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VOL. XL NG. 111.
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MST FIGHT
FOR«
SYSTEM
Judge Pendleton Upholds Act
as Constitutional While Ex
tending His Sympathy.
WOULD HAVE OPPOSED IT
IF MEMBER LEGISLATURE
Count' officials lighting the new sal
ary jaw were given a iolt today when
Judge J T. Pendleton, of the Fulton
mi >erioi -ourt, upheld the mandamuses
issued by the county commissioners
again.'< Andrew P. Stewart, tax collec
tor; J W. Armistead. tax receiver, and
John fl. Wilkinson, ordinary.
Thia the first time since the salary
taw w.'i» passed that it has been tested
in the courts, and the county officials
vlll app< al Judge Pendleton’s decision
the upreme court of the state. The
tinee contend that the salary act Is un
(.nstitutfoiial, and for that reason have
refused to make a report of expenses
incident ■ mining their offices.
With J. D. Kilpatrick representing
th>' til•••e.- officials and Luther Z. Rosser,
count' attorney, acting for the board of
commissions the mandamuses came
up fur nearing before Judge Pendleton.
Following arguments by Kilpatrick and
Rosser, the court declared that he must
sustain uit mandamuses a»i declare
the m v law constitutions.'
Judge Extends
His Sympathy.
“Tiiert are a number of ugly features
10 tl.e new law. but I do not think that
:.i< v affect its validity or that they
lake it unconstitutional.” said Judge
Pendeton “However, I sympathize
•,itii these officials and their stand. Had
I L-en in the legislature which passed
’his n.-t, 1 would have voted against it.”
Ail the other county officials except
’.e t.ire. mandamused have turned in
t -• m-dnle of expenses. The hear
ing before tiie supreme court will not
tun., up for many months. In the
iiaantime, it is thought that the offi
vials will continue to operate their of-
Uves under the old fee system, which
‘ir nev. aw renders obsolete.
Declares Act Is
Unfair to Officials.
A > i it, that the act gave the coun
audit... power to do everything but
>u..it i: ffieial’s cigar account, Kil
hrtrlc': i-u eked the constitutionality of
the new law.
1> is fine example of unfair legis
litioii.” .said Kilpatrick, “instigated by
P-isons vho believe that any reform
11 > i\ . it.- should be rammed down
■ hrouts of the people. It is like the
’gisiatloii that seeks to give the re
,,!'ii- i additional power so that a man
!l '• ’-ent to jail for six or twelve
'i. a. because he doesn’t follow the
■ tain people direct. It Is bad law
seeks to point the way that
■lust b. t veled."
, un -ii.'d his attacks on the law
'' i: is angles, leaving hardly ::
rati'.. tj l( . legislation untouched.
' ‘ ’ Fiat it was unconstitutional hi
ACCUSES husband
OF TAKING LODGE
FUNDS HELD BY HER
ins that her husband was not
1(01,1 ]j ve o fl< ] le] . earn i n g 9 alone,
“••■I. funds belonging 'to a lodge of
" 'aS treasurer, Mrs. Anni*
’: told superior court today
' al -d a divorce from William R.
' also asked an alimony' ver
,A‘. ' .'T'mg the court would make Bar
' . ’A Ol'K.
Lr L. ' rry said that shortly after
-re her husband told her to
\ lru( earn some* money. As
obtained employment, she
ir.i' te wor ' < and lived from her
dipt,..a ■ " ' len funds were short he
and s-h ” ,he treasury of the lodge,
(,!»,. Aas forced to make the short
'n addition to this, she as
treated her cruelly.
s| x-day bike Riders
AGAIN AHEAD OF RECORD
tfFe?. Y " UK ' D «e. 12.—Although the
in t'l, 5 l!le 10nK K’lnd on the riders
x day bicycle race at Madison
tlti ~. ~ J'. ,r, *en caused them several
in.-; ; "•* behind the records of for-
- i the> managed to establish
e the eighty-ninth hour,
l.lp, twelve teams had reeled oft
l> . > a, 'd 4 lap*, with the Suter
in» ',‘'l I'nruien and Loftea trull-
TIV, ‘7 t’elillld.
'io. 11,1 record, 1,736 miles 4 laps.
*'i ijiii, ' Halstead and Lawrence
Write It 12-12-12:
You'll Not Get Gance
Again in Your Lifetime
These Identical Numbers for
Month, Day and Year Will
First Occur Again in 2012.
AV hen you look your pen In hand to
day and dashed off the date in your
usual hurry, you did something you
never can do again in your lifetime.
You wrote three identical numbers for
the month, day and year—l 2-12-12, just
like that.
Just a year and a month and a day
ago there was a combination of six
straight lines. 11-11-11, for the date.
But this is the last time you'll ever have
the three numbers all alike. For there
isn’t any “13” month.
The three-nurnbei combination will
not occur again until 2010. The three
twelve combination can not be used
again until 2012.
However, if you’re fond of thirteens,
tomorrow will be Friday, the thir
teenth. an excellent day to refrain from
betting on what Mr. Woodward will do
next, or when the smoke nuisance will
be abated.
CONFESSES PLOT TO
SLAY WILSON ON HIS
RETURN TO COUNTRY
NEW YORK, Dee. 12.—0 n his con
fession that he planned the assassina
tion of President-elect Wilson on his
return from Bermuda as well as that of
a former employer, Herman Steinberg
was held for the grand jury without bail
this afternoon by Magistrate Cornell in
the Tombs police court. Steinberg, who
said he was nineteen years old, had
been arrested an hour to his
arraignment outside the Oak street sta
tion by Detective Gorevan.
When searched a revolver, full loaded,
which he -aid he had purchased in
Hartford, Conn., to carry’ out his plan
of assassination, was found in his pos
session. . , \ w-
LOCKER CLUB CASES
TO BE HEARD SOON
IN CRIMINAL COURT
Indictments returned by the Fulton
grand jury some six months ago against
the officers of ten Atlanta locker clubs
are booked for an early trial in city
criminal court. Because the true bills
chatge the locker organizations with
violation of the prohibition law. a mis
demeanor, the authorities had the cases
transferred from superior to city court.
Judge Calhoun announced yesterday
that he lio/Jed to call the first locker
club case today if the run of his docket
permitted 'it.
These indictments were returned last
spring after tiie grand jury, of which
T. K. Glenn was foreman, had made an
investigation of locker club conditions
Mr. Glenn financed the Investigation
and as a result of testimony given to'
the jury by his detectives, indictments
were return ■ d against the proprietors of
ten organizations.
ATLANTAN LEASES HOTEL.
SAVANNAH, GA.. Dec. 12.-—Hotel
Collin.: has been leased for a term of
ten years by R. B. Brittain, of Atlanta.
Tiie hotel will be turned over to the
lessee early in January, and it will be
opened tor business on'February 1.
RACES
RESULTS.
AT JUAREZ.
First—Sharper Knight, 6-5, first; Ma- j
zitrka 2; Luke Vanzandt, 6-5. Also ran:
Jolly Tar. Ernest H.. Kitty W„ Hotabird !
and King Stalwart.
Second—Swish, 9-5. first; Sanel. 6; Pipe |
Vision. 6-5. Also ran: Tom Chapman, |
Camarada. Ora McGee. Russ, Dog Star |
and Autumn Rose.
Xhlrd —Lescar, first; Love Day. second;
Mandndero. third.
ENTRIES.
AT JUAREZ.
6'IKSI Selling, two year olds, tur
xGreeu Cloth 106, xLoan
Shari; 100, Azurea 102. Maud McKee 102,
xGarden of Allah 102, Pretty Dale 102,
lanus 105, Tom G. 105.
ufFOND Silling, four year olds, o fur
i,,nm (151- xßarney Oldfield 105, Oswald
< 106, Quiek Trill 106. Annua Interest
inn Itv. White 106. Sir Barry 106, Prln
■su Industi v 106, Guy Spencer 106, Black
TH a mC eio3, H ' l’'’h l igir‘ 1$
h n . ■, 119 \1 Cambon 112, John Lx>uis
i\ r 2 ftg i nmbe'r ha 1U Rose Vale 112. Lotta
•reed 11“ Force 115, Judge Walton 116.
, !<". Toween 100.
La’ g k Rose 105. G. M Miller 112. Malton
SI E- e ih-'rVi : ' selling 3 year olds. 6 furlongs
~.U F rvr-lfna 102 Tilford Thomas 105,
XXo'm K-rr’i M " G,n loß ’ ~“ k - h‘^xl'rV
h ‘^x l 'rVi S Selling ” an ' l
<ister Florence 95, \l\<’enae
'lOl Ymlr 10H. Wrg Feet 108, Feather
I> 'i 8 4ni>r. 1 -i>tiee allowance claimed
\<<!ather cloudy: track fast
THE WEATHER
For.ca.t: F*ir and colder
,nd tomorrow. Temperatures: 8 e_
m, 291 10 am„ 30: 12 "o®". 32: 2
p. m . M
ATLANTA, GA., THURSDAY. DECEMBER 12, 1912.
■EfELLEH
■ HOGERS
CJUSE OF
Hi PANIC
Coup in Copper on Wall Street
Brought Disaster to Nation,
Probers Hear.
POCKETED MILLIONS AND
BROKE LITTLE INVESTORS
WASHINGTON, Dee. 12.—Having
established the facts that a vast ma
jority of the transactions on the New
York stock exchange are speculations
wherein nothing of value passes be
tween purchaser and seller, and that
the Rockefeller-Rogers group made mil
lions out ol a market coup in copper
in 1907, the Pujo congressional com
mittee Investigating the money trust
settled down today to hear further in
iquities of Wall Street.
According to evidence before the
committee, the copper coup, carried off
by William Rockefeller and H. H. Rog
ers in the spring of 1907, was largely
responsible for the panic that year.
After driving the price of copper to a
high water mark. Rockefeller and Rog
ers unloaded their holdings, making
millions in profits, and thousands of
little investors were wiped out.
Immense Longn
Daily for Speculation. <7
j TbafrjtiSjOffO.OOb is the average amount
. lent daily for the transaction ■ of busl-
I ness on the New York stock axchange
was among the startling testimony
given today. Sometimes the amount
has run as high as $35,000,600.
The witness who gave this testimony
was J. 11. Griesel, who has been a mem
ber of the New York stock exchange
tor 29 years. In his testimony Griesel
spoke carelessly of vast sums, as though
he were discussing dollars and cents
instead of, millions.
The biggest lenders, the witness said,
are the Chase National bank, the City
bank, the National Bank of Commerce,
the First National bank, Speyer & Co..
Kuhn Loeb & Co., and J. P. Morgan &
Co.
The witness described himself as a
member of the “loan crowd” on the
New York exchange, and testified that
the lending usually began at about 11
o'clock, or an hour after the stock mar
ket opened in the morning.
When the witness began to use tech
nical terms, Attorney Samuel Unter
meyer, counsel for the committee, asked
the meaning of the phrase “renewal
rate," which Griesel had mentioned sev
eral times. This, said the witness, was
the amount of money known to be avail
able each morning for exchange pur
poses.
Mr. Griesel qualified as an authority
on the subject when he said he repre
sented a number of big banking houses
on the New York stock exchange.
"Kuhn Ixieb * Co. and J. P. Morgan &
Co. do a big business, but do not stay
in the market all the time.” said the
witness. “Sometimes they are out of
the market for a mot th at a time. No
body goes to Morgan & Co. unless they
need help badly."
“Tiie < 'ity bank," he testified, “did not
loan as much money as Kuhn Loeb &
Co. Sometimes Kuhn Loeb <k Co., when
they get a lot of money from a bond is
sue, lend out $16,006,000 n day.
"Tills is true of the other big lenders
also.”
Untermeyvr asked the witness if he
had a record of his business on Novem
ber 29, when call money was at 20 pet
cent. Griesel thought he loaned $20,000,-
000 on that day. Griesel said the bulle
tin record of the loans at the money’
stand did not cover any loans made
after 12 o’clock. On November 29 about
$5,006,000 was -loaned before noon. On
that day the witness loaned $16,000,000
between 2 and 2:30 o’clock.
Brokers Never
See Collateral.
The loan brokers, Griesel said, never
saw the collateral. The loan clerks in
the banks took care of that. Steel
stock was considered the best collat
eral. even when it paid no dividend.
"Steel always had a wide margin," said
Griesel.
Untermeyer wanted to know if Ste<-1
got a "wide margin" because It was
1 bought gooij collateral. The witness
said lie could not answer that.
"You can put more New York Central
common Into a loan than Steel," finally
said the witness, trying to make a dis
tlnctlon between the character of eol
uteral and the amount of money that
vuld be raised on a particular stock
Chorus Girls to Sell Georgians for Christmas Fund
ATLANTA EAGER TO AID SANTA
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Gus Edwards and Troupe Will
Entertain at Five Points for
Poor Kiddies.
The contributions to date follow:
J. M. Slaton $25
F. J. Paxon 25
R. F. Maddox 25
Forrest Adair 25
J. W. English 25
John E. Murphy 25
W. T. Gentry 25
George Adair 25
Joel Hurt 25
W. H. Glenn 25
E. H. Inman 25
A friend 25
John W. Grant 10
Henry Durand ... ( 10
R. J. Guinn 5
E. P. Ansley 5
E. C. Peter* 5
M. L. Thrower 5
S. B. Turman 5
Mrs. J. M. Slaton 10
Mr*. E. L. Connally 10
Mr s . Robert Maddox 5
Mrs. J. M. High 5
Mrs. George McKenzie 5
Mrs. P. H. Alston 5
Oscar Elsa* 10
M. H. Wilensky 5
A friend 5
J. S. Ake’s 5
Clifford L. Anderson 5
Dr. E. G. Ballinger 5
Chief J. L. Beaver* 5
Carlos Mason 10
Marion Jackson 5
A friend 5
Mr. and Mr*. John F. Kiser ... 10
Morris Brandon 10
Dr. George Brown 5
J. P. Allen 5
Robert L. Cooney 5
J. J. Oisosway 5
Marion Cobb and Florence
Jackson Bryan, Jr 5
Total $490
Pretty ehoruH girls will sell Georgians
at Five Points next Saturday afternoon
for the Empty Stocking Fund, while
Gu» Edwards, composer, dancer and
planiat, will rip unlimited ragtime out
of u piano It. a big automobile truck
That’s the contribution of Manager
Hugh t'ardoza, of the Grand theater,
Continued on Page Two.
Banish the Ghost of an Empty
Stocking From Your Xmas Feast
On Christmas morping your children will jump from their
warm beds to run laughing in glee to the well-filled stockings
at the mantel, filled in the night by a Santa Claus whose liber
ality was limited only by your good fortune in a year which
has been prosperous. They will shout with joy over the good
things Santa has bought, and yon. smiling at their joy, will find
the greatest hapjiiness of your own Christmas day.
But if you could look through the walls and across many
streets you might see a little room, dark and comfortless,
where a child is sitting on a tireless hearth, clasping an empty
stocking, hung there on Christmas eve because the unquestion
ing faith of a child was stronger than the cold reasoning of
the parents who knew only too well that Santa Claus comes
not tosjhe homes of the penniless.
If you could see that picture on Christmas morning wouldn't
you pause in your liappv merriment and say:
“If 1 had only known in time!’’
The Georgian, by its Empty Stocking fund, is trying to tell
you in time. Coptribute as liberally as you can, and your
Christmas morning will be happier for the realization that you
did what you could.
Send your contribution to the Christmas Editor of The
Georgian.
GIRL, WOUNDED BY
TOY PISTOL, LOSES
EYE; MAY NOT LIVE
Following a surgical operation for
the removal of her left eye, Bessie Tug
gle, the ten-year-old girl shot by her
small brother with a toy pistol, ztill is
unconscious in Grady hospital. It is
believed the bullet Is imbedded in hei
brain.
The condition of the little girl is pre
carious, and the physicians are In
doubt as to her chances of recovery.
Whether a further operation will be
performed in un effort to locate th.-
bullet ha* not been decided.
rriNAL * <
UNION TELEGRAPHERS
OF WESTERN UNION CO.
THREATEN TO STRIKE
SIOUX CITY, IOWA, Dee 12.—A tel
egraph operators’ strike in the Western
Union Telegraph Company’s offices
throughout the country is Inevitable,
according to statements by S. J. Konen
kamp, president of the V'mmercial
Telegraphers’ Union of America.
Konenkamp said he had demanded of
the officials that the six operators dis
charged for joining the union be reln-
Hlateit The company refused. He will
leave for Chicago tonight to go Into
conference with other official* of the
otgunlzutlor
2 CENTS EVERYWHERE
BROWN AGAIN
REFUSES TO
RESPITE
CLAY
Family Asks That Doomed Man
Be Given More Time to
“Prepare for Eternity.”
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SLAYER LISTENS UNMOVED
TO BUILDING OF GALLOWS
That Robert L. Clay, the doomed
wife-slayer. Is on the verge of a ner
vous breakdown and that he may com
pletely collapse before he mounts the
gallows in the Tower tomorrow at noon,
is the statement of Dr. Samuel H.
Green, county physician, who this aft
ernoon examined the prisoner and pro
nounced him sane.
“Clay knows all that is going on
about him, he realizes that he must
hang tomorrow, and his nervous sys
tem is about to break under the strain
of mental agony," says Dr. Green.
Dr. Green says Clay’s pulse regis
tered 102, and declares this is a sign
that the man is feigning.
“Kxcitement and fright have sent up
his pulse," explained the doctor.
Dr. Green also found Clay’s hands in
a tremble, and says the slayer is un
able to control his emotion.
jTwo New Pleas Sent
(To Governor Brown.
Two new pleas were before Governor
Brown today.
His attorney, L. F. McClelland, went
before tiie Governor and asked e
stay of execution in order that the case
might be carried before the prison
board for a hearing.
The faithful father and sister asked
that he be permitted to live another 30
days, if for no other reason than that
he might “better prepare himself to
meet his God.”
Both pleas were denied by Governor
Brown, who announced that he would
not interfere in the case.
Convinced Clay Has
Had Every Protection.
The governor was late getting to his
office today. He spent last night in
Marietta, and it was well after noon
when he reached Atlanta. He found
the Clays waiting for him—this time
fortified with an attorney.
The governor listened patiently to his
petitioners, but it was evident soon aft
er they had departed that no profound
impression in the direction of clemency
had been made upon his mind.
He is convinced that Clay has had
every protection that he is entitled to,
and he is convinced, moreover, from a
reading of the record in the case, that
the man’s crime was deliberate and
malicious murder. He does not believe
any end of justice would be served by
executive interference.
Women Sing Hymns
For Doomed Man.
He does not think, in addition, that
he Is called upon to say how much time
a. man shall have to prepare himself for
death In circumstances of this kind;
Three women called on the slayer to
day and prayed and sang hymns for his
soul. Relatives also called to comfort
him.
His silence unbroken and his expres
sion of imbecility unchanged, was taken
from his cell on the second floor of the
Tower this morning and lodged In a lit
tle box of a room adjoining the death
chamber.
Over the condemned man was placed
a death watch and within sound of his
ears jailers busied themselves during
the morning with preparation for the
execution. Clay exhibited no Interest
in the proceedings. He ate a hearty
breakfast at 7 o’clock and smoked
cigarettes incessantly, but to his jailer*
he showed no sign of weakening
Doomed Man’s
Attorney Gives Up Hope.
William M. Smith, the doomed man’s
attorney, said today that be had given
up all hope of saving his client’s life.
The governor, he said, was the last te
sort, and when the chief executive de
cided not to interfere with the sentence
of the. court Clay’s fate was sealed.
Smith asserted that he hoped to have
Dr. James Hhird and Dr. 8. H Green
make an examination of Clay today. He
said ttia’ Dr. Green had agreed to go to
the jail and repeat his tests, but the at
torney declared that the doctors’ exam
ination probably would be unfavorable
to the prisoner. Ho adrni.t’-rt that there
was little or no chance to prevent Clay's
death
"There 1* no chance to obtain a lu
na< y commission to examine Clay," aaid
Smith. "The law require* that a show -
•ng be made before the governor If such
