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500 WES HELD OS SLAVES, SIT REFUGEES rive Men Flee Tennessee Con struction Camp and Tell of Barbarous Treatment. Declaring they were forced to work at the point of guns and beaten with ghlbs when they protested, five Intel ligent white men have appealed to the Salvation Army in Atlanta for aid dur ing the past week. They had escaped from a construction camp at*the Ten nessee Power Company’s dam near Parksville, Tenn. In the last three years more than 150 men from the same place have been aided by the Salvation Army, said Ma jor Horace Dodd, who has been in charge of the local relief station for that time. All of them tell the same story, he said, atid Tfiost of them bore bruises and cuts to bear our their statements. Some men have been scar red so badly they were unable to work for weeks, while others suffered broken bones and deep cuts. Lawrence Cardenny. nineteen years old, from Philadelphia, appeared at the Salvation Army's hotel several days ago, along with a number of others who also had escaped in the dead of night while tb ( e guards around the camp were not vigilant. Cripple Forced to Do Heavy Work. •Cardenny is suffering from a mal formation of the right arm which prac tically deprives him of the use of that member, yet, he declared, when he ar rived at the dam the transportation agent forced him to take up pick and shovel and labor beside others who also had been forced into the heaviest of the work. Three weeks ago he protested, after having -worked a single day. The trans portation agent theit took a club, he said, and beat him severely. Then he took his pistol and smashed the boy’s mouth with the handle. As the boy told his story he showed old bruises on his body and pointed to scars caused by cuts which he declared were in flicted by the agent’s blows. The same day, he added, nineteen men escaped from the camp. Four teen were caught and brought back be fore the muzzle of shotguns. The agent and guards took clubs and beat them while other guards stood by with load ed guns to keep them from fighting back. Some of the men were beaten »o severely they could hardly crawl to their tents. That night seven es caped, Cardenny being one of the seven. He came to Atlanta with two of them and lodged at the Salvation headquarters, where he has been since, endeavoring to earn sufficient money to take him back to his Northern home. 500 Held Virtual Slaves, He Says. The boy, who appears to be unusually intelligent, said he was a plumber’s helper and was employed in that capac ity by the New York employment head quarters of the Tennessee Power Com pany. He was .old there he would be given light work which he, even with his maimed arm, could accomplish, and that his wages would be good. It took six days to make the trip from New York to Parksville, he said, and 33 men were with him. The day after their arrival, though most of the men had entered into contracts to do skilled labor, the agent forced them at the point of pistols to take up pick and shovel. * There are five camps on the work now being done by the company, and something like 100 men are employed in each camo. Each night, Cardenny declared, many men brave the danger of the guards’ guns and escape from their peonage. Most of them arc Northerners, and on this and their lack of knowledge of the country the men in charge of the power work expect to be able to hold them. SCRAPS OF CLOTHING LEAD SEARCHERS TO BODY OF LITTLE GIRL PITTSBURG, Nov. 29. —Detectives and many angry citizens today re sumed the search for the murderer of Mary Shadle, age twelve, whose body was found In a reservoir in East Pitts burg after having been missing since Wednesday, when she was sent to a tracery to purchase dainties for the Thanksgiving dinner. Scraps of the girl’s clothing and small bundles which she had bought led to the discovery of the body. Detectives believe she may have been aired to t <• vicinity of the reservoil by & man in an automobile, as it is considerable dis lance from her home. WARDEN PLANS TO'SAVE LAND-STRANDED FISH SPRINGFIELdTTIL? Nov. 29- -Fish Warden W. E. Orr. of Kane county, • making a trip over his district to inter- Xt Sortsmen in a project to rescue fish That become land-locked tn P ■ streams along the Rock and rivers and other streams. fhese fish make their way up into the . streams during the high " o rc spawning season, and are u . . turn. It is said that millions perisn a •itialiy In Illinois in this manner AGED MAN SAVED IN battle with a deer BLOOMINGTON, ILL.. * Kitterman battled urn an m- ])lnl , |( raged buck dee! whl. h [<ltter . his deer parkjnj oJ(J probab iy man, who • killed but for the arrival stould have been k lied bu of his son, who kill' d th with a shotgun. Esther Cleveland, White House Baby, in Society her debut brilliant WOW X„£**-*-- - ~ v ‘"’ ~ - ■ 1 -- - ■■ ■ ■ »r,-. X.. \ A • ZfT L 'tw'y- W // i t Wt- r ■ *•* ' L IL \ / / |ifh\ \ //. Mr k * 41 ill r | aPWrn’ > ill) hi v ‘wM vll llllPl II / \ \ a' Vs u 111 mm 7 / \ \ .7 w rWßfflfcA WffiWV ii / / \ \ H<' r I /f Z-' * Y z < > . t 181 VillißllSlffjftf 1/ / \\i » W '■■■ \ \WMI lii’F. gf l ■' z EJpL Mllllllllllllllil / / \\Vffl 11.I 1 . >\ 'I //ctsi TO \'u / Pi/ • x f 7 'l// it f l / ■ : ■ 'a ! / I J jkb j / I i ' /1 > / / xß* w I 7 J / n*- jwai / k . Awl 1 iKK/ Daughter of Former President Has “Coming Out” at Princeton. PRINCETON. N. J., Nov. 29. — Friends of the family of Mrs. Grover Cleveland are congratulating her, not only on her engagement to Professor Preston, which was recently announced, but on the brilliancy of the debut of her daughter, Miss Esther Cleveland, which occurred Monday night in Princeton. Miss Cleveland was a baby during the last administration of her father and spent her early childhood in the white house. She Was recently report ed engaged to marry Randolph D. West, son of Dean Andrew Xt est, of Princeton university. The engagement, however, was not formally announced arid has not been confirmed. Her debut indicated that Miss Cleveland would have a notable aoeial success. PETITION 2 MILES LONG ASKS FOR LIBERTY BELL SAN FRANCISCO, Nov. 29.—A peti tion two miles long has been sent to Philadelphia asking the authorities hP “ to send the Liberty Bell to the Panama-Pacific exposition here In 1915. ke petition was signed by more than achool children of California. The expense of the bell’s transporta tion will be paid by the Southern Pa cific railroad. - _____ TRIES TO KILL HERSELF WHEN HUBBY IS ARRESTED ST LOVIS. Nov- 29.-Mrs. Nellie Green rirank a mixture of camphor and chloro ‘ at her home. 3419 lAclede avenue. • tier reading in a newspaper that her husband. Carles Green, had been ar reated in - raid on a crap game. Che ’fated by a physlcaii in the 7prop.' uncatl in no dan K> I THE ATLANTA GEORGIAN AND NEWS.FRTDAY, NOVEMBER 29. 1912 DEMOCRATS ACCUSE TAFT OF POLITICS IN POSTOFFICE ORDER WASHINGTON. Nov. 29.—That an effort will be made to suspend President Taft’s executive order of October 15 whereby were placed under the civil service be : came known today, when Representative Cordeli Hull, of Tennessee, said the Dem ocrats in congress who are already in ’ Washington have conferred informally on the subject, and that there was an over i whelming sentiment in favor of the order being revoked. . Representative Hull declared that . President-elect Wilson, under the civil , service law. would have the power to re voke President Taft's order. "Coming at the time and under the ■ circumstances that it did,” said Mr. Hull, ! "this order of the president is patently steeped in the deepest political dye and t constitutes within itself a gross vlola , tion of the letter, the spirit and the whole purpose of tlie civil service law, ' because it places this immense horde of Republicans—to the exclusion of Demo crats—permanently In office Without ex amination or test as to merit or effi ciency. "If carried out, this order would make , honest civil service a farce and prove the I greatest setback to its administration, .'extension and progress in a generation. ,11 have heard of no demand for this re . cent roder of President Taft, save from the 36,000 Republican postmasters in question.” ' MAN DIES SWALLOWING TEETH EATING TURKEY SHELDON. IOWA, Nov. 29.—Adolph Scheide is dead today, following his Thanksgiving dinner, when he swallowed a portion of his false teeth and stran gled to death. THREE IN JUSTICE RACE. FITZGERALD. GA., Nov. 29.—For justice of the peace of the Fitzgerald district there are three announced can • didates, Charles B. Teal, a young law yet ; T. J. Luk" and W. R. i’uulk. Judge A. A. Harvey, who has held the posi tion several years. is leaving tor Florida, which lie intends making hie home. BELIEVES POISON IN EARTH OF ATHLETIC FIELD KILLED SON DENVER, COLO., Nov. 29.—Believ ing that chemical ingredients in the earth of the athletic field of the State School of Mines at Golden was partly responsible for his son’s death, Pro fessor George W. Schneider, prepared today to test the earth. If traces of arsenic are found in suf ficient quantities to be responsible for the many mysterious wounds of stu dents who have been hurt, a new ath letic field will be found. Miss Esther Cleve land, daughter of the late president, Grover Cleveland. Up and Dotvn Peachtree Unerring Nose of Caddie Saves Golfer. Almost a tragedy resulted from the snow on the East Lake golf course yes terday afternoon, and for a time the clubmen who had taken refuge in the Scotch room were busy organizing relief parties. Hugh Adams, one of the most intrepid golfers of the club, had been lost In the snowstorm far out on tne links, and for hours his safety was in doubt. Only the indomitable courage and unerring nose of his two-foot cad die brought him safely home to the clubhouse. Mr. Adams had won his way, stroke by stroke, into the farthest north of the links. The day was cold and chill, one of those gray days which rriake the nineteenth hole a goal worth fighting for. Then a skurry of wind came up, the white flakes began to fall, and Adams and his faithful guide were wrapped in an impenetrable veil of white For hours they wandered, struggling on through the drifts which soon grew ankle deep and penetrated even the heavy green stockings of the explorer The clubhouse had vanished from view. Mr. Adams had forgotten his compass and was drifting before the wind. Soon he came on tracks in the snow and fol lowed these. After an hour’s struggle onward he came across more tracks. Horros! He had been following his own trail. He was going around in the circle which means death. Then spake the faithful caddie boy; said he: "If you’ll follow me, boss, 1 kin take you in.” Mr. Adams surrendered and fallowed the boy. When they readied the club house and showers of thanks ami small change had been bestowed on the cad die, the anxious watchers asked: “How did you find your way iiome, boy ?” "Who? Me?” returned th<- guide. “Shucks' 1 kin smell that yeller licker a mile off, speshully when it’s hot.” STRUGGLES ON ICY ROOF WITH DARING BURGLAR MACON, GA., Nov. 29.—A struggle with a burglar on a slippery, snow covered porch roof was the experience of T. J. Boyington, of Arkington street, last night. Entering his room about 9 o’clock. Mr. Boyington discovered a w ell dressed young man searching the bu reau drawers. The stranger, upon discovery, opened a window and jumped on the roof, but was closely pursued. For hior<- than five minutes th" two men fought, until Mr. Boyington slipped and almost fell t the ground. While he was regaining his feet, the burglar climbed down a trie that gi -w beside the hqust and <-s- BROTHERLY LOVE SENATOR IS DEM James Gordon, of Mississippi, Who Won Fame in Single Speech. Expires. OKOLONA, MISS., Nov. 29.-—Ex- United States Senator James Gordon, ' “the Gentleman from Mississippi,” died I here yesterday. Senator Gordon gained national fame during a brief term in the senate chielly through a "brotherly love” speech. He was in straitened circumstances and was recently appointed game war den for his county. James Gordon sat in the senate of the United States from tlie beginning of the short term of the 61st. congress, in December, 1909. until February 24, 1910, when his successor, Leßoy Percy, took the oath for the unexpired term of Senator McLaurin, to which Gordon had been appointed, during legislative recess, by the governor of Mississippi Senator Gordon achieved instafat popu larity In the senate by reason of his kindly disposition, and his evident de sire to heal all sectional wounds that might have been left by the war. He was a Confederate veteran, thoroughly reconstructed. His first and last speech in the sen ate was delivered after he had ceased, as a matter of fact, to be a member of that body, and it won nation-wide ap plause for Its note of brotherly love and appeal for peace between the North and tile South. Senator Percy was elected to the sen ate on February 22. and instantly, un der the law, Gordon ceased to be a member. His great speech, however, was delivered on February 24. Senator Depew, of New York, replied to it. and pronounced it one of the most wonder ful speeches he ever had heard. 2 PHYSICIANS HELD IN 2 GANGS ACCUSED OF $250,000 ROBBERIES CHICAGO, Nov. 29.—Seven men held at the three Chicago police stations to day were declared by the police to have been responsible for robberies totalling $250,000. Property worth $5,000 and 60 pawn tickets have been recovered. All of the men under arrest posed as me chanics and physicians. The two phy sicians resided in a pretentious brown stone residence at 3419 South Park avenue. Two truckloads of valuables were recovered by the police in a barn near the residence, In addition to the $5,000 worth of property recovered from the "lead pipe gang” suspects. STUDENTS ORDERED TO SHAVE OR QUIT SCHOOL STERLING, ILL., Nov. 29.-Gould town ship, Bureau county, high school faculty refuses to stand for stubbly beards on the stalwart members of the football team and other students as a result of an elec tion bet. Twenty-one of the seniors have ceased shaving since election and during the last week have presented an ap pearance that teachers and members of the faculty declare disgraceful to the school. As a result an order has been Issued by the faculty sending all of the youths home with positive injunctions either to shave or quit school. The parents are backing the faculty. SLAYER OF GIRL HAS ONE WEEK OF LIFE LEFT HIM AUGUSTA, GA., Nov. 29—Only sev en more days remain before J. Edward Brazell, self-confessed slayer of Carrie Belle Duncan, a girl from the factory district, is to die. In the county jail Brazell is being guarded closely to pre vent his doing injury to himself, but it is not believed to be necessary, for he has shown no disposition to end his own life. He has embraced the Roman Catholic faith and states that lie is ready for the end. WIFE PROSECUTES HER HUSBAND FOR THEFT ST. LOUIS, Nov. 29. “If it is not the law of the land that a husband should be prosecuted and convicted for the theft of properly belonging to his wife, then it ought to be,” remarked Judge Kinsey, in criminal court, in answer to the ar guments of Attorney .John A. Gernez, who sought to prevent the prosecution of Charles Guerst for the alleged theft of jewels said to be worth SIO,OOO from his former wife, Mrs. Dora McClanahan, of Fort Worth, Tex. SKIN GRAFTING FAILS TO SAVE LIFE. OF WOMAN CHICAGO. Nov. 29.—Efforts to save the life of Airs. <’hiistiua Lutzen, who was burned on the'neck and arms last May. by grafting skin on the wounds, proved vain and the victim died at the Michael Reese hospital. Mrs. Lutzen was burned when she fell on the top of a cook stove in her home. WHOLE TOWN IS RAZED BY FIRE ON PRAIRIE PINK RIDGE INDIAN AGENCY. S. D., Nov. 29 - A prairie fire which devastated a section 100 miles long and ten miles wide swept over the Sioux reservation. The town of White Owl is reported de stroyed and dozens of homesteaders were burned out. A fourteen-year-old Indian boy was surrounded by flames. J. B. Brown, of Valentine. Nebr., wrapped a wet blanket around his body and drove his automobile through a sheet of fire and rescued tlie boy. ••SLAVE” CASE WITH CH ATTANi M )GA, TENN., Nov 29. -Th® white slave case of Frank Bourbon and Harvey West, charged with carrying Ma bel Williams from Dayton, Tenn., to Dal -»i’. Ga . is now with the jury in Federal court here. Tin* case ••rvateil considerable i interest in north Gtorgiu at the time of SEARCHING SIDELIGHTS ON GEORGIA POLITICS Since there is no law against sug gesting cabinet material to Mr. Wood row Wilson, president-elect of these SB L >-J| O’ JAMM » .NEvur United States, and since everybody is doing it now, one further suggestion from Georgia will not be amiss, even if it hits no where in particu lar. A whole lot of Georgia people believe that the president" could go much farther and do very nruch worse than tender a portfolio to for mer Congressman William M. How ard, of the Eighth district, succeeded two years ago in congress by Samuel J. Tribble. Mr. Howard would make a most ex cellent secretary of the interior, or would fit equally as well into the at torney generalship. Although extremely modest and in clined, in away, to hide his light under a bushel —certainly, he never has sought notoriety—Mr. Howard is known in Washington as one of the very ablest men that ever sat in con gress from the South. Indeed, it is a fact that John Sharp Williams, now a senator from Mississippi, frequently said, when leader of the Democratic minority in the house, that there were "more brains in ’Bill’ Howard's head” than there were in anybody else's head on the Democratic side. The Missis sippian was an open, frank and enthu siastic admirer of Mr. Howard’s un questioned statesmanship. If Howard, of Georgia, should be made secretary of the interior, ha would make a secretary pretty much after the fashion of Hoke Smith. And there is not a public official in Wash ington today who, was there when Hoke Smith was secretary of the in terior, who will not tell you that the present junior senator from Georgia was one of the most thorough and effi cient secretaries the interior depart ment ever had. If Mr. Wilson is looking for a busi nesslike, painstaking, perfectly compe tent and not over-sensational secretary of the interior, he can find him in Wil liam M. Howard, of Georgia. No mis take about that. He is full size for the job. James D. Price, commissioner of ag riculture-elect, who recently petitioned unsuccessfully the governor to commis sion him to the “unexpired term of Thomas G. Hudson,” now held by J. J. Conner under executive appointment, for which office he received a number of votes in the popular state election, de clares that he will take no further steps to secure the office, in the face of the governor’s refusal to commission him. Mr. Prirce says: “There has been a good deal said as to what course I would pursue in case the governor refused to commission me at present, and I have received num bers of letters from all over the state and many inquiris in person as to what course I would pursue in case he did refuse. "For the benefit of the public, as well AGED WOMAN BURNS TO DEATH WHEN HER CLOTHES CATCH FIRE DUBLIN, GA., Nov. 29. —The body of Mrs. Hattie Summers, aged 84 years, was buried today in Laurens Hill cem etery, near Dudley, following her death yesterday from burns received when her clothing caught fire from an open grate. At the time she was burned Mrs. Summers rushed into the room of her daughter, Mrs. W. F. Harvard, a solid sheet of flame. The one-armed hus band of Mrs. Harvard was unable to extinguish the fire. Screams brought assistance from neighbors, who rolled Mrs. Summers in a rug and smothered the blaze. All of her hair was burned from her head, her face was burned to a crisp and ner arms and shoulders roasted. Her Intense suffering was partly relieved by unconsciousness, which lasted until her death. Mrs. Summers was a native of the state of Maine. She moved to Dublin in 1840 and taught school many years. She is survived by one daughter, Mrs. W. F. Harvard, and several grandchil dren. JEWISH ALLIANCE TO HEAR NOTED SPEAKER Dr. Boris T>. Bogan, tlie superintendent of the United Jewish Charities, of Cin cinnati, and also a member of the socio* logical board of that city, will be in Atlanta Sunday and will be entertained here by the Jewish Educational Alliance. Dr. Bogan will deliver an address in Al liance hall, 90 Capitol avenue, Sundaj' night. Dr. Bogan was here last year as a guest of tlie Jewish community and made a fa vorable Impression. He aided the i>eople in their wsirk of federating the Jewish charities of the city. INFORMED HE IS A BARBER, CUTS HYPNOTIST’S BEARD NEW YORK, Nov. 29.—Walter P. Hinds, hypnotist of Oxbow, Me., made M. E. Small think he was a barber. Small grabbed a small pair of scissors and sheared off the hypnotist’s beard. STOVE FACTORY FOR DALTON. DALTON, GA., Nov. 29.—The special committee from the Chamber of Com merce lias succeeded in raising stock to start a stove manufactorv here. The plant will begin operation January 1 next, being managed by J. F. James, who has moved here from Chattanoo ga. The plant will huve a working cap- ty JAMES B . NEVIN. as many inquiring friends, I take this mode of saying that as the governor seems to be positive in the position that he has taken, I do not care to car ry the matter any further or to go into court with it, but shall accept the gov ernor’s decision as being final and will wait patiently until the meeting of the legislature, when I will then be com missioned and take charge of the of fice.” Colonel Clayton Robson, of Milledge ville and other points, has returned from Gay Manhattan, where for a month he has been seeing the gights. Colonel Robson, who knows more people in Georgia than anybody, espe cially those of a political turn of mind, went to New York on November 1 for the express purpose of being in "the biggest town in the country’” when the Wilson and Marshall triumph was re corded, as he confidently expected it to be. The victory was so overwhelming and so conclusive that it required exactly 23 days after election for Colonel Rob son to finish his celebrating. The Mil ledgevillelte says everybody in New York is glad the Democrats won out, and an unprecedented rush for the pie counter is anticipated in all quarters. The Floyd county grand jury, which adjourned Thursday, has requested the county’s representatives in the next legislature to introduce a bill forbidding absolutely the sale of pistols in Floyd county. f a It was pointed out by the grand jury that crime is on the Increase In the county, that the prohibition law is vio lated constantly and flagrantly and that many citizens "tote" pistols with, im punity and in no fear of the law or the authorities. i The grand jury says it found many instances of violation of the prohibition law that should have been returned sos prosecution, but that it frequently was utterly impossible to bring a true bill legally, because of the reluctance of many witnesses to testify to facts ths grand jury felt morally sure existed. The grand jury's returns have set many Floyd county people to thinking, for the superior court of Floyd has been very vigorous in its prosecutions of prohibition law violators of late. In all probability, another law wilt be introduced in the next legislature along the line of the late Tippins bill —but not by Mr. Tippins, as he Isn’t coming back —and in all further prob ability, it will not pass. Indeed, It is doubtful whether it wilt be possible to effect any additional pro hibition legislation in Georgia for some time to come, as the average legislator who will discuss the matter at all is frankly opposed to opening the ques tion again for any purpose whatever. There Is one member of the forth coming house, however, who already has announced his Intention of offering a bill modeled after the Tippins measure, and he will make a vigorous fight to pass it. A new residence suburb has been opened in the pretty little city of Hart well, in Hart county, and the widest, stralghtest, and. most important street in it has been named "Slaton avenue,” In honor of Georgia’s governor-elect. And, as Bismark Moore would say, that beats having a five-cent cigar named after you, anyway! CHINESE IN AMERICA ASKED TO BE READY FOR RUSSIAN WAR SAN FRANCISCO, Nov. 29.—That the Chinese republic, which Is barely a year old. Is on the point of declaring war on Russia because of the occupa tion of Mongolia by Russian troops, la the information conveyed to the Chi nese consul here in telegrams from Pe kin and to Chinese newspapers. Loyal Chinese in the United States are asked to contribute $lO each to a great international war fund which is being gathered and Chinese fit for mili tary service are required to hold them selves in readiness to return home and fight. Leaders of the Chinese six companies in this city will meet today to make "war plans." MORE THAN 5,000 SEE FAIR AT COLUMBUS IN ONE DAY COLUMBUS, GA„ Nov. 29.—The rec- . ord for a large attendance was hung up yesterday by the Georgia-Alabama Fair association, when more than 5,000 per sons entered the gates during the day and night. The most extensive program of the fair had been arranged for Thanksgiv ing day, which consisted of horse races, motorcycle races, a football game be tween the Georgia Military academy and the Columbus Industrial High , .school, being closed last night with the presentation of the destruction of the Titanic by the Pain Fireworks Com pany. SCARED BY SMOKE JOKE, HUNTER KILLS HIMSELF CHICAGO, Nov. 29.—For a joke, Frank Hajack shouted to his chum, Thomas Delie. to look out for a snake, while the two were hunting. Delie jumped, stumbled, caught the trigger of his gun, and shot himself to death. TIEDEMAN CHANGES MIND AGAIN. SAVANNAH. GA., Nov. 29. —Mayor George W. Tledeman’s final determina tion not to be a candidate for re-elec- I tion has been received by J. A. G. Car- j son. The message says: "Regret 1 can not change my deci sion, which is final, and I request that my first telegram of Sunday, which stated my isjsttion, shall be made pub- . . lie.” e 5