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VOL. XU NO. 81).
MULES FOR
SMOKE 11
SS MONEY
SAVER
Plants Can Save Money by
Complying With Ordinance.
Declares City Expert.
MORE PROSECUTIONS ARE
NOW BEING PLANNED
Office Crowded With Manufac
turers Seeking to Obey Let
ter of New Regulations.
"Every owner of a steam plant in
Atlanta who is violating the smoke or
dinance could comply with the ordi
nance and at the same time make his
power cheaper,” said Smoke Inspector
Paul McMichael today.
"All the opposition to the smoke cru
is nothing less than short-sight
.-■lines-. Manufacturers and other own
sol -am plants will not only render
■a ii < to their fellow citizens
. i , lie ; .like, but they will
: - . .or .i: r..\‘lVC:-.
<omplete ' ombu.i-j
•u ion mea.rs more
1 le ~i nty, and no
>■ number of. concerns
i moke c< nsuiners and
i t . will pay for ti.em-
.< <o,l bills or the in-
• u plants in periods i
. 'is,, i/iy,,.; from six months to
ClTSlda •]
Blessing to Cc. rjaeu.
1. . of miming the war against
»ni»ke .< hardship on them, owners’of
'(• • iin pia.it; will come to realize that
it > a blessing to themselves, as well
a< the people at large.”
The duties of Inspector McMichael
have more than quadrupled since a
number of cases were made in the re
corder’s court against violators of the
smoke law, and newspaper publicity
has shown that public sentiment de
mands an abatement of the smoke nui
sance.
At 4 o’clock in the afternoon, the
hour when he is in his office at the
city hall to give advice to persons who
want to comply with the law, he is dally
besieged with questioners. The scene
any afternoon reminds one of a class
room, with many students listening to
a lecture.
All classes of owners of steam plants
have gone seriously to the task of
learning how to stop smoke.
1 am now convinced that we will
produce some gratifying results,” said
Inspector McMichael.
Based on a detailed study of the sit
uation, Inspector McMichael has esti
mated that smoke costs Atlanta more
’han $1,000,000 a year. Os this amount.
’-63,000 is fuel value lost to the manu
facturer through smoke and gases from
incomplete combustion. The other
three-quarters of a million dollars is a
result of soot damage.
Law Compliance
Will Prove Benefit.
Ihe owners of steam plants will be
benefited by more than a quarter of a
million dollars if they comply with the
smoke ordinance properly.
■'•‘■venty-five per cent of the boilers in
the city are tubular boilers. Inspector
McMichael said they could be made to
comply with the law at a cost of from
’2OO to SBOO each.
1 uenty-five per cent of the boilers
Are water tube boilers. These are all
It very large plants. They can be
” to comply at a cost of from SBOO
■” M.ihh) each.
' ill be an easy matter to build
Plants so that they will comply
"‘th the law.
tor McMichael said emphati-
Ca 1 that the owners of the plants
figure a dividend on these In
' ' nents, and • that every citizen of
~lta would also be able to figure a
dividend, for he estimates that
"ot damage in this city amounts
0 *" per capita.
the other hand he is preparing to
’ more cases in the recorder’s
■ against persons who are not dili-
• ndeavoring to comply with the
'•aoke law.
TRAVEL craze caused
girl. 19, TO RUN AWAY
f 1 AGO, Nov. 15.—"1 like to trav
s the only explanation offered by
■Vaiet Tjunbar, nineteen years old, who
•'’•ay from her home in Pittsburg and
found here in the Hotel Sherman
■ electives.
-• nients were made to send her
her . " la ' This trip was said to be
third flight from home.
The Atlanta Georgian
Read For Profit—GEORGIAN WANT ADS—Use For Results.
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COBB
’ i More Funds Will Be Asked for
j Excavation for the Proposed
New Plant.
OPPONENTS CAN BLOCK
i NEW APPROPRIATIONS
But Tearing Down of the Old
Disposal Plant Likely Will
Proceed Next Week.
I A new turn in the crematory fight to-
• day will probably throw the whole mat
ter into the general council for a new
. decision. The board of health has only
SI,OOO to excavate for the new crema
tory, while the lowest bid for this work
is $3,000. It is expected that the gen
eral council will be called upon to prc-
■ vide the additional $2,000 Monday.
With James G. Woodward deter-
• mined in his fight to prevent the demo
; lition of the old crematory and con-
II struction on the new, it is quite likely
I that he will be able to block the begin
| uing of '.lie construction of the $276,000
■ «oiuni until be takes his .-eat as mayor
■>' it: Tanua i y 1.
; When the council is asked to make
■! the appropriation for s2,ooit Mr. Wood
j'.va.d’s friends can delay action until
I’.l’e mcering of the council the first
1 Monday in December. Then when the
c'nattw reaches the aldermanic board
, ■ be;, can de ■ y action for two weeks
• nore by again moving a ’.econsidera
■' inn.
, Thus, with- only a small minority,
| they can prevent the beginning of work
the new ctematoi>y until the first of
’ | 'the vear.
■ Old Plant
i Coming Down.
But it appears that the board of
I health will be able to tear down the
, old crematory after next Thursday. At
the meeting of the aldermanic board on
> that day Alderman’s Van Dyke will
’ move a reconsideration of the resolu
tion to destroy the plant. Indications
are that his motion will be voted down.
Dr. W. L. Gilbert, president of the
‘ board of health, will hold a conference
1 with Acting Mayor Candler today in an
’ effort to find the needed $2,000. He
hopes to succeed in securing this money
! without going to the council.
The outlook today is that the crema -
1 tory matter is far from settled, although
a large majority of the city officials
1 favor living up to the contract to build
I a $276,000 plant on the site of the old
crematory.
Mr. Woodward is fighting stubbornly
1 to prevent the destruction of the old
plant, and he will make his strongest
plea In person before tile aideimanic
board next Thursday.
PRIESTESS OF CULT
PINCHED WHEN HER
AUTO £NJURES 2 MEN
CHICAGO, Nov. 15.—Mona Rees, cen
tral figure in the Absolute Life cult of
Evelyn Arthur See, today faced a charge
of assault as a result of an automobile
' accident.
The girl with her mother and Mildred
Bridges was driving down Michigan ave
nue in an electric runabout. A motor
car passed in front of them and in swerv
ing to avoid it. Miss Rees steered into a
grocery cart, seriously Injuring ’V. T.
' Barry and Thomas Barry. She was ar
rested.
PAIR ELOPE TO AVOID
“‘FRIVOLOUS” WEDDING
ST. LOUIS, Nov. 15. —Because they
"wished to avoid the frivolity and embar
rassment of a home- wedding,” Horace
Harper. 22 years old, and Miss Flora Mur
ray, aged 20. eloi>ed to Carlinville, 111.,
and were married In the First Baptist
church October 3. They have just an
nounced their wedding.
The couple have been neighbors for
years, and friendship resulted In love
when Miss Murray was employer! as a
stenographer and Harper as a draught
ing clerk by Harper's father. They will
begin housekeeping Decemebr 1.
PARENTS ARRESTED AT
BURIAL OF ONLY CHILD
GENEVA, Nov. 15. —A French couple
recently expelled from Geneva, who re
turned to attend the funeral of their only
child, were arrested before the grave.
The police allowed them to remain only
until the ceremony was concluded.
he says~snobbTs'hness
IS CURSE OF THE CHURCH
NEW YORK, Nov. 15.—" Class snob
bishness is the curse of our church,"
said Dr. Henry Sloane Coffin, vice presi
dent of the chureh extension committee
of the Fifth Avenue Presbyterian church.
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•NEIGHBORS IN ARMS 2
* •
ASHBURN. GA.. Nov. 15.—Tan •
•• Cleghorn, accused of poison- •
• ing his fiancee. Miss Min- •
'• nle Marchman, is believed •
’• to be hiding in the home •
•of some of his friends in the •
• neighborhood of Ashburn. If he •
• is found and arrested the bars of •
• the Turner county jail will hard- •
• iy be strong enough to keep out •
• the throng of embittered neighbors. •
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Cities Not Losing by Back-to-Soil Move, Says Expert
SEES ELEVATION OF FARMERS
Dr. A. C. True Thinks Trend to
Country Means More Scien
tific Agriculturists.
"The back-to-the-farm movement
will never depopulate American cities.
' The cities will continue to grow at
I their present rapid rate, despite the
I present-day slogan of ’back to Xhe soil.’
I What the preseht enthusiasm for coun
try life spells is a new kind of farmer.
> ~|
l.ir; A. (k True, head ot the experiment stations, who says “back to farm’’ movement will
not (fatf-r’’groXvlh of cities.
the seieiitifi? farmer, und many of them.
It means that the h.tncs applied to in
agricultural pursuits will be mofe effi
cient. more intelligently directed. It
does not .m,e;iu that there will be, pro
portionately more hands applied.” .
This statement sums up the views of
Dr. A. <’. True, of the Federal depart
ment of agriculture, on the popular
“back-to-the-soil” movement. DE
True, who is head of the st ate experi
ment station system, talked entertain
ingly today of the tendency of city
people, unsuccessful in urban pursuits,
to seek the farm. And fresh from a
trip through the experiment stations
and agrictfltural colleges of the middle
West, he spoke authoritatively, for it
is there that the back-to-the-farm
movement has reached- its height.
“There is no question, -of course,”
said Dr. True, "but -that city people,
cspeciall young men, are casting long
ing eyes on the country. In the agri
cultural schools you find that one-half
the students come from the towns and
the cities, and if they have had an
early business training it is safe to say
that they make the best farmers.
Cities Will Not Suffer.
“But I am inclined to believe that
the general idea that the present en
thusiasm of city people for the coun
try will and should decrease the influx
to the cities is a fallacy. What Amer
ica needs Is trained, scientific farm
ers. not merely a lot of farmers. Dur
problem, called the 'high cost of liv
ing,’ is more a problem of distribution
than of production.
“I believe that one-third of the pop
ulation is now engaged in actually pro
ducing agricultural things. I look to
see that proportion cut down in the
next twenty years. Perhaps in twenty
years not more than one-fourth of
America’s population will be actually
growing crops. But in twenty years
the farm will be more closely related to
the city. The passage between urban
anil country life will be more frequent
and natural.
"This is vision, but it is built upon
years of investigation. I believe coun
try America eventually will be a na
tion of skilled farmers, who undertake
and accomplish the production of food
and shelter stuffs hjs a business. Cer
tainly farming ' will be more intensive
than it is, but it is hardly likely that it
will be more highly diversified. Once
the solution of the distribution prob
lem is reached farming will be carried
on exactly as modern industry is car
ried on. It will be systematized on a
national scale.”
MATCH KING ADVANCES
MODEL FARM MILK PRICE
BARBERTON, OHIO. Nov. 15—O. C.
Harber, millionaire match king and mod
el farmer, has raised the price of milk
delivered from his farm from 8 cents to
10 cents. It costs SI,OOO dally to run the
farm
ATLANTA, GA., FRIDAY, NOVEMBER 15, 1912.
FIANCE IN HIDING AS POISON
HUNT STIRS COUNTRYSIDE
Mr-X jy ?
mm OFFICER
BECOMES CHEF
Wasser Making Tests as Cook
to Determine Violations of
Food Laws.
Health Inspector Wasser Is busy
cooking eggs these days in as many
different styles as any princely paid
chef in the Waldorf-Astoria, but it
isn't because he's looking for a chef's
job. The health inspector, encouraged
by’his success in having J. I. Geuting,
manager of the local branch of Swift &
Co., fined for selling cold storage eggs
without the stipulated label, is extend
ing his pure food campaign.
The inspector is now cooking eggs as
an official test. He did this in the case
of the Swift Company, and says it
proved so successful that he will con
tinue the test. In that instance, he
boiled some fresh eggs and then some
of the alleged storage eggs, eating a
portion of both. The difference was
striking, he said. The case resulted.
In his tests, the inspector says he
will boil, fry, poach, and scramble eggs
in order to prove their quality.
Inspector Wasser said that all deal
ers nutting off cold storage, ancient
> ggs on the unsuspecting populace and
"making believe” that they are of the
real, modern variety, will be haled be
fore the recorder.
■■ .
MOTHER LOSES CHILD
WHOM SHEFORCED TO
SWALLOW RED PEPPER
ROME, GA., Nov. 15.—Because she
forceo red pepper down her little daugh
ter's throat, Mrs. S. J. Hart has lost
possession of the child, Judge Reece
awarding the girl to her maternal grand
mother.
Mrs. Hart wept bitterly during the
progress of the trial. The husband al
leged that the woman had no love for
the child; that she whipped her more than
was neeessary, and at one time forced
her to swallow a teaspoonful of red pep
per.
CLIMBING BETWEEN CARS,
SHE TAKES ENFORCED RIDE
WILKESBARRE, PA., Nov. 15.—Mrs.
George Hill was forced to travel fifteen
miles standing on the bumper of a
freight train which got in motion while
she was climbing over it as it blocked a
street
MM NOW
FOO HODSEVELT
Defeated Woman Candidate
for Elector Charges Tam
pering With Ballots.
LOS ANGELES, Nov. 15.—Theodore
Roosevelt had a plurality of 72 votes
over Woodrow Wilson in California
when tile final count from all the pre
cincts in the state was completed. But
that did not settle the case. Instead a
recount in Los Angeles county is immi
nent.
Mary Foy, a Democratic candidate
for presidential elector, secured a writ
of mandamus in the district court of
appeals to compel tile county board of
supervisors to give a fair and honest
count of the votes cast in the election
of.November 5. It was alleged that the
ballots cast in several Los Angeles pre.
elects had been tampered with and the
return sheets abstracted. The writ Is
returnable Monday.
BULL MOOSE PLAN
TO CONTINUE FIGHT
TO DESTROY G. O. P.
• CHICAGO, Nov. 15.—Progressives of
Cook county today are preparing for a
i thorough reorganization of the party and
are already looking ahead to the election
two years hence. The plans include war
to the death on the Republican party.
The plans were discussed at a banquet
at the Auditorium hotel, where the par
ty’s victory In Chicago was celebrated.
A feature of the evening was a mes
sage from Colonel Roosevelt brought by
Medill McCormick, who arrived from Oys
ter Bay shortly before the banquet.
“The colonel,” he said, "is devoting his
entire time to devising plans to make per
manent the Progressive party and insure
its victory two years from now. The Re
publican party is demoralized and morl
' bund. It is up to us finally to kill It.
Its rank and file are now separated from
the payrolls. Without jobs the party ean
not go on."
SAVANNAH WANTS DOCTORS.
SAVANNAH, GA., Nov. 15. —Confi-
dent that he will be able to induce the
society to select Savannah as its next
meeting place. Dr. V. H. Bassett, presi
dent of the Georgia Medical society,
is in Jacksonville in attendance upon
. the annual convention of the Southern
• Medical society. Dr. Bassett Is pre
pared to make a strong bld for the
doctors to come here.
Funeral Bells Toll For Belle of Amboy
While Neighbors Scour Ashburn For
Track of Her Sweetheart Who Has
Completely Disappeared.
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By STAFF CORRESPONDENT.
ASHBURN, GA., Nov. 15. —Turner couuty officers today are
searching the woods in Amboy district for Tan Cleghorn, a
young farmer who was to have been married to pretty Minnie
Marchman last 'Tuesday. Instead of a wedding at the March
man home there was a funeral, and the same minister who had
expected to pronounce the marriage ceremony read the funeral
service over the body of the “belle of Amboy,” dead from &
sudden attack which is believed to have been caused by poison.
And it is Cleghorn, her fiance, who is accused of bringing
about his sweetheart’s death, according to the warrant swvorn
out in the Ashburn court house.
Cleghorn, it is believed, is hiding in the home of same of
his numerous friends in the country district where he resides,
not far from the cottage where Minnie Marchman lived with her
mother. If he is found and arrested the bars of the Turner
county jail will hardly be strong enough to keep out the throng
of embittered Georgians who knew and loved the prettiest girl
in the countryside.
Entire Countryside
Threatens Slayer.
All Turner county is enraged,
and if it is established that the
girl died from poison given her
by Tan Cleghorn the citizens say
it would be wiser to take the
prisoner to some other county for
safekeeping.
The body of Minnie Marchman,
stopped on its way to the ceme
tery by friends who suspected
her death was not due to natu
ral causes, has been buried, but
it is probable that it will be ex
humed for further investigation.
The stomach is now being ex
amined by Dr. John Funke, an
Atlanta chemical expert, but sev
eral days must elapse before hi"
analysis can be completed ami
the cause of Minnie Marchman’s
death finally determined. But
she was known to be well and
comparatively strong until the
day she went with her sweet
heart to spend the day at Ash
burn, the county seat, ancT that
she died after eight convulsions
in two hours, foaming at the
mouth, her eyes fixed in a glassy
stare, and with other sympstoms
of poisoning. And she told her
mother that Cleghorn gave her
candy and fruit when they spent
the day in Ashburn.
The motive for the crime—ls crime
there were—ls described by neighbors
of the dead girl to the fact that Cleg
horn had promised to wed the girl
and did not desire to keep his promise.
Bells Toll
For Funeral.
She had told her mother, it is freely
reported, that Cleghorn had taken her
to Ashburn to purchase the license, and
they were to have been married a day
or two afterward. But the bells tolled
that day Instead of ringing out a sum
mons to a wedding. And Cleghorn had
disappeared.
Tan Cleghorn had been courting Min
nie Marchman for about a year. Min
nie was known for miles around as the
prettiest girl In her section and her
friends knew her as the “belle of Am
boy district.” Her home was In this
district, about six miles from Ashburn,
the county seat, and young Cleghorn
lived not far away.
Up to a year ago Minnie Marchman
was one of the most popular girls of
the countryside, belle of the picnics and
all-day singings, sought after by a
dozen eligible young men, merriest of
all the girls at the country gatherings.
Then she and Tan Cleghorn began
“keeping company,” and when she was
recognized as "his girl” other would-be
lovers stayed away and the pair were
looked upon as betrothed.
Pair Believed
To Be Betrothed.
They were everywhere together, at all
the frolics in town and county, and
their marriage was expected at any
time. To her intimates, It is said, Min
nie Marchman had often spoken of her
love for (’leghorn and their Intention to
marry "some day.”
But of recent months Minnie was no
longer a figure at parties and picnics.
Cleghorn called frequently at her home,
and they took many walks and buggy
rides together, but she avoided public
gatherings and remained secluded In
her home. She had not been seen by
her friends in Ashburn for some time,
until she appeared there a few days
IXIRA
2 CENTS EVERYWHERE P^ R N E °
ago with her fiance. It was reported In
Ashburn then that they were to have
been married that day, but that Cleg
horn made some excuse for postponing
the ceremony and the girl, fighting back
her tears, returned to her mother’s
home while her lover went away. He
has not been seen In the community
since that day In Ashburn. It was four
days after this that Minnie Ashburn
died.
Scientist Waits
For Verification.
Dr. John Funke, head of the Car
negie liboratory of pathology In At- <
lanta, has not completed his analysis u/
the stomach of Minnie Marchman and
declined today to make any statement
as to the cause of her death until his
examination should have been complete
and the cause absolutely established
The examination, thus far, has shown
that the girl was afflicted with a mild
form of chronic gastritis, which was not
serious enough to have caused death.
Two examinations will be necessary,
one a chemical anlysls and the second
a microscopic inspection.
Seven days are required to complete
the test, and It will be next Tuesday,
probably, before Dr. Funke can make a
definite report. The stomach of the
dead girl, with the expert’s report, wlil
be sent to the coroner of Turner county
at Ashburn. It was this officer who
conducted the Inquest, had the stom
ach sent to the expert and caused tha
Issuance of the warrant against Tan
Cleghorn,
Detectives Search
For Missing Girl
GADSDEN. Nov. 15.—Detec
tives today are searching for Miss Vera
Henry, daughter of W. A. Henry, tax
collector of St. Clair county, who mys
teriously disappeared from her home at
Springville on Sunday, and of whom no
trace has since been found. Miss Hen
ry is sixteen years old, and exceed
ingly pretty. The detectives came tc
Gadsden to Interview’ Ezra Pike, her
sweetheart, who lives here, and who
says he Is engaged to marry her. Hs
declares that her disappearance Is as
great a mystery to him as it is to het
parents. He saw her Wednesday of
last week. The police have been asked
to aid in the search.
SAYS SHE WAS MADE TO
WED AT POINT OF PISTOL
ST. LOUIS, Nov. 15.—Miss Rosa Hel
man, nineteen years old, a stenographer
in the DeMenf! building, says she was
forced to agree to wed Hugh Bratton,
1637 Texas avenue, at the point of a re
volver.
She said he had a strange influence over
her, which seemed to compel her to do
almost anything he demanded.
Bratton, after a wild ride on a mo
torcycle in St. Louis county, was ar
rested and sent to Clayton, where he
was held until he gave bond on a charge
of disturbing the peace The warrant
had been sworn out by Jacob Heiman,
lather of the young woman.
COUNT ROMANONES IS
NEW PREMIER OF SPAIN
MADRID, Nov. 15< —Count Roma
nones, a liberal, has been appointed
premier by King Alfonso, to succeed
Senor Canalejas. Revolutionary threats
prevented the appointment of General
Weyles, as originally planned.
BUFFALOES WRECK TRAIN:
? TWO PASSENGERS KILLED
SINGAPORE, Nov. 15.—A herd of wild
buffaloes charged and derailed a train on
the Southern railroad at Kram, Slam
Two passengers were killed and many in
jured.