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VOL. XL NO. 83.
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HOTSUBMIT,
BUTFIGHT
TOLAST
Turns Down Suggestion of
Powers That She Treat With
Allies for Peace.
CHOLERA HAS APPEARED
AMONG WOUNDED TURKS
Situation in Constantinople Is
Growing Steadily Worse as
Allies Continue Siege.
CONSTANTINOPLE, Nov. B.—Tur
key will continue the war. This deci
sion was reached by the ministerial
council today after a long- meeting at
which the future operations were thor
oughly canvassed.
"We will continue the war until our
forces are annihilated,” was the state
ment made after the meeting. A ma
jority of the council was in favor of
continuing hostilities.
Turkey thus rejects the mandate of
the powers that she must seek peace
directly from the Balkan allies. The
Turkish government is willing to rest
its fate with Europe, but it is not will
ing to enter into humiliating negotia
tions with the Balkan federation.
Cholera Breaks
oAmong Wounded.
Cholera has broken out among the
wounded Turkish soldiers brought here
from the front.
This has greatly increased the peril
of tli?’ cYty for there is a woeful lack of
medical supplies, nurses and doctors.
The government may be compelled to
resort to conscription to secure enough
nurses to attend to the wounded.
There are over 35,000 wounded Turk
ish soldiers here and hundreds of others
are arriving daily.
All the wounded in the fighting
around the Chatalja fort are being
brought into the city as rapidly as the
traffic* facilities admit.
Fleeing Turkish soldiers are reported
to have burned the village of Silivri, on
the coast of the Sea of Marmora, after
massacring all the inhabitants. The
Turks are plundering the country, seiz
ing all the food and live stock they can
find and leaving a trail of complete
desolation and death behind them.
Assault Continues
On Constantinople
SOFIA. Nov. B.—Fighting is still go
‘ng on at the gates of Constantinople.
Bulgarian government officials an
nounced that dispatches arriving from
the front today stated that the Turkish
forts at Chatalja are being subjected to
a heavy bombardment from the Bul
garian batteries. A portion of them
are reported to have been captured.
rhe Bulgarian army south of Adri
anople has been reinforced by 10,000
eservlsts, who left Stara Zagora on
Tuesday.
Lteneral Petroff, commander of the
Bulgarian center, is on the firing line
and is personally directing the attack
upon tire Turkish forts. Czar Ferdi
nand s Bulgarian army has now occu
pied practically all of the available
Heights nortli of Chatalja. All his
heax iest artillery has been massed
'here, and concentrated between the
batteries in the Hollows lies the old
guard of the Bulgarian army and the
flower of the Bulgar troops.
i ’onsiderable belief attached "here to
’ r “ mor that Adrianople had fallen,
■ut that the information had been kept
enab,e the Bu >S ar s t<> move
i leir siege guns and troops to the front
v.jtlmut the knowledge of Tunkey. An
otiier reason expressed for Bulgaria's
nee was that the Bulgar government
anted to enter Constantinople, hut
11 ed intervention before this should
■‘l’pen if toe powers learned of the fall
or Adrianople.
, ?• ,i Turkish army of Thrace,
m i Nazim Pasha, minister of war,
■ ommanded, has been all but annihi
t ' S Bald - and the brunt of the
ense of Constantinople now rests
the Asi «tic troops and reservists.
Smallpox Raging in
Salonika; Greeks Wait
the G-lpk S ( ’ RI 'IECE, Nov. B.—Although
'antlne k under Crown Prince Con
dlmteL: r£ ln . the control at Salonika,
the Greek soim! F day lndlcate that
cltv ‘ oldlers had not yet entered the
Tw. I ere 8,111 held 111 ‘he suburbs.
chief are given for this. The
mg in th?" thal small Pox was rag
refuse.i t, '' ly and ’lrlnce Constantine
4 hl « »« 'he dls-
awaltln» t> '* r "“ H ,llu ’ ,ll *‘ 1 -reeks were
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entry b * fur ” a triumphal
The Atlanta Georgian
Read For Profit—GEORGIAN WANT ADS—Use For Results.
WISBHIM
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ELECTORS
CRLEEGE
Victory Still Greater as Returns
Are Completed—Roosevelt
Gets 77, Taft 12.
ROUGH RIDER TAKES
LEAD IN CALIFORNIA
lowa and Illinois Safely in the
WilscK Column—Taft Keeps
Lead in Idaho.
WASHINGTON, Nov. B.—With Cali
fornia still in doubt today, President
elect Wilson seemed assured of 439
votes in the electoral college, Roosevelt
77, and Taft 12. California’s 13 votes,
if they go to Roosevelt, will increase
his total to 90, and if to Wilson will
increase the latter’s to 442. Almost
complete returns from that state today
showed Wilson 334 votes in the lead.
The electoral vote then stood as fol
lows:
In doubt —California 13.
For Wilson —Alabama 12, Arizona 3,
Arkansas 9, Colorado 6, Connecticut 7,
Delaware 3, Florida 6, Georgia 14, Il
linois 29, Indiana 15, lowa 13, Kansas
10, Kentucky 13, Louisiana 10, Maine 6,
Maryland 8, Massachusetts 18, ‘Missis
sippi 10. Missouri 18, Montana 4. Ne
braska 8. Nevada 3, New Hampshire 4,
New Jersey 14, New Mexico 3, New
York 45, North Carolina 12. North Da
kota 5, Ohio 24, Oklahoma 10, Oregon 5,
Rhode Island 5, South Carolina 9, Ten
nessee 12. Texas 20, Virginia 12. West
Virginia 8, Wisconsin 13, Wyoming 3.
Total 429.
For Roosevelt —Michigan 15, Minne
sota 12’, Pennsylvania 38, South Da
kota 5. Washington 7. Total 77.
For Taft—ldaho 4, Utah 4, Vermont
4. Total 12.
With 377 precincts out of 2,900 still
to hear from in Minnesota. Roosevelt
today was 12,141 ahead of Wilson. The
districts not yet heard from were iso
lated ones, where the Roosevelt feel
ing was strong and the Progressive
leaders claimed that state for the colo
nel by 75,000.
The complete unofficial returns show
ed Illinois for Wilson by over 13,000,
and lowa by a similar plurality.
Wilson Now Leads
In California
SAN FRANCISCO. Nov. B.—From
election returns available today, it will
require the services of an expert ac
countant and-a, soothsayer to determine
whether Theodore Roosevelt or Wood
row Wilson carried California. The
face of the returns changed half a
dozen times last night.
The latest figures show: Roosevelt
279,791: Wilson, 280,125. Wilson’s plu
rality, 334.
Democratic Chairman Cotton asserted
today that he had discovered a dis
crepancy in footing up the election re
turns in Los Angeles county. By his
new figures, Wilson is in the lead by
364 votes. The latest figures of the
Democratic chairman give Wilson 280,-
125, Roosevelt 279,791.
Illinois Goes for
Wilson by 13,855
CHICAGO, Nov. B—Complete unoffi
cial returns today show Woodrow Wil
son victor in Illinois with a plurality of
13,855 over Colonel Theodore Roosevelt.
Figures for the whole state give Roose
velt 389,561, Wilson 403,416 and Taft
255,095.
Edward F. Dunne, Democratic candi
date for governor, outdistanced his
rivals, carrying the state by 110,654.
Governor Charles S. Deneen ran sec
ond, with Frank H. Funk, Progressive,
third, according to the complete vote.
Roosevelt carried Chicago by a plural
ity of approximately 26,000. The down
state districts, where his managers as
serted he had his greatest strength, re
turned pluralities against him.
New Hampshire
Still in Balance
CONCORD, N. H.. Nov. 8 —Today’s
figures on the strergth of the Demo
crats and Republicans on joint ballot
in the legislature, which must choose a
governor and a United States senator
at Its meeting in January, are still
open to doubt. Republican claims of a
working majority are plainly shown to
be exaggerated, as men are claimed as
Republicans in several districts who
are Democrats. The Democrats still
claim to dominate the situation by a
very narrow margin. <>n the other
hand, the Progressives say they will
have the balance of power in tile final
line-up.
Women Should Make Best Aviators, Says Mrs. Rodgers
AT LA NT A GIRLS WANT TO FLY
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Many Maids Have Asked Avia
trix to Teach Them Art of
Flying Through Space.
Atlanta girls are besieging Mrs. Cal
braith Rodgers, who is planning to start
a school of aviation here, with requests
that they be taught to fly.
”1 have never seen so many young
women ready and anxious to try their
hands on aeroplanes as right here,"
said Mrs. Rodgers today. “Since I an
nounced I was planning to open an
aviation school I have had many appli
cations and most of them have been
from girls.
“Some, of course, are simply prompt
ed by a desire to feel the thrill of an
air ride once and then are ready to
come back to earth, but most of them
are seriously desirous of becoming pro
fessional aviators,
“I know no reason why women should
not take to the air game," she contin
ued. "They have proved as housewives
that the sex can attend to minor de
tails that a man will overlook and that
means success in aviation. Then they
are not as prone to take the desperate
chances that have resulted in death for
so many bfrdmen.
“Many women have already ,attained
remarkable success as flyers. And 1
would not be surprised to see some At
lanta girl famous in a few months as a
aviatrix.”
YOUTH BREAKS OUT
OF JAIL, BUT FINDS
HE’S WHOLLY ‘LOST’
CHICAGO, Nov. B.—‘T got my freedom
back, but I didn't know how to use It. I
didn’t know what to do with myself.”
This admission was made by Michael
Pisano, alleged salf-blower, who, with
four other young men, escaped Monday
from the detective bureau by sawing their
way out of their cells and climbing
through a coal chute. Pisano was seen
standing idly at a corner later. He said
he was cold and hungry and was contem
plating surrendering himself when he was
seen and recognized by Lieutenant James
Larkin, of the detective bureau. Larkin
arrested Pisano and took him to the sta
tion The pr’soner Is less than 17 years
old and will be turned over to the juvenile
ATLANTA, GA.. FRIDAY, NOVEMBER 8, 1912.
PIE MEN ‘GIVE’ ANDREWS
VIENNA. SMITH. PARIS.
TO SA VE WILSON BOTHER
Senator Hoke Smith is staying in
Washington and avoiding the bushels of
office-seekers’ mall which is flooding
his office; Congressman William Schley
Howard, confined to his bed by a cold,
has the counterpane covered with ap
plications from the faithful of the Fifth
district, and the coterie of Woodrow
Wilson men who claim credit for mak
ing Georgia go Democratic already
have fixed up a slate to save President
Wilson trouble a nd'-have named J. R.
Smith for minister to France and Colo
nel Walter P. Andrews for minister to
Austria.
Not satisfied with picking these two
plums, they have chosen Atlanta men
for everything in sight, from collector
of customs down to elevator operator,
and are preparing to send emissaries to
Princeton at once.
This much of the plans of the rock
ribbed original Wllsonians of Atlanta
came to light today when one of them
exhibited a list—a purely tentative list,
of course—of the pickings they Intended
to ask from the first president who ever
practiced law in Atlanta. And they
really have decided to urge “Our Bob"
Smith to fill the embassy at Paris,
where the styles come from, and Wal
ter Andrews for the post at Vienna,
home of the Merry Widow and the well
known hot roll.
Now, there are two senators In Geor
gia and twelve congressmen, and only
one each comes from Atlanta or there
abouts. So it is rather probable that
one senator who Ilves in Macon and
eleven representatives who reside here
and there about the boulders, the red
clay and the wiregrass, will file objec
tions against Atlanta making up its
slate so early in the game and expect
ing to cop everything which ijas a sal
ary or perquisites attached.
When Hoke Smith read in the Atlanta
papers that he was to be chief dis
penser of the patronaze, beginning next
March, he promptly decided not to
come home until after the next session
of congress, anil to say he would
be exiivinely busy in Washington pend-
ing that occasion. But there is a va
cant room in the suite of Peters build
ing offices occupied by the senator’s
firm, and into that room for the past
three days the porters have been lug
ging heavy bags of mail. Most of these
letters begin “Dear Senator—l write to
apply for,” and continue along that line.
William Schley Howard’s mail isn’t
quite so heavy, as he represents only
one district, so the center table, the
piano and one side of the bed in which
he is reposing at his country home is
sufficient to accommodate the letters of
congratulation, adulation and-—well,
everything but hesitation. But the door
bell rings a perpetual ragtime of call
ers. Mr. Howard said today that he
feared he would hardly have enough to
go around, though lie would do the best
he could.
“Seriously speaking,” he said, “I do
not know what policy the president will
adopt in selecting suitable persons for
vacant positions. If I should have any
say in the nominations for appoint
ments, I shall keep in mind solely the
efficiency of the person applying, the
wishes of the persons who are to be
served by the applicant, and the re
flection of credit upon the appointing
power.
“I do not expect to have much to say
about the appointments, as there are
others who probably will deservedly be
consulted. My only interest will be in
seeing that my constituents get com
petent. honest and faithful servants, and
I do not anticipate that any other kind
of persons will make application.”
COX COLLEGE HEAD IN
PUL p| T OF FIRST BAPTIST
Dr. John F. Purser, president of the
Horne Mission board, will fill the pulpit
of the First Baptist church Sunday morn
ing at the 11 o'clock service.
Dr. L. A. Brown, president of Cox col
lege, will occupy the pulpit Sunday even
ing at 8 o'clock. •
Dr. Charles W. Daniel, the pastor of
the church, Is absent from the city, con
ducting a Mvrlvs of revival meetings.
HEALTH BOARD DEFIES
WOODWARD: ORDERS
CHEMATORYDESTRm
Workmen Begin Tearing Down Huge
Smokestack, Making Destruction of
Plant Inevitable, While Opponents
of Illegal Contract Rage.
“Something Rotten,” Declares Van Dyke—Plan
to Frustrate Mayor-Elect’s Investigation
Charged While His Foes Declare Power Com
pany Is Backing Fight.
Evading the legal machinery of the city government, workmen
prepared today to demolish the old crematory, under orders from the
hoard of health. Before the sun sets it is expected that the garbage
plant which James G. Woodward, mayoralty nominee, has done all
in his power to save, will be a mass of ruins.
Technically, the board of health has ordered the 175-foot steel
smokestack- torn down on account of the danger of its falling. City
Attorney James L. Mayson has ruled that the board not only has the
right to remove this stack, but that it is its duty. The stack weighs
83 tons, and when it falls all know that all that will be left of the
crematory will be a mass of scrap iron and rubbish.
Ardent Woodward supporters are indignant at this turn of af
fairs. By the motion of Aiderman A. 11. Van Dyke, a contract to
tear down the old crematory was held up for two weeks by the al
dermanic board yesterday afternoon. They don’t know what to
do now. \ ——
“Something’s Rotten,”
Says Van Dyke.
Aiderman Van Dyke declared
today that there was “something
rotten” in that $276,000 contract
with the Destructor Company, of
New York, for a new garbage dis
posal plant. Mr. Woodward at
tacked the contract as illegal be
cause it appropriates future in
come. Aiderman Van Dyke added
to this assertion by stating that
the company would make SIOO,OOO
too much profit on the plant.
Frank Hammond, whom, it is gen
erally conceded, Mr. Woodward will
name as his executive secretary, as
serted that the move to raze the old
crematory-"is merely to spite Mr. Wood
ward."
“He has gone North to study garbage
disposal systems, and requested, as a
courtesy, that the city officials delay
tearing down the old crematory until
he returned,” he said. “His observa
tions will determine his attitude to
ward the new plant which is to be built
on the site of the old plant. It Is an
official Insult to tear down this old
plant, leaving the city absolutely with
out any crejnatory, before he returns.
“Dr. Gilbert stated in an elevator in
the Atlanta National Bank building
Monday that everything was fixed to
'knife' Mr. Woodward.
“When they tear down this old plant
and begin to dump all the garbage
around the city, I have information that
injunction suits will be filed against
the city by many citizens."
Plan To Rush Work
On the New Plant.
The board of health has an appro
priation of SI,OOO to excavate for the
new crematory. As soon as the ola
one Is wrecked, Dr. W. L. Gilbert said
today that work would begin to build
the new plant.
But Mr. Woodward will have his in
ning when he takes his seat as mayor.
He has informed members of council
that he would not sign the $75,000 check
as a payment on the plant next year.
Council has provided for a $50,000 pay
ment this year.
Woodward’s Foes
Accuse Power Company,
The Destructor Company has given a
bond of $375,000 that it will carry out
the contract. This also provides for a
SIOO,OOO electric power plant in connec
tion with the crematory if council cares
to build this plant when the crematory
Is completed.
It has been charged by Councilman
Aldine Chambers and others that som
of the opposition to the new crematory
came from stockholders of the Geor
gia Railway and Power Company, who
did not want to see the city build an
electric plant.
Mr. Woodward declared that the bona
of the Destructor Cempany was worth,
less because it was based on an illegal
contract.
Mayson Brands
Contract Illegal.
City Attorney James L. Mayson has
backed up Mr. Woodward’s statement
that the contract for the new plant is
illegal. In answer to a direct quettion
at the meeting of the aldermanic board
| yesterday afternoon he said he had
never advised that the cuuncil of one
HOME
EDITION
2 CENTS EVERYWHERE P^ R N E °
MASKED BANDITS
RIFLE MAIL GAR
Booty Secured in L. & N.
Hold-Up in Alabama Said To
Be Near $40,000.
MONTGOMERY, ALA., Nov. B—South*
bound Louisville and Nashville passenger
train No. 7 was held up and the mall car
robbed by two masked bandits at Blount
Springs, Ala., today, according to reports
made to Postoffice Inspector Brannon
when the mail clerks, James M. Chamber
lain and C. A. Hoover, of Nashville,
reached here today.
The robbers, it is reported, secured
between $30,000 and $40,000 from regis
tered pouches.
After rifling the pouches and securing
a gold watch from Clerk Hoover and
about $5 in cash from Clerk Chamberlain,
the robbers left the train at Boyles, six
miles north of Birmingham. They refused
to accept an Ingersoll watch worn by
Chamberlain.
According to the clerks the bandits
were evidently amateurs as they over
looked many valuable articles, apparently
looking only for money. It is not known
exactly how much they secured. They
ripped open a registered pouch and a reg
istered package Jacket, scattering the
contents on the floor. They left lying on
the floor several thousand dollars worth
of railroad stock coupons and seemed dis
gusted In tinding no more cash.
• The robbers are believed to have board
ed the train secretly at .ount Springs.
They made their presence known in the
mall car immediately after the train pulled
out of the station. They at first asked
for something to eat, but quickly de
manded money and covered the clerks
with revolvers. Before leaving the train
they tied the,clerks to a table in the car.
Authorities at Birmingham and Mont
gomery are at work on the case.
year could legally appropriate the In
come of another year.
‘‘You could not mandamus the may
or and force him to sign a check In
payment of an illegal contract,” said
Mr. Mayson.
“What are we going to do next year
with the old crematory torn down and
Mr. Woodward refusing to sign the
check on payment for the new plant?”
urged Aiderman John E. McClelland.
"There will be such a nuisance from
garbage dump piles that the people will
rise up in arms against the city gov
ernment.”
Aiderman J. B. Everett was the third
man, with Aidermen Van Dyke and Mc-
Clelland, to comply with Mr. Wood
ward's request and vote to hold up the
resolution of council authorizing the
destruction of the old crematory at the
meeting of the board yesterday.
Dr. Gilbert and W. E. Dowd, agent ot
the Destructor Company, said the new
plant would be in operation by June 1
of next year If the company could gel
to work at once. The contract allows
310 workings d*v« fnr‘ the completion
of the plant
