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SICKLES REFUSES
TO RECEIVE WIFE
Veteran Spurns Reconciliation
Even Though Mate Pawns
Jewels to Pay His Debts.
NEW YORK, Sept 19 There wi
be no reconciliation between Mai
General Daniel E Sickles and hie w’.ft
This was learned yesterday when
became known that the general refuse
‘to see the woman who had i edged !
‘jewelry to prevent the sale at au ti
of her husband s personal projxrty
Mrs Sickles, accompanied to h- r
eon, Stanton called at No I'3 Ftfl
avenue, the home of General Sickles
on last Thursday aft. rnoon Sh» wa«
smiling as she rang the front door bei.
A few- hours befote she had affe'te.i
'the liquidation of her husbands del..
| (amounting to $3,200) to the Unio n
Trust Company
Her face lighted as the door to her
Ehusbands borne opened. She was
letopped by the butler The smile left
Eher face as she was told that she must
inot enter; that there were orders to the
'effect that neither she n >r her son
should be admitted.
Barred by the Housekeeper.
These orders had been issued by Mi=s
.Eleanor Earle Wilmerding, housekeep
er for General Sickles The aged wife
asked to see Miss Wilmerding, but the
latter sent out wud that she -ould not
be disturbed. With U-ars in het eyes
Mrs. Sickles returned to he apart
ments in the Hotel Marlton I'rnm
there her son Stanton telephoned to
John Reilly, of No. 170 Broadway, his
attorney.
When Reilly appeared Mrs
Sickles told him to inf. i m the genera!
of the liquidation of the ss,2nu debt
"It is my earnest wish." she said, "that
he be told not to worry about the auc
tion tomorrow, because the debt has
been paid.”
, She explained to the lawyer that she
did not want him to tell Mr. Sickles
how the money had been secured .lust
tell him that there is no need to worry
—that everything is all right."
Mr. Reilly obtaitp.l admittance to the
fiickl es home. He was not known as
the attorney for Stanton Sickles Miss
Wilmerding declared that she "knew
all about it" w’hen the lawyei informed
her of the good news he brought for
General Sickles Their conversation
■was stopped by the telephone bell Miss
Wilmerding answered ft
‘‘lsn’t It fine!” cried the housekeeper
“One of the general's old soldier friends
has come forward and paid the $8,200
to the Uncoln Trust ”
Insists That Truth Be Known.
Lawyer Reilly, when informed that
the party at the other end of the wire
was the general’s counsel, Daniel P
Haya, who had called up from Pleas
antvllle, expressed a desire to speak to
him. This was granted
“It is untrue, Mr. Hays." he said,
•'that an old soldier friend paid Gen
eral Sickles' debt. It was paid by
Mrs. Sickles, his wife, who pawned her
jewelry to get the money I tell you
this because 1 think it only just that
you should know .”
When Reilly had begun speaking
over the telephone to Mr. Hays. G. ner..
Sickles had silently entered the room
He heard everything that was said.
Outside In the hall Mrs Sickles and
'iStanton, her son. also heard it. They
followed Mr Reilly and had succeeded
.in passing the servants As Mr. Roll!
( began speakinv to the general Miss
IWllmerding cried to him tp stop, that
idt would “kill him.” Then crossing over
to the general’s side, she said: "It's all
a He. She did not y.i, u It was paid
by one of your friends"
Mrs. Sickles, hearing litis, cried out.
"Mr. Reilly! Mr Reilly! Does ho know
» —does he know it is all right?"
“It's all right, Mrs. Sickle- 1 11 be
.there in a moment," replied Reilly, an 1
left the room.
JAIL TUNNEL IS FOUND:
IT WAS DUG 75 YEARS AGO
BOSTON, Sept. 18. \ mysterious
tunnel jiist discovered under the street
in Court Square, is thought to have
been made bv prisoners attempting to
escape from jail cells of three-quarters
of a century ago tn the old court house,
recently demolished, to make wav for a
city hall annex Workmen r..moving
the last stones of the foundation of the
court house found the ent t.inc,, to tit.-
tunnel, six feet below the street level.
The hole was three feet square and
led from that part of the court house
which in former years had been us. d
for cells. There was nothing to show
that the tunnel had ever been walled
Up. which strengthened the belief that
it had been made secretly by prisoners
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SEARCHING SIDELIGHTS
ON GEORGIA POLITICS
By JAMES B. NEVIN.
In the offlt e of the Georgia commls
■ sfoner of agriculture in the state cap -
toi hangs a picture of one of the most
, luxuriant, sweep-
Jakm e, ocirvur
I 1 n g. impressive
and alfalfaesqtie
set of whiskers
that ever adorned
a human being
Behind the
whiskers, a man
very much of a
i man, for the mat
-1 ter of that —is
very cleverly con
cealed almost.
■ The whiskers
I are the ultima
I Thule of dignity/,
I They Impress vis
itors mightily and
lingeringly.
t >ne rarely sees
TV h I « 1-
such w hlsk er s
's. nor w ere they seen at all in
the good old "Pop" days—for the whis
ker- m question nourished in the late
70’s, and they belonged to Augustus
Octavius Bacon, now United States
senator from Georgia! 1
t\ hen Senator Bacon was coining
regularly to the legislature from Bibb,
he brought those whiskers with him
every yeai No session of the legisla
ture in the SO's would have been con- '
sidered a finished product minus Ba
con and his familiar facial adornment.
Th< reason why Senator Bacon's pic- ’
ture, whiskers and all, hangs in the de- 1
partrnent of agriculture In Georgia is a
very pretty story, for the senator never
was a commissioner of agriculture, an
ml Inspector, and anything like that.
" hen he was speaker of the house—
and h. was speaker five terms, of two
wears • i. h the question of establish- '
Inga department of agriculture came '
before the house, and there was much
opposition to It.
1 he speaker favored It, however, and
threw all th< powerful influence hethen '
wi' Med in the Abuse to Its establish- '
ment 1
When the matter came to a vote, the
toll call showed a tie, and Bacon, being
speaker, voted in 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.
On the fourth of next March. Senator
Bacon Will begin his fourth term In the
senate of the United States. No other
man in Georgia ever was honored by a
fourth election to the senate, succes
sive or otherwise. Indeed, there have
been lew instances in which more than
two terms were awarded.
With the passing of "Uncle Shelby"
Cullom, of Illinois. Bacon will be al
most. if not quite, the dean of the
senate.
Says The Albany Herald;
Governor Brown is no lawyer,
but that he has a legal mini! not
1. r. r.
| AT THE THEATERS
•NAUGHTY MARIETTA” WILL BE
NEXT SHOW AT ATLANTA
Victor Herbert, the most successful
< oinpo.svr of light opera the world has
evt r known, considers '■\;ingin\ Marl
etta ’ to be his best comic opera. And it
is undeniable that the hook of this opera
• the best libretto ever written by a
woman and Rida Johnson S’oung has
;nan\ brilliant successes to her credit.
With Florence Webber as the stellar at
traction, '.Naught \ Marietta" will be pre
sented at the Atlanta Friday and Satur
day b\ Oscar Kammerstein, who has sup
plied a company of 60 vocalists whom he
loeruited from his grand opera forces.
An orchestra is also provided and the
scenic equipment and costumes are all
good. Seats are now selling.
AL. G. FIELD AND HIS
MINSTRELS ARE COMING
Rett Swor. a Texan whose histrionic
-. -t flehi of experlence,
bads the comedy corps with the Al. G.
Field greater minstrels. He is ably sec
onded b\ Johnny Healy, the comical de
lineator of the old-time negro; Johnny
Dove, the dancing expert. Gov. Bowen, a
favorite blackface comedian. Eddie Duni
gan. Hal <»rvin and Master Alsey Sexton,
the youngest of the group of mirth-pro
vok ei s.
\t the h(*ad of the comedy, singing and
dancing forces, is Al. G. Field, who needs
no introduction to theatergoers. This year
the program includes a feast of surprises
that are termed the minstrel’s master*
piece V The monarchs of mirth, song and
dance will be at the Atlanta Monday,
l’uesda> and Wednesday. Seats go u.i
sale Thursday.
•SEVEN DAYS” IS DOING
GOOD BUSINESS AT LYRIC
' Seven Days." which has been pro
nounced by critics pne of the funniest
tan < s < n Um stage in recent jears, is
doing a splendid week's business at the
Lyric The plot, which is built around
the on ■ r< cd marooning of a diner party
n Tom Wilson's home foj a week, brought
about by the illness of h servant with
smallpox, which afterwanl turns out to
he < hickenpox. furnishes no end of ma
erial foi - lever dialogue, funny situations
ami wholesome laughter. The company
which is playing this week at the Lyric
is fully < apablu oi doing the play full .
usti<« The usual matinee on Thursday
land Saturday.
ALKAHEST COURSE HAS
MANY FINE ATTRACTIONS
Season tickets to the Alkahest Lyceum
course are going with a rush at the Cable
I’(.«no < i nanj TI < aah • ipeni d Mon
day, and will close Saturday of this week.
The seating rapacity of the Tabernacle
auditorium is so arranged that there are
really very few poor seats in the house,
and 1t is believed that the patrons of
this series of entertainments will prefer
this hall to any the course has been held
in yet
The Xlkahest course will open on < >c
loher M. with the Edwin It Weeks corn
ual w! h is at ol I fan ot Ite In Atlanta
iMr Weeks stands pre eminent in the ly
| • curn world as an original ami versatile
• j tertaitici His offerings are almost en
iirel\ <4 I.is wn rumposltion and run the
<ui!u gamut <•( things musical and hu-
! Theia- is withal a gentle reflne-
' ii.ent about bis hum"!*, and here and
; then blended with it. Is u touch of pathos
iai tto driving home of u hotneh truth
w I a h pf'*\»s that real mirth has its true;
missb n lb is assisted bv Mrs Weeks,
iwiio hub won faim throughout the coun
| try by the beauty of h« i thoroughly mu-
; »i i ram \<i< ♦ <n ! Miss Lulu Sin !
•lan i f..ru«r rmuJ.t-i t »ht faculty .f
'■ln \m«’ .it < *<'iiMery atm y ( f t'bicago. I
| ’ • .ui » I \ ; Iph W t übg the gr< at I
ffi® ATLANTA GEORGIAN AND NEWS. WEDNESDAY. SEPTEMBER 18.1912.
without considerable admirable
training haa 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 years
ago, and could take up the law as a
profession after the end of his term In
I 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.
C 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. He told
Mr. Lee 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,
breezed 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
as 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 his 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
samf Information comes to the cam
paign committee. He will sweep the
nation, carrying heretofore impregnable
Republican strongholds."
r
ARMY ORDERS
Washington, sept, is.—The fol
lowing orders have been issued:
First Lieutenant Elsworth Wilson,
medical reserve corps, from Fort Hua
chuca. Arlz., to Benicia Arsenal, Cali
fornia.
First Lieutenant Charles J. Boies,
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
SOLDIERSSEE BIBLICAL
SUBJECTS IN “MOVIES”
Moving pictures 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 entertainments is be
ing given at the post under the direc
tion of the chaplain. The post gymna
is crowded every Tuesday and
Inursda.v evening.
VAUDEVILLE AT GRAND~
DRAWS BIG AUDIENCES
Vaudeville is going to make the Grand
come back stronger than anv one ever be
lieve,] possible The new theater the
new management and the new policy has
been grabbed with such an interest that
even with the wonderful seating capacity,
the house Is going to be taxed to accom
modate all who will want to be in the
shows •
The bill this week is one of extraordi
nary quality. Every act has scored a hit
and the bill collectively has won the ap
proval of all theatergoers.
For next week there Is to be another of
that quality There are features that ate
played in the best theaters and the star
act, "More Sinned Against Than Usual "
Is the big laughing success of the new
season.
Why do they ah say. "As good ai
Sauer's?" SAUERS PURE FLAVOR
ING EXTRACTS nave received thir
teen highest American and European
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.'5100,000 PLEDGE
FDR OGLETHORPE
Carolinan Heads Trustees of
! Proposed College—All Dixie
1 Asked to Aid.
i
' Oglethorpe university, the great in
stitution of the Presbyterian church,
which it is proposed to build at Silver
Lake, near Atlanta, within a few years,
was converted from a vision into a
certainty at a banquet at the Piedmont
hotel last 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
ail-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 Thornweil
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, N. 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.
Site 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
i White, Rev. Thornwell Jacobs, Captain
i James W. English, Dr. K. G. Matheson,
i E. J Spratling. James R. Gray. Hugh
, Richardson, J. T. Andprson, Marietta,
and J. W. Hammond, Griffin.
Secretary Jacobs, who presided, an
, nounced that 55 acres of land on Peach-
I tree road, running back to Silver Dake,
, 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
r 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
first year.
The movement to found a new insti
tution of learning which shall carry
’ out the ideals and perpetuate the name
and memory of old Oglethorpe univer
, sity. long defunct, has been given en
, thusiastic support by many well known
, Presbyterians in Georgia. It is now
assured that a university, long needed
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MEN AND RELIGION BULLETIN NO. 20 ""1
“The Houses In Our Midst”
A CHOICE OF COMPANY
But Not of Evils
Right is common sense.
Sodom suggests hideous vice.
I 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. r
Nothing more is asked or expected of you.
Until they investigated, some of the members of this Executive Com
mittee believed in segregation, i r
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 Blaustrin, Rev. Abraham Hirshberg, Julius Rosenwald, A
Rev. J. F. Callaghan, ' Prof. Charles R. Henderson, Louis E. Schmidt, M. D„
Anna Dwyer, M. D., Rey. 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 Gunzaulua, 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. >f
After investigation they were a unit in recommending the suppres- f
sion of the houses. /
The members of the Minneapolis Vice Commission were: /
Rev. Marion D. Shutter, Prof. John H. Gray, Nicholas C. O’Connor,
Eugene T. Lies, Prof. David H. Painter, Charles M. Way,
Rev. Father James McLeary, Herbert O. 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 Commission, 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: , r ■
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.
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.