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THE WEATHER Fo ecast for Atlanta and Georgia: Fair today and tomorrow. 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. CBEMIITORV HIM m cm 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. •••••••••••••••••••••••••a •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. • •••••••••••••••••••••••••a 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. \. u 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.