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CLAY ON VERGE OF COLLAPSE The Atlanta Georgian Read For Profit—GEORGIAN WANT ADS—Use For Results. VOL. XL NG. 111. coimn wks 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 Q EMPTY! ' ~~~ „ jiTMI 1 Bl'.’. anas— - H . N . .... Ms BS ? -.in------ -‘xi ' ; W nW WHi- . ' : ' -• ■ K--, - W-'.Wwlr r/5.' ” 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.” ————— 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