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VOL. XI. NO. 98.
GOMRADESI
RISK LIVES
TORESCUE
FIREMAN
Lieutenant Peel. Knocked Un-’
conscious in Burning House. ■
Is Near Suffocation.
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RESIDENCES DAMAGED
AS FLUE STARTS BLAZE
Neighbors Save the Furniture
of One Tenant Who Was
Vacating Place.
Lieutenant John Peel, of fire compa-
No. 11, was knocked unconscious as
played a hose inside the burning
Science of J. R. Cobble, 150 West Pine
■neet. at 10:30 o’clock today. Though
room in which he fell was filled
. ith smoke and the flames were raging
'! about him. comrades rushed to the
. seue and dragged him/rem the burn
ng building.
The fire started as Cobble, an engi
neer on the Southern railway, was
moving his furniture from the house to
is now residence in Hunnicutt street.
\ defective flue is said to have been the
'.use.
11l of his goods had been moved, with
iie exception of one wagon load of fur
iture. When the flames were seen.
i> ighbors rushed to his aid and saved
everything.
Adjoining House
Also Is Damaged.
The flames spread to the next house,
: 16 West Pine street, occupied by M. F.
Boieclaire, a merchant at Luckie and
’.■■st Pine streets.
When the firemen arrived Lieutenant
■ led the attack on the flames in the
' ibble residence. Mounted on a lad-
Ir, he was playing the hose, when a
streak of flame leaped out and burned
.is hand. He attempted to hold the
:ose with one hand while he tried to
shove the ladder farther away from the
lire.
The stream was too strong. The noz
zle flew from his grasp and struck him
ni the head. He fell to the floor un
■onscious.
The room was filled with smoke, and
11 low firemen had difficulty in finding
lim. When he was carried to the air
ne was suffering from the smoke in his
'ungs as well as the blow on his head.
Lieutenant Peel
Not Hurt Badly.
He was taken in an automobile to
iis home in Fourth street, where he
soon recovered consciousness. His in
juries are not serious.
Roofs of both houses were destroyed,
but on account of the work of the
neighbrs the damago was limited.
R. M. Rose, a railroad conductor,
owns tlie Bolsclaire property, while
lack and Frank Kramer are the own
ers of the Cobble residence.
Lieutenant Peel is a brother of Mrs.
Jacques Futrelle, widow of the famous
l iter who went down with the Titanic.
WILSON, RCOVERED
FROM INDIGESTION,
TO BANQUET TONIGHT
HAMILTON, BERMUDA, Nov. 26.
1’ resident-elect Wilson, who lias been
•offering from a slight attack of indi
gestion, had regained his normal
lealtli today. This evening the presi
dent-elect will be the guest of honor at
1 state dinner given by the governor
' neral, Lieutenant General Sir George
'I. Bullefck, and he has accepted an in
flation to play tennis and take tea on
" governor general’s estate this aft
•rnoon.
No special preparations have been
■aide for Thanksgiving dinner by the
'Vilson family, although if they have
urkey it will be cold storage bird in
he United States, as turkeys are not
used here.
The president-elect has planned to go
1 Staunton, Va., his birthplace, on De
ember 28 for the celebration of his
illy-sixth birthday.
ALLEGED LIBELER OF
ROOSEVELT TO GO TO
TRIAL DECEMBER 31
MARQUETTE, MICH., Nov. 26.
Judge S. E. Byrne today formally set
bweinber 31 next", as the date of the
ial of George A. N -wett. editor and
iibUsher of the Ishpeming Iron Ore,
■ q<.,.| by Theodore Roosevelt with
iniinul libel.
T;,is action «u> taken on a stipuia
■n bv th, attorneys and which was
■.l when tin- c.is ■ >vas called. Neither
n, . r„ i• ti !y represented in
•■urf.
The Atlanta Georgian
Read For Profit—GEORGIAN WANT ADS—Use For Results.
\Keeping Atlanta’s Traffic Streams Flowing Smoothly Is No Cinch
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This remarkable composite photograph shows how the traffic jumble at Five Points would appear were it not for the efficient work of the traffic cop. On
the left is E. C. Thornton, a familiar figure at the Points, and on the right, Reub Burnett, another guardian at this vortex of scurrying humanity.
Broadway's Touted Guardians;
Have Nothing on My Men,
• Deciares Cheif Beavers.
Ever stand nt Five Points and watch
the czar review his armies?
Looks like a cinch, doesn’t it, stand
ing in the street and telling other folks
which way to go and when to stop and
when to come on! Nothing to do but
stand there and hold up a white-gloved
hand and make everybody mind!
But did you ever try standing in one
place five or six hours on a stretch?
Just think how you kick when your
car is three minutes late and the morn
ing is cold and the wind blowing forty
miles an hour. And then just imagine
being right in tiie middle of the pave
ment with four streams of traffic swirl
ing about you and trying to tangle up.
It must be like standing on a rock in
the middle of Niagara river, just above
the falls. And.even then the river could
look after itself and not try to run
four different ways at once and smash
things. Being a traffic cop wouldn’t be
go bad if it were not for the traffic.
B’way Has Nothing on Five Points.
But Five Points is just about as busy
a spot at some times of day as any of
the popular song corners of Broadway
and Umpty-steenth street. There’s all
the traffic the pavement will bear, and
nobodv could crowd, in any more. And
Chief Beavers says the Broadway squad
hasn’t got anything on his traffic cops,
even if its men are six foot three and
stand like they wore check reins. He
thinks Reub Burnett and Charley
Mitchell are as good as any of them
when it comes to keeping automobiles
from climbing into trolley cars, and
that’s what traffic cops are for.
A reporter spent an hour with Mitch
ell and Burnett today. Not exactly with
them, either, for they urged him to get
on the sidewalk, where he wouldn't get
run over. He spent the rest of the
hour inside a cigar store, looking out
the glass door, which was warmer and
safer He began with an earnest effort
to count the vehicles passing the cor
ner, but quit after the first live min
utes and the first hundred and seventy
five motors, trucks, drays, cabs, trolley
cars, bicycles and farm wagons. If the
statistic-loving reader can get any sat
isfaction from these figures, as far as
they go, he is welcome.
"How many folks pass this corner in
an hour? Ask me something easy. How
many fleas on a hound dog, f’r in
stance?” replied officer Mitchell, in an
swer to this simple question. “I’m too
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BY PLEA OF GIRL
Sixteen-Year-Old Brother of
Stella Hearn to Escape
Chaingang Term.
Won by the plea of fourteen-year
old Stella Hearn, who yesterday peti
tioned Governor Brown, in person, to
order her 16-year-old brother, Love
Hearn, sent to the state reformatory,
rather than to the Fulton county chain
gang, to which he had been sentenced
in Judge Calhoun’s court, the governor
today granted the girl’s prayer. Young
Hearn will be taken to the reformatory
at Milledgeville for a term of service
corresponding with his chaingang sen
tence.
Stella Hearn was v ery happy this
morning when she called at the capitol
and w r as informed that the governor
had agreed to grant her request.
"I am sure I-oye will make a well
behaved prisoner,” said Miss Hearn,
‘‘and I am deeply grateful to Governor
Brown. I am sure he has a kind heart.
I felt that he would grant my request.
I went to him on my own motion, and
because I felt that 1 could reach him
and explain to him about Love.”
The governor said that he did not
feel he would be doing right to "close
the door of hope” either to young Hearn
or his sister. He believes that a’ bet
ter purpose can be served by sending
Hearn to the reformatory.
GIRL TELLS POLICE
STEPFATHER TREATED
DOG BETTER THAN HER
\ “My stepfather has an old hound dog
that he treated better than he did me,
and that’s just why I left home and de
termined to go out into the world and
battle for myself,” today explained Lula
McCoy. 17 years of age. who has asked
the aid of the police in finding work.
.Miss McCoy is being cared for by
Matron Bohnefeld until a place can be
found for her.
‘‘l'm not looking for charity, but
work,” said the girl. “I'm perfectly
able to work end want to maJ. mv own
living."
ATLANTA, GA., TUESDAY. NOVEMBER 26. 1912.
CAN’T STOP PROSPERITY
NOW, ASSERT STATESMEN
WASHINGTON, Nov. 26.—That the
United States today is basking in the
glow of the greatest prosperity she
has ever enjoyed, is the optimistic view
of members of the president’s cabinet,
senators, representatives and other
prominent men who are pouring into
the national capital preparatory to the
opening of congress.
With the country’s granaVies bulging
with the fruits of a bumper harvest and
her wheels of industry grinding, public
men today declared that even the
change in administration would not
change the conduct of business
throughout the nation.
Secretary of Agriculture Wilson is
among the most optimistic, assuring
the nation that the agriculturists’ pock
ets are full.
Nothing Wrong
With Business.
“Nothing is the matter with condi
tions in the business world,” said the
dean of the cabinet today. “Every
thing looks fine and with the magnifi
cent crops we have harvested this fall
I see no reason for apprehension. The
farmers are obtaining good prices, and
that means plenty of money in circula
tion.”
"The prosperity which we are enjoy-
SNEAD, ON STAND.
TELLS OF PLOT TO
KIDNAP CHILDREN
FORT WORTH. TEXAS, Nov. 26.
John B. Snead took the stand today in
his own behalf at his second trial for
the murder of Captain A. G. Boyce in
the.Metropole hotel last winter. Snead
swore that when he found his wife and
Captain Boyce's son, with whom she
had eloped to Winnipeg, Canada, she
confessed that the Boyce family was
plotting to kidnap the Snead children
and send thegn to their mother in Can
ada.
W. A. Weaver, a Bokchito, Okla.,
lawyer, was arrested today charged
with perjury with the testimony he
gave yesterday. He had sworn that the
elder Boyce saw Snead in the Metropole
hotel and made a scurrilous remark
about him just a few moments befort
the shooting occurred. The state’s at
torney swore out. the perjury warrant.
Later Weaver -as releas'"' on SI,OOO
bail.
ing now,” said Seereary of Commerce
and Labor Nagel, "has, in my opinion,
come to stay, and I do not look for
even a disturbance of it for a long
time.”
Other opinions about the prosperity
reign today were:
Senator Hoke Smith, of Georgia:
"There is every reason to anticipate
prosperous times in the United States.
The industries of the country have
nothing to fear from Democratic revi
sion of the tariff, and the present pros
perity will go on indefinitely.”
No Depression
Is Coming.
Senator Borah, of Idaho: "I am not
anticipating any business depression
because of the coming administration.”
Senator Smoot, of Utah: "In my
judgment, the tariff bills the Demo
crats will pass at the extra session will
not be so radical as to affect the reign
of prosperity.”
Speaker Champ Clark: “With the
biggest crop ever raised, with a short
age of labor and with all the factories
in the land working overtime or behind
with orders, the chances are 10 to 1
against any disturbance of the present
prosperous era."
SUES WIFE HE SAYS
WAS ASHAMED TO BE
SEEN OUT WITH HIM
Hershel Kilpatrick told superior court
today that his wife was ashamed of him
and flatly refused to be seen in his
company on the street. He argued her
attitude entitled him to a divorce.
Kilpatrick asserted that he married
Lelah Darling in April, 1912, and lived
with her happily until June, 1912. In
June, he said, his wife visited her par
ents In South Carolina and failed to
write
On her return, he maintained, she
called him over the telephone and told
him that she was tired of him and was
really ashamed to be seen on the street
with him. However, he said, she had
never refrained from taking and spend
ing the money he had lavished upon
her.
WORLDSOCiAUSf STRIKE
CALLED TO PROTEST WAR
BASLE. Nov. 26. The International
Socialist cong. < ss. in convention here,
today ordered a 24-hour strike on De
cember 16 as a protest against war.
'SAVANNAH SILENT
OH LIOUOR SALES
Court Officials Ignore Disclos
ures of Violation of Pro
hibition Law.
SAVANNAH, GA., Nov. 26.—A rigid
silence is maintained in all quarters re
garding the disclosures in Atlanta
touching upon the offering of whisky
for Illegal sale by mail orders by the
John Sullivan, Jr.,’ Company, of Sa
vannah, wholesale distributers.
It is intimated in all such cases that
if proper complaint of infractions of the
law is made, the officials will take
proper cognizance of the matter.
It is a notorious fact, however, that
It is almost impossible to get Savan
nah people to make complaint in such
eases, and equally as impossible to get
a Chatham county jury to convict after
such case is made.
Court and police officials simply will
not discuss the matter at all.
No denial is made that circulars of
fering liquor for sale have been dis
tributed. nor does the company make
any attempt to defend its action. Every
body merely declines to discuss the
matter at all.
FATHER AND 2 SONS
SLAIN IN ATTACK ON
SHERIFF AND AIDS
OLIVE BRANCH, MISS., Nov. 26.
In a revolver battle, which followed an
, attempt of court officers to serve a
judgment execution early today, four
men were killed and three others
wounded.
The dead:
SHERIFF W. T. HARRIS.
G. W. TREADWAY, wealthy farmer.
TREADWAY'S TWO SONS.
The injured:
Three deputy sheriffs.
Another son of Treadway was cap
, tured after a long pursuit. A lynching
1 is feared.
When the officers came to the Tread
‘ way house to serve the papers they
. I were invited to step inside. After they
had entered they .vole attacked.
IDITION
2 CENTS EVERYWHERE P^ R l°
VICTORY FUR
UNIONSIN
GISTRIKE
VEROIGT
By Majority Decision Pas
chal and Morgan Are Or
dered Reinstated.
WICKERSHAM HANDS IN
A DISSENTING OPINION!
If 16-Hour Law Was Broken*
Mediators Declare It Was
Done at Official Behest.
Railroad unions won a sweeping vic-t
tory today when the board of arhdtra •
tion of the Georgia railroad strike
tained the contentions of the striking
organizations on every point and or*
dered the reinstatement of the men*
whose discharge precipitated the walk
out.
Tlie decision was handed down isl
the United States court room at nooiw
it was the majority opinion of F. W.
Burgess, representing the unions, an<l
Judge William L. Chambers, of Wash
ington, D. C., the third arbitrator,
named by the United States depart
ment of commerce and labor.
President C. G. Wickersham, of tha
Atlanta and West Point, handed in a
dissenting opinion.
Morgan and PaschaJ
Ordered Reinstated.
The arbitrators ordered that Conduc
tor J. T. Paschal, whose discharge
caused the strike of the Order of Rail
road Conductors, be reinstated imme
diately with full pay from the time ofl
his discharge.
They ordered that A. M. Morgan,
the discharged trainman whose casd
caused the walkout of the Brotherhood
of Railroad Trainmen, be reinstated
immediately with full pay from ten
days after the time of his discharge.
In the Paschal case the Georgia rail
road officials maintained that he had
violated the sixteen-hour law. Th»
arbitrators ruled that if he had vio
lated this law he it under in
structions of officials of the road and
could not be censured.
Verdict a Complete
Victory for Unions.
Morgan was discharged for turning
in an expense account larger than his
legitimate expense. The majority ruled
that his offense was technical; thaG
when the trainman’s attention was
called to the discrepancy he made it
good promptly. The most severe pen
alty they could conceive of was ai
ten days’ suspension. It was therefor®
ordered that he be reinstated and paid
for all the time he lost except the ten
days immediately following the ordeS
for his discharge.
The members of the board met at 9
o’clock to prenare their decision. At
that time it was said that minor differ
ences between Wickersham and Bur
gess alone prevented a decision. It was
Judge Chambers' desire to straighten
out these differences before making thd
report.
The decision today ends the last
chapter of the strike, which during Sep
tember threatened to tie up the entire
railroad system of Georgia.
Paschal to Blame,
Says Wickersham.
Mr. Wickersham maintained that
Paschal had violated the railroad bul
letin, as well as the sixteen-hour law,
when he undertook to carry his train
from Conyers to Lithonia. He de
clares:
“When Paschal left Conyers, knowing
as tie must that he could not get to
Lithonia,’put his train on a siding and
go off duty, he deliberately created a
condition where he must of necessity
violate the law, subjecting the company
for which he worked to penalty, am!
the violation is flagrant, for the reason
that at Conyei;s Conductor Paschal had
ample opjiortunity to obtain orders in
regard to what he should dot with his
; train.
He admitted that the discipline ad
ministered for the initial offense was
too severe. Mr. Wickersham says that
a suspension of 30 days would have
been proper, but adds significantly,
"When the management first under
took to deal with him." provided Pas
chal had admitted he violated his in
structions.
Considering Paschal’s • attitude, be
declares the sentence imposed was just.
He favored reinstatement if Paschal
could be induced to admit that he was
guilty of a violation of the rules an<4.
Instructions.