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THE weather
Forecast: Fair tonight and tomor
row. Temperatures: 8 a. m, 44: 10
rn „ 49: 12 m.. 54; 2 p. m., 55.
VOL. XI. NO- 88.
WODMRO
IBLSEES
MI,MO
WE
Back From Tour of Investiga
tion. Renews Attack on the
Present Crematory Pact.
FEARS DISEASE PERIL IN
RAZING OF OLD PLANT
Will Carry Fight Before Alder
manic Board -Blamed for
Delay by Gilbert.
IL on iiis return today from an ex
t lirrl inspection trip of garbage di5.....
..... p; tits in various cities, James G.
WooL -.ord. Atlanta’s next mayor, de
clare ti at Atlanta’s city officials were
about to spend $200,000 too much on a
new crematory and electric power
plant.
I an: convinced tiiat the power plant,
o cost SIOO.OOO. will oe practically u»a
--r-ss." he ... at u. "Without that fea
tir . s276,o<h< : too much money for the
ono-mplated crematory. I have seen
lie crematory plants the Destructor
' any of New York has built in the
Last. I am satiafied that if the plan
outlined is carried out it, will be a great
mistake."
"We ought not to tear down the old
crematory until the new one is com
plete," he said.' "It is not necessary to
mild the n-w crematory upon tho site
of the old."
Mr. Woodward remarked that he was
rot yet a city official and that he was
ting as a citizen. As a citizen he said
lie would go before the aldermanic
Soard next Thursday, when it meets
in again consider the resolution to
'iemollsh the old crematory, and pre-
» sent the information he had collected
and his reasons for opposition to the
plan that has been adopted.
And 1 would like to have the editors
’* ell the Atlanta papers present,” he
added.
Untried Experiment,
Asserts Woodward.
Declaring that his motive for taking
Jis position was solely business *econ
onn for Atlanta, Mr. AVoodward said
it felt no animus toward the Destruc
tor Company or any one else. He said
1 ad made a thorough personal in
vestigation and that he wanted the of
ficials to consider it from a dispassion
ite viewpoint.
1 he plan of a combined crematory
■nd power plant is wholly experiment-
• he began. “No city has any such
■ant in successful operation.
In order to produce a force draft
ind provide the power to be used
ground the plant, the type of plant
uiopted by the city council must have
boilers, I saw such plants In Milwau
»ee and on Staten Island.
i VI hen it comes to using this power
wh? Ump the city s ' vater or light the
ite Way we are faced with a joke,
n Milwaukee t * le Y collect garbage from
--,000 citizens. The estimated power
from that amount of garbage is 600
kilowatts per day.
It is absurd to figure that Atlanta's
■'"i rage will produce 1,200 kilowatts.
( . Our contract with the Destructor
“inpany provides that for SIOO,OOO a
j 1 " ' er plant will be Installed in con
uu tion with the crematory. On the
■f'-unds that we are to have a munici-
"u ctili plant, a number of city of-
1 have announced tl.eir support of
[ne contract.
I say that that power plant
*<’uld be a failure.
/ Destructor Company is building
L.n, 1,l ' a? " plant at Paterson. N. J., for
■an-H, llna , tely »‘5.000. It is a 60-ton
it;. i'p 11 iln ’- I'he company has con
operate for one year. If it
It, ? rov '' successful, they will tear
‘«>d receive no pay.
»’■<■(] s 11 S sort ot> contract Atlanta
on,y ‘ ,aid <1'5,000 for its
4 day ,ri >ch burns 300 tons of garbage
£ rice Fixed Too
He Declares.
piar' . " f ,lle cost of these two
ton 1,7.’ *s too much for a 250-
for Atlanta.
t<irv ui II l lu 1 Bt I ,r eserve the old crema-
J.liino ” can be repaired for about
a '' ."'II burn more than 100 tons
I( ' ■' hould build a new plant
in K ' 1,111 needs, instead of spend
d, ' ’han a quarter of a million
h ... '"methlng which will prove
b- 11 H'D* rt. pinHldent of the
, ' I'll, mid today that Mr.
' " " i • spon- ||,|,. i’,,,. H || the
1,1 Hi' building of a com- I
-•u "i.-po-a! plum,
beiillh lias been inves
' ■ hi-itter f,,i in,,!.,, than two
~|, '"‘V ~,ad >- bispectlim tripe
'ini has In eti adopt ■
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ffl SMITES NEAL
BANKGREDITORS
Balkan and Cuban Troubles
Make Sale of Lands of De
funct Institution Difficult.
The Balkan war has made it practi
cally Impossible for the depositors in
the defunct Neal bank to receive another
dividend on their deposits in time for
Christmas purposes, according to a
statement of Judge John S. Candler,
one of the attorneys for the receivers
of the bank, today.
He said the remaining assets of the
bank were some lands in Alabama and
some lands in Cuba. The Alabama,
lands are being advertised for sale, but
it is not likely that a deal will be
closed in the immediate future. Nego
tiations were well under way to dis
pose of the Cuban lands to a French
capitalist, but the Balkan war came
along, disturbing business conditions in
Europe and French capitalists who had
been interested dropped all thought of
sending funds out of Europe.
Judge Candler said that to dispose of
the lands at a public sale would be a
foolish sacrifice of valuable property.
There had been some chance of selling
the property in Cuba until the Cuban
insurrection started.
T. R.’S ASSAILANT TO
BE SENT TO INSANE
HOSPITAL FOR LIFE
MILWAUKEE, WIS.. Nov. 14 -It
was learned on excellent authority to
day that the commission that has been
examining John Schrank, who shot and
wounded Colonel Roosevelt, will pro
nounce him a paranoiac.
This indans that he will be sent to J
the state asylum for the Insane for life I
instead of being committed to the state '
prison for fifteen years. So certain is
District Attorney W. Zabel that this
will be the report of the commission
that he is in communication with au
thorities in New York regarding a
guardian to care for Schrank s propert y
so that it can be transferred to his
mother, who resides in Germany.
CABINET OFFICER UNDEf?
GRANT VISITS SAVANNAH
SAVANNAH, GA., Nov 14. Don
Cameron, who was secretary of war
under President Grant and who repre- j
•enter! Pennsylvania in the I nlteu
States senate for a number of years, is
In Savannah on his annual visit. Mr
Canieton's private yacht, the Alameda
arrived in port about the time he nr
rived from the North hi train He ha.»
,i winter iu»in< In Soil! I t’nrollim .mu
•pviiue u .out deui of UD time thui-
ATLANTA, GA.. THURSDAY. NOVEMBER 14. 1912
Wedding Garments of
70 Years Ago Become
Aged Woman's Shroud
I Body of Mrs. Betsy Patterson
Buried in Casket She Had
Made 30 Years.
MtIULTRIE, GA.. Nov. 14. Shroud
ed in her wedding trousseau of 70
years ago. and incased in a casket for
i which she had the lumber-sawed from
a cypress tree growing on her farm 30
years ago. the body of Mrs. Betsy Pat
terson lias just been buried at Sandy
Bluff cemetery, near Nashville, in Ber
rien county.
Mrs. Patterson died at her old home
stead near Sparks, where she had re
sided continuously for 50 years. She
was nearly 90 years old, and was -well
known throughout Berrien county. Her
more intimate acquaintances reverently
called her "Aunt Betsy.”
For three score and ten years—the
allotted span of life—Mrs. Patterson
had carefully preserved the garments
she wore when a happy young bride in
her teens. It was her often expressed
wish that upon her death these gar
ments should constitute her shroud,
and relatives and friends in charge of
lier funeral acceded to this desire.
J. W. MADDOX AGAIN
IN COURT; WAGONS
LEAK DIRT IN STREET
Alderman J. W. Maddox, of the Fifth
I ward, who is winning the title of ‘‘the
i muchly police courted official,” is be- I
fore the municipal bar of justice in the
role of stai defendant again this after
noon.
The lasi time tin? aiderman was in
court he was tile principal in a lively ,
episode in which he had slapped the!
face of a man who charged graft to the
city council and then called the aldei -
• man a liar. There was no case against
j t lie alderman —he was merely the pros-
I ecutor. Tills time he is charged with I
1 violating the city ordinance which pro
hibits the spilling of dirt by wagons in
the streets.
Aiderman Maddox is a contractor, op
erating a large number of wagons In
hauling dirt from excavations, and it is
this fact that has resulted in ills series
of appearances in police court. The lat
ent case was made by Sanitary In
spector Belcher, on complaint of a cit
izen that Alderman Maddox’s wagons
have been spilling dirt In Luckie street.
The alderman was served with a copy
of charges and cited to "tell it to Judge
Broyles.”
FALL MAY PROVE FATAL.
SAVANNAH. GA Nov. 14.—Fulling
from tile second-story balcony of his
home. Brooks I*. Brooks, son of Mr. anil
Mrs. t’ourtiH) Brooks, sustained such
Injuries that it is believed he cun not
live. The child la now lying uncon
scious With a tract tired t ill aliu cull
t u- .on <u tue br«U».
BRANCH POLICE
STATIONS URGED
Acting Mayor Confident Pa
trolmen Will Be Kept at Fire
Houses Within Year.
“The Georgian's editorial on 'Police
Problems’ calls attention to conditions
open to great improvement. The du
plication of 'beats' by policemen and
the various inspectors is attracting at
tention in ail the leading cities of the
country as unsystematic and a waste of
money.
"Tiie idea of having sub-police sta
tions in fire engine houses is practical
and very economical. It Is being plan
ned in some cities to have health sta
tions in these houses as well.”
This was the statement made today
by Herbert R. Sands, the municipal ex
pert of New Y’ork, who has been em
ployed by the Atlanta Chamber of Com
merce to make an investigation of the
city government.
Candler Favors Plan.
Acting Mayor John S. Candler said
today that he was confident the idea of
having sub-police stations in a num
ber of the fire stations would be car
ried out in another year.
“Our police station is too far away
■ from the greater part of our city,” he
I said. “Our new fire and police signal
system will make it a very simple mut
ter to have sub-stations in several of
the fire stations. The difficulties in po
licing our growing city demand such a
j step."
The officials over the sanitarx and
| water meter inspectors, however. YTere
not very enthusiastic over the sugges
tion that these inspectors should do
regular police duty. They insisted that
they have too much work for the in
spectors under the present system.
HORSEBACK RIDING
AND CYCLING FOR
WILSON ON OUTING
PRINCETON, N. J., Nov. 14.—Bicy
cling and horseback riding will be the
chief recreations of President-elect
Woodrow Wilson u;«>n his vacation,
which begins Saturday. The president
elect has a bicycle here, but he will not
take it to Bermuda with him. He said
tje would get a new wheel when he
reached his destination.
The newspaper corregpundi nts who
will accompany the governor have gone
into training, for they, too, will adopt
cycling und ln»rseba< k riding. Several
of them alreiulv are suffering from sad
dle bolls ami uiv working mi it new
fashioned saddle, . <>iituiiiing u layer of
pillotD upon the *eut.
Chief of United States Bureau
Shies at Venturing Guess on
Inaugural Day Skies.
Willis L,. Moore, efcief of tlie national
weather bureau, stepped from the
Washington train early' today, cocked
a critical eye at the blue sky and greet
ed the reception committee.
"Ah. very nice, very nice indeed," he’
remarked. “Perhaps s trace of humid
ity, but very fair proportion of ozone.
Os course, that smoke—but smoke's not
under my department."
Then, satisfied with the weather fur
nished for his reception by C. F. Von
Herrmann, Atlanta forecaster, he was
driven to the Georgian Terrace for
breakfast and a conference with eigh
teen weather bureau officials who
came from Utah and Florida and Colo
rado and other states to discuss ways
and means of helping the farmer tell
when to get in his hay or dig a cyclone
cellar. The officials have been holding
an informal conference for several
days and Professor Moore came down
to greet them and offer congratulating
on their making a 90 per cent success
in prognostications for the past year.
Uncle Hi Disappointed,
Just inside the corridor of the Ter
race stood Uncle Hi Suggs, who lives
out Battle Hill way and is the best and
most voluminous weather prophet in
Georgia, barring the salaried ones who
work by telegraph and barometer. Un
cle Hi has an apparatus of his own,
and scorns the scientific devices of the
official bureau. But he had come all the
way from Battle Hill, successfully’ ne- I
gotiated the storm doors without loss :
of his whiskers, and was prepared to'
join the council of forecasters. He was •
disappointed to learn that the sessions
were executive atid he couldn't get in.
“They needn't think they've got any’
patent on prophesy in’ the weather.” he
remarked scornfully. “I'm willin' to
back my predictions agkt' the best they
can do any time. Didn't I write a let
ter to the papers spring sayin’ It
would be the rainiest summer on rec
ord, and didn’t the rain fall and the
storms rage until everything in Georgia
got mildewed with the wet'.'
"No, 1 don’t depend on no thermome
ters. All they can tell you is how hot
or how cold it is right now. and what’s
the use of knowin’ that? I've got a
frost-bit heel I caught with Gen'l Gor
don in '64. and every time it com
mences to swell up and blister, I know
we're In for cold, and maybe snow. I’ve i
got a goosebone that gives a certain
sign of rain, and whenever that fails
me my rbeuniutlsm is certain to h'lsi a
warnin'. I seen a squirrel this mawnln'j
lay tn' up nuts in a hollow tree and a
whole passel of birds (lyin' South, and j
both of them's unfailin’ signs of a hard
winter. I'm goln' to stop by i<mn and
lay me in a couple of ton of . ~a| this
vi'i v day."
fiofessm Me , ,p Un.', to l>. duwn
Continued on Page Two,
GIRL DEAO IN GEORGIA
POISON MYSTEBY; Ml
MISSING SWEETHEART
Miss Minnie March man Dies in Ashburn
in Convulsions—Coroner Has War
rant Sworn Out for Tan Cleghorn,
Her Friend, Who Has Vanished.
Mother Tells of Young Woman’s Strange End.j
Stomach Sent to Atlanta for Chemical Ex-1
amination, While Police Scour Pine Woods!
for Suspect--Doctor Here Makes Tests.
ASHBI KN, <IA.. Nov. 14.—The hody of Minnie MarcTl
inan. a beautiful young girl, lies unburied while Atlanta experts ar®
waiting to examine the contents of her stomach. A warrant has been
issued against Tan Cleghorn, a young farmer, charging him with hav
ing caused the death of Minnie Marchman, and officers are search-
Img for him. Cleghorn has been missing for four days.
Preparations had been made for the burial of the young woman,
i who lived with her widowed mother six miles from Ashburn, when the
family physician and friends of the family became suspicious and or
-1 dered the funeral stopped. It is reported here that Cleghorn and Miss
Marchman were sweethearts, and visited Ashburn together some days
i ago. While there, it is said, Cleghorn purchased fruit and candies
which he gave to Miss Marchman, nnd after eating these she was
attacked with convulsions and died in agony.
At the. coroner’s inquest today
tiie mother of the dead girl tes
tified that she died after eight
convulsions, foaming at the mouth
and with every indication that she
had been poisoned. The mother
had not seen her daughter take
any medicine, and there was no
trace of poison in the house.
Girl Dies Four Days
After Man Vanishes.
Friends of the dead girl say C'leg
hom’e had promised to marry her and
their visit to Ashburn was ostensibly
with the purpose of securing a mar
riage license, but Uleghorne made some
excuse and the pair agreed to postpone
the wedding for a few day’s. The girl
went back to her home in the country
and Cleghorne disappeared. It was four
days after his disappearance that Min
nie Marchman died.
Doctors Dixon and Thompson, of the
village of Rebecca, were called to the
inquest. They removed the stomach
from the body of Miss Marchman and
forwarded it to the state chemist at
Atlanta for a close examination. It Is
expected that the analysis will reveal
just what poison, if any, killed the girl.
Friends Looked
For Their Marriage.
The little town of Ashburn, county
seat of Turner county, is stirred as it
was never stirred before. Minnie
Marchman was known as one of the
prettiest girls of the lumber country
and one of the most popular.
She and young Cleghorne had been
“going together,” as young folk say, for
many months, and their marriage was
looked upon as a certainty. But for
some time Miss Marchman had been
avoiding her friends and living almost
as a recluse, seeing only Cleghorne.
Dr. Funk Here.
Examines for Poison.
Dr. John Funke; w hose office is in
the Carnegie laboratory at 96 Butler
street, said tpday the stomach of the
girl was in his possession and that he
lis making a minute examination. He
| said tiiat he could not announce re
| suits as yet.
i Dr. Funke, who is a graduate of the
pathological department of Jefferson
Medical college in Philadelphia, said
two exaiuiuution® were neepsscirv—•
chemical and microscopic. Tests must
be made of the gastric secretions and
of the stomach walls.
GIRL EMNTS~UNDER
GRILLING,DEFENDING
FIANCE IN TAR TRIAL
NORWALK, OHIO, Nov. 14.—Bertha
Grannamon. called as witness in the de
fense of Ernest Welsh, on trial for al
leged participation in the tarring of Min
nie LaValley , fainted today and was car
ried unconscious from the court room
The girl refused to answer questions
her by Prosecutor Young and was
subjected to a merciless gruelling. The
! girl admitted telling the grand jury that
Welsh, her Hance, had said to her, in
speaking of tlie laiValley case, that ‘.'the
boys were all maskeil.” She declared she
did not remember that Welsh had told
j her anything of his whereabouts on the
, night o tlie sttaek on Miss lai Valley
POSTOFFICE ROBBED.
I i'll ATTAN' KltiA, TENN., Nov. 14
| The robbery of the postoffice at Juno.
I Tenn., last night was nqio'ted to the
| chief IliKpi ito 's office here today The
j s i', uiis blown 'i'ln lusa has nut been
< div ulged.
HOHL
JDITION
2 CENTS EVERYWHERE P^ R N E °
SAFE BLOWN IND
535,000 STOLEN
Express Office in Lake Charles,
La.. Dynamited—Agent Is
Placed Under Arrest.
LAKE CHARLES, LA., Nov. 14.
About $35,000 was stolen from the
Wells-Fargo express office 4 here by
burglars who dynamited the safe.
The robbers escaped without leaving
any clew.
Officials of the express company say
that reports of the robbery were exag
gerated. They refuse to say how much
money was stolen. It is understood,
that the amount missing does not ex
ceed $35,000.
Thornton Chevis, aged 23, agent of
the company, has been arrested. He
asserts he had nothing to do with the
robbery. Detectives of the company
and division officials stationed at New
Orleans were summoned here.
This is but an addition to a long nel
of train and express robberies taking
place in the South in recent months.
CURIOUS CONDUCTOR’S
INTEREST IN COIFFURE
BRINGS A SIO,OOO SUIT
The curiosity of a Highland avenue
street car conductor over the mysteries of
the feminine coiffure may cost his em
ployer, the Georgia Railway and Powe*
Company, SIO,OOO.
So absorbed did the conductor becoma
on September 17, 1912, in watching Mrs.
C. A. Earnhardt, of St. Charles avenue,
“do her hair” after the breezes had dis
arrayed it. that he forgot to holler low
bridge where a construction outfit was
parked at the intersection of Highland
and Argard avenues—all this according >o
Mrs. Barnhardt.
As a result Mrs. Barnhardt, holding her
elbow some five inches out of the win
dow in her efforts to gather in the elus
ive locks, sustained a broken arm.
At least Mrs. Barnhardt went into su
perior court today and recited these facts
In a SIO,OOO damage suit she filed against
the company. She maintained that her
injuries, as a result of the accident, were
permanent.
WHOLESALE BUYING OF
VOTES IS UNEARTHED IN
ANOTHER OHIO COUNTY
COLUMBUS. OHIO, Nov. 14.—That
Adams county in Its dark days was not
tainted with as much corruption as
Jefferson county is at the present time
was the terse comment of /Vttorne.y
General Hogan here today, following
an Investigation he has been making
there A plan of action will be decided
upon at a conference between Mr. Ho
gun and the prosecutor of Jefferson
county, t<> be held here Saturday.
The county is strongly Republican
and it is agalnat Republicans largeh j
that the charge of vote buying ant
brllx >■;, are directed, although It is a
leged that the same Illegal mettioii
were resulted to tn < arryjiig the ittUiii
fvi UauiH'ii two veer# atfv.