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M.and M. Association Boosters
Seek Ten-Story Building for
Permanent Display.
v soon is to have a permanent
Lig for the exhibition of Atlanta
, s foods, it’ the plans of Sam D
Victor H. Kriegshaber, W. T.
n t; p,,~e and others are carried out.
. advocating the acquisition of
, ; rs .vere made last night at a
t; it of the Merchants and Manu
u’-evs association, and the cliair
j, H E. Choate, was authorized to
i.oint a committee to look into the
niatter The plan is to have a ten-story
■| u iMmg with at least 150,000 feet of
loor space, and It is anticipated that
V, will be no trouble in finding such
„ building at a moderate price.
“ The growing importance of Atlanta
ai . a convention city and a manufac
jring and distributing center has
allec for such an institution, the men
oseii allied with the move declare,
ar.il then add that the city is losing a
ol of good publicity it might have if
Atlanta goods could be properly brought
t 0 the attention of visitors.
Reports were received by the asso
ciation from Treasurer H. Jt. Wey and
See etaty H T. Moore. The nominat
ing committee, made up of Louis Ghol
-slin chairman; W. A. Parker and J. R.
Little, offered the names of L. E. Floyd,
j A Hirshberg. C. W. McClure, Garnett
McMillin. A <*. McHan, J. K. Orr, Wil-
Ragan. Meyer Rogenstein. E. L.
Rhodes. W. O. Stamps and H. B. Wey
to compose the board of directors fo v
the ensuing year.
The proposed Merchants week in
Febrm.ry was discussed and Willis Ra
-in. J. It Little. N. 11. Wey, Gordon
Mser. Mover Regenstein, Olin Stamps.
J D. Robinson, J. K, Orr, A. C. Mc-
Han and W. A. Parker were named as a
committee on this project.
TYRUS COBB TO INVITE
WOODROW WILSON TO
SOJOURN IN AUGUSTA
AVGUSTA, GA., Dec. 13.—Augusta’s
delegation to invite President-elect
Woodrow Wilson to spend some time
In this city during January or Feb
ruary of 1913 will leave Sunday after
noon for New York, and will greet
the future head of the nation soon after
his arrival from Bermuda.
Governor Wilson lived in Augusta
for ten years as a boy when his father
was pastor of the First Presbyterian
church.
The Augusta delegation is composed
of Tyrus R. Cobb, Tracy I. Hickman
Daniel G. Fogarty and Charles P. Press
ly, of the Chamber of Commerce, and
.1. Frank Carswell, James S. Farr, Wil
liam P. Flythe and Thomas J. Hamil
ton, representing official Augusta. Pres,
ident Joseph S. Reynolds named the
Chamber of Commerce delegates and
Mayor Thomas Barrett, Jr, named the
delegates from the city'.
Congressman Thomas W. Hardwick
will join the party in Washington city.
Ty Cobb left yesterday afternoon for
Royston for a short visit. He will join
the party in Washington.
AUGUSTAMAYORALTY
ELECTION CONTEST TO
BE HEARD TOMORROW
AUGUSTA, GA., Dec. 13. —Tomorrow
the mayoralty contest filed by Dr. J.
R Littleton to set aside the result of
the December 4 election will be heard
before Ordinary A. R. Walton.
Since Joseph Gaahl and C. E Dun
bar, attorneys for Dr. Littleton, filed
their official protest charging fraud, the
Littleton people have been procuring
ffidavits from their adherents and an
nounce that they have sworn statements
from more than 100 voters that the
'lection managers did not give credit
tor the full Littleton vote in that
ward.
it is believed that an early attempt
>ll be made by the Littleton people to
have the boxes opened. Then the ques
tion of whether the ballots in the boxes
> espond with the names and num
bors on the tally sheets will have to
b“ decided.
WILSON TO ATTEND TWO
MONUMENT UNVEILINGS
SAI ANNAH, GA., Dee. 13. —At a
•Pei’lal court of the Society of Colonial
- in the State of Georgia, held at
office of William R. Leaken, gov
't was announced that Presi
/' ’’'ect Woodrow Wilson and Mrs.
son wil] be the guests of the Mid
rt' ■ "'iety on the occasion of the un
'••i.ing of the Screven-Stewart monu
’P ' t in Midway cemetery, and that the
d ti of the unveiling of the memorial to
ommemorate the Battle of Bloody
< J O -* 56 erected jointly by the So-
rlai’ n Wars and the Colo
' *’ a mes of Georgia, might be ar-
PrLul or following day, so that
en ,' ‘ent-elect Wilson could be pres-
SlO 000 IS FOUND IN DEAD
POPCORN VENDER'S ROOM
, i'"UGHKEEPSIE, N. Y., Dec. 13.
wj. ? cellar room of John Johno
< popcorn vender, was searched
'> death SIO,OOO in coin and bills
"as found.
VANDERBILT HEIR. AT 10.
REAL WEATHER PROPHET
PORT, K Dec. 13.—Master
o V'D'lerbilt. ten-year-old son
it . ' French Vanderbilt, hn.«
v . unusual talents in predicting
stLi vin lan^es « and spends much time
■vt • <ncJ making- copies of officia
maps.
Pathos and Joy in Shopping Throngs in Whitehall Street
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ous Atlanta to Show Real
Christmas Spirit.
By Evelyn Wren
She left her limousine at the entrance
of one of the biggest of Whitehall
street’s stores, drew her wraps closer
around her shoulders and strolled down
the aisle as one on familiar ground.
The floorwalker bowed as she passed,
for he knew her as one of the firm’s
most profitable customers.
I was at her elbow as she stopped be
fore a case filled with handsome furs,
any one worth the month’s income of a
working man. She fingered them criti
cally.
"Something a little better, please,”
she said. "I want them for Frances,
you know. Her father has promised
her an electric coupe for Christmas and
she’s teased me for a set of white furs.
Her dark ones look so odd with the
light upholstery. Yes, you might send
that set on approval."
Another Picture Here.
I passed on to the bargain counter
where a dozen women were inspecting
the price tags on odds and ends. A
man. frail and white, stood beside a
woman whose cloak looked frayed and
out of date, even in that department of
despised “cheap stuff.” She picked up a
little muff of Imitation fur, so thin, so
soiled, that It had been cast out of its
own department
“Look, Charlie,” she said eagerly,
"Minnie has been just crazy for a pret
ty muff and she hasn’t had anything
new In so long. See. this is only 49
cents 1 believe I could clean it and
make it look nice.”
The man looked at the pitiful bit of
plush, fingered the change in his pock
ets. and shook his head, slowly.
"1 reckon not. Mary,” he said regret
fully. ”1 got the rent and the doctor to
pay you know Maybe you can take
Minnie to a picture show Christmas.
Better Just buy that remnant flannel
you came for."
Contrasts One Might See.
Just two pictures before Christmas,
my lady of the limousine. Just two < f
the thousands you might see, gentleim n
of the roll top desk, if you would go
walking with me In Whitehall street on
one of these bright days before Christ-
I would like to take you for a stroll. If
I could give you eyes to see something
outside your own circle.
you might find something to think
about in the little om s In ragged cloth
ing pressing their no‘es against the
plate glass windows where dolls and
steam engines and wonderful toys art
displayed; looking with hungry eyes
into the shops where pounds am
pounds of candy and fruit are being
weighed by fast-working girls for cus-
ATLANTA GEORGIAN AND NEWS. FRIDAY, DECEMBER 13, 191a.
SUBSCRIPTIONS
The contribution* to date follow:
W. R. Hea et SIOO
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
Harold S. Holmes 25
J. B. Cleveland 25
John W. Grant 10
Henry Durand 10
Mrs. J. M. Slaton 10
Mrs. E. L. Connally 10
Oscar Elsas 10
Charles C. Jone* 10
Carlos Mason 10
Mr. and Mrs. John F. Kiser ... 10
Morris Brandon 10
R. J. Guinn 5
E. P. Ansley 5
E. C. Peters 5
M. L. Thrower 5
S. B. Turman 5
Mrs. Robert Maddox 5
Mrs. J. M. High 5
Mrs. George McKenzie 5
Mrs. P. H. Alston 5
M. H. Wilensky 5
A friend 5
J. S. Akers 5
Clifford L. Anderson ........ 5
Dr. E. G. Ballinger 5
Chief J. L. Beavers 5
Marion Jackson 5
A friend 5
Dr. George Brown . 5
J. P. Allen 5
1 Robert L. Cooney 5
J. J. Disosway 5
Marion Cobb and Florence
Jackson Bryan, Jr. 5
Reub®n R. Arnold 5
W. E. Chapin 5
C. E. Sciple 5
Spencer Wallace Boyd 5
James G. Woodward 5
T <’ tal $675
tomers already laden with Christmas
packages.
You might find a contrast between
the shabbily clad women haunting the
cheaper stores of the side streets and
counting their hoards of nickels and
pennies, and the tailored matrons who
trip from their coupes to the portals of
the jewelers’ shops.
How to Reach These Kiddies.
I have stood beside many of these
shabby mothers this week as they
paused before a counter of ten-cent
toys, looked longingly at red rubber
balls and picture books and tiny, tawd
ry dolls, and passed on to buy a pair of
coarse, cheap shoes instead
These mothers did not pause to look
at silks and satins; they did not give
a gisuun* tv fujra and tailored suits. I
saw few of them bestow a second look
on any garment she might have worn
herself. They were looking at little
things for the children —the children
who will have no visit from Santa
Claus because Santa Claus is a twen
tieth century saint, who visits only the
well-to-do.
You, lady of the limousine, need not
order your chauffeur to drive you to
some poor family and play Lady Boun
tiful in your motor car. You. gentlemen
of the roll top desk, need not take a
moment from your business or your
club to help these mothers bring Santa
Claus to their homes. It might be bet
ter If you could see for yourselvea, but
you will not.
But if you will send a check or mere
ly telephone a promise to the Christmas
Editor of The Georgian, your gift will
be devoted to sending a bit of Christ
mas happiness Into as many homes as
the amount will permit. And It takes
little—pitifully little to you who spend
so freely—to make a child happy on
Christmas morning.
Toss a Coin in the Barrel.
Mapy good Atlantans have given to
the fund, and given freely, with a word
to say they were glad of the opportun
ity. The opportunity still is open to
you and all your friends. The fund Is
growing, but it Is still far abort of the
sum needed to play Santa Claus to all
the needy, for The Georgian has a list
of the families where Santa would not
have come. The Christmas editor
knows almost every one. the names of
every boy and girl, and their ages, even
the sizes of the shoes they need that
they may go to school in a winter like
this.
The money will be expended for the
children and the children only; first for
toys and candles and fruit, and then,
w here there* is need, for shoes and
stockings and perhaps here and there
a bit of other clothing.
And you, every-day folk, who can not
send a check or a substantial gift, do
not fall to pass Five Points tomorrow
afternoon and toss your coin into the
barrel which will be waiting to re
ceive it.
Hugh Cardoza, of the Grand, and Gus
Edwards, composer and vaudeville star,
have promised an open air performance
at Five Points, with chorus girls selling
Georgians, and Gus Edwards himself
playing ragtime at a piano on a big
auto truck. These people of the theater
know no real Christmas themselves;
their holidays mean extra perform
ances and dreary hours in hotel rooms,
but never have I known actor or ac
tress to refuse to give an hour of extra
work for the sake of children at Christ
mas time.
ACTRESSESMAKE MOST
THRIFTY WIVES, ’TIS SAID
NEW YORK. Dec. 13.—" Actresses
are the best business women and mak>
the most thrifty wives,” declared Mrs
Ludlow Neidlinger before the Proses
' sional Women’s league bazaar.
INED IN CABBAGE
PATCH JT NIGHT
Couple Leave Friends Waiting
at Church and Marry Out
in Country.
LOS ANGELES. Dec. 13. —Standing
ankle-deep In the loam of an Orange
county cabbage patch and scorching
their finger tips with matches intend
ed to illume the pages of Scripture from
which the minister was reading. George
M. Southwick, employed by the Los
Angeles city government, and Miss
Bertha M. Gough, of this city, were
the principals in a novel wedding cere
mony shortly after midnight.
A sudden pre-nuptlal determination
to enjoy a joke at the expense of their
friends, who were walling at th»
church In the town of Santa Ana. re
sulted in their own discomfiture and
the cabbage patch wedding was the
only solution to a vexatious problem.
The couple conceived the idea that
they could elope to Los Angeles with
an Orange county license and be mar
ried. In Los Angeles they solicited
the services of a church dignitary and
he mildly Informed them that the cere
mony would be Illegal unless per
formed in Orange county, but volun
teered to accompany them to an ad
jacent county
An automobile was engaged imme
diately and all road records Into Orange
county were broken by the bridal party.
The automobile stood in Los Angeles
county while members of the party
walked a few feet Into Orange county,
where the nuptial words were spoken
by the accommodating minister.
UNCONSCIOUS WOMEN
THRILLINGLY RESCUED
IN APARTMENT BLAZE
PITTSBURG, Dec. 13.—Ten persons
were injured, some seriously today
when fire gutted a large apartment
house known as Library Place in Al
legheny today. Three hundred persons
lived in the building and many thrilling
rescues were made by police and fire
men.
In a thrilling rescue, policemen crept
up rear stairways and removed ten
women from locked rooms In the rear
of the fourth floor. The women were
carried down ladders and several were
In a serious condition. The women had
been overcome by smoke and were un
able to unlock the doors of their rooms,
which the rescuers battered down. A
number of others jumped from the low
er floors and were caught by firemen
and policemen.
NINE PERSONS PERISH
IN ALASKA SNOWSLIDE
CORDOVA, ALASKA, Dec. 13.—Nine
men nre believed to have been killed
when a snowslide on Copper mountain
carried away seven buildings of the
Great Northern Development Company.
Eleven men were burled under the ava
lanche and only two have been re
moved alive. Three are known to be
dead and no hope is entertained for the
other six. The dead: John Barto, James
McGavock and Frank Wahls. Those
still In the snow and believed to be
dead are Alex Fast, Leo Muth, Hugh
Arnold, Tony, a Japanese, and two un
identified.
WHOLESALEARRESTS
IN COCAINE CRUSADE
COLUMBUS, OHIO, Dec. 13.—Whole
sale arrests are expected In Youngs
town as the result of an investigation
by the state pharmacy board of alleged
illicit trafficking In the sale of cocaine.
It Is alleged that there are 50 "dope
fiends" In the city who are securing the
drug illegally from drug stores. The
proprietors of these stores will prob
ably be arrested on charges of violating
the pharmacy laws. It is charged that
much white slave traffic may be traced
to the use of cocaine.
MYSTERYIs SCENTED IN
A KANSAS CITY SLAYING
KANSAS CITY. MO.. Dec. 13.—Mys
tery surrounds the killing of William
A. Seeburger, whose body was found on
the doorstep of his home at 708 Grau
man avenue. Mrs. Seeburger said that
she and her husband and daughter at
tended a theater, returning hoMVhibout
midnight, and that soon after her hus
band left the house on a business er
rand. An hour later a policeman found
Seeburger’s body. He had been shot in
the back of the head. The members of
the Seeburger family said they had
heard no shot.
GERMAN BARON WEDS;
HONORS HIS FIRST WIFE
BERLIN, Dec. 13.—The Baron Curt
Vonßledenfeld, former husband of Miss
Ida May Cummings, of Chicago, who
died September 5, 1912, In Berlin, has
announced his marriage to Fraulein
Hamsohn, a wealthy woman of Berlin.
The baron’s son and daughter are now
living with him In Berlin. He Intends
to have them grow up as American cit
izens, according to the wishes of his
first wife.
SOUTH CAROLINA TO HAVE
FIGHT FOR 2-CENT RATE
GREENVILLE, S. C., Dec. 13.—State
Senator Wilton H. Earle announces
that he will Introduce at the next ses
sion of the general assembly a bill pro
viding for a flat two-cent rate on all
railroads in this state. Mr. Earle gays
he understands that a similar bill will
be Introduced In the house. Mr. Earle
has given notice that he Intends push
ing his measure vigorously.
W. R. HEARST CONTRIBUTES SIOO
TO THE EMPTY STOCKING FUND
The Empty Stocking fund is growing rapidly. Generous
Atlantans have sent in liberal checks to help make a real Christ-'
mas for the children of the poor.
William Randolph Hearst telegraphed SIOO from New York
today to be added to the fund.
Surely in a great city so prosperous as this, there is enough
holiday money to make every boy and girl happy if it were dis
tributed properly.
You can have your share in the happiness of making others
happy if you will act quickly. There are two ways. You can
send a check to the Christmas Editor of The Georgian, or you
can toss your coin or greenback into the Christmas barrel at
Five Points tomorrow afternoon.
Help Gus Edwards Help the Fund
It will be a unique performance, this al fresco entertainment
at the busiest corner, perhaps in the face of a biting wind.
Gus Edwards, the man who proved he hadn’t forgotten his
childhood by writing ‘’School Days.” and Manager Hugh Car
doza. of the Grand, have joined in an offer to head the Empty
Stocking fund. Gus Edwards himself will play the piano loaned
for the occasion by the Cleveland-Manning Piano Company, and
its stage will be a big motor truck borrowed by The Georgian
from the Vt lie Company. And on this portable stage a hunch
of Gus Edwards' prettiest chorus girls, here for their engage
ment at the Grand next week, will sing and dance for the pleas
ure of the crowd, while other girls of next week's bill sell home
and sporting editions of The Georgian to passers by. And they
won’t be particular about returning change. McGrath and Mc-
Rae will paint the signs asking for your help.
Send your contributions to the Christmas Editor of The
G e o r g i a n—NOW.
GREENVILLE. S. 0., PLANS
HORSE SHOW NEXT YEAR
GRI’ENVILLE, S. Dee. 13.—At a
meeting of the Greenville Horse Show
association planns lor the 1913 exhi
bition were put in tentative shape. Offi
cers were elected as follows: Joseph
A McCullough, president; J. Thomas
Arnols, first vice president; D. C. Dur
ham, second vice president, and H. T.
Mills, secretary.
The association is in /good shape
financially, and it Is planned to make
the coming show the greatest of all
ever held In Greenville. Entries have
already been promised from eight
stats, and it is possible that a number
of New York thoroughbreds may be
brought here in the spring.
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Useful Gifts
For Christmas
—Here is a list of good, practical
: Christmas gifts. :
—You know the reputation of this
store for up-to-date styles in both
men’s and women's garments, and
our guarantee insures the .quality of
: every article sold. :
■ —Make your selection now. We’ll !
lay aside anything you want until
Christmas. Our charge account plan
will make your money go farther.
: Complete Christmas :
Assortments of
Men’s Suits Women’s Suits
Overcoats Dresses
Fancy Vests Millinery
Hats Coats
Shoes Furs
Boys’ Suits Waists
C& Overcoats Petticoats
] ASKIN & MARINE!
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OFFERED LARGE FORTUNE,
SHIES AT LETTERS “D. F.”
ST. PAUL, MINN...Dec 13.—For merely
lending his assistance in digging up *215,-
000 in gold from where it lies buried near
the Mexican border. 11. J. Maxfield, state
commissioner of immigration of Minne
sota. Is offered *53.750 This proposal
came in a letter to Mr. Maxfield last night
from a man who claims to be held as a
prisoner in a Mexican bastile. The letter
Is presumed to be one of many sent to
this country by swindlers. It la signed
"Ade Cre” ami Instructs Mr. Maxfield
to wire his acceptance to "Nuno Ortlgos:
Llsta Carrcos, Mexico, D. F.” "I gv
1 know what that 'D. F.’ stands
said Mr. Maxfield. lie will turn *'
ter over to the postoffice author!!
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