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B RECORD FOR [DIMES IN ATLANTA llready 191 2 Has Passed 1911 I by 17 in Number of Final De crees in Fulton Courts. ■ v •; will end the year of 1912 with ■ divorce record. According to ■ furnished by the Fulton su- ■ Y win up to the present date, 498 ■ _ , inil second verdicts have been ■r..,,..: 'i,v the three judges during 1912 ■Lagur-t 485 granted in 1911. ».p u.ty’s figures justify the court ■, a ' n ~f so divorces a term. Once B 1 .";-'--‘''c' months the superior judge 8p.',..t0 be sitting in the ”mo- K,,", , i ivis|..n" takes the undefended di- ■ U'wr and grants approximate- ■ ]v s<i verdicts. H Uhil" it takes the court as long to ■, url . „ut a first verdict as any other H h F. „f divorce decree, the number of ■absolute div.u-ces, second verdicts, ■grant'd during 1912 was but 255, as ■against 238 for 1911. 255 Divorces in 1912. ■ y . .I, ality Atlanta’s divorce record I', but 255 for 1912, instead of 485, for B-niuiv "f >be number included- in the ■«, bat'- gone through but the first ■ _. ( s ~f the divorce route and may ■ not get a fin.’il and absolute decree. ■ While 'die figures on the number of ■ / ..,. - lit- tiled during 1912 are not ■ ,>brainald". it can be safely asserted ■ r,; ;i" number will approximate the ■ : , lw br of first and second verdicts ■ glinted. ■ Wl:> n i .■ various forms of divorce ■ n.tdii..' i'i' taken into consideration — ■ liimoii. nits, pleas for the removal of ■ (•ls<abilitii.>, and the like—the entire ■ number of divorce proceedings taken in ■ and "tit of the Fulton courts for 1912 ■ will run well over the 500 mark. ■ Fultoi. county’s staggering figures ■ - ci-.■. .an be traced to Georgia’s ■ institution known as the “unde- ■ fended divorce.” It is through the "un- ■ u,-fended divorce" system that the ma- ■ -:y ..factions take their course. The ■ Ivor, e suit that is fought is a rarity in I Fulton county. Few Cases Defended. ■ Hat'dly a divorce defendant goes into ■ " i t. except where alimony is Involved. I and so seldom does a judge refuse to ■ gran' a wife alimony, no matter how the husband may oppose it, ■ that but few take the trouble to hire ■ lawyers and put up a battle. H .Vci't-ding to superior court judges, I ..nd especially Judge W. D. Ellis, who ■ hi;- gene out of his way to study the ■ Ful'di divorce situation, the ease with ■ which divorce is procured is directly ■ dll' the law that allows the granting ■ f divorce o-i the uncorroborated testi- ■ niony of the plaintiff. According to ■ .lodge Ellis, a man may sue his wife ■ :'ur divorce when slip is out of the state, ■ Cid charge all manner of things. He ■ then gets a divorce through what is ■ Known “service by publication,” and H r.'s wife remains in utter ignorance of ■ blowhole proceedings until she is no fl titi'u that the decree has been granted. I MRS. WICKERSHAM TELLS HOW NOT TO BE A BORE ■ I'ASHIXt;'I’ON, Dec. 11.—“ You’ll K be so' iii] bore, if you dodge dis- E "'"ii of the four D's—disease, dress, ■ t"'' a ndants and domestics—’’ says the ■ Attorney General Wickersham. VULCANIZED RAINCOATS (The Only Coat Made That W ill Not Leak) Cut by expert tailors, put together with cold cement, and baked in ?' ,en ®. ur ? t 'l every piece of the rubber is melted and cured into one per ct fitting, absolutely rain-proof Coat. wHBHF ATTRACTIVE prices on these quality goods $6.5#, $12.5(1. $15.(111. $17.50, $20.0(1 LADIES’ RAINCOATS AT SAME PRICES JohnsoirGewinner Co. 124 PEACHTREE STREET Opposite Candler Building. Yale Wants Taft For Law Professor When His Term Expires Negotiations Now Under Way With President, Head of Uni versity Admits. NEW HAVEN, CONN., Dee. 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 case 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 swer 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 LVE 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, hes prepares a report on suicide in tiiis state for the last five years. Les lie has found that men iodine more to self-destruction than women when ad versity comes. The suicide toll last year was 752,, an increase of 48 over that of 1910. The annual average is put at 705. THE ATLANTA GEORGIAN AND NEWSAVEDNESDAY. DECEMBER 11. 1912. GRACE, SUING FOR DIVORCE, SITS MOT 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 ha’s been residing since her acquit- "A h W. \ f > . 'XvgWX <1 //? -1 iSIIKKtIk ' Thomas J-’l.i Hawaii, another of I YA \'Ah xl? the noted union men at the big Xi \ (*NI 1 labor conference. i \ \ )' u 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 hy Mr. Wright. Grace, since his return from an At lanta Infirmary, several weeks ago, has never left the house of his mother, Mrs. L. S. 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 Issued a charter to the Co-operative Telegraph and Telephone Company, of Dawson. The concern will be capitalised at $lO,- 000, and will begin the construction of its lines at 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 g: ess. This doesn’t mean that the railroad w iW*Fh^' 3 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. <fc N. policy to smash a labor union wherever it is found. As lessee of the Georgia with the Atlantic Coast 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 cause of union labor, which have ceased to ship t>ver the Louisville 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 lt» unfair attitude toward union labor.” Upon the proposed Federal employ ers’ liability act, .Mr. Teat was no lesr emphatic. He auid that he was sur- A. B. Lowe, of St. Louis, president of the International Brotherhood of Maintenance-of- Way Employees. C-/ C ? '-T< W■ 1 • 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 stiutional, because it will deprive a man of his rights in court of equity.” he said, “but there Is no sense in the unlov laving 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 the 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 Fedefra! 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 •jmke against the projected leg lulatlon at the labor congress. SHIPS COLLIDE; ALL SAFE. WEYMOUTH. ENGLAND. Dec. 11.— The pilot Solent collided with the Brit ish troop ship Dufterin off the Needles at the western end of the Isle of Wight today and was sunk. All on board the Solent were saved by the crew of the Dufferin. Why Wait for Your Market to Come to You? Go After it The world grows smaller as slow communication gives way to modern methods, and a far wider market is at the door of the merchants who are using the swift, dependable Studebaker “ 20." You can not only better satisfy all your pres ent trade but seek and easily please customers who are now out of your range. Modem customers demand quick service and the Studebaker “20” enables you to give it. The car’s record is an open book. Send for ue The Studebaker Corporation Atlanta Branch, G. W, HANSON, Manager, 114 Auburn Avenue. |j vv EH DEI? **■ STOCK EXCHANGE METHODS RARER IN PR JU PROBE Railroad and Other Shares Sold Repeatedly Without Actual Transfer of Paper. / _ r WASHINGTON, Dec. 11.—Figures showing how railroad and other shares are sold over ajid 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 of 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 & year. The total of Erie cant tai stock, he said, listed on the stock exchange was 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. Unte-r --meyer developed that brokerage fees on th sales of Reading for a year would amount to seven and one-half per cent of the par value, or about 40 per cent of the selling value. Clearing House Head on Grill. W. E. Frexv, chairman of the Neay York clearing house committee, explained to the committee to day the clearing house's attitude on the subject charges on the collection of out-of-town checks. Frew said the inland exchange committee of the as sociation bad made a report on the cost of this matter and he asked that the re port be put in the record. Samuel Un 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 Untermeyer. “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, the average sum would be something over $6,000. “Do you think there Is any foundation for Vanderlip’s claim of a loss of SB,- 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. 3