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VAUDEVILLE AT “FIVE POINTS" FOR THE CHRISTMAS FUND
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Here’s Opportunity lor
This Big, Generous
City to Show Real
Christmas Spirit by
Making G 1 ad' Un
tort u nates.
By Evelyn Wren
S .est her limousine at the entrance
>f on*/ of the biggest of Whitehall
■ ■ ■','s stores, drew her wraps closer
itound her shoulders and strolled down
.• aisle as 0m 1 on familiar ground.
I'he floorwalker bowed as site passed,
.T he knew her as one of the firm's
nost profitable customers.
1 was at her elbow as she stopped be
’oie a case tilled with handsome furs,
my one worth the month’s income of a
"rising man. She fingered them criti-
"Somethlng a little better, pleas, .
■ '• said. "I want them for Frances,
on know. Her father has promised
,<n electric coup" for Christmas and
■ ■■'s teased me for a set of white furs.
U>dark ones look so odd with the
• tt.it upholsters. Yes, you might send
r -1 ‘ t on approval.”
Another Picture Here.
assed on to the bargain coupler
■■> ■ a dozen women were inspecting
lt< price tags on odds and ends. A
' frail and white, stood beside a
•man whose cloak looked frayed and
•if date, even in that department of
i' s. ised "cheap stuff." She picked up a
th muff of imitation fur. so thin, so
■'filed, that it had been cast out of its
'*n department.
"Look, Charlie," she said eagerly,
Minnie has been just crazy for a pret
niufi’. and she hasn’t hud anything
in so long. See, this is only 49
'•-'tits I believe 1 could clean it and
naki it look nice.”
’Die man looked at the pitiful bit of
i d., tinge. *d the change In his pock
and shook his head, slowly.
I reckon not. Mary,” he said regret
" w "1 got the rent and the doctor to
you know. Maybe you can take
•lumie to a picture show Christmas.
1> tfr- just buy that remnant flannel
ou came for,”
Contrasts One Might See.
I • t two pictures before Christmas,
•ady of the limousine. Just two of
ihousands you might see. gentletm n
Jhi toll top desk, if you would go
,I ' i, ‘g with me in Whitehall street on
' of these bright days before Christ-
‘ would like to take you for a stroll, if
ouid give you eyes to See something
'■; < ’ ( ie your own circle.
might find something to think
■' m tile little ones in ragged cloth
* pressing their noses against the
HEARTS’ DESIRE
plate glass windows where dolls and
steam engines and Wonderful toys art
displayed; looking with hungry eyes
into the shops where pounds and
pounds of candy and fruit are being
weighed by fa.-1-working girls for cus
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-cenl
toys, looked longingly at red rubber
balls and picture books and tiny, tawd
ry dolls, and passed bn 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 glance to furs and tailored suits. I
saw few of them bestow a second look
on any garment she might have won
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 nioto 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 yourselves, but
you will not.
But if you will send a cheek 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.
Many 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 short of the
sum needed to play Santa Claus to all
the m edy. so The Georgian has a list
of the families where Santa would not
have come. The Christmas editor
knows almost evert one, the names of
every boy and girl, and their ages, even
the sizes of tin shoes they need that
they may go to school in a winter Ilk
this.
The money will be expended for tin
children and the children only, first for.
' toys and candles and fruit, and then,
where 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
THE ATLANTA GEORGIAN AND NEWS.ERIDAY, DECEMBER 13, 1912.
EXPLOSION PLAYS
HAVOC HE NAPLES
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One Hundred Vessels Reported
as Destroyed or Damaged.
Many Believed Dead.
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NAPLES. Dec. 13.—A tremendous ex
plosion followed by fire, occurred in the
harbor this afternoon. It is reported
that more than a hundred small ves
sels were destroyed or damaged.
Immediately following the explosion
the mayor of Naples was requested by
the harbor commandant to send all
available doctors to the water front and
to arrange for the disposition of bodies
that might be recovered. He said he
believed there bad been heavy loss of
life, but was unable to make any esti
mate.
it was rumored tha’t the entire cargo
of a ship loaded with dynamite had
blown up and sunk every vessel within
a radius of a tjiile. A large detachment
of the municipal police was sent to the
water front to preserve order.
OFFERED LARGE FORTUNE.
SHIES AT LETTERS “D. F.”
ST. PAUL, MINN.. Pec. 13. For merely
lending his assistance in digging up $215,-
000 in gold from where it lies buried near
the Mexican border, H 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. Il is signed
“Ade Cre” and instructs Mr. Maxfield
to wire his acceptance to “Nuno Ortigosa,
Lista < ’arreos, Mexico, D. F.’’ “I guess
1 know what that T). F.’ stands for,’’
said Mr. Maxfield. He will turn the let
ter over to the postoffice authorities.
not fail to pass Five Points tomorrow
afternoon and toss your coin Into th<
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 cbo m girls selling
Georgians, and Gus Edwards himself
■ <jing agtime at a piano oh a big
auto truck. These people of the theater
know ifo real Christmas themselves;
their holidays mean extra perform
ances and drears hou s in hotel rooms,
but never have I known acto or ac
li ess to i efi) <• to give an hour of ex.i t
work .or ih • .-akt of < aildrva at Christ
ina« time
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SUBSCRIPTIONS
The contributions to date follow
W. R. Hea st $ 100
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
M's. J. B. Whitehead 25
George M. McKenzie 25
John W. Grant 10
Henry Durand
Mi's. J. M. Slaton 10
Mrs. E. L. Connally 1°
Oscar Elsas 10
Charles C. Jones 1°
Carlos Mason 10
Mr. and Mrs. John F. Kiser ... 10
Morris Brandon 10
R. J. Guinn 5
E. P. Ansley 5
E. C. Peter, 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. Ake's 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
Robert L. Cooney 5
J. J. Disosway 5
Marion Cobb and Florence
Jackson Bryan, Jr 5
Reuben R. Arnold 5
W. E. Chapin 5
C. E. Sciple 5
Spencer Wallace Boyd 5
James G. Woodward 5
Thomas C. Biggs (Velie Motor
Company) 5
Charles A. Smith 5
George S. Obear 5
Eugehe R. Black 2
Dr. T. B. Hinman 2
Olive and Frances Marion .... 2
A Friend 2
Mrs. Bolling Jones 1
H. H. Cabaniss 1
Mrs. A. E. Thornton 1
Mary S. Connally . 1
Margaret Massengale 1
Ormond Massengale 1
St. Elmore Massengale, Jr, ~ 1
Scherer Lunch 1
Judge Broyles 1
Total $757
WOMAN WHO SLAPPED
COP SAYS HE WAS RUDE
The case of Mrs N. E. Manning, charged
with slapping the face of Policeman W.
L. Payne, was postponed Wednesday on
account of the Illness of the defendant.
The incident grew out of Policeman
Payne attempting to get Mrs. Manning's
small son to Identify two youths who
had thrown a rock through a laundry
window and not about a robbery ease.
Mrs. Manning does not deny slapping the
policepian. but says it was only after he
was extremely rude to her.
CUBAN MONUMENT TO
HONOR MAINE’S DEAD
HAVANA, Dec. 13 President Gomez
has approved the proposal submitted to
him for a battleship Maine monument to
cost $200,000. The monument will con
sist of a base and on that will be mounted
the Maine's front turret with ten
inch guns, above which will be an alle
gorical figure of the explosion which
figure will arise a representation ul the
new born Cuban remibiip
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WHITS FREEDOM
FORBS, 1322
Convicted Slayer of Kingston
Mayor Voluntarily Begins
Ten-Year Sentence.
W. J. Wooten, who shot and killed
W. H. Griffin, the mayor of Kingston,
several months ago. has given himself
up to the prison commission of Georgia,
ami asked that he be sent to the prison
farm at once, notwithstanding the fact
that his petition for a new trial had
not been disposed of finally at the time.
Wooten was sent up for ten years tor
killing Griffin, and appealed his case to
the supreme court. The case was af
firmed a few days ago, and Wooten rend
about it in tile supreme court head
notes, printed in the daily newspapers
the same day.
He proceeded immediately to the
court house in Cartersville, withdrew
his petition for a new trial, and left at
once for Atlanta, where he surrendered
to the prison commission.
"1 might have waited the ten days or
two weeks it will take the supreme
court remittur to reach the Cartersville
court," he said to one of the commis
sioners, "but 1 prefer to save the time
by giving up now.
"It is nearly Christmas. When I get
out ten years from now', ft will be near
ly Christmas again. I will enjoy getting
out then a lot more than 1 would nfte-
Christmas. If I waited for the supreme
court remittur to reach the Bartow
court it likely would be after Christ
mas. I hope you gentlemen understand
and will send me to the state farm at
once.”
Wooten was forwarded to Milledge
ville immediately. He did not seem to
realize that he can reduce his sentence
in prison materially by good behavior
Wooten is well-to-do, and before his
unfortunate falling out with Griffin was
one of the most influential men of Bar
tow county. His victim was prominent
and the head of the village government
of Kingston at the time he was killed
TOWN COUNCIL COMPOSED
OF COLLEGE PROFESSORS
OXFORD, GA . Dec. 13.—Town coun
ciltnen of Oxford for the coming year
have been elected. They are Dr. E. 11.
Johnson, W. T. Burt, J. Z Johnson. D.
T. Stone, Victor Williams, Professor
H. H. Stone and Dr. W. F. Melton.
Three are professors In Emory colleg •
The first meeting of the new council
will be the first Tuesday in January.
Pete Smith wa- elected justice of the
peace.
Oxford for many years has had a
commission form of government. At
the first meeting of the council the
mayor and other officers will be elected.
EARTH GIVES WAY. MAN IS
DRAGGED FROM DEEP ABYSS
LOCUST GAP. PA„ Dec. 13—Wil
liam Quirk, shipping clerk at the Lo
cust Spring colliery, was engulfed in a
cave-in which catried him 40 feet Into
the earth. He was drawn into a chasm,
having been swallowed to his shoulders
by the rushing earth.
William McHale, a pumpmen, wit
nessed Quick’s disappeatanci , and,
picking uu a long rope, which was lying
no r by, rushed to his aid. Quick was
out
ATHENS BANKERS
GIVEN FIVE YEARS
J. W. Griffin and R. H. McCrary
Sentenced for Violation of
State Banking Laws.
ATHENS, GA., Dec. 13.—Judge Brand
this afternoon sentenced J. W. Griffin
and R H. McCrary to five years each
in the penitentiary for the misdemeanor
charges to which the two officers of
the defunct Athens Trust and Banking
Company, which failed last February,
had pleaded guilty.
Griffin was president of the concern,
which did business as a banking com
pany for a few months. McCrary was
cashier. Both had been prominent in
business affairs In north Georgia, Grif
fin being president of the Craw ford oil
mill.
The heavy sentences came as great
surprises to the defendants and attor
neys. It was thought that settlement
would be reached with much lighter
punishment.
The bank was capitalized at SIOO,OOO.
It had $40,000 in deposit accounts and
other liabilities when it failed.
The sentences will stand without ap
peal, since the defendants pleaded
guilty to violating the state banking
laws.
SAVANNAH MAYORALTY
CANDIDATE NOMINATED
SAVANNAH, GA., Dec. 13.—The first
gun in the municipal campaign was
fired last night when the friends of
Captain George W. Walker turned out
in force to give their candidate a rous
ing welcome. Captain Walker accept
ed his formal notification of his choice
as the candidate to lead the adminis
tration forces with the first public ad
dress he has made during his long res
idence in Savannah.
' aptaln R. J. Davant. the opposition
candidate, will be similarly honored to
night with a similar meeting at the
same place.
MASONS PLAN TRIBUTE
TO GEORGE WASHINGTON
ALEXANDRIA, VA , Dec. 13.—Elabo
rate preparations are being made by the
Alexandria-Washingion Masonic lodge, nt
which the first president was the original
worshipful master, for the observance
Saturday of the 113th anniversary of
W iislilngton's death Masons from many
cities will Join in the pilgrimage to Mount
Vernon, where solemn service will be held
at the tomb of tlie father of bls country.
Word wan received today that unusually
large delegations would be present from
Washington, Philadelphia and New York.
GETS FOUR YEARS SENTENCE.
WAYCROSS, GA. Dec 13.—L. J.
Miller, a young white man, living near
Waycross, has been given a four
year penitentiary sentence by Judge
Parker In superior court for seduction.
Attorneys for Miller will seek a new
trial.
J. R. Sasnett 111.
J R. Sasnett, of Hapeville, Is criti
cally 111 at his home. Mr. Sasnett has
for yeara been prominent among the
traveling men of the state. He has
been confined to ills home sot about’.t
year ami became worse rt week or ten
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Gus Edwards and His
Songbirds Will Give
Street Performance
for Benefit of Poor
Kiddies; Toss a Coin
Into the Barrel!
If an actor whose time is worth a
thousand dollars a week and a dozen
singers and chorus girls who play two
peiformances a day all winter are will
ing to give a. whole afternoon to help
make the poor kiddies happy on Christ
mas day. aren’t you willing to dig up a
quarter or a dime to help?
You’ll have your opportunity tomor
row afternoon at Five Points, when you
join the Saturda.v parade up and down
Peachtree street, as everybody does.
For at this busiest of busy comers will
be a big motor truck with a piano on It,
And Gus Edwards, dancer, singer and,
composer, will be beating thal piano
until ragtime and popular melodies,
written by Edwards hltnself, just pour
out of it in streams.
Pretty Girls to Sell Papera.
It Isn't every day you can hear Gus
Edwards play, even for the price of a
theater ticket. But he has promised to
do something for the children lie won't
do for money, and he will be right
there on the truck.
Vt it It him will be half a dozen girls of
his company, which offers "Song Revuu
of 1912" at the Grand next week. They
come to Atlanta two days ahead of tinio
just to put on this performance. There
will be singing and dancing on the
truck, and the girls who are not In the
performance will be selling Georgians
to the crowd at any price from two
cents to a dollar. And every cent of
the money will go into the big barrel by
the truck, to swell the fund which will
till the Christmas stockings of the poor
children of Atlanta.
For Those Who Have No “Daddy.”
He will be a cold-hearted man who
passes that corner tomorrow without
tossing a coin into the barrel or buying
a paper from one of the pretty girls
who will play newsboy there for the
afternoon. Surely the man who passe
on without contributing Ills mite ha
never been a buy Ho must have been
born grown-up. with an old man’s
heart. Certainly lie will be a bachelor,
for surely no man with happy children
of his own waiting for daddy to come
home could fail to add a mite to heli,
these children who have no daddies, of
whose daddies have no jobs.
R> member that every cent of th«
money goes to the children’s fund. The
truck is loaned by the Velie company
the piano by the Cleveland-Manning
I l.tno i ompanx'. and even the signs ar*,
given by McGrath A- Mcßae, so every
thing will be "velvet" for the children.
The Georgian has a list of hundred'
whose i hristmas would be a gloom.t
day. Indeed, we a- it not for the kind
ness of At'antans, expressed through
the Empty Stocking Fund.
TO SEEK COMMUTATION
FOR CONDEMNED SLAYER
AI’GITSTA, GA.. Dec. 13.—Pierce
Bros., attorneys for J Ed Brazell, con
victed murderer of Carrie Bell Duncan,
who is under sentence to die on Janu
ary 3, will appear before the prison
commission of Georgia on December 18
or 19 am) make a final appeal for the
commutation of th* man’s sentence.
Brazell was recently adjudged sane
by a board of experts from the state
sanitarium. He appears to be Indtff'r
ent to his fate.
MORGAN REFUSES TO AID
THE PEACE MOVEMENT
NEW IOBK. Dec. 13. At the earner's
peace dinner at the Hotel Astor the
Baroness Hertha Von Suttner stated that
.1 I’ierp. nt Morgan recently told her lie
was not Interested In universal peace and
refused to contribute to the cause When
Mr. I’nrnigi. was a , d v. hat I. thought
of Mr. Morgan's attitude he replied sharo-
Iv; ”1 am not thinking."
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