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the weather ♦ Forecast for Atlanta and Georgia; pai today and tomorrow. VOL. XL NO. 95. SHOPKEEPER SLUGGED AS HE SERVES BANDIT Decatur Street Merchant’s Life Is Saved by Passerby Who Heard Him Fall. NEGRO ROBBER FORCED TO FLEE WITHOUT LOOT Rescuers Find Assailant Ready to Give His Unconscious Victim Death-Blow. R. A. Starnes, a merchant of 536 De catur street, turned to a shelf in his store today to get down some goods for a prospective buyer. When he faced aboui he was knocked unconscious by a blow of a billy on his heat). ♦ Railroad men, on their way home :'om work, heard Starnes fall as they passed the store, and dashed in to find a negro bending over the prostrate mer chant. Hr apparently was about to de i liver another blow, which might have killed his victim. Their arrival saved Starnes’ life and the contents of his cash register. As the robber saw them enter, ‘he fled through h back door into the alley. Slugger Escapes In Maze of Alleys. The rescuers gave chase, and were joined by Police Captain Curry and Pa iroimen Anderson and Watson. The byrglar, hofvever, escaped them in a maze of alleys. Starnes was hurried to Grady hos pital, where the wound on his head was •-rested. He was able to return to his More later in the day. T had just opened the store and had transferred my cash from the safe to she cash register.” he said. “The rob ber must have seen this, for he en tered just at that time. "He was a well dressed, seemingly respectable negro. He gave his. order and 1 turned to fill it. T had to walk nearly to where the cash register was, and I believe he was figuring On that when he named his purchase. Street Nearly Is Deserted at Early Hours. “As 1 turned to show him the goods, I thought the roof had fallen in. I felt blood gush on my face, and then I be fame unconscious.” faptain Curry said that, according to thread men, the street virtually as deserted at that hour, and had it )(, en at a busy time they never would have noticed Starnes’ fall. When they heard him drop, one looked inside and the negro bending over the mer 'hant. a blackjack still in his hand, "hey dashed in, but the negro was too Wick. He was out through a back door, '■ an alley, and in a few seconds lost. Kone of them had pistols, and when th> police arrived, all trace of the rob was gone. DR. R. J. BIGHAM QUITS METHODIST CHURCH ENTIRELY /AFtRoLLTON, GA.. Nov. 22. 1 disposition of the case of Dr. R. ■ Bigham, who bad been charged with -unduct unbecoming a minister, was at the morning session of the' i Georgia Methodist conference to ■'hen he voluntarily surrendered ' ( h ntials as a minister and with bom the membership of the Dr. Bightim has been a man "“teemed in this conference, ano some of its most important ntments. During recent years his 1 s completely failed. ■' ' irit of restlessness is evident the preachers of the conference ■ag rhe appointments for another definitely learned today that t many changes are to be made that sonie leading pulpits will be Also It is learned for a cer ,!lat three new presiding elders appointed. No statement is to who these new elders will Revs. J-:, f. Dempsey. J. P. ►p ' p - King, J. G. Logan and W. mnicutt are being most promi uentioned. CLUBWOMAN makes doubly sure to die w : "' MICH.. N OV . 2L.—Mrs. 1 u Williams, a society leader i a , - "man. killed herself here to , “Wallowed a large quantity of .. and 'hen shot- hers, if i, ’ b • iy. Despondency over aused her act. i The Atlanta Georgian (rxfßf Read For Profit—GEORGIAN WANT ADS—Use For Results. JlijL ‘Your Presence Is'Not Wanted/ Hot Springs Mayor Wires Schepps Arkansans Resent Gangster s In tention of Taking Up Resi dence With Them. HOT SPRINGS, ARK., Nov. 22. j Mayor W. W. Waters sent the follow ’ ing telegram to Sam Schepps. New i York,''in care of. District Attorney Whitman: “Having read in the newspaper dis patches from New York that you con template returning to Hot Springs im mediately after your release from jail in New York, I desire to notify you, as mayor of Hot Springs, representing the j best of the city, your presence here is i not desired.” ; Mayor Waters stated he did not want I Schepps to make Hot Springs his home j and that he had been requested by many citizens to warn Schepps to keep 1 away. RESISTING ARREST, NEGRO FIRES INTO POSSE; 1 WOUNDED y FORSYTH, GA.. Nov. 22.—Millie Mac Maynard, one of the best known young men of Monroe county, was shot in the shoulder here last night by J. L. Mitch ell, a negro photographer. The wound is not serious, say the attending physi cians. The negro' is in jail. J. M. Cox, a local constable, attempt-, ed to serve a legal paper on who. cursing the officer, refused to take the paper. Cox called on some one to assist him in arresting the negro, when Mitchell ran to his house. Officer Cox, Mr. Maynard and several other young men followed. As the party enterd the house. Mitch ell drew a big .44-caliber Colts and threatened to kill the first man who came toward him. Several of the men made a rush upon Mitchell, and he was overpowered, but not until he had fired several times into the crowd. Mem bers of tie poSse returned the fire. Both Mr. Maynard and the negro were wounded. BRIDEGROOM WITHIN HIS RIGHTS TO DRINK BEFORE TAKING WIFE MACON. GA., Nov. 22.—1 n the opin ion of Judge Gus Daly, recorder of this city, a man is warranted in taking a 1 few drinks just prior to a wedding cer | emony. An aged negro was arraigned j before the judge, charged with having ' been drunk. He pleaded that he had > imbibed some “ni-beer” in anticipation of his marriage, which had .been pre vented by his arrest. "Where's your license?” asked the Judge. “Here it is," said the old negro, "and yonder’s my gal.” “Well, if you two will marry right now, I'll perform the ceremony and dis miss the case,” said the recorder, and he was as good as his word. However, there being some doubt in th’eir minds as to the legality of a mar ciage performed by him, the two ne groes went to the ordinary and heard the fateful words all over again. CO EDUCATION FOR NEW $150,000.00 HIGH SCHOOL IN MACON MACON; GA., Nov. 22.—Over the ob jections of many parents, the Bibb county hoard of education has adopted | the co-educatlonal system for the new $150,000 high school, on which work will be started as soon as plans can b's drawn. The school will be erected on Orange street on the site of the present Boys Hj£h school, and the present Girls High school will be devoted in the future to grammar grades. Whether to combine the boy’s and girls high school has been a mooted question with the board for many j months, and it was believed that sep- I arate institutions would be maintained I on account of the objections of many I parents to the co-educational idea. i SON OF JOHN W. GATES IS WRITING MEMOIRS OF: “MISUNDERSTOOD MAN” I COLORADO SPRINGS, COLO., Nov.; | 22.—Charles G. Gates is here writing ; • the life story of John W. Gates? his father Probably it will be months be- I fore the volume of memoirs Is ready Ifor the printer. Mt“ There never was a prominent man j more misunderstood than my father,” said Gates. “He was not the big 1 plunger that people pictured him. He j had none of the small arts that char i acterize many of the financial mag ; nates. His methods were direct. They I puzzled Wall Street because he made a i habit of telling the truth or else say- I ing nothing.” 9 QUARANTINED ON PULLMAN CAR WHEN SMALLPOX APPEARS DENVER. GOLD.. Nov. 22.—Eight pas | sengers who arrived in Castle Rock on a I Santa Fe Pullman car are hi quarantine today, and, with the negro porter of the ! car, will be held for two weeks, as a | result of the discovery of a • ase of small - ’ pox on the car. The patient. R. C. Jones, boarded the | car at Lajunta. Colo. The disease de : veloped after he was aboard. State health I officials ordered the ear cut from the ■ rain and fumigated. Jones was hurried I by automobile to a pest house here. HOT ATTACK RENEWED ON STUBBORN TURKS i ~ i ~~' Peace Terms Rejected—-Bui ! gar Cannon Resume Shelling Constantinople Defense. MOSLEMS REINFORCED DURING 24-HOUR TRUCE Pestilence Among the Enemy Leads Gen. Savoff to Shift Point of Onslaught. CONSTANTINOPLE, Nov. 22.—The greatest battle of the Balkan war is raging today along the Chatalja lines between Bulgarian and Turkish artil lery with savage fury, following the rejection by the Porte the allies' armistice terms. Taking advantage of the 24-hour lull in the fighting, brought about by the tentative negotiations be tween General Savoff, the Bulgarian commander-in-chief, and Nazim Pa sha, the Turkish minister of war, all the Ottoman reserve forces had been moved to the front and the Turkish positions were said by the government to be stronger now than at any time previous. Biyuk Chekmeja, at the extreme southern end of the Chatalja lines, is the center of the battle and there the heaviest fighting is going on. Five batteries of the Bulgarians’ heaviest siege guns, wuich were for merly’ used in bombarding the Otto man defenses at Adrianople, have at last reached the front and are concen trated upon the Turkish works between Chatalja and Biyuk Chekmeje. General Savoff is evidently attempt ing to'weaken the Turkish left wing for a flank movement. Artillery Roar Starts Before Day. Beginning an hour before daybreak, the roar of artillery fire west of this city gave evidence that a terrific en gagement was in progress. Military experts here believe that one of the compelling motives which led General Savoff tot concentrate his attack upon the Turkish left was the prevalence of cholera in the camp opposite the Turk ish 'center. Reports by Turkish scouts who made a reconnoissance of the twenty-mlle front of the Bulgarian army from neighboring heights indicated that the Bulgarians did not withdraw from the offensive as had been reported, but the movement of troops to the wings only made it appear so. It is Indicated by all accounts from the front that only a few regiments of infantry and artillery have been left to guard the Bulgarian artillery at the center. General Savoff not fearing an infantry attack from the Turks in this quarter. Witnesses of conditions in the Turk ish line say that the greatest hardships are not caused by Bulgarian bullets Cold rains have been falling at inter vals for a week and many of the re servists who are used to the warm cli mate of Asia Minor are suffering In tensely from illness thus brought on. Soldier Shoots Down Commander. [ There is also a lack of discipline i among the Turkish soldiers which strikes observers as a most untoward : factor in military affairs. A war cor i respondent told of seeing a soldier shoot down an officer because he was angered at a command. Instead of be ing punished, the soldier was allowed to go free. Breastworks have been erected all along the eastern banks of the Lake of Biyuk Chekmeje by* the Ottoman troops and a telephone line has been installed connecting the headquarters there with the private railway car of Nazim Pasha, which stands upon the tracks of the Orient railway at Hadem keui. Two Turkish ironclads have been or dered to Kalikratia, west of Biyuk Chekmeje. to join in the cannonade on the Bulgarian camp there. Grand Vizier Kiamil Pasha an : nouneed today that he had received from the front word that Nhe Turks were in a very favorable position and that all was going well with them. With the water pouring Into her hold from several big holes beneath the wa ter line, the Turkish battleship Mesiu dyeh was towed in a sinking condition, stern first, into the Golden Horn to day. Although government officials vouch safed no information, it was believed that tin battleship had been attacked by a flotilla of Bulgarian torpedo boats. ATLANTA, GA., FRIDAY, NOVEMBER 22, 1912. RISKS DEATH IN FIRE FOR BRIDE'S GOWN Hilliard Spalding and Wife Have Narrow Escape From Blaze in New Home. NEGRO JANITOR ROUSES I SLEEPING OCCUPANTS Trousseau Consumed by the Flames and Wedding Pres ents Are Destroyed. Hilliard Spalding, prominent young lawyer of 113 West Peachtree street, and his bride of a few weeks are today receiving the second congratulations of their honeymoon. This time they are being felicitated on the fact that they were not burned to death in their homi ( —a big apartment house owned by the bridegroom—which was partially de stroyed at 11:30 o’clock last night. Mr. and Mrs. Spalding escaped partly clad, while other occupants of the house had narrow escapes from death. Julius Jones, a negro janitor of a nearby apartment house, gave the alarm, and not satisfied with this re mained in the smoke-filled halls pound ing on doors until the occupants, who had refused to be alarmed, had risen and he was assured of their safety. Braves Fire For Wife’s Clothes. Mr. Spalding, when he had reached the street and saw the scanty attire his wife was we tain* in ihaj.«lcl n’ght Ue, ran back in the burning building and did not come out until he had com fortable clothing for her. They' then entered an automobile and were taken to the home of Mr. Spalding's grand father, Rev. A. T. Spalding, in Court land street. The apartment was occupied by three families. A. P. Davis, employed tjy John J. Woodside, on the first floor, and the family' of Glover C. Else, a traveling man, on the second floor, were awak ened in time to dress, but the Spaldings on the third floor had the narrow es» capes. Mrs. Spalding, who was Miss Stew art, of Athens, lost her wedding pres ents and her trousseau. The fire originated in the furnace room and the entire rear of the build ing was burned. The damage was’’ heavy. TJie apartment building was the property of Mr. Spalding. CITY WANTS REFUND FOR CONVICT LOCKED ' IN COUNTY JAIL CELL DALTON, GA., Nov. 22.—Because of the failure of the county to deliver Jshn Stocks to the city when he was wanted for street work, simply because no one could work the combination lock on the cell in which Stocks was confined. Re corder Tarver has Instructed Police Chief White to deduct from the sheriff's bill $1 for each day Stocks was con- | fined, amounting in all to $2.50, and to I also refuse to pay his board bill. Re- ; corder Tarver holds that the city pays for the keep of its prisoners, but insists that they be turned over to the city when wanted. In the absence of her husband, Mrs. Gilbert, wife of the sheriff of Whitfield county, insists that the city must pay i the prisoner's board and deduct nothing 1 front the bill. “A city prisoner locked 1 him in, and the city must stand for it," ' she says. Late yesterday afternoon the serv- ! Ices of a locksmith were procured and the cell door, which had resisted al) ef forts to unlock it, was opened, the lock being broken as a last resort because I the combination could not be worked, i — - ■■— SOCIETY GIRLS PLAN THANKSGIVING FEAST | FOR MEN IN STRIPES DALTON. GA., Nov. 22.-e The two young*daughters of Mr. and Mrs. T. N. Peeples, prominent in Dalton society, have taken it upon themselves to fur nish Whitfield county convicts the deli cacies of a Thanksgiving dinner The appeals made to local people to ■ assist in making the day one of pleas- ’ ure to thtj "men in stripes" have met ' with a generous response, and the fund j solicited by them has grown to large • proportions—enough to insure a real j Thanksgiving dinner for the men of th* I county chaingang A thorough canvass of the city has | been made by them unassisted. With the money secured, the delicacies to go witli the two “porkers” promised by Warden Forrester will be purchased, and the convicts will be given a genu ine feast I An Interviewless Interview With Maude Adams ONE ACTRESS WHO IS SHY z ■ —/' 1 \\\ w ‘V \\\ m ■ ■ ■ ■' , . ■ " iff i. ’ ® . • ■ •—... - x -- " - —' Miss Maudn Adams. Modest Peter Pan Slirinks from Publicity and Her Manager Diligently Shields Her. “Yes, do come in. 1 just love re porters. Don’t step on Hinky-Din ky-Zoo, my pet Madagascar poodle. He was given me by the Unighat of Sissboomah after seeing me dance the wools-woola. What is my favorite color? Long green. Oh, let me hurry on and answer all the usual questions. I like my eggs 'fried on the lower side; I think kimonos are lovely; I'm a. suffragette, but never broke a win dow; my favorite jewel is a cluster of solitaire diamonds, and I think motoring is tine; I've never been up in an airship, but here are some ' late photos of me sitting in one and looking happy; yes, I'm glad Wilson was elected, for I'm a staunch Democrat when I’m on the Southern tour; yes, I think South ern women are the prettiest and th* brightest and Atlanta is the great est city I know, and I’d rather play here than anywhere-—is that enough?” That’s the kind of an interview Miss Maude Adams might have given out if she had given any at all—but she didn't. It is one of the traditions of Charles Frohman's organization that Miss Ad ams mustn’t be interviewed. It is the principal duty of her manager, 'her maid and the call boy to form a cordon around her boudoir and see that she isn’t interviewed. One of the most common sights of a Maude Adams tour is the horde of an gry newspaper men and women, pushed back to the curb by the mounted po lice squad and weeping bitterly as they are balked of their anticipated inter views. There is a legend that one In genuous reporter disguised himself as a cup of tea and succeeded in gaining entrance to her private dining room. But There's the Manager! "How many lumps, please?" asked the waiter. "Three,” replied Mrss Ad ams. Throwing off his disguise the reporter rushed to catch the waiting presses. Hut the manager seized him as he ran and hissed into his ear: “Dare to put Miss Adams’ statement in quote marks and Mr. Frohman will deny it and your paper will be ruined and you east out to starve." And the reporter didn’t. That hap pened in Kansas City and afterward In Louisville. Detroit ana Charlotte. N. C'„ where the press agent was gettihg an explosion from every cylinder and the papers were easy marks. The mysterious part of it is that no body knows the reason why Miss Ad ams will not be interviewed. Can it be that her law yers—but no! Every day in the life of Maude Adams since the evening she made her stagg debut in a soup plate in Halt Lake at the age of nine months is known to the public. There can be no fear of her dark and mysterious past being divulged by care less speech. No! The teason is Mr. Frohman's orders. Manager Williams, who has counted the cash for Miss Adams for five seasons, merely shakes his head and replies: "Mr. Frohman has instruteed me to say Miss Adams can not be interviewed. That is all I can say. Upon advice of counsel, 1 decline to answer. Thank you. Good-morning.” She Once Wrote About Her Work. But once upon a time Maude Adams wrote an article for a magazine and In this sl,e expn ssed the revolutionary and incendiary opinion that the public really didn't care a continental about what an actiess wore to breakfast or how she fixed her hair, or whether her summer farm was on Long Island or In Breathitt county, Kentucky. Her opin ion was that the public likes actresses because they can act. She was willing to write something about her plays and which roles she liked best, but when it came to the sad. sweet story of her in ner life she begged to ring down the curtain. And it may be that she is right about it. Perhaps there has never been a play, er of the prominence of Maude Adams about whom there has’been so little said in the newspapers and magazines beyond matters relating solely to her work on the stage. Perhaps no other actri ss of her popularity has so seldom ben seen off stage by her admirers. Did jou ever hear of Maudq Adams taking tea with friends In Atlanta or ■>i ing seen : t the ball game, or taking a ride in somebody's motor car? Neither have we. She arrives in her private ear, goes to her hotel apart ments. app< .rs ar her performance and goes back to the hotel. Fears Being Lionized. It sin goes driving for fresh air, there's no brass batrtl leading the pro cession and nobody knows it but herself and her companions. And it doesn't seem to be haughtiness, ('ould you imagine Maude Adams being haughty? The few who have really met her and ehatted with her say It is rather shy ness. She appears to be conscious of being lionized and she doesn’t like it. Manager Williams says the revival of "Peter Pan” this season was made in response to the public desire; that eve rywhere Miss Adams went with “What Every Woman Knows” the the atergoers kept asking: “When is she to play Peter Pan’ again? My little girl is old enough to go to the theater now. and I want her to see it.” And as Mr. Barrie hadn't written anything else this year, except a half-dozen one-act plays. Mr. Frohman decided to put on "Peter Pan” again, and found it just as popular as in its first season. It has been five years since “Peter” was seen in Atlanta, and the audience last night, the biggest the new theater hag ever known, showed that the Barrie classic was a popular choice, or perhaps the same crowd would have been there if Maude Adams had been playing a dramatization of the state geological report, for Maude Adams herself Is enough, despite the remark of Mr. Shakespeare that "The play's the thing.” But Shakespeare died before tile star system was in vogue. 2 CENTS EVERYWHERE WAR TO HALT CREMATORY PLANS IS GIVEN UP Woodward Declares He Can Do Nothing More Until He Takes Mayor’s Chair. RAZING OF OLD PLANT IS BEGUN BY GILBERT Health Board to Insist That Demolition Be Completed Within One Week. With the order to destroy the old crematory signed by Acting Mayor Candler and work begun, James G. Woodward remarked with resignation as he sat In his office today that he could do nothing else until he became mayor. “T think it is an outrage that they have literally dumped thousands of tons of gai huge into the laps of the people of Atlanta by ordering that old plant destroyed." he said. "But I have done all I could as a citizen. I am nothing more. After I am elected mayor, on December 4, I can assume a different attitude.” Alderman John E. McClelland, who fought hard for Mr. Woodward's prop osition to save the old crematory at the meeting of the aldermanic board yesterday afternoon, intimated today that he would resort to the courts to block the razing of the plant. He said he was not yet ready to announce his plan. Gilbert Says the Work Has Been Begun. Dr. W. L. Gilbert said today that work had begun to raze the old plant and that it would be completed as soon as possible. The contract was let to L. B. Storey. He is to receive the wreckage as compensation. His bid provides that he shall have 40 days to do the work. The board of health will insist that he complete the work within a week, at. least. After a session of more than, two hours, during which some of the speeches were spiritedly bitter, the al dermanic board yesterday afternoon voted six to four against a reconsider ation of the resolution ordering the plant torn do An. Immediately ofter the session Acting Mayor Candler signed the order. The vote was: To destroy the plant—Candler, Mad dox, Nutting. Spratling, Ragsdale and Warren. To save the plant—McClelland. Van Dyke. Everett and Johntson. Clashes Between Speakers Frequent. The speakers reviewed every phase of the crematory wrangle since it be gan more than two years ago. But the members of the aldermanic board were familiar with all the details and they appeared little interested except during some of the statements of Mr. Wood ward and when there were clashes be twen speakers. “Pledgjng the city’s moral obligatioi. for a $'276,000 crematory is the same thing as issuing bonds," declared Mr. Woodward. “Let's refer this whole matter to the people on December 4 I will pay the cost of the tickets, ail', it won’t cost he ciy a cen.” Mr. Woodward inerpreted a reference of Dr. Gilbert to his ‘Woodward's) “ten day inspection tour of garbage plants' as sarcastic. "I think I learned more about cre matories in those ten days than he has learned in all of his,” Mr. Wood ward jumped to his feet and declared. George Spence, attorney for the De structor Company, which has the con tract for the new plant, said the light to save the old plant was all a ffiluff. He said the real motive was to break the contract for the new plant. Why Candler Voted To Tear Down Plant. When the vote was taken. Acting Mayor Candler said he had written out an explanation of his vote, to be sure he would not be misunderstood. He said he would vote to tear down the plant because the city council had entered Into a solemn contract with the De structor Company to do it. Aiderman Johnston explained his vote with the statement that he had not had i to write out an explanation, but that the contract with Mr. Story was vague and indefinite; that it gave him forty days In which to do the work, and that the board of health ought to have pro ceeded in a more businesslike way t<: get the plant torn down. He -aid he was satisfied that the cits' had contracted to pay $100,1)00 too much for a new crematory, but he did no’ care to discuss that matter now. as it was not the question before the board.