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M RECORD FOR
DIVORCES IN
ATLANTA
Already 1912 Has Passed 1911
J by 17 in Number of Final De
crees in Fulton Courts.
■ will end the year of 1912 with
J nt .w divorce record. According to
B-athtics furnished by the Fulton su-
■“L court up to the present date, 498
■ . ani! second verdicts have been
■ . , ‘,,1 bv tlx three judges during 1912
ft against N granted in 1911.
■\ r c . a.: .’s figures justify the court
login "f s " divorces a term. Once
I',.', t wo months the superior judge
lY'/bii! ' to be sitting In the "mo
lion'llvislon" takes the undefended - di-
K. 0r,.,. o r,.,. cab ndar and grants approxhnate-
H]v 80 verdicts.
■ While it takes the court as long to
8.., rl) ~,t a first verdict as any other
I'l,b of divorce decree, the number of
Ib'olute divorces. second verdicts.
Iran:. <1 during 1912 was but 255, as
■against 238 for 1911.
255 Divorces in 1912.
■ <, ji r.-ality Atlanta’s divorce record
L but 255 for 1912, instead of 485, for
; nv of the number included in tli,e
B'i<> have gone through but the first
B-iage- of the divorce route and may
B llllt R , t a linal and absolute decree.
B Whilr ili< figures on the number of
. suin filed during 1912 are not
„l,finable, it can be safely asserted
_ timber will approximate the
number of first and second verdicts
igc’.nted.
Whrii i' ■ various forms of divorce
;1 ,.; , : . .o, taken into consideration—
alimony suits, pleas for the removal of
disabilities, and the like—the entire
number of divorce proceedings taken in
ami cut of the Fulton courts for 1912
.via ran well over the 500 mark.
Fulton county’s staggering figures
t. divorce can be traced to Georgia’s
g, .it! Institution known as the "unde
fended divorce.’’ It is through the "un
dffendeil divorce” system that the ma
jority of actions take their course. The
■rtoive suit that is fought is a rarity in
Fulton county.
Few Cases Defended.
Hardly a divorce defendant goes into
court, except where alimony is involved,
and so seldom does a judge refuse to
grant a wife alimony, no matter how
vigorously the husband may oppose it,
that but few take the trouble to hire
lawyers and put up a battle.
.Wording to superior court judges
ami especially Judge W. D. Ellis, who
ha.- gone nut of his way to study the
I'ultou divorce situation, the ease with
which divorce is procured is directly
■:ue c the law that allows the granting
"f A -ii. , on the uncorroborated testi
mony of the plaintiff. According to
Judge Ellis, a man may sue his wife
ilivorec when she is out of the state,
ami charge all manner of things. He
then gets a divorce through what is
Known as ’’service by publication,” and
bis wife remains in utter ignorance of
"■hole proceedings until she is no
bti-ii that the decree has been granted,
MRS. WICKERSHAM TELLS
HOW NOT TO BE A BORE
"’ASHIXGTON. Dec. 11.—'‘You’ll
■r be n social bore if you dodge dis
or.-iun of the four Dis—disease, dress,
'-‘‘■weniiants and domestics—” says the
Attorney General Wickersham.
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Yale Wants Taft For
Law Professor When
His Term Expires
Negotiations Now Under Way
With President, Head of Uni
versity Admits.
NEW HAVEN, CONN., Dec. 11.—Ne
gotiations are now going on between
President Taft and the Yale law school
that are likely to result in President
Taft becoming the Kent professor of
law after he retires from the white
house. Rumors that he had already ac
cepted the proffer received the follow
ing statement issued by President Had
ley, of Yale, today:
President Hadley denied the report
that President Taft had accepted the
Kent professorship of law at Yale. He
did not deny that there had been an in
formal conference on the subject; but
he said explicitly that the matter had
not been formally acted upon in any
way, and that he did not know whether
anything would come of it.”
UNION ORGANIZER IS
HELD AS A PERJURER
IN DYNAMITE TRIALS
INDIANAPOLIS, IND., Dec. 11—Wil
liam H. Quigley, Detroit, carpenters or
ganizer, was arrested and held to the
Federal grand jury to answer the charge
of perjury in connection with the dyna
mite conspiracy ease by Judge Albert
B. Anderson, on motion of District At
torney' Miller, today.
“We have other facts in addition to
the facts we have shown here," said
Miller, “to show that this man, Quigley,
ought to be arrested and made to an-
the charge of perjury. I believe he
is a wilful and malicious perjurer, and
I believe it is the duty of this court to
arrest him and hold him to the next
grand jury'.”
Michael J. Cunnane, of Philadelphia
indicted business agent for the iron
workers local since 1906, took the stand
In his own defense at the dynamite con
spiracy trial today. Cunnane is charg
ed with writing some letters to the in
ternational headquarters, which have
been introduced in evidence and which
are said to be incriminating. One let
ter contains a clipping of an explosion
in Philadelphia, November 28, 1910, and
says:
“That SSOO you sent down here was
spent fighting scab labor, and more,
too.”
Cunnane testified he had inclosed
clippings not of dynamitings, but of
jobs he had succeeded in unionizing.
12.000 CHILDREN IN MACON
TO MARCH CHRISTMAS EVE
MACON, GA., Dec. 11. —All plans
have been perfected for the parade ot
the public and Sunday school children
on Christmas eve night, when it is
expected that fully 12,000 will be in
line, singing carols as they march to
the city auditorium. The details were
arranged at a conference of all of the
committees this morning. As the chil
dren assemble at the various pointsand
march through the streets singing, all
of the church bells and chimes of the
city will also ring.
SUICIDES IN CALIFORNIA
752 IN JUST ONE YEAR
SACRAMENTO, CAL., Dec. 11.—Sta
tistician Leslie, of the state board of
health, hrs prepared a report on suicide
in this “tate for the last five years. Les
lie has found that men incline more to
self-destruction than women when ad
versity comes.
The suicide toll last year was 702„ an
increase of 48 over that of 1910. The
annual average is put at 705.
THE ATLANTA GEORGIAN AND NEWS.WEDNESDAY, DECEMBER 11. 1912.
GRICE, SUING FOR
DIVORCE, sirs
WIFESHOT
Bases Petition. Filed in Newnan
Court, on the “Cruel Treat
ment” Clause.
NEWNAN, GA., Dec. 11.—Eugene H.
Grace, through his attorneys, today
brought suit in the Coweta superior
court for divorce from his wife, Mrs.
Daisy Opie Grace, in which he charges
her with having shot him at their Elev
enth street home in Atlanta on
March 5.
This is a sequel to the divorce suit
filed by' Mrs. Grace several months ago
in the courts at Philadelphia, where
she has been residing since her acquit-
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Thomas Elniiairan. another of 1 l 'T . 'X s v '
the noted union men at the big I
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tai in the Fulton superior court of
shooting her husband.
Grace, in his petition, asks the court
to order Mrs. Grace’s appearance In
court at Newnan. William C. Wright
appears as counsel for Grace.
“Cruel Treatment" His Plea.
Grace bases his plea on the “cruel
treatment” clause of the divorce stat
utes, the shooting, -which he lays to his
wife, being the “cruelty.” The allega
tion declares that Grace was shot while
asleep and that the wound caused total
paralysis, which will continue until his
death.
The petition sets out that Grace and
his wife were married in New Orleans
Grace schedules his property as a
one-half interest in the Grace-Law
rence Building Company, of Atlanta,
valued at $3,000, and acreage property
in Texas, value not stated. Mrs. Grace’s
property is scheduled as a house and lot
on Spruce street, Philadelphia, valued
at $13,000. This is the old home of
Mrs. Grace that figured so conspicu
ously in the Grace case previous to her
trial.
Trial Next September.
The divorce suit is returnable at the
March, 1913, term of Coweta superior
court and will come up for trial at the
September, 1913, term.
The divorce petition was drawn by
Lamar Hill, of Atlanta, relative and
attorney of Grace. It was filed with
the court clerk by Mr. Wright.
Grace, since his return from an At
lanta infirmary, several weeks ago, has
never left the house of his mother, Mrs.
L. 8. Hill. He is able to sit in a chair
and to be rolled onto the front veranda,
but no farther. He refuses to discuss
his case, except with his attorneys and
members of his family.
ALL GERMS IN LIBRARY
BOOKS WILL BE BAKED
MONTCLAIR. N. J., Dec. 11.—Book
worms and bacteria will find no welcome
in the new building of the Montclair pub
lic library. Part of the equipment being
Installed there Is a sterilizing device by
which all germs lodged between the cov
ers of the books are to be destroyed. All
the books on the shelves will be subjected
at frequent intervals to treatment In the
oven of the machine, where a long con
tinued temperature ranging from 150 to
200 degrees will put an end to all bac
teria.
DAWSON, GA.. TELEPHONE
COMPANY GETS CHARTER
The secretary of state today isi.ued a
charter to the Co-operative Telegraph
and Telephone Company, of, Dawson
The concern « ill be capitalized at $lO..
000, and will begin Hie construction of
Its lines ut once.
Rail Unions Fight Federal Employers 9 Liability Act
CONTINUE WAR ON L. & N. ROAD
Milton H. Smith Regime Is
Blamed for Strike on the
Georgia System.
The railway unions of the Southeast
have pledged themselves to do ceaseless
battle against two things. One is the
Louisville and Nashville railroad and
the other is the proposed Federal em
ployers’ liability act, pending in con
gi ess.
This doesn’t mean that the railroad
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unions are satisfied with all other
things. They recently have gone on
record as favoring drastic amendments
to the Sherman anti-trust law. With
other unions they will not be satisfied
until what they term “unjust injunction
statutes” are repealed.
But. at present, they are busy plan-*
ning their eighteenth yearly campaign
against the Louisville and Nashville
railroad and seeing that Washington
puts complete disapproval on Senator
Sutherland’s "employers’ liability bill."
Attacks L. & N. Methods.
“I could talk to you all night about
the Louisville and Nashville railroad
and its unfairness to union labor," said
Harvey O. Teat, chairman of the board
of directors of the Brotherhood of Lo
comotive Firemen and Engineers.
“It is an old story in this section and
railroad employees of the Southeast al
ways will be in a fighting attitude while
the present methods obtain and the
present management remains.
“We called the L. & N. a soulless cor
poration in the resolution we adopted
yesterday condemning its policies. As
a matter of fact, it reminds me of the
Russian government in its matters of
administration. Do you know that half
the employees of that railroad are de
tectives? It is a system of spies, whose
employees are watched continually.
“There isn't a doubt in my mind but
the Milton A. Smith regime caused the
Georgia railroad strike. All unionists,
well Informed on the L. & N. and its
methods, know that the Georgia offi
cials took their cue directly from Smith
when Paschal was discharged.
Use Boycott as Weapon.
"This action merely was a part of the
L. & N. policy to smash a labor union
wherever it is found. As lessee of the
Georgia with the Atlantic (’oast Line, It
is only natural for the L. & N. officials
to try and break the unions on the
Georgia system.
“Our methods of fighting the Louis
ville and Nashville will be much as
usual. We will use the only weapon [
available, the boycott. We are having
marked success with it now.
"It would be surprising to you to
know the number of reliable business
firms, not overly sympathetic with the i
cause of union labor, which have ceased
to ship over the Ixiuisvllle and Nash
ville and its allied lines. Our fight is
an uphill proposition, of course, but It
Is beginning to tell, and the Louisville
and Nashville Is losing lots of real busi
ness through its unfair attitude toward
union labor.”
Upon the proposed Federal employ
i ers' liability act. Mr. Teat was no lesr
I emphatic. He said that he was sur-
A. B. Lowe, of St. Louis, president of the International
Brotherhood of Maintenance-of-Way Employees.
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James O’Connell, prominent union official.
SUFFRAGETTE SENTENCED
FOR FALSE FiRE ALARMS
LONDON, Dec. 11.—A two months sen
tence was today imposed upon Elsie
Howe, a young suffragette, for turning In
false fire alarms of fires. The fire alarm
plot was part of a general conspiracy on
the part of the suffragettes to annoy the
government, although Miss Howe was the
only woman the police had been able to
catch up to today. She refused to reveal
the names of the other women.
COMPRESS OFFICERS RE-ELECTED.
SAVANNAH, GA.. Dec. 11.—The annual
meeting of the Atlantic Compress Com
pany was held at the DeSoto hotel yes
terday, the old officers being re-elected as
follows:
President, J. S. B. Thompson: manager,
W. W. Robinson; secretary, C. M. Hays;
treasurer, H. J. Fear. All have offices in
Atlanta.
prised to learn the number of staunch
unionists who thought the bill was a
good thing.
Cites Faults in Liability Act.
“Good lawyers say that it is uncon
stiutlonal, because it will deprive a man
of hfs rights in court of equity,” he
said, “but there is no sense in the unlor
laying back on that contingency. Il
will be much better to kill the bill in
congress.
“Senator Hoke Smith was one of th«
first to see tty? dangers of the act, and,
with Senator Overman and a few oth
ers, he is putting up a stiff fight
against its passage. Indications are
that the bill will not pass.”
According to Mr. Teat, the bill pro
vides that a Federal accident adjuster
be stationed in a designated district.
When a railroad employee or other util
ity employee engaged in interstate
business In Injured, this adjuster fixes
the amount of the employer’s liability.
From his decision there is no appeal.
In other words, a railroad employee
under the proposed act has lost his
right to institute suit for damages In a
competent court of equity and must
abide by the decision of the Federal ad
juster, who Is an appointee of a United
States court.
With Teat in his denunciation of the
liability bill is Vice President James
O’Connell, of the American Federation
of Labor; Thomas Flanagan, vice pres
ident of the blacksmiths union, and A.
B Lowe, president of the maintenance
of way employees organization, all of
whom spoke against the projected leg
islation ut the labor congress.
SHIPS COLLIDE; ALL SAFE.
WEYMOUTH. ENGLAND, Dec, 11.—
The pilot Solent collided with the Brit
ish troop ship Dufferin off the Needles at
the western end of the Isle of Wight todaj’
and was sunk. All on board the Solent
were saved by the crew of the Dufferin.
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INPOJOPROBE
Railroad and Other Shares Sold
Repeatedly Without Actual
Transfer of Paper.
WASHINGTON, Dec. 11.—Figures
showing how railroad and other shares
are sold over and over again on the
New York stock exchange without any
actual transfer were presented to the
Pujo money trust investigating com
mittee today when that body began its
actual probe of the American money
market. The figures were given by
Lawrence W. Scudder, a statistician,
who has made a deep study ot the con
ditions prevailing on the New York
stock exchange. He said that the
transfers of United States Steel stock
represented only about 25 per cent of
the shares sold.
The capital stock of the Reading sub
ject to sale was dealt in thirty times a
year. The total of Erie canital stock, he
said, listed on the stock exchange wae
1.123,000 shares. With regard to both
the Erie and Reading, the witness found
the volume of sales was graded when
the shares reached top prices. Unter
rneyer developed that brokerage fees on
th of Reading for a year would,
amount to seven and one-half per cent
of the par value, or about 20 per cent of
the selling value.
Clearing House Head on Grtll.
W. E. Frew, chairman of the New
York clearing house committee*
explained to the committee to
day the clearing house’s attitude on
the subject of charges on the collection
of out-of-town checks. Frew said the
inland exchange committee of the as
sociation had made a report on the coat
of this matter and he asked that the re
port be put In the record. Samuel LTn
termeyer, counsel for the committee,
asked Frew if the report showed what
the difference in cost to the New York
bank customers was as the result of
the enforcement of the collection rule,
“Can you tell what tax this rule im
poses on the merchants of the country?"
asked L T ntermeyer.
“We have not figured that out exact
ly,” said Frew, explaining that the fig
ures did not cover that phase of the
question.
Untermeyer asked if the witness had
seen a statement by Frank A. Vander
lip that the rule meant a loss of $3,000,-
000 a year to the merchants of the
country. Answering the question, Frew
declared that the annual out-of-town
collections of the New York clearing
house amounted to $4,859,000,000, with
a dally average of over $14,000,000.
Loss $1,530 Dally.
The loss of interest on these accounts
figured at four per cent would be about
$560,000 a year, or about $1,530 a day.
The average period of loss due to col
lections being four days in which the
banks would be deprived of interest, ths
average sum would be something over
$6,000.
“Do you think there Is any foundation
for Vanderlip’s claim of a loss of $3,-
000,000 a year?"
“I don’t want to criticise him,” said
Frew.
“Did Vanderllp have any data from
the clearing house?"
“He had his own.”
Untermeyer asked if Frew had not
included In his schedule of collection
expenses, charges for collections In
New York and Greater New York. Frew
denied this, but Untermeyer asked
questions intending to show that such
was the fact. p j
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