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the weather Forecast for Atlanta and Georgia: Fair and warmer today; fair tomor row. 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 FIHIIK Hlflt FIB GEOB 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. •••••••••••••••••••••••••» * * : 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. • • ■ ••••••••••••«••••••••••••• 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; QUET EVERYWHERE His Majesty’s Modern Improvements! Copyright. 1912, by International News Service. (lit APon This) jay /ou are A RETIRED MERCWAHT. ///./' / , \s/erb You ever KhoWm as "e-wu/ fTME WERE Tbu CHARGED / //<. x \ ) FpUR YEARS AGO HiTTiMG Yc-Ufk / >' z / z 'Z/Z/////////7 . - //7i^/////7/// A Pl? 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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 •