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ADJUSTMENT Os
STRIKE PEACE
won
Train Service on Georgia Road
, Resumed and Traffic Jam
Clears Rapidly.
TTjth ail trains running and the
freight traffic being cleared rapidly, ar
bitration of the troubles between the
Georgia railroad and its trainmen and
conductors began today, with every in
dication of a rapid adjustment of dif
ference?. Under the rules of the arbi
tration there shall be no strike while
differences are being threshed out. and
both sides pledge themselves to
with the arbiters, there can
be no further labor troubles on that
road over the recent differences.
Major T. K. Scott, president and gen
eral manager of the Georgia, arrived
fn the city today and will look after the
arbitration interests of his road. He
id he had not yet determined on the
Georgia's representative on the media-
• .in board. Major Scott seemed well
satisfied with the peaceful turn af
fairs had taken, but would make no
siatenient of the road's attitude. He
pill be in the < it.' for a week, indicat- i
Ina. evidently, that the arbitration pro- >
(•■’dings will ail take place in this city. I
I'. A. Burgess, assistant grand master I
of tl:r Brotherhood of Locomotive En- •
sut' S. has been chosen to represent •
• rainnun on the arbitration board :
Toe road is to name its representative i
:.,flay. and these two shall agree on a i
■ ,i. If they fail to agree within five
third shall be appointed by
i . Manin A. Knapp, of the national
.ii't of loii’niTce. and Dr. Charles P.
Neill, c> i.i.1.-sioner of labor.
negotiations may continue for a
week "i more before the officials and
• eir employees settle their disagree
ment?. < ommlssioner Neill, whose me
rit.: ion brought about a cessation of
f.< str'kt. will remain in Atlanta sev- :
er,. da's. The scene of the. labor dra-|
nr. i is shifted to Augusta, where •.
th. a. bit ration meetings will be held.
411 the passenger trains ran on time I
•■n the Georgia road yesterday, and to- '
<ir the vast freight, traffic, which has
i.hp tofore been diverted to other roads,
bcgsti rolling over the old tracks. The
>: trrbnaking switchmen are gone,
and the old employees of the joint ter- j
min: I. are back on their jobs. Jr. ■ '
day two trie road wiil be in its nor
ma condition.
Want
Burgess as Arbitrate*.
•M lil'ST/. G.\ Get 14.—The. Gs
E.a railroad and tilt, conductors a t . .
cein • ■■ " li name then arbitrator
'luring tl.e day. and it is expected tha.i
i""> rip, get down to business just as
1 ui'ke. as the third mar. can be se
There hat beer- nc intimation
as o wiio toe arbitrators will be,
thac the conductors and train- .
Assis .ani Grand.. Chief F. A ;
’■ - ' ■ "f the Bo therhood of l.o< •
otive Engineers. Mr. Burgess is in'
-'■'igvsta. and win act if he has the:
time.
~ryt.ing !« normal.on the Georgia
-rd the trains are running on
time, a number of trains left •
‘ f 91 1 o'clock tiris morning, and i
■ cht that ha.-, been accumulating for j
' ' 1 be disposed of as Quick- ■
?' ? b ;, sxii>j e . Thousands of bales of i
''''' : ini have been tied up along the ;
'■ nearly t KI) weeks will be rushed
i3u- •, within tiie next few days.
EXPECTS WOMEN’S
VOTES TO SAVE HIM
EROM THE GALLOWS
F r:A ' UIS<'O, Oct. 14.—John Rog-j
sentenced to be hanged for |
i»w nt Ben ’arnin Goodman, a i
ksman. expects to live many ■
ugh the grace of California’s
""men voters.
watch the women vote on the
f <<iutnl punishment amendment at
1 ember elections," Rogers said
■ 1,1 counting on that. I know
. ar<? °PP°sed to capital punish-
s 4 i'. 1 ' second sentence pronounced
'-n - 'Ll”?' 5 necessitated because of
Ti?? t,ie supreme court.
. :l ',nr of Goodman was especially
' ■■ . v Sft {&«•'
WIHS and funerals
Beulah L. Jenkins,
’ '< . f Z rHI Beulah L. Jenkins, who
.. • ca\ afternoon at the residence,
1P St reel, will be held this after-
•®0 o dock. Interment will be
• • p'. view .
A T. Stot'demayer.
.. < "t'al oi a. Ktoudernayer, who
, c ' morning hi his home in
"’' Inp, was held this morning at
rr e ,'" ' Max sons church. Inter*
at the uiiurch.
Arnold R. Bryan.
H di a ! " l Arno, ‘ l Bi xan. aged,
at a private Manitai ium
Ua - : held this morning al 10:30
wh- J* all s chapel. Interment
• rtl Westview.
v . Martha M. Oenma.
! 1 •' \L Dennis aged 67. •lied 1
4 ~ M ai.Harium Sundwx morning
11 T l.e funeral will be held in I
A Bond’s chapel this after 1
. °clock, and ’hr miermenI wih
est view
—■ ■■
H. S, Dryder.
I* ,%I Dr'- der who died i
H •<' ij.r *>'4idenre w Hapeville. 1
f. /' taken this morning in Zebulon 1
ai and mermen’
Mrt, Laila Ru<m
B '.* ’l4 Bini!*. a#ed 25 venr*- died j
hn»r *Anitartuin e«rh thill
. ul x n Psi |,x I
B"i i’' of in i' r i Ihe •
"O' r d io t Jrecnhei < 4 I
t • *nd will hf taken tn Orilla this |
fi, r funeral and interment I
Cherokee Judge Will “Stand by His Guns’ ’
FITE TO ASK NO MERCY
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i tempt of tiie ourt of appeals and sentenced to pay SSOO fine or
. servo ten da.vs in jail.
i Friends Rally to Aid of Jurist
Fined for Contempt of the
Appeals Court.
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CAR I'ERSVILLK. GA., Oct. 14.-
■ Judge Augustus VV. Fite, of the Chero
kee circuit, sentenced Saturday by the
Georgia court of appeals to pay a SSOO
fine or suffer imprisonment for ten days
so contempt, will seek no mercy from
I the judges who held him guilty.
i In a statement issued at his home
1 today he denied that he would ask a
i reduction of the fine as reported in Al
bania papers. "The report is absolute!.'
I false " h e asserted. "I am not going to
jappea' for a reduction of the sentence,
| nor would I accept it were it given vol
| untarily. 1 am standing- by my guns in
this case and on my legal rights.”
According to the decision of the court
of appeals, the fine must be paid by Oc -
tober 28 or the judge will go to jail. It
is expected that a subscription will be
started immediately throughout the
Cherokee circuit by his friends to raise
the amount of the tine, though there s
the possibility that the judge will seek
further legal slay of the sentence. He
has announced no plan.
Judge Augustus W. Fite, of the Cher
okee superior court, was fined 5.’.00 and
all costs of the proceedings in the fa
mous contempt ease concluded in the
court of appeals late Saturday after
noon.
The Judge was given an alternative
sentence of ten da.' s in the common
jail of Fulton count', and October 28
was fixed as the final time limit within
which be must decide which sentence
lie will accept.
The court of appeal-', in delivering
sentence through Chief Judge Ben Hill,
said that the court had decided, for
reasons of its own. not lo Impose a jail
sentence straight upon Judg-- Fite
The couit explained that it did this,
not itch because the court thought
such a sentence undeserved, as be, ausi
the espondenl himself was the juilgt of
a trial court, ami the court of appeals
desired lo arrange sent- in i in sin h
wise that the supei 10l mili'l might es
cape the humiliation of having one of
>(s judges incarcerated for am cause
For lite same reason the court of ap.
i peals ext-.atned t Kat it would not e-
I outre ball ot Judge l-'ite. pending Ills
decision .-s to which sentence tie wood
a. . »pi
The hearing Saturday afternoon " is
not eoiic 1 mled mtll long ah- dark
Cue court, tn delivering iia opinion and
«enien<> consumed o'er an Im i Junge
HIP went nt«t i-o ■ <i >-ngi ind
.tiler l-r ad finished liidu lt-i •
and Pol 1 f » »o -dll: eased I u mxe ' I ■
rhe rerfe-n'lent aid hi* a uineys
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THE \TLANTA GEORGIAN AND NEWS. MOMMY. OCTOBER 14. 1912.
SHOCKS JUDGE,
EOT M POINT
' -‘Coffee’’ Lady Starts to Un-
1 dress in Court, and Pro
duces Blushes.
NEW YORK, Oct. 14.—Mme. D.
’ Schnable, who is known to all the
Bronx as the "Coffee Eady,” because of
her dispensary for the beverage, caused
a shock to Magistrate O'Connor In Mor
risania court, which caueed rich, red
blushes lo rise up to the tops of the
judicial ears.
Mme. Schnab’e was summoned to
court by Samuel Poanessa., ladies* tai-
’ lor, who alleged that after eight fittings
■ of a dross for which she had furnished
the material, the woman had declined
to .pay him sl7 for his work.
'The dress does not fit.” said .Mme.
Schnable, as she took the stand. She
' | shook the dress out of Its box and
reached around to the back of her neck
end begun to unfasten the hooks of the
dr.ss she was wearing.
"Don’t, maiiame. Don’t!” Implored
Magist'ate O'Connor, with breathless
'. baste. "Don't undress!"
"How can 1 show you the new dress
• isn't a fit if 1 don't undress to put it
on'.' retorted ilie "Coffee Lady" Indig
nantly. and hook after hook snapped
undone under her Inis' fingers.
Bui madame!" shouted the judge,
".mil must not I Slop! Stop at once!
Mr- Smith!" he called, appealing to the
probuiion officer, "will you please
, make lie- stop’.’"
Wli'h the spei lators chewed liiei-
I tongues and stiffened theft faces io
Keep back laughter, Mrs. Smith led lb
di monst rii ting Mme Schnabie away to
a jit ivale room.
.'I- Schnable emerged a few mo
ments latei w'-ering the new diexa
Madinin -aid the magistrate when
b< was able to speak, "it ia enough
The fin a as vou *n' no more fits vou
than would a eoffe, sack "
l< *n- ■»< red that Roam-asa should
| have mu ban's to make nr
iU-iwn fit, mil that then Hie iiuiik if
loot -mint, should be laken lo .< civl
I court
ME Dim TO
RESTORE PEACE
Amicable Adjustment of Au
gusta Car Strike Appears
To Be Close at Hand.
AUGUSTA. GA.. Oct. 14.—A genera!
feeling exists here that the street ear
strike will soon be over, for the citi-
Izens mediation board promises to ac
complish more than any other body has
accomplished thus far.
President Mahon, of the Amalgamat
ed Association of Street P.aiiway Em
ployees. arrived in the city last night
and has taken personal charge of the
situation. He will submit the answer
of the striking car men to the media
tion boatd today, in regard to whether
ior not the strikers will make conces
sions in the interest of peace in the
community*.
The answer of the Augusta-Aiker
Railway and Electric t'orporation is ex
pected during the day. While the rail
wa;. company ha? steadfastly refused
I to r.-erde from the position that it has
| nothin? to arbitrate or mediate, still
j the pressure that is being brought to
! bear, it is believed, ie certain to force
| General .Manager Deal to yield
i The people have been inconvenienced
so long and business has been injured
'so mu<h that Augusta people are de
mr.nding a settlement. The city* has
been under martial law for more than
'two weeks, and will remain so until
quiet is fully restored. 1
' .'olonel W. L. O'Leary reports that
everything v.as quiet yesterday and last
night, with the exception of a street
, car being fired on last night by un
known persons. No one was hurt.
There wdli be a meeting of the media
ition board in the street railway strike
' situation at 5 o'clock this afternoon at
the Chamber of Commerce. T. W. Loy
■ less, chairman of the board, had a con-
I Terence with Vice President Hardee, of
| the >ailway company, and with Presi-
I dent Mahon, of the Amalgamated As
sociation of Street Railway Employees,
today, and will report the results to
the board this afternoon.
ATLANTA GREEKS OFF
TO WAR IN ANSWER TO
CALL OF SOVEREIGN
Answering the call of King George of
Greece. 75 Atlanta Greeks are leaving
from the Terminal station this after
; noon in a special car for New York,
where they* will sail on the Greek liner
Macedonia for their native land, to
‘ fight against the Turk. Their objective
I point is Athens.
i The band of Greeks was gathered
' from the local colony of 800 or 900 per
! sons, and their departure leaves va
; cancies in dozens of restaurants and at
ias many fruit stands. They are mem
• bers of the Pan-Hellenic union, which
j supplies the king with a fighting force
j from this country.
Andrew Berry and other companions
I left Atlanta several days ago, and will
arrive in the old country ahead of the
largei- force. Those who remain behind
are subject, to summons before a court,
which has the power to send them to
the penitentiary for 20 years, but as
long as they stay in America they are
I not molested.
HUM ANE SOCIETY IS
URGED TO SAVE CHILD
FROM LIFE IN MILLS
INDIANAPOLIS. IND., Oct. 14.—The
thirty-sixth annual meeting of the
American Humane association opened
here today. Many delegates represent
ing anti-cruelty associations and socie
ties from all parts of the United States
are in attendance at this convention.
These meetings will last for three
days and will be devoted first to the
consideration of work for children and
the second half of the sessions will bt
devoted to the consideration of animals.
Many important addresses pertaining
to the treatment of children and look
ing to the elimination of child laboi
have been prepared by eminent men
and women, who have devoted their
lives to this humane cause; in fact,
everything pertaining to children and
every kind and condition of childhood
will be ably discussed
"Save the child ia the ruling spirit of
the day." said President Stillman at
the opening of the congress. "This no
ble work should engage the attention
of every good man and woman in the
country, and I venture to believe that
within a few years such things as little
children working in factories will noi
be heard of.”
SCHOOL GRADUATES
CALLED SAUSAGE
• 'HICAGO, Oct. 14. American high
school graduates were likened to edu
cated frankfurter sausages by Dr C. 11
Zhitlowsky, of New York, in a lecture at
the I’niversity of Chicago.
"The public schools manufacture good
students as h meat factory manufactures
deal, able frankfurter sausages.” he said.
"Thus even year they graduate thou
sands of frankfurters I mean students
dill' labeled and all alike in appear
ance.”
LEAVES RELATIVES IN GEORGIA.
BIRMINGHAM. ALA . Oct It —B E
M. Cornett, aged i>o seats, was found
dead al Ensley today, heart failure be
ing the cause of death. He was a
watchman for the Tennessee Coal and
lion Company He belonged io Ma
sonic and Odd Fallows lodges here A!
his relatives reside in Georgia
THE BONITA PRESENTS
“A NIGHT ON A ROOF
GARDEN” ALL WEEK
' 4 Night on a Roof Garden ' Is the
title of the play at The Bonita. 12
Peachtree etieet thia week. Th* pla,'
presented by The Southern Beauty
Comedy Company, which has proven »»
populat w ith every er of griorf clean
comefit If you want to • one of
I funn est in<l boat acted plays of ih«
I .eason pa' a visit to The Bonita thia
• - I Ahvt i
SEARCHING SIDELIGHTS
ON GEORGIA POLITICS
By JAMES B. NEVIN.
Those who attended the I-'lte con
tempt hearing before the court of ap
peals Saturday had whatever quality
of satisfaction there may have been in
L yjß
M<.
jams-.’ a swvrw
witnessing t h e
second judicial
proceeding of the
kind ever insti
tuted in the his
tory either of
American or Eng.
lish jurisprudence,
for only once be
fore in American
—and never in
English legal
history has a
judge of a trial
court been haled
before a court of
review for con
tempt.
Never again in
Geo’-gia, perhaps,
will any person
living today have another opportunity
to attend such a hearing. It is the
hope of the bar. np less than the lay
men, of course, that ne'er again will
such a proceeding be necessary; but.
whether it were the hope or not. it
likely is true that the Fite case will
stand forever, isolated and alone, as
Georgias one contribution to the spe
cific contempt record in question.
There was one feature of the hear
ing. however melancholy its general
aspect may have been, that al! Georgia
would have profited in having imme
diate knowledge of. and that feature
was the wonderful speech delivered, for
the court, by Judge Samuel B. Adams,
of Savannah.
Fortunately, it will be an available
part of the record, for it was taken
down by a court reporter, and will be
transcribed into ordinarily readable
shape eventually.
This speech was a gem of repressed
and dignified oratory—it will become a
classic.
It is not an easy matter to express
an opinion, even in favorable criti
cism. upon a public utterance such as
Judge Adams' was. It was so lofty in
tone, so chaste in language, so devoid
of harshness or violence, and yet so
tremendously impressive, that the in
clination is to discuss it with a meas
ure of reserve, that one may not seem
to be in any wise fulsome or touched
ever so remotely with a mere desire to
praise
.Judge Adams' Speech was one that
must have made very person who heard
it a better citizen, and a patriot more
sure of himself than ever before.
It decried the cheaper and meaner
things of life —it exalted the virtues of
simple faith and the sweeter and no
bler sentiments.
It expressed the sincere and abiding
love of a. lawyer, without fear and
without reproach, for the orderly’ and
earnest preservation of the peace
through the law honestly administered,
and freed of passion, prejudice and ap
peal to the mob.
In specific terms it reproached the
respondent in the case at bar not at
all: but it scathingly protested the ut
terance that called forth the contempt
proceedings, and It deprecated the ten
dency of such things.
Judge Adams’ speech should be read
by every Georgian. Nothing finer has
been said in all the history of the
courts of the state—nothing more
nearly- certain in its good and uplifting
effect.
If nothing more had come of the
Fite hearing than Judge Adams' mag
nificent add’ess, the proceeding would
have been well worth while.
Three Georgia congressmen came to
DH. GEORGE BROWN SAYS: “I WOULD LIKE TO SEE ■
ALLMYFRIENOSSUPPORTALDINEGHAMBERS”
Atlanta. Ga.. Oci. 9, 1912.
Tn commenting on the recent
election. Dr. George Brown said :
“The position that T occupy is
one that can be likened to the
spectator who. standing upon a
high hill, witnesses a combat be
tween two armies, uncertain as
to what the outcome will be.
“In thanking my friends for
their loyal support I wish to say
that the late mayoralty campaign
has left with me no feeling of bit
terness toward any person. Nor
am I conceited enough to dictate
Io my loyal supporters, or to at
teinpt t.o dictate whaj they shall
<l<> iii the next election. But a
plain statement of tacts might not
be oul of place.
*‘l have carefully gone over the
list of men who have indorsed
Mr. f'hanibers. and I am sure
I hat he ha* a following of very
snccessfu I. hightoncd men. men
who have done much for the up
lift and upbuilding of Atlanta. I
town Saturday— William G. Brantley,
of the Eleventh; Gordon Lee. of the
Seventh, and William Charles Adam
son, of the Fourth.
Judge Adamson brought his market
basket along with him—as he nearly
always does when he runs over to At
lanta from Carrollton —and bought a
week's suplpy of groceries and things.
Gordon l ee came down to see the gov
ernor about a little matter, and Mr.
Brantley was here on legal business.
All denied any curiosity whatever
with respect to the Fite case, and each
said he merely happened to be in town
that day.
State Game and Fish Commissioner
Jesse Mercer has been telling his asso
ciates around and about the state cap
itol of a fish pond he has discovered In
south Georgia which quite puts it over
all other fish ponds known to disci
ples of the reel and rod in this .state.
In performing his duties as guar
dian of the piscatorial interests of
Georgia, Commissioner Mercer has to
visit all sorts of out-of-the-way places
and sections, and makes the acquaint
ances, in consequence, of all sorts of
persons and things. Naturally, there
fore, he meets many worthy and well
qualified Georgians who rarely get to
the big cities, and who are more or
less unmindful of the big cities' neces
sities and desires.
In one of these rounds. Colonel Mer
cer ran across the big fish pond of
which he lately has been talking, and
what he says of it Is enough to awaken
and arouse a rampant desire in the
heart of the most blase sportsman to
be up and doing.
"This pond," says Mercer, “contains
not less than 8,000 acres and Is In the
southwest corner of Berrien county,
bordering on the Okefenokee swamp
region.
“It literally swarms with fish—the
most beautiful and gamey imaginable,
too! From it may be taken, by the
millions, speckly bream, weighing from
one to three pounds; trout, running up
to twelve pounds, and blue bream,
weighing from one-half to one pound.
“Moreover, there is not one German
carp in the en’ire pond, and to the
complete absence of that pira'e ami
most undesirable citizen in all fisndom
may be ascribed the great size of the
noble fish family running free In this
pond.
“This pond 1s a pond, mind you, and
not a lake. It was built originally for
a mill pond. It is now In the custody
of B. T. Berryhill, of Milltown, and Is
visited Infrequently by fishermen.
"I nm perfectly honest when I say I
l.tlieve there are more fish in this one
Bind than there are In the entire state
of Georgia outside of It. And as yet
those who care to may fish there with
out hindrance or cost.
"The famous Reelfoot lake section tn
Tennessee lias nothing whatever on the
pond I have discovered in Berrien
county, right here tn our own state of
Georgia.”
helps cut down the “high cost of living" by saving you
from 10 to 20 cents per pound, a big worth-while saving
on a year’s supply. 1 lb. 20c—Ti lb. 10c.—X lb. sc.
AU <o«d Grocer* eel! it or will get it for yon.
suppose no one man can run a
government or a city to please
all parties. If this has ever been
done, I have yet to learn of it.
"This being the case, and I am
sure no one will deny it, it be
hooves the individual voter to
choose the candidate who nearer
represents his ideas. A grea|
many of my friends are warm
supporters of Mr. (Chambers, and
while I do not know him very
well. I am thoroughly satisfied
that the affairs of this city would
be safe and secure in hist hands,
and as 1 said before, I will not
and do not presume to dictate to
any of my friends what they
shall do.
"It is m.v belief that the wel
fare of the city of Atlanta re
qiiiree Aldine (’hanibcrs’ election
on t|u‘ loth of October next. I
wuuld like t<> see my friends sup
port him.
(Signed) GEORGE BROWN’.”
(adx\J
RELATIVES THINK
MAVS iS SLAIN
FDD HIS MONEL
Kin of Young Atlantan Begin
Probe of Strange Death in
Birmingham Hotel.
Following the discovery that Frank O.
Mays, 24 years of age, 55 Garnett street,
shipping elerk for the Spool Cotton Com
pany. had bee.n robbed prior to his mys
terious death Saturday in the Burton ho
tel, in Birmingham, Atlanta relatives to
day began a searching investigation of
the mystery, believing the young man to
have been slain.
Coroner Brasher's jury in Birmingham,
however, found a verdict of suicide.
Mavs, who was tranferred by the
Spool Cotton Company to the Birming
ham office onlyl a week ago. was found in
his roam in the Burton hotel unconscious
from the effects of laudanum. He died a
few minutes later in an ambulance on the
way to the Hillman hospital.
His body was brought to Atlanta last
night at midnight, and this afternoon was
interred in Westview oemtery.
Money Bag and S3OO Missing.
The theory of murder grows out of the
fact that Mays was robbed of nearly ev
erything he possessed. A chamois hag,
in which he had nearly S2OO and which is
known to have been fattened about his
neck, is missing, as is hls gold watch and
trunk. The disappearance of the valu
ables was discovered when examination
of bls room was made after he was found
dying.
A search hy ths Birmingham police has
failed to locate the money and effects
Members of the family In Atlanta are
thoroughly convinced that murder was
done and that robbery was the motive and
Intend to use every possible effort to get
to the bottom of the mystery. The
Birmingham authorities today are endeav
oring to find a clew to the identity of any
person who may have been tn the hotel
room wtth the young Atlantan wt any
time Saturday.
The fact that the chaunois bag and
money are gone is regarded as a strong
claw, as It is believed the presence of this
money bag could not have been generally
known
Mays was single, and had lived in At
lanta all of hls life He resided at 55
Garnett afreet with bls family. His
mother is a widow. He has two broth
ers and two sisters, all of Atlanta, as fol
lows: Rev. Henry Mays, Percy Mays.
Mrs. Irving Goodrich and Mbs. Emory-
Jones
SEVERE JAPANESE STORM
CLAIMS HEAVY DEATH TOLL
TOKIO, JAPAN, Oct 14.—Another se
vere storm swept the southern coast to
day, causing many deaths and doing
more real damage to property and to
shipping. The steamer Yedz Maru was
sunk with heavy loss of life and the
steamer Aikiwa Mani Is missing
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