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THE WEATHER
Forecast for Atlanta and Georgia;
Rain or snow and colder today; fair
tomorrow.
VOL. XI. XO. 100.
Big Line of Suffering and Needy Cared For by City Warden as Storm Causes Distress in Poorer Quarters
ATLANTA ENJOYS FIRST WHITE THANKSGIVING AND EARLIEST SNOW
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TECH AND CLEMSON
READY FOB BATTLE
Turkey Day Foes in Good Condition for
Gruelling Struggle—Snow-Covered
Gridiron Has No Terrors for Pigskin
Chasers —Teams Evenly Matched.
Facing the first struggle in Atlanta's football history on a field
well covered with snow, the Tech and Clemson teams are awaiting to
day the sound of the whistle that will send them tumbling about like
animated snow men in the final game of the Atlanta football season.
With long faces the gridiron heroes turned out from under the
blankets this morning. It was a white world that greeted their view
and they knew all too well that they had a new and none too pleasant
experience ahead of them—an afternoon of plowing through snow
and over frozen ground, of tumbling about in mud and slush.
Ponce DeLeon park is as white as a marble statue today, and quite
as cold. The stands, thanks to a good covering and a vigorous attack
by the shovel-and-broom brigade, are as free from snow as on a June
day But the field is ankle deep in the strange stuff and it is impossi
ble that the broom artists will be able to clear it off before game time.
There will be a game, however.
There isn’t a question on earth
about that.. They ALTV A\ S play
football, no matter what the
weather. In the North and East
is is not unusual to play in a toot
of snow and with the temperature
vastly nearer to zero.than.it will
ever be in Atlanta this winter.
The players don't really mind. I,f
course, the first dash of chilly snow up
one’s sleeve is trying and to be rollei.
about in the snow. with the chilly mess
percolating down ones
leaves a lot to be desired. But hen
football players are used to bu t fet ’
to ley shower baths, to playing through
mud and sleet, through thick and thin.
And nothing matters to them.
Just what the spectators are going to
think about It will be demonstrated
shortly. Atlantans are not u3e <’
taking their football along with a com
bination snow fight and they
little training in the noble art of keep
ing warm under difficulties.
However, along in the middle of the
morning there began a great gathering
"f sweater, and extra wraps, of rub
bers and water-proof shoes, of mufflers
mid gloves of blankets an’ robes. And
when the first thin stream of humanity
begun to trickle larkward they we.e
■ undid m th. 'd-br-ws and rreparei
in , kind nf" i,
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; Here Is the Line-Up •
: Os Techand Clemson :
• TECH. CLEMSON. •
• Hutton, le. .. Lewis, !e. •
• Luehrman, It Gandy, It. •
• Montague, IgSchilleter, ig. •
• Loeb, Carson, c. •
• Means, rgTurbeville, rg. •
• Colley, rtßritt, rt. •
• Moore, re Caughman, re. •
• McDonald, Coles, q. •
• Cook, IhJames, Ih. •
• Fielder, rh Kangeter, rh. •
• Thomason, f. Webb, f. •
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teams this morning that the men were
fit and ready for the final fight.
For the first time in weeks and weeks
' the Tech team will face an eleven of
equal weight. Always before they have
been asked to perform against eleven
football artists who outweighed them
from five to twenty pounds to the man.
The game today should be the even
: est played at Ponce DeLeon this sea
son Both teams play the same sort <>f
football—fast and flossy.” They know
i all the tricks of the game, all the fancy
■ play, all the "inside stuff." add they are
> primed for this, tl" last encounter, of
I the year
The gam" ,vil. called tnu. alter-
II noun at -:30.
ATLANTA, GA., THURSDAY, NOVEMBER 28. 1912.
Downy Blanket kalis
Unexpected 1 y Ov e r
City. Finding Many
Unprepared- Novelty
Big Event tor Old
and Young.
Atlanta's first white Thanksgiving in
the memory of man brought shouts
from the small boy and cries of "00-o
beautiful!” from his grown-up sister,
The snow-clad trees and the radiance
of the sunshine sparkling on the icy
foliage was a scene to delight the soul
of a painter. But the earliest snow on
record in Atlanta brought with it
something more than fun and beauty.
There was cold in the cabins of the
poor, the searching, biting’ cold which
comes only with a snow storm. There
was lack of food in many of these
homes of the humble. There were
hundreds of families who saw only the
bread of charity for their Thanksgiving
dinner, while all the world seemed
feasting on turkey and oyster dressing.
The white feast day was a black fast
day for many an Atlanta child.
Early in the day the line began to
form at the office of City Warden
Tifomas Evans. Most of the oth< rs of
the city hall force had taken a holiday,
but when the first flukes fell last night
the warden knew there would be no
holiday for him. He was at his desk
today before most of Atlanta had
sipped’ its breakfast coffee, but the
poor were < ven earlier than he.
Warden Busy
Securing Supplies.
There were stqries of cold v. hum had
kept the children crying all night, of
snow drifting in through broken win
dows vainly stuffed with paper and
rags; of husbands and sons thrown
out of work by the snow which had
stepped all outdoor employment. Some
of the applicants were “regulars,” of
course, cunning mendicants who make
every snow and every holiday an ex
cuse for begging. But the warden
knows his city and its people, and goes
to the heart of things without the need
of a card index system. Orders for
coal >nd wood, for bread and meat,
were issued to the applicants, ready to
l be presented at the nearest stores and
charged to the city's account.
“There is always extra suffering aft
er a snow storm,” said the warden.
“Snow brings an increase of hardship
on the poor. It is real, too, not im
aginary. It affects white and black
alike. Atlanta has about GO per cent
white and 40 per cent negro, and the
applicants for city aid are in about the
same proportion.”
At the. Associated Charities the de
mands for aid show no apparent in
crease early in the day. The snow
brought demands for immediate re
lief, and the sufferers evidently pre
ferred the coal and food from the war
den's office to the prospect of more
lasting aid from the association. Sec
retary Logan said the snow would be
too temporary to cause much suffer
ing. He did not anticipate an in
creased demand of more than ten per
cent.
The trolley cars were running early
today as usual, for the snow had not
turned into iee on the wires and the
rails had not been clogged. There was
trouble last night ".mile the snow fell
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SLOT
IWAGHINES
Ordinance To Be Passed at
Next Meeting to Prohibit
These Gambling Devices.
LEGISLATIVE COMMITTEE '
TO TAKE IT UP TOMORROW
Councilman Charles \V. Smith, chair
man of the council committee on leg
islation. said today chat an ordinance
would be passed nt the next meeting
of council absolutely prohibiting the
use of slot gambling machines in sa
loons and locker clul.e.
“I have called a meeting of ihe com
mittee on legislation for tomorrow aft
ernoon at 2 o'clock,” he said. “At that
meeting an ordinance wiping out this
infamous System undoubtedly will be
adopted, From the expressions of the
other members of the committee, Ai
dermen .lames E. Warren and John S.
Candler. Councilmen t’laude C. Mason
and Clarence Haverty. I fe.-J sure that
they think as I do.
"We would have considered this mat
ter at the meeting of the committee
Tuesday, but no quorum was present.
Aiderman Candler, as acting mayor, is
so busy that he may not be able to at
tend the meeting tomorrow. Council
man Haverty is out of the city and is
not expected back by that time. But
the other three of us are sufficient to
formally recommend an ordinance to
council, and I think council will adopt
the ordinance forthwith.”
Hands Tied, Beavers Says.
Police Chief Beavers said the slot
machines are the mo.-t cunning gam
bling device ever used in Atlanta. He
said he had not proceeded against them
because W. D. Ellis, Jr., assistant city
attorney, had signed a written agree
ment with John W. Moore, attorney for
the Atlanta Gum Company, which owns
a large number of the machines, that
the city would not prosecute any of the
owners of the machines for gambling
until the higher courts decided whether
the operation of such machines was a
game of chance.
With proper legal instructions, Chief
Beavers said he would fit once stop all
use of the machines.
The opinion of W. G. Humphrey,
chairman of the police committee of
council, is that the machines should be
barred from saloons and locker clubs,
whether they are gambling devices or
not. Regardless of the phase of the
law with which Attorney Ellis is deal
ing, members of council have decided to
stop this gambling through their au
thority to regulat- the conduct of near,
beer tloons and locker club*.
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MOWN
Prohibition Leader Says Gov
ernor Is Responsible For
Violations in Savannah.
DECLARES SOLICITORS
CAN ENFORCE LAWS
ROME, GA., Nov. 28. —Aroused by the
publication of shameless violations of
the state prohibition laws in Georgia,
I as set forth in The Atlanta Georgian of
Monday last. Seaborn Wright, the great
“dry” leader of Floyd county, the man
who put the state-wide law <>n the stat
■ ut:- books, expressed himself vigorously
today as to the cause of the Savannah
situation, ami outlining at least one
method of procedure whereby it may be
abated.
Mr. Wright say.a that the John Sulli
van, Jr.. Company, of Savannah, which
concern has bcm ci, ■ ul:<rizlng Georgia,
through tin United States mail, solic
iting mail owb rs n whisky to be ship
ped out of Savannah broadcast through
out the state, is but doing the same
illegal thing that houses in Augusta
and other cities ■ doing, all in fla
grant and unpardonable violation of the
■ ! law of the state.
1 The Floyd county prohibition leader
I severely scores Governor Brown tor his
j passive attitude in the matter of law
' enforcement, so fur as prohibition law
is concerned, and contrasts it with his
' activity in enforcing it against railroad
' strikers and negro criminals
Declares Solicitors
Have Weapon.
Mr. Wright says the solicitors and
judges have a weapon with which they
may reach the evil .‘■ought to be cor
rected. and that without waiting for a
■ jury verdict, too often not coming; and
he cites his own city of Rome as an
■ example of how the law surely mas - be
enforced
Mr. Wright said:
. “The ‘mail order' houses of Savan
nah are but another forward step by
• the whisky trust and brewery combine
. in the open, shameless nullification of
the law of a sovereign state.
' "The cause of this forward step by
the whisky and beer Interests Iles in
the fact that the people have elected a
, governor who says he can not enforce
law in Georgia; have elected judges and
‘ solicitor generals who will not enforce
• law against an arrogant, brutal power
In our cities, because their fear of los-
'■ ing office is stronger than the sanctity
of the oath they have taken to uphold
’ the laws of their state.
' “It is folly to mince words, to deal
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LOCKE DINNER OF
1 A. C. ROAD RACE
Wesley Memorial Runner Clips
Nearly Minute From 1911
Time—Manning Second.
'’lipping last year's time nearly a
minute, W. S. Locke, better known as
"Sally” Locke, the Wesley Memorial
Athletic club runner, easily won the
Atlanta Athletic club road race over the
Piedmont - Ponce DeLeon - Peachtree
course today in 16 minutes 31 4-5 sec
onds. The race was won last year by
Gilbert Cheves, of Marlst colle.ge, in 17
minutes and 30 seconds.
George Manning, a stripling from
Marlst college, running third for the
first mile, crept Into second place dur
ing the last half and held his position
to the finish. Judge Fowler, of Marlst,
finished third. The other seven runners
of the first ten finished in the following
order:
J. S. Cheves. Marist, fourth; Clem
Callahan, Marist, fifth; W. R. Lancas
ter, Wesley, sixth; Robert Hubert, Mar
ist. seventh; William Wrigley, Marlst,
eighth; Robert Wallace, Marlst, ninth,
and Henry Tull. Marist, tenth.
Marist college, finishing eight run
ners in the first ten, won the team
prize offered by the club a loving cup.
The first three runners received the
medals offered by the club.
Perhaps the feature of the race win
the disappointing showing of Gilbert
Cheves, of Marist college, who had been
picked as an easy winner on the show
ing ho made In the race last year.
< 'heves quit the race In Peachtree
street, complaining of a bad ankle. He
held fourth place during the first mile
and a half with Locke. Fowler and
Manning running with a good lead over
him.
When the runners left the mark in
front of the Athletic club at 10:30
o’clock, Locke, running easily, flashed
Into the lead and never was headed.
Through Auburn avenue to Piedmont
he set a fast pace, with Judge Fowler
clinging to his heeds and Manning trail
ing ten yards in the rear.
In this order the leaders rounded
into Ponce DeLeon avenue near the
Georgian Terrace hotel. Here Locke
incrased his pace and widened the gap
between him and his nearest competi
tor. Fowler and Manning passed the
Aragon hotel neck and neck, the latter
nosing out his rival at the finish.
Locke finished first, smiling, with a
good 50-yard lead. He never really ex-
HOMLI
EDITION
2 CENTS EVERYWHERE mo y re no
CARLISLE BEATS
BROW TO 0
Thorpe, World’s Greatest Ath
lete, Repeatedly Stars in
Brilliant Plays. ,
PROVIDENCE, R. 1., Nov. B«.—Car
lisle defeated Brown by a score of 32 to
0 here today.
The first period ended with neither
team scoring. Thorpe attempted a
placement kick from Brown's 28-yard
line, but failed. The Indians were on
Brown’s 8-yard line when they fum
bled and Brown recovered the ball and
saved a sure touchdown. The Indians
outplayed the locals in this period.
At the beginning of the second period
Brown had the ball on their own 35-
yard line. After an exchange of punts
the Indians advanced the ball over for
a touchdown. Thorpe carrying the ball
Carlisle then kicked to Brown. Brown
was unable to punt. Thorpe caught the
ball and ran 50 yards through a broken
field to Brown’s 10-yard line. A for
ward pass, Goesbeck to Guyon, gave
the Indians their score. Thorpe failed
In his two tries for goals. The period
ended with Carlisle leading 12 to 0. the
locals being badly outplayed.
After the teams had a fifteen minutes
rest, play was resumed. Brown kicked
off over the Indians’ goal line and the
ball was given to Carlisle on the 20-
yard line. On the next play Thorpe
made a sensational run for 55 yards-
He then carried the ball over forth
third touchdown. Thorpe also klcke
the goal. In the third period Carlisle
led all the way, the score tfeinsr 18 to 0.
and with the Indians running away
from Brown.
Both teams seemed slowed up when
the fourth period began, due to the
snow-covered field. The Indians sud
denly spurted, however, and scored two
touchdowns on two cleverly executed
forward passes and Thorpe’s sensa
tional end running. Carlisle was suc
cessful in orie of two tries for goal.
The game ended with the final score;
Carlisle 32, Brown 0.
137 COUPLES WED IN
PITTSBURG THANKSGIVING
PITTSBURG. Nov. 28.—County rec
ords were broken here yesterday when
137 marriage licenses for Thanksgiving
weddings were issued.