not
| AT THE THEATERS
'•NAUGHTY MARIETTA” WILL BE
NEXT SHOW AT ATLANTA
Victor Herbert, the most successful
composer *>t light opera thu world haa
• known, considers "Naughts Mari
etta to be his best comic opera And it
undeniable that the book of this opera
the best libretto ever written by a
woman ami Rida Johnson Voting has
many brilliant successes to her credit.
With Florence Webber as the stellar at
traution. Naughtx Marietta” will be pre
sented at the Atlanta Friday ami Satur
day b\ Oscar Kammerstein. who has sup
plied .1 company of 60 vocalists whom he
recruited from his grand opera forces.
\n orchestra is also provided and the
suenh- equipment and costtimes are all
good. Seats are now selling.
AL. G. FIELD AND HIS
MINSTRELS ARE COMING
Bort Swor, a Texan whose histrionic
record <ovcrs a vast held of experience.
I bads the comedy corps with the Al. G.
Held greater minstrels He is ably sec
onded by Johnny Healy, the comical de
lineator of the old-time negro; Johnny
Hove. the dancing expert. Go\ Bowen, a
favnrih blackface comedian; Eddie Duni
gan. Hal Orvin and Master Alsey Sexton,
the youngest of the group of mlrth-pro
vokers.
\t ti e head of the comedy, singing and
dancing forces. is \l G. Field, who needs
no introduction to theatergoers. This year
the program includes a feast of surprises
that arc termed the minstrel's master*
piece The monarchs of mirth, song and
dance will bo at the Atlanta Monday
Tuesday and Wednesday. Seats go oa
sale Thursday.
"SEVEN DAYS” IS DOING
GOOD BUSINESS AT LYRIC
‘ Seven Pays. which has been pro
nounced b\ critics one of the funniest
farces on the stage in recent years, is
doing a splendid week’s business at the
Lyric The plot, which is built around
the enforced marooning of a diner party
n Tom \\ ilson's home for a week, brought
i about b\ the illness of a servant with
smallpox, which afterward turns out to
he chickenpox, furnishes no end of ma
fot clevet diahigue, funnj Bit uat lens
.and wholesome laughter. The company
which is plaxing tins week at the Lyric
I -*s fullx < apable of doing lhe pla\ full
iiistice Th» usual matinee on Thursday
and Saturdax
ALKAHEST COURSE HAS
MANY FINE ATTRACTIONS
Season ticku'- to tht Alkahest Lyceum
» arse .tie g Um wn n a rush at llie < ‘able
i 'i.’o > Con 1 • -al. pened Mon-
Lax. and will d"se Salurdax of this week
she seating capacity of the Tabernacle
auditorium is so arranged that there are
u*u.ll\ ver> few poor seats in the house.
• and it is believed that the patrons of
•Ins ••! u-s of entertainments will prefer
this hall to an\ the course has been held
in jet
I’'he Alkahest course will open on •‘c
tnber 8. with the Fdwm It Weeks com-
I i»an\ which Is an old favorite in Xtlanta
I Mr Weeks stands preeminent in the ly
;<• im world as an original ami versatile
i• r '♦ t i.i.i'• i His offerings art almost en-
•fb of I ' own • inposition ami run the
rit i. gait .it i things musical and hu-
O !■ '!- I'hct. is withal it gentle refine
• tieni ah ' . lis humor, and here and
! tin re bl« tided with it. is a touch of pathos
iand tie driving home of a homelx truth
Iw i n ; • x• s »liit real mirth has its true
• n lb - assisted bj Mrs Weeks.
Iw h has w* n fame throughout the < oun*
» ' b' th* beitin\ .( r tl roughly mu
-1 ■ «d •I 1 *<n ' • nd Miss Lulu Sin
• r t • r h • r n t n. 1 < t vs rhe fa* ultv of
I’ ' \!O. J . th ns. . Villof \ of t’llKHgo
I " I’Upti of A.1.. ( w eidig. the git al
THE ATLANTA GEORGIAN AND NEWS. WEDNESDAY. SEPTEMBER IR. 1912.
without considerable admirable
training has been repeatedly dem
onstrated.
The Herald is mistaken in Its pri
mary statement, and the same mistake
has been made by others.
Governor Brown Is a lawyer—was
regularly admitted to practice J*ear*
I ago. and could take up law as a
■ profession after the end of his term in
the governorship, if he so desired. He
never has engaged actively in the prac
tice of law, however.
Gordon Lee will be unopposed for
congress Not even the Bull Moosers.
said at one time to be contemplating
the idea of running somebody against
Lee, will protest his unanimous election
for a fifth term.
• W. McClure, of Atlanta, head and
front of one wing of the Roosevelt
party in Georgia, was in Rome the day
Mr. Lee was renominated, and had a
chat with the congressman. H* told
Mr. !.»*■ that the Progressive Republi
cans in Georgia would not oppose him.
"I heard down in Atlanta," said Mc-
Clure, "that we likely couldn't beat
you. anyway!"
Mr. McClure, however, expects to
give the Woodrow' Wilson electors a big
run for their money in Georgia.
Colonel Dan Fogarty, dressed all In
white linen, after the fashion of Au
gusta folks at this season of the year,
breezes into the governor’s reception
room this morning, and shed the sun
shine of his presence around and about
most engagingly.
"How do you manage to come all the
way from Augusta and never get even
one speck of grime or dirt on a suit
of clothes like that, Dan?" inquired
John T Boifeuillet, who was present.
"Well, ' smiled Fogarty. “I suppose it
Is an art. although we Augusta folks
think we just come by it naturally.
"It Is accomplished by not trying—
that’s all. You simply don your rega
lia, step aboard the train, sit down
carelessly, forget that you have on linen
rags, take things easy, and you will
arrive in Atlanta as spick and span as
if you had just stepped from a band
box. You see. don’t you, John?"
“Yes, I—don't!" said John, who is
some dresser himself, moreover, and
likes to pick up sartorial information
a* he goes along.
Then Fogarty went in to see the gov
ernor, and in a minute or two the gov
ernor signaled Jesse Perry to cut off
the electric fan in the executive of
fice. as between it and Fogarty’s breezi.
ness the governor was afraid of catch
ing Ills death of cold.
William Schley Howard, of DeKalb,
congressman from the Fifth, spends
much of his time nowadays in Atlanta.
The gentleman from the Fifth is very
sanguine of Wilson’s election, and has
the "dope" always ready and willing
wherewith to convince the most ob
streperous Doubting Thomas in the
world.
"Wilson will win in a walk." said
Howard today, “From everywhere the
same information comes to the cam
paign committee. He will sweep the
nation, carrying heretofore Impregnable
Republican strongholds.”
T ARMY ORDERS
WASHINGTON, Sept. 18—The fol
lowing orders have been issued:
First Lieutenant Elsworth Wilson,
medical reserve corps, from Fort Hua
chuca, Ariz., to Benicia Arsenal, Cali
fornia.
First Lieutenant Charles J. Boles,
medical reserve corps, from Fort Banks,
Mass., to College Park. Md.
First Lieutenant Hew B. McMurdo,
medical corps, from Fort McDowell
Calif., to Fort Huachuca, Ariz.
SOLDIERS SEE BIBLICAL
SUBJECTS IN “MOVIES”
Moving picture* are playing their
part in religious instruction of the sol
diers at Fort McPherson. Every Sun
day evening Chaplain Durrant directs
a "movie," in which the action is based
on Biblical subjects, with musical ac
companiments.
A series of free entertainment# is be
ing given at the post under the direc
tion of the chaplain. The post gymna
sium is irowded every Tuesday and
Thursday evening.
VAUDEVILLE AT GRAND ~
□ RAWS big audiences
V audeville is going to make the Grand
come back stronger than any one ever be
lieved possible. The new theater, the
new management and the new police ha*
been grabbed with such an interest’ that
evt»n with the wonderful seating csp&clty
the house is going to be taxed to acconi-’
module all who will want to be in the
shows.
The bill this week is one of extraordi
nary tjualitx Ever.v act has scored a hit
and the hill collectively has won the ap
proval of all theatergoers
For next week there is to be another of
that quality There are features that are
played in the best theaters and lhe star
act. "More Sinned Against Than Usual.”
is the big laughing success of the new
season.
Whv do they alt say. "As good as
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SI DO,OOO PLEDGE
FOR OGLETHORPE
Carolinan Heads Trustees of
Proposed College—All Dixie
Asked to Aid.
Oglethorpe university, the great in
stitution of the Presbyterian church.:
which it is proposed to build at Silver j
Lake, near Atlanta, within a few years. I
was converted from a vision into at
certainty at a banquet at the Piedmont
hotel la«t night, when more than SIOO,-
000 In gifts was announced. Directors
were elected and plans begun for active
work for the university, which will be
ali-Southern in scope.
Those present represented the first
100 gifts of SI,OOO or more each. Most
of the donations ran to $2,000. while
one person whose name was withheld
has promised $25,000 and perhaps $50.-
000 to the fund. Secretary Thornwell
Jacobs announced that an institution
with an endowment of $650,000 already
has taken up the question of amalga
mation with the new Oglethorpe. It
was decided to extend the scope of the
university to the whole South and six
teen states will be asked to co-operate
in its building.
George W. Watts, of Durham, y. C„
a well known philanthropist, was elect
ed president of the board of trustees.
Senator Hoke Smith was named vice
president. C. E. Graham, of Greenville.
S. C., second: H. K. McHaarg, Stam
ford, Conn., third, and L. C. Mandeville,
Carrollton, Ga., fourth vice president.
John K. Ottley was made treasurer of
the board and Rev. Thornwell Jacobs
secretary.
Sit* For College Donated.
The executive committee Is composed
of President Watts. Hoke Smith, John
K. Ottley. Frank M. Inman, Wilmer L.
Moore, J. K. Orr, Dr. Hugh K. Walker,
Edgar Watkins. E. G. Jones, W. Woods
White, Rev. Thornwell Jacobs, Captain
James W. English, Dr. K. G. Matheson,
E. J. Spratling, James R. Gray. Hugh
Richardson. J. T Anderson, Marietta,
and ,1. W- Hammond, Griffin.
Secretary Jacobs, who presided, an
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tree road, running back to Silver Lake,
had been made a gift to the university
by the Silver Lake Park Company,
William Owens, president, and C. H.
Ashford. Perpetual right to the use of
the lake is guaranteed. To avail them
selves of this gift the incorporators
must begin actual construction by May
1. 1913. and expend SIOO,OOO within the
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MEN AND RELIGION BULLETIN NO. 20
"The Houses In Our Midst”
A CHOICE OF COMPANY
But Not of Evils
' ■■■■' ' ' '* —" ' * ' I" ■ !■■ * ■!
Right is common sense.
Sodom suggests hideous vice.
Capernaum was famous for its beauty, wealth and culture.
Notwithstanding, Jesus said that, in the day of judgment, it would
be more tolerable for Sodom than for Capernaum.
The reason is common sense.
Capernaum had had better opportunities to know what was right
than Sodom had, and rejected them.
Nicodemus, like many another so-called eminently respectable citi
zen before and since, did not dare to come out openly for the right.
After sunset, he sneaked through the shadows of Jerusalem’s streets
to see Jesus.
Much of that prominent citizen’s pride of position must have oozed
away in the night, when he heard Jesus say :
“This is the judgment, that the light is come into the world and men
loved darkness rather than the light; for their works were evil.”
Jesus voiced only common sense.
Vice honestly viewed in the light can not live.
Hence the desire of some for silence with reference to the social evil
and the Houses in our Midst.
Honest study, knowledge kills it and them.
Apply sincere thought to the facts.
Nothing more is asked or expected of you.
Until they investigated, some of the members of this Executive Com
mittee believed in segregation.
Today, they are as one in asking the suppression of these houses ille
gally protected by the police.
The members of the Chicago Vice Commission were:
Dean Walter T. Sumner, William Healy, M. D., Judge W. M. Phinckney,
W. L. Baum, M. D., Mrs. Ellen M. Henrotin, Alexander Robertson,
David Blaustein, Rev. Abraham Hirshberg, Julius Rosenwald, .
Rev. J. F. Callaghan, Prof. Charles R, Henderson, Louis E. Schmidt, M. D-
Anna Dwyer, M. D., Rev. E. A. Kelly, Bishop C. T. Schaffer,
W. A. Evans, M. D., Rev. John G. Kircher, Hon. Edwin W. Sims,
Rev, Albert Evert, Louis O. Katz, Edward M. Skinner,
Rev. Dr. Frank Gunzaulus, P. J. O’Keefe, Prof. Graham Taylor,
W. W. Hallman, Judge Harry Olson, Prof. Herbert L. Willett,
Prof. William J. Thomas, Prof. Wm. I. Thomas,
Abraham W. Harris, LL.D., Hon. John L. Whitman.
At the first, many of these believed in segregation.
After investigation they were a unit in recommending the suppres
sion of the houses.
The members of the Minneapolis Vice Commission were:
Rev. Marion D. Shutter, Prof. John H. Gray, Nicholas C. O’Connoo*
Eugene T. Lies, Prof. David H. Painter, Charles M. Way,
Rev. Father James McLeary, Herbert 0. Collins, M. D„ Gilbert L. Byron,
Judge Edward F. Waite, Max P. Vander Horck, M. D., Stiles P. Jones,
Edward J. Davenport, Mrs. Mabel S Ulrich, M. D., Mrs. Mary L. Starkweather.
At the outset, the majority of these were opposed to trying to sup
press the houses.
The chairman, a minister, says in their report:
“The chairman has yielded the theory which he had on becoming a
member of this commission to the overwhelming evidence which he dis
covered against it.”
Like the Chicago Vice Cftmmission, without a dissenting vote, they
recommended the suppression of the houses, declaring the public houses
of prostitution the center of the evil, the market place for the white slave
trade, and “the source of most of the loathsome disease which afflicts so
ciety.”
New York’s Committee of Fifteen had the following members:
Wm. H. Baldwin, Jr., Wm. J. O'Bryan, Jacob H. Schiff,
Felix Adler, Alexander E. Orr, Andrew J. Smith,
Joel B. Erhardt, . George Foster Peabody, Charles Sprague Smith,
Austin G. Fox, George Haven Putnam, Charles Stewart Smith,
John S. Kennedy, J. Harren Rhodes, Edwin R. A. Seligman.
They put the emphasis upon the enforcement of existing laws.
They recommended the punishment not of the women, but of the
men higher up who live upon their shame.
Many of the members of the Chicago, New York and Minneapolis
Committees were and are men of more than national reputation.
Their attitude before and after study is significant.
But more so are developments in France, cited by many from hear
say as a model for the scientific handling of the social evil.
Scandals in connection with their systems caused the French Parlia
ment to appoint an extra-parliamentary Commission of 75 members.
Among them were legislators, doctors, prefects, mayors, publicists,
and professors of political economy.
Their sessions lasted three years.
At the start, those in favor of abolishing the whole French system as
a failure were in the minority.
The force of their arguments and the facts presented by them was
such that at the end of their deliberations the Commission voted by a
considerable majority that the entire system of regulation as practiced
in France was so defective and on the whole so immoral that it ought to
be entirely abandoned.”
They recommended that all ‘‘tolerated and licensed houses” be pro
hibited. r
Not yet has their report been adopted by the French Parliament.
Like America, France is cursed with not a few politicians to whom
protecting the virtue of girls and the health of their country is nothing in
comparison with the importance of keeping their masters pleased.
But all the great chiefs of the medical faculties and all the import
ant heads of hospitals have now become converted” to the views of the
Commission.
The adoption of their report in the end is inevitable.
In Ameiica, the nation wide fight against men living by buying and
selling women is being led by David Starr Jordan, President of the Le
land Stanford University; His Eminence James Cardinal Gibbons Very
Reverend Dean Walter T. Sumner, Dr. Charles W. Eliot President
Emeritus of Harvard University; Julius Rosenwald, of’ Chicago; Miss
Jane Addams, Dr. 0. Edward Janney, of Baltimore, and others who are
officers and directors of the American Vigilance Association, the object
of which is to stamp out houses of prostitution and the white slave trade.
Consider and choose!
Such men and women on one side with God.
On the other are the pimp, the procuress, the corrupt politician, the
landlord and other criminals with Satan.
Where do you belong?
Atlanta should and will close the Houses in our Midst
THE EXECUTIVE COMMITTEE
Os the Men and Religion Forward Movement.