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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 ■ '»,»• 'l'll "IM ai- <un hi - The Atlanta Georgian Read For Profit—GEORGIAN WANT ADS—Use For Results. Weather Sharps Sidestep Frost-Bitten Heel Forecaster MOORE NOT LONG-DISTANCE PROPHET / 1 ~ ======^ I i m V "'" /- • Hr ; P£ :4 1 tI JIM t /-S -’jMER f <im* -noI y •” '■-rtWw > s ’’‘.ttT . jMt imWhMur MBBr A MEmMmI 08 Willis L. Moore, chief ol the I . S. weather bureau, in center, and his aids, who are m convention in Atlanta. 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.