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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 i "UTII Joyous scenes that marked Atlanta’s first white . Jr _ t 'A * Thanksgiving. The snow was welcomed by a host of LY' 7/,«\ voungsters who indulged in the rare deliirhtu of snov. I / S'"*' W " ’**>». X. iNL—- —I •• and ••<.acini'; . '/r ' X \CA /4or T)a7 / > a \ Wr ai i / \ mIR® if <:<k. RBX* >'lT 11 I. ’ flk. il \ V* x WjsJI \l p JkX \ \, V—”' ** > x < * **•"' W*' /\\ ><<X qsuSSf \* TTOW’W' iFWHiilWO'firLQWiM^MMlßwßSiy.ff^iftOmniir __ g . X& # '/ .• i / \ \ && x< B 1 x \ 3»HhrKIIEB» r wvz% //AifilMiL - / ZaMaßMi ' .' :5 ■ || "-^ 1 ~ 1 ‘ ' ' />— V - 4 j! / i 1.?” e? iSwIMMMEf ■ ffixWjieX ■• '// 4%ii., -wU 7 /W A M. n \V ‘J f f WL\ I I F wlk W' wl vy > I • ® W xl’ -M .1. : vCwAOWiAuri X iWX-A® PRRViJr Z -•• '‘ // fe^*! ***. 'w/ 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, t-o’i. *»••• ”-"uds of noth The Atlanta Georgian Read For Profit—GEORGIAN WANT ADS—Use For Results I •••••••••••••••••••••••••• a • ; 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. • >»»»«••••••••••••••••••••• 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 Continued on Page Twe. IMWLL 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*. uuaipuT i ivs Wnluil t LRiul i LiMILi 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 Continued on Pape Two. '..... y i 4’djr . I SK w.*. c... i'| wag* .. ■ ■ ’4 E •’*r- - -y Vj* y Jr 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.