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i ictures--One of Joy, One of Pathos--Seen by Evelyn Wren in Holiday Shopping Throngs in Atlanta VAUDEVILLE AT "FIVE POINTS’' FOR THE CHRISTMAS FUND Z. w’k>Vju \ i ■fCjI”TF»rE3ir3W u i s- II w Q.LflHilWill -r W* AaßwO lINHwr . • i - * » aHI RLaw* wsftc- ■■ * *y • ' V X •«<* IWJx ”50 ; . gg w- A -■ wlkj ■ B J '/ /■ . '■■ -.v.-. |R>' XX s '' '"4«W * ■■*"’ wwz.-/ aßm ■ ME ■■■ ■ ■ / &.r W' M® g? Stv'?» •• a**O f&M ?wL"“ j>-._ W ar- F Up- T - Qmtt; ~z /WM* k|L ’ . T JB --VS ; W" ■"' TST 7T\\ p.T W>. rj M H X' OIHp? z «Hi Ww I \\ Wgjgß I) Here's Opportunity for Plus Big, Generous City to Show Real Christmas Spirit by Making Glad Un fortunates. By Evelyn Wren ' est h* limousine at the entrance on- of the biggest of Whitehall -treet'■■ stores, drew her wraps closer row her shoulders and strolled down aisle as one on familiar ground. The floorwalker bowed as she passed, so: h- knew her as one of the firm's nost profitable customers. I was at her elbow as she stopped be ar? a case filled with handsome furs, ny one worth the month's income of a '■'■king man. She fingered them criti cally. Something a little better, please, the -aid. "I want them for Frances, roil know Her father has promised her an electric coupe for Christmas and -he's teased me for a set of white furs. Her dark ones look so odd with the ghr upholstery. Yes, you might send ■' on approval.” Another Picture Here I passed on to the bargain counter dozen women were inspecting the price tags on odds and ends. A mn, frail and white, stood beside a roman whose cloak looked frayed and rm of date, even in that department of ised “cheap stuff.” She picked up a i • muff of imitation fur, so thin, so so!!*-.; that it had been cast out of its o«n department l-o k, Charlie,” she said eagerly, Minnie has been just crazy for a pret !v muff, and she hasn’t had anything in so long. See, this Is only 49 nt" I believe I could clean it and mak" it look nice.” ihe man looked at the pitiful bit of |l l?: h, fingered the change in his pock and shook his head, slowly. 1 ri ■ kon not. Mary,” he said regret f,Ji ' "I got the rent and the doctor to P ;! V. you know. Maybe you can take •Mmnh to a picture show Christmas. f 'tter just buy that remnant flannel roti came for.” Contrasts One Might See s! two pictures before Christmas, Os the limousine. Just two of ■ ousands you might see, gentlemen " roll top desk, if you would go kg with me in Whitehall street on these bright days before Chrlst- ' “ JIG llk " to take you for a stroll, if J ‘‘ give you eyes to see something your own circle. 'night find something to think ■n the little ones in ragged cloth *' b'essing their notes against the HEARTS’ DESIRE plate glass windows where dolls and steam engines and wonderful toys are displayed; looking with hungry eyes into the shops where pounds and pounds of candy and fruit are being weighed by fast-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 Theee 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 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 glance to furs 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 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 sv freely—to make a child happy on Christmas mo: ning. 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 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 th* children and the children only: first for toys and candies and fruit, and then, where there Is need, for shoes a&d stockings and perhaps here and there a hit of other clothing And you, every-day folk, who can not send a check or a substantial gift, do THE ATLANTA GEORGIAN ANT) NEWS.FRIDAY. DECEMBER 13, 1912. EXPLOSION PLAYS HHK IT NAPLES One Hundred Vessels Reported as Destroyed or Damaged. Many Believed Dead. NAPLES, Dec. 13.—A tremendous ex plosion followed by tire, 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 had been heavy loss of life, but was unable to make any esti mate. It was rumored that the entire cargo of a ship loaded with dynamite had blown up and sunk every vessel within a radius of a mile. 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.. Dec. 13. For merely lending his assistance n digging up $215,- 000 in gold fr« in where it lies hurled near the Mexican border. El. J. Maxfield, state commissioner of immigration «»f Minne sota, is offered $53,750. This proposal came in a letter to Mr. Maxfield last night from a man who claims to he held as a prisoner In a Mexican bastile. The letter is presumed to be one of many sent, to this country by swindlers. It is signed “Ade Cre” and Instructs Mr. Maxfield to wire his acceptance to ‘'Nuno Ortigosa. Llsta Carrcos, Mexico. D. F.” "I guess I know what that 'D. F.’ stands for,” said Mr. Maxfield. He will turn the let ter over to the postoffi e authorities. not fail to pass Five Points tomorrow afternoon and tos> your coin into th* barrel which will be waiting to re ceive it. Hugh Cardoza, of the Grand, and Gur 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 gi\» an hour f '*xtr.t Work for the sake of children at Christ uias Uuxa. // J*ax K| \ > t ■) \v _ Xo j .'/ teMg. aMlll 30// / wMGh / 1 / ’A ' ■f- 4 ' fwSr: . •I. z?% •&•’■ WMB KI MHL ’,' sw \ x .. &.tit?WadW»- •» / '» MMEjBsaK m.k - y-<> AAW-. • ; >-m' MmF t H V z MB• A 'fe s > ’> . VA* Wxx< 1 • Ayo f A-wWk A Wwk r8L331 Elk a ; ' w ’ a ■■ \\ Wm Wv- y X II HweF A “ - ii® <'\\ // - yr WOW? . SBH • MMBm i R.^<WX v AL - 5 * Ny_ _jr —■ ~<& z ; ' § ■ . . . x a '* Wil—bM st/SSCRZ/»77offS ..... The contributions to date follow: W. R. Hea st SIOO J. M, Slaton . 25 F. J. Paxon 25 j R. F. Maddox 25 I Forrest Adair 25 J. W. English 25 John E. Murphy 25 I W. T. Gentry 25 George Adair 25 Joe! 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. G'ant 1° Henry Durand Mrs. J. M. Slaton 10 Mrs. E. L. Connally 1° Oscar Elsas 10 Charles C. Jones 1° Carlos Mason 1" M . and Mrs. John F. Kiser ... 10 Morris Brandon 10 R. J. Guinn 0 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. WHensky 5 A friend 5 J. 8. 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 Bro w n 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 Eugene 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 gel Mrs. Manning's small son to identify two youths who had thrown a lock through a laundry window and not about a robbery case. Mrs Manning does not deny slapping the policeman, 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 wlil be an alle gorical figure of the explosion which figure will arise a representation of the new born Cuban republic. GUS EDWARDS AND SOME OF HIS CLEVER AIDES W 5 FREEDOM FOR MS, 1922 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, and asked that he be sent to tile prison farm at once, notwithstanding the fact lhal his petition lor a new trial had not been disposed of finally at the time. \\ ooten was sent up for ten years for killing Griffin, and appealed bls case to the supreme court. The case was af firmed a few days ago, and Wooten read about it in the uprenie court head notes, printed in the daily newspapers the same day. He proceeded immediately to the court house in * 'artersville, withdrew his petition for a new trial, and left at once for Atlanta, where he surrendered to the prison commission. “I might have waited the ten days or two weeks it will take the supreme court remlttur to reach the Cartersville court." he said to one of the commis sioners, "but I prefer to save the time by giving up now. “It is nearly Christmas. When I get out ten years from now. it will be near ly Christmas again. I will enjoy getting out then a lot more than I would afte' Christmas. If I waited for the supreme court remlttur to reach the Bartow court it likely would be after Christ mas. J 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 tile 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 cilmen of Oxford for th* coming year have been elected. They are In. E. 11. Johnson, .T. Hurt, J. Z J.-hnson, D. T. Stone. Victor Williams, Professor H. H. Stone and Dr. W. F. Melton. Three are professors in Emory college The first meeting of the new council Will be the first Tuesday in January. Pete Smith was elected justice of the peace. Oxford for many years has had a commission form of government. \t the first meeting of the council tilt mayor ami other officers will he 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 whfeli carried him 40 feet Into the earth He was drawn into a chasm, having been swallowed to bis shoulders by the rushing earth. William McHale, a pumpman, wit nessed Quick’s disappearance, and, picking up a long rope, w,inch was lying near by, rushed to hl» ad. Quick was drugged out ATHENS BAKKERS GIVEN FIVE MS J. W. Griffin and R. H. McCrary Sentenced for Violation of State Banking Laws. ATHENS. GA , D"V. i:i. 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 tire defunct Athens Trust and Banking Company, which failed last February, had pleaded guilty. Griffin was president of th* . one. rn. which did business as a banking com pany for a f“v. months. McCrary was cashier. Both had been prominent In business affairs In north Georgia, Grif fin being pestilent of the <Tawfocd oil mill. rhe heavy sentences came as great surprises to the defendants and attor neys. It was thought that settlement would be reached with much light* punishment. The bank was capitalized at $100,00". it had $40,"0u In deposit accounts and other liabilities when ft failed. Tin- 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 giv,- their candidate a rous ing welcome. Captain Walker accept-, ed his formal notification of his choice as the ■ ■'mildate to lead the adminis tration fore.-s with tin first public ad dress he has made -luring his long res idence In Savannah. Captain R. J. Davant, the opposition candidate, will be similarly bom."cd to night with a similar meeting at the same piner. MASONS PLAN TRIBUTE TO GEORGE WASHINGTON Alexandria, \ y., [><-, -Elabo rate preparations. are being made by the Alexandria-Washington Masonic lodge, i.t which the Hist president was the original I worshipful master, for the observance Saturday of the 113th anniversary of \\aahingtona death. Masons from many cities will join in the pilgrimage to Mount Vernon, when solemn service will be held at tlie tomb of the father of his country. Word was received today that unusually large delegations would be present from Washington, Philadelphia ami New York. GETS FOUR YEARS SENTENCE. WAYCROSS, GA. Dec. 13. L. I. 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 HI. J R. Sasnett, of Hapeville, is criti cally 11l at his home. Mr. Sasnett has for years been prominent among the traveling men of tin state. He lias been confined to his home tot about a year and became worse g wetkk g< ten daj s ago. (ius Edwards anti His Songbirds Will Give Street Perl < irma nee for Benefit of Poor Kiddies; l oss a Coin Into the Barrel! I li Hi actor whose tlni<- is worth a thousand dollars a week and a dozen singers and chorus girls who play two performances a day all winter are will ing to give a whole afternoon to help make (lie poor kiddies happy* on Christ mas day, aren't you willing to dig up a quarter or a slime to help? You'll have your opportunity tomor row afternoon at Five Points, when yon join the Saturday parade up and down Peachtree street, as everybody does. I 1 or at this busiest of busy corners will be a big motor truck with a piano on it. And Gus Edwards, dancer, singer and composer, will be beating that piano until ragtime and popular melodies, written by Edwards himself, just pour out of it in streamy;. Pretty Girls to Sell Papers. If Isn’t t-y.'.y day you can hear Ous Edwards play, even fm- the price of a theate- ticket. But hi* lias promised tc do something for the children he won’t do for money, and 1). will be right there on the truck. M itli him will be half a dozen girls n Id- company, which offers "Song Revu, of 1912" at l In- Grand next week. They coine to Atlanta two days ahead of tfm< Just to put on lids performance. Then wll' be singing and dancing on tbs truck, and tin- girls who are not In th*- performance will be selling Georgian to the crowd at any price from twe cents to a C..11a:-. And every cent ot t.ie money- win go into the big barrel by the truck, to swell th*- fund which wil fill the Christmas stocl ings of the po*. children of Atlanta. For Those Who Have No “Daddy." lb will be a eold-hearteo man wh pusses that corner tomorr.-w wlthoii tossing a coin Into the barrel or buying a paper from one of the pretty girls who wll! piny newsboy th, •*. so,- n-. afternoon. Surely th. man who passes on without contributing his mite has nevi been a boy. He must have been born grown-up, with an old nan’- heart. Certainly be will be a bachefo . for surely no man with happy children Os Ids own waiting for daddv to com» hmm i-oulri fail to add a mite to heir* this.' children who have no d dd'es, or whose daddies have no Jobs. Rememln r that every cent of th** money goes to tin- children’s fund. Tha truck is loaned by the Velie company-, the piano by the Cleveland-Mnnnhig Piano Company, and even the signs ate given by McGrath <?• Meßa*-, so every thing will be "velvet” for the children. Th.' Gi-orginn has a Ist ~f hundreds whose Christmas would be a gloomy day, indi ed. were li not for the kind ness of \t'until ns expressed through the Emp.y Stocking Fund. TO SEEK COMMUTATION FOR CONDEMNED SLAYER AUGUSTA. GA., Dee. 13.—Pierce Bros., attorneys fer 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 commissli.n of Georgia on December 18 or 19 and make a final appeal forth" commutation of the man's sentence Brazell was recently adjudged sane by a board of experts from the state -anttarium. He appears to be indiffer ent to his fate. MORGAN REFUSES TO AID THE PEACE MOVEMENT NEW YORK, Dec. 13 At the Carnegie peace dinner at the Hotel Astor tho Baroness,Hertha Von Suttner stated that .1. I’lerpont Morgan recently told her he was not Intereat.-il tn unlv* rsal pence and refused to contribute to th* enure. When Mr. Carnegie was aakod what be thougiir of Mr Morgan's attitude he replied sharp en "I un not thinking” 5