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VOL. XI. NO. 80.
fHI IS NOW
CENTERED
OH SMOKE
BOIRD
Widespread Movement Begun
Inside and Outside Council to
Abolish Commission.
PENALTY FOR HALTING
CRUSADE ON VIOLATORS
Members Do Not Want to En-:
force the Ordinance, It Is
Generally Believed.
On the heels of the halting- of the
crusade against the smoke evil, a wide
spread movement was begun today to
abolish the smoke commission.
It is the opinion of a large majority
of the members of the.city council and
of leading citizens generally that most
of the members of the commission do
not want to enforce the smoke ordi
nance. Chairman R. M. Harwell said
so himself, and added that the commis
sion ought to be abolished. e
“Mr. Oscar Elsas should resign from
the commission,” said Councilman
Charles W. Smith, the father of the
smoke ordinance, in referring to Mr. El
sas’ action of yesterday, when he put
through the commission, in a secret ses
sion, a resolution prohibiting the smoke
inspector from making cases without
specific Instructions from the commis
sion. “He should never have been ap
pointed to the commission, because he
Is a manufacturer who violates the
smoke ordinance."
Will Insist On
Enforcing Ordinance.
Councilman Smith said he had not
had time yet to decide whether he
would introduce an ordinance abolish
ing the smoke commission, but that he
would insist that the smoke ordinance
be enforced.
"If the smoke commission maintains
its present attitude, I see no reason for
the city to pay an inspector S2OO per
month,” he continued. “We have passed
the law, and the commission must not
allow persons to violate it with im
punity.”
Aiderman James E. Warren, Council
men Albert Thomson, C. D. Knight and
Aldine Chambers were among the many
who declared that the smoke ordinance
must be enforced.
"I spent $2,000 on the furnaces at my
laundry to comply with the law,” said
Councilman Knight. “The law can be
complied with. It would be an unjust
discrimination against the men who
have complied with the law not to en
force the law. against those who have
refused.”
Violators Warned
Many Times.
The smoke ordinance was passed and
the commission appointed by Mayor
Inn almost six months ago. All vio
lators of the smoke ordinance have been
warned by Inspector Paul McMichael
time and again. He says that many
have complied with the law including
the railroads.
He was instructed by the commission
h' begin to make cases on’ November 1.
Cix were docketed yesterday, and set
• Liial this afternoon. More were to
follow immediately. Then Commi ssion
-.sa> had a meeting of the commis
-lon called, and Inspector McMichael
a- instructed to go slow and to make
T' • uses without specific instructions
*om the commission.
only a few weeks since a plan
■ ■■ii'ilish the smoke commission had
r . ' shape. This movement
' : from the commission amend
already liberal ordinance of the
making it almost useless. The
1 !lt to abolish the commission
"'tailed when the commission
’mled its action.
, 111 ia w provides that black smoke
tvvi not - be emltted for more than
minutes to the hour.
AD WEN MEET AT LUNCH
OOAY AT D. a. R. CAFE
tifl< ~ . men wlll enj °y lunch this
• l lp , ’!' t o’clock as the guests of
. 7,'. ' lly girl waiters of the D. A. R.
nLj ' IV old Ca P*tal City club. The
t, , 'eekly luncheon scheduled for
M, club has given way to the 1
, 1 ’dicers of the club say a j
‘natters of business are to be 1
SERVICE FOR FAIR HEAD.
<r 11 '■ ■''ov. 5. At a meeting'
<>f <] )e Georgia Fair as- 1
ires,., " sideni tv E. Dunwody was l
# ' ll ' a liamlsonie silver service. I
t ■' ion of his efforts toward niak- I
, , " fair u success. The Indira- :
1,, ' 1 “ profit Os fully $7,500)
*” 1,11 thia year’s exhibition.
The Atlanta Georgian
Read For Profit—GEORGIAN WANT ADS—Ute For Results.
BULLMOOSE
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Real Battle of Ballots on z But
Democrats Are Confident of
Big Majority.
INDICATIONS ARE HEAVY
VOTE WILL BE POLLED
: If Wilson Does Not Get Major
ity Over All, the Legislature
Must Provide Electors.
I
There is a real battle of ballots on in
Georgia today.
The Roosevelt forces are fighting with
all the vim and vigor suggested by the
name for a Progressive Republican tri
umph in the Empire State of the South
—the colonel's “mother's state,” as he
himself invariably calls it. Tjjey’re
fighting hard, but without much chance
of success.
The Democrats realize tile full sig
nificance of the Roosevelt movement in
Georgia, and their leaders have ap
pealed to the rank and file with rare
vehemence and earnestness to turn out
today, go to the polls and swamp the
enemy. They are confident they have
succeeded.
There are precious few Democrats
who do not believe that there are two
Democratic votes, at least, in Georgia
for every one of any and all other par
ties.
Getting Out Vote
Greatest Problem.
The only problem’ foTfh;. is to get
the Democratic vote into the ballot
box, and to that end Democratic energy
is being spent unstinted!-.. Earlj in
dications were that a good vote was
being cast.
In the last national election, the
Democrats of Georgia cas! only 72,000
votes, against 41,000 Republican and
17,000 Populists. Two congressional
districts in 1908 went to Taft.
With Roosevelt seemingly stronger
in the state than Taft ever was, and
Tom Watson leading his following sol
idly for the Rough Rider, the situation
has alarmed not a few Georgia Demo
crats.
Taft being sure to get a good vote,
there is a danger that Wilson and Mar
shall may teot get a majority over ajl,
as they must have, and if they should
fail, it would be necessary to cal! the
legislature in extra session to provide a
Wilson and Marshall vote in the elec
toral college.
Moreover, the Democrats of Georgia
would feel forever humiliated and cha
grined if they failed to make Wilson
and Marshall’s victory secure —even
heavy.
The leaders frankly admit that Dem
ocrats must be up and doing today, or
the victory may not be achieved at all.
That’s why there is a real battle of
ballots on in Georgia today—and to
night’s returns will be more than ordi
narily interesting.
There are five tickets in the Georgia
field—Wilson, Taft, Roosevelt, Chafin
and Debs, representing the Democrats,
the Republicans, the Progressives, the
Prohibitionists and the Socialists, re
spectively.
Besides the national election, there
are three state .constitutional amend
ments being submitted to the people for
ratification.
They are:
Three Amendments
Voted On Today.
An amendment authorizing judges of
superior courts to grant charters in va
cation.
An amendment creating the county of
Wheeler, with the town of Alamo as
the county seat.
An amendment of article 7. section
2, paragraph 2, authorizing the general
assembly to exempt frorre taxation farm
products.
i Georgia today is electing a congres
.' sional delegation also, but the Demo
cratic nominees are unopposed.
In both the national election of 1904
and 1908 approximately 130,0'10 votes
were cast in Georgia, but there are few
who believe today's voting will fall be
low 150,000, and many predict it will
approach 200,000.
Electors Being
Voted On in Georgia.
The electors of the parties who are
i being voted for are:
Democrats —A. J. Cobb, W. E. Steed,
i E. E. Collins, B. W. Fortson, .1 M. Du
i pree. <’. C. Minter, .1 B. Suttles. O. J.
jcoogler, J. M. bang. ■> •Williams. W.
! E. Simmons. H. P. Blount. W. R. Frier,
IJ Hunter Johnson.
j Progressive- Howard T. Felton. 11.
Continued on Page Two.
ATLANTA, GA., TUESDAY, NOVEMBER 5, 1912.
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: President Votes, •
: Then Plays Golf • I
• CINCINNATI, Nqv. s.—With no • |
• more ceremony than that exer- • 1
• cised by a private citizen. Presi- •
• dent Taft went out Madison road •
• in his brother’s automobile today •
• and east his ballot. Later he • 1
• played golf and then returned to •
• his brother's residence to await the •
• returns. •
• Crowds gathered outside the •
• Taft residence and when the pres- • [
• ident appeared he was cheered. •
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MRS. LINDLOFF, SEER,
GUILTY OF MURDER.
GETS TWENTY YEARS
CHICAGO, Nov. s.—Twenty years’
imprisonment was the sentence for Mrs.
Louise Lindloff, spiritualist and crystal
gazer, found guilty of murder by a jury
in Judge Winde's court last night. She
was charged with the poisoning of her
fifteen-year-old son. Arthur.
The woman laughed hysterically and I
glanced at the jury when the verdict |
was returned. Later she collapsed
while standing in an ante-:oom sur- i
rounded by her friends. She was re- i
vived and led back to her cell in the
county jail.
“There is no justice here,” th# con
victed woman sobbed. “The guilty are
turned loose and the innocent get the
worst of it. I will show my innocence
before I am through. It will only be a
question of time. I did not kill my boy
or any of the others. I am innocerft,
and God is my witness."
Motion for a new trial was made by
her attorney, and the court set No
vember 13 as the date for hearing argu
ments.
The Lindjoff boy died June 13. last,
and the state argued he was poisoned.
Mrs. Lindloff was arrested June 14 on
suspicion of having poisoned two hus
bands and her three children.
The bodies of William Lindloff. one
of the woman's husbands, and Alma
Lindloff, a daughter, were exhumed.
June 27 Professor Walter S. Haines,
after a- chemical analysis, repo: ted he
had found arsenic in the internal or-'
gans of both. On June 29 came a dis
patch from Milwaukee that arsenic had
been found in the body of Julius Gra
nunkc, a former husband of Mrs. Lind
loff.
Police investigation prpved that the
boy Arthur’s life had been insured,
Other evidence as found, and on July
17 the reerers- wmsTh.ticted bytth/firaiK’
jury "The charge was im»rd<sr, and
based on the death of her eon, Arthur.
MRS. CLARA S. WIGHT
BURIED HERE; CAME
TO GEORGIA IN 1845
Tile funeral services of Mrs. Clara S.
Wight, wife of Major .Samuel B. Wight
and mother of M: s. A. P. Coles, who'
died at rhe home of her oldest daugh
ter, Mis. Charles W. Tift, at Albany,
Ga., Sunday evening, were held this
morning at 11 o’clock at the home of
Mrs. Coles at 565 West Peachtree
street.
Dr. Dunbar < >gden, paste: of the
Central Presbyterian church, of which
Mrs. Wight was a member for 40 years
until she moved to Albany 25 years ago,
conducted the services. The grandchil
dren of Mrs. Wight, who acted as pall-|
bearers, were Ed L. Wight, Jr., R. E.
Rushton, W. W. Rushton. W. S. Wilson,
Jr., James S. Dougherty, A. R. Har
rell, B. J. King. H. R. Huffman and
Clyde L. King. Interment was at. Oak
land cemetery.
Mrs. Wight is survived by the fol
lowing children: Colonel Ed L. Wight,
Mrs. Charles W. Tift, .Mrs. A. P. Coles,!
Mrs. W. S. Wilson, Charles W. Wight
and Samuel B. Wight. She lea.ves I
eleven grandchildren and nine great
grandchildren.
Mrs. Wight was a native of Ashburn
ham. Mass., being born there 89 years
afo, her father. Grover Scoilay, emi
grating from Scotland to that place in
1790. She was married to Colonel Sam
uel B. Wight, of Briston, Mass., In 1845
and the two came to Georgia when the!
great part of this state was almost a
wilderness.
SURVIVORS OF SHIP
ROW 2po MILES IN AN
OPEN BOAT TO LAND
LI VERPtIIJL, Nov. 5. —A ha: rowing I
tab of suffering at sea was told today I
by three of the six survivors of the!
crew of the Criccieth Castle, recently)
lost in the south Atlantic. They are i
in a hospital here.
When tiie vessel began to sink ftomj
a leak the lifeboat and gig were i
launched The gig, with .‘•even on [
board, has never been heard from. In |
the lifeboat were the captain, his wife
and son and fourteen others. Four died
that night and were buried at sea.
Tlie survivors had to row 200 miles
before they could hope to sight land.
One of the sailors composed a stirring
chorus which they sang constantly to
keep up their spirits.
They had in the boat only two kegs
of water, one bag of bread and half a
dozen cans of meat. These were all
gone seven days before they sighted
the Falkland islands. When they ar
rived they were in the last stages of j
exhaustion and had to be carried
ashore, whe.’e all but six died.
OPERA DIRECTOR DIES.
PHILADELPHIA. Nov J. Siegfried I
Behrens, a well known grand opera direc
tor of this city, died at his home here
today of hemorrhage ui the brain, lie
whs 74 years old.
EARLY VOTE HEAVY;
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FAMILY REUNION
JT WILSON HOME
Governor “Getting Acquainted”
With Wife and Daughters
After Stress of Campaign.
PRINCETON, N. J„ Nov. s.—While
the nation’s voters were deciding today
Who shall be tile next president. Gov
ernor Wilson si. -nt the day with his
family, getting thoroughly acquainted
with them again after tlie stress of his
campaign.
“I feel like a boy out of school,” said
the governor this morning. ”1 haven’t
seen much of my family for the last
few weeks, and I’m glad of the oppor
tunity to get acquainted with them
again. I'll leave the house only to
vote."
The governor arrived here at mid
night after his final speeches at Pater
son and Passaic. N. J., and slept for
eight hours. He was in excellent spir
its, and said he felt no pain from the
scalp laceration suffered Sunday in the
automobile accident.
Before going to the polling place,
the governor dictated several letters to
his stenographer.
There will be a family reunion to
night, when the governor gets the elec
tion returns. Besides the immediate
family at the home, there will be James
and Fltzwilliarn McMasters Woodrow.
cousins, from Columbia, S. C.; Captain
George H. McMasters, another cousin,
and Joseph R. Wilson, the governor's
brother.
MILTON J. HUNTER DEAD.
I.A GRANCF, GA., Nov. 5. After an
illness of four weeks with typhoid
Milton J. Hunter, agert 25 years died at
the home of his mother, 60 South Park
avenue. He was proininent in business
circles. Besides bls mother. Mrs. 8. P.
Hunter, he is survived by three brothers,
I>r. G. C Howard, and I Clifford Hunter,
and firn sisters. Mrs. C. N. Pike, Mrs. .1.
H. Wright and Misses Irene, Sara and
Mary Hunter.
Army Chief Recalls His Football Days Here
\NOQD WAS A TECH STAR
if there ever was a warmer football
fan than Leonard Wood, major general,
chief of •tart of tlie United State.- army,
and ex-Rough Rider, Atlanta never en
tertained him. General Wood was in
Atlanta yesterday for several hours, and
he talked football and old Atlanta more
than he did army matters. He has a
limp which would keep him from shin
ing now in a broken field, but he still
looks as though he might hold tight
and buck hard in the line.
“So Auburn licked Tech this year.” he
remarked after a discussion of South
ern games. “Well, that’s bad. They
tell me Tech has grown into a great
school since tlie days wlien I played
football heie.
"Do you remember a man named Nel
son. who played on the Auburn team
in 1893? They had a great game here
with Georgia in that year and I refer
eed. It was one of those long-drawn
out affairs that was rough-and-tumble
while it lasted, and it lasted until after
dark. This man Nelson came up to me
after a close decision and shook his fist
in my face.
Meets Him Ten Years Later.
' ‘The next time I see you I’m going
to lick h—II out of you,' lie declared. I
wouldn't get mad, and told him we’d
settle it off the field. Then we both
forgot it.
“Ten years after that, I was making
an official tour In the Philippines, and
way down at a place called Bongao 1
saw Nelson. He was commanding a
company of American troops. I sent
word that I wished to see him, and
when we were out of earshot of the
others. I turfted on him suddenly.
“ 'Nelson, you said the next time you
saw me you were going to lick h—ll out
of me,' I said. ’Now’s your time.’
“He looked puzzled for a minute, and
then broke into a laugh.
“’Say, you must be the Wood who
refereed that game,’ he replied, with a
laugh. And then we shook hands.”
General Wood couldn’t get over the
change in Atlanta's geography since he
' was stationed at Fort McPherson sev
enteen years ago. Looking out of the
window of General Evans' headquar
ters in tlie Candler building, lie waved
his hand at the expanse of buildings.
“Would Need Guide Now.”
"When I was here last there wasn’t
anything out that street beyond the old
Capital City club, besides a few resi
dences," lie said. “Right there, where
the land drops off toward Peachtree
creek, was the end of everything. I
couldn’t find my way around without a
guide now.”
Then tlie veteran officer began ask
ing questions about tlie residents of At
lanta in the early 90’s. He wanted to
know what had become of this man
ami that, asked whether certain pretty
girls had married, dwelt lovingly on the
memory of famous athletes of local
fame in that period. He must have
known everybody in Atlanta in those
days, and it is evident that he hasn't
forgotten a one of them.
"It looks good for a brigade poat at
Fort McPherson,” he said. 'I find we
already own a good deal of additional
land out there. I'd like to warn specu
lators. however, that any attempt to
buy up or gain options on land to sell
the government at a hold-up price will
result in calling off the whole deal. The
government simply will not stand for
that.”
M. 0. JACKSON HEADS
TRANSPORTATION CLUB
M. O. Jackson, assistant general man.
ager of the Southern Bell Telephone
Company, today was elected president
ot the Transportation club, succeeding
John Aldredge. There was no opposi
tion. E. H. Hinton was elected vice
president
These officers were nominated last
night by the committee, and a general
luncheon was served to about 200 mem
bers who gathered for the annual meet
ing. The Transportation club is one of
the oldest organizations in Atlanta, and
numbers hundreds of prominent busi
ness men among its members. It occu
pies two on'ire fluors of the Walton
building.
IXTRA
2 CENTS EVERYWHERE p^r n e°
Polls Open at Daylight
Over Country, But in
Many Pl aces Lines Are
Waiting to Cast Bal
lots; Good Weather
to Help Make Record.
When the polls opened early this
morning all over the country for the
election of a president and vice presi
dent of the United States long lines
of men, determined not to lose their
ballot, were waiting to deposit their
votes in hundreds of polling places.
Reports from points east, west, north
and south indicate that today’s vote
will be the heaviest ever cast. Through
out Ohio it was estimated that one
half the vote had been cast by 9 a. in.
In several Chicago precincts a fourth
of the registered vote had been record
ed by 7:30 o'clock. In staid New Eng
land, where, in most of the states, only
the national election is being held, the
vote was just as heavy, comparatively,
as in other states where warm local is
sues Increased the great interest in the
presidential fight.
Fine weather was recorded in most
parts of the country, which was a big
factor in bringing out a record vote.
Very few predictions were hazarded
In any quarters as to the meaning of
the unprecedented early vote, although
Governor Wilson’s chances seemed just
as bright as his workers had painted
them.
Practically no disorder has been re
ported thus far. Two small alterca
tions and three arrests for suspected
fraud at the polls were reported from
Chicago. Other cities reported no dis
turbances. and New York officials de
clared indications were that this would
be New York’s quietest election.
President Taft, who is in Cincinpati.
motored from his brother's home to the
polls and voted this morning, then pro
ceeded to the golf links. Governoi
Wilson stayed at home at Princeton, N.
J., “renewing acquaintances with his
family,” except for thS time spent in
going to the polls. Ex-President
Roosevelt spent the day quietly at Oys
ter Bay.
All Order and
Quiet in New York
NEW YORK, Nov. 5. —Early voting
in New York city today was orderly
and rapid, but was not heavy enough to
indicate the record vote that had been
predicted by the managers of all par
ties. The weather was Ideal for an
election day.
Balloting throughout the five box
oughs was so rapid that It was apparent
that straight tickets were being voted.
When the polls opened at 6 a. m. all the
[city’s police reserves were massed at
the various stations, but the usual
early calls failed to materialize and the
election commissioners declared the
election “the quietest ever held in New
York."
Reports from the state outside of
New York Indicated that the vote will,
be the heaviest ever cast in a nations'
election. Three ballots were given the
voters, that on the presidential electors,
the state ticket and a proposed $50.-
000,000 bond issue for good roads. Fair
weather prevailed up state.
A small army of detectives employed
by the Progressive party watched tike
voting in this state. ’.
No Disorder, No Repeaters.
Magistrates sat tn police stations in
each of the assembly districts and jus
tices of the supreme court were readx
to hold court in their homes in case of
disorder or fraudulent voting at the
polls. Rut during the early balloting
there were no disorderly voters and re
peated were apparently frightened off
by the pre-election warnings.
President J. Gabriel Britt, of the mu
nlcipai bureau of elections, stated tha
reports coming to him from his aids
and watchers declared that the voters
were showing unprecedented Intelli
gence in handling the three ballots. H<
said that there was no doubt a large
percentage of the voters were registe -
Ing straight tickets. In many districts
the rate was a vote a minute.
The only hitch anywhere occurred in
tlie eleventh and the fifteenth assenibly
distrlcts, where the ballots and ballot
boxes were late in reaching several
polling places owing to a slight mis
understanding on the part of the police, j
Everything was running smoothly,
however, by 6:20 a. tn.
Heavy Early
Vote in Chicago
<‘HICAG(», Nov. s.—An unusually
heavy vote marked the early hours o
balloting in Chicago today. When tin
polls opened at -6 o’clock voters wet*
lined up and waiting to cast their bal
lots. Returns from various precinct
from both north and south side ward
showed that in some cases nearly •